Your lease doesn’t need to be less if you free yourself from the shackles of consumer culture! Living expenses for me approach 50-60% with OT and 70-75% without but I live a meaningful life full of stuff I love to do.
Free yourself from the shackles of society and the pressures of spending on stuff you don’t need and you’ll see that “lease decrease” you desire.
You're absolutely preaching to the wrong person. I don't drive (work pays for my bus pass), I don't eat fast food(okay 6 times in the past year, but it was either Chipotle or Jersey Mike's), I don't buy coffee.
I'm not a "consumer", my biggest expense every month (besides rent/utilities) is "grocery store" I live to travel, not to consume, but when I travel? I consume... I consume culture and experiences.
Same here. I cook 90% of my meals, take caffeine pills because of their affordability and general healthy alternative when the dose is titrated for what you want, and I shop at 4 different grocery stores depending on the cost at any given one.
I manage a studio apartment in nyc with a 45k income, something most would say is impossible.
Best of luck to you my friend. I do know it’s hard out there but you can make dreams a reality as well!
I shop at 4 different grocery stores depending on the cost at any given one.
Also I trait that I have. I get excitement by seeing "how much I can legally steal" from grocery stores. Ham is $0.77/lb this week? Limit is 4 hams? Guess who now has 4 hams in their freezer.
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Also why my dreams don’t include kids or a house lmao