"...I've always lived cheaply. I live like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do. I can do what I think is important for me to do. It freed me to do what seemed worth doing. So make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life. You won't be able to do what's really important to you."
Wow RMS
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@celesteh @charlag I also now recall reading a piece about how if you grow up in poverty, it can be *really* hard to break the habit of spending money as soon as you get it, because it's going to disappear anyway one way or another.
So my childhood setting of financial comfort and certainty may have paved the way for me to stockpile and be frugal.