A joke that likes to make money

I heard a cold joke recently-making money is an ability and spending money is a technology. My ability is limited, but my skill is high.

Although the sentence is short, it is intriguing.

The previous sentence means that everyone's ability is limited, but technology can be improved through practice. The last sentence points out the problem of many people-"no money".

Last weekend, I helped my friend Xiao Xiao move. When I saw her huge clothes, I was shocked. Is this the little A who always tells me that she has no clothes to wear and no shoes to match every season? Obviously, she has so many clothes, including more than twenty pairs of jeans alone.

In my impression, Xiao is always proud of frugality. She never wants to buy expensive clothes when shopping. If she had to choose between two clothes, she would definitely choose the cheaper one, even if she preferred the other one which was a little more expensive.

After learning online shopping, Xiao often buys cheap explosive clothes, and the company at home keeps delivering them to your door. At the end of the year, when she was asked, Xiao said with distress that the monthly expenses were too large, and she didn't save any money at all.

In fact, Xiao's figure and appearance belong to the upper-middle class, but when friends get together, many people privately comment on how Xiao looks depressed and are not "particular" at all.

Yes, I always wear clothes that can be made. Where can I get the "exquisite" temperament?

In spring, Xiao and I go shopping. In the small shop that Xiao Ah often goes to, we saw a set of clothes, including black wide-leg pants and chiffon tops, totaling only over 200 yuan. I couldn't hold back the small suggestion, "It's really great value" and "It's hard to catch up with the discount" and bought it. In less than a month, the pants pilled badly, and the coat was open in several places. I really don't want to wear it anymore.

I honestly wear the brand clothes I bought the year before last, the same chiffon material and the same wide-leg pants style. Two years later, I will wear it again this year, with the same quality. It was a little sour when I bought it. But after wearing it for three years in a row, the cost performance is high, that is, more than 200 pieces a year, but the quality of the clothes is higher.

At this time, I understood the problem of Xiao. It's not that she doesn't have clothes, but she likes to "buy too much". She buys a lot, but the quality is not good, and she doesn't spend too much money or get a good shopping experience.

Compared with "more but better", a "less but better" dress will bring you a different temperament, make you different on important occasions, and you will cherish it more because of the price and prolong its service life.

When shopping, it is often a more correct choice to try to choose more expensive items within your ability.

A colleague's relative works in a commercial bank. In order to help her complete the task of handling credit cards, several colleagues in the office have handled credit cards. There are many activities, such as going shopping in a supermarket in the city on Saturday, which can be completely reduced.

As soon as I went to work on Monday, my colleague Xiao B couldn't help but report our results on Saturday. "If you subtract 20 from 30, I will save 20 dollars."

"How did you get there so far?"

"Take a taxi."

"What did you buy?"

"Hey, I wanted to buy some fruits and vegetables, but there were too many promotional items, and I finally spent more than 200 pieces."

You see, in order to save the preferential treatment of 20 yuan in the morning, I bought a lot of unnecessary items, not to mention the fare, which was not worth the candle.

Last year, my best friend and I had a long grass kindle, one for each person. She bought an entry-level model, and I bought a backlight model, which doubled the price difference. It wasn't long before I heard her complain, "It's really inconvenient to have no backlight. I really shouldn't be greedy and cheap. " Not long after, she made a transfer in the second-hand market, and the price naturally shrank a lot, so she started with a backlight. So, after all, she spent more money on cheap.

People are always greedy and want to spend the least money and buy the best things. But in this world, it's always fair, for example, you get what you give.

In college, part-time jobs were particularly popular with students, such as tutoring, proofreading and posting small advertisements. Most of these jobs are time-consuming and low-paid, but many people like them. Most of this is not because the family is really bad, but more to earn more pocket money and buy things from the East.

Roommate Xiao H never does these part-time jobs. Besides, she also spends a lot of money on English training classes. We all thought she was crazy at that time. After spending that money, her family was not well off, so she had to scrimp and save. Little H doesn't care. She reads her English aloud every day.

As expected, when he graduated, Xiao H was the first to sign a work agreement, and his salary was higher than the average person. That company just took a fancy to her English specialty outside her major. Later, when girls are free, they will do translation or something. The hourly wage makes us think that the person who pays the money is crazy.

Little H later said that I knew it was good to make money when I was at school, but our time was also precious.

The ultimate goal of making money is to let us have a good experience and a happy life. Another interesting phenomenon is that people who spend more money have more money, and those who are less willing to spend money are poorer.

When shopping, if we only consider the price, it is easy to ignore two kinds of values, one is the value of the item itself, and the other is the value of time.

We buy more expensive things, which shows that we have higher expectations for life; We are picky about things because we don't want to live a "make do" life; We refuse to go too far, because we want to accompany us with "less but better".

In fact, the "posture" of spending money often reflects our attitude towards life.