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Nam Taf
Jun 25, 2005

I am Fat Man, hear me roar!

Knyteguy posted:

We're taking this advice. We're going to try to go hardcore with our frugalness just to see how well we can do it. We probably won't go so extreme every month following but it will be a good exercise (that we'll be trying to make fun).

Wrong. Set SMART goals. This is not specific or attainable because there's always 'more hardcore'. It needs to be otherwise you're just pissing into the wind, because you have no way to actually benchmark your performance against that goal.

By all means, go ultra-frugal and gameify how much money you can poopsock away. I do it with my electricity because I've got solar panels on my place and if I game it right, I end up with a $40 bill for the quarter when electricity here costs $0.22/kWh. It's good fun and rewarding, but it's not a goal that you can benchmark against.

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