In what way are you LEAST frugal?

 

  I was having a discussion with someone this past week, and had to admit
that while I try to be frugal in nearly every part of my life, I simply want
a long, hot shower - sometimes I take a half hour one. <this came up because
our new house has no natural gas hookup, and I've heard that the electric
water heaters can have trouble keeping up with usage>

  So this is probably the area where I'm not so frugal, and I allow myself
to indulge.

 

wrote:


Me? Probably travel. I live to travel. I don't have kids or a wife, but
I do have a good deal of friends who also like to travel so I end up
taking three or four vacations a year. For example, in June, I went to
England to visit some relatives, then I hooked up with some friends in
Liverpool. In August, I spent eight days with a friend in Las Vegas,
then a few weeks later, I spent a weekend at the beach.

 

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Shawn Hirn wrote:


People are talking "frugal" without defining it.

There used to be a woman who posted here regularly who stated outright
she was frugal in her routine life so she could afford to go to Europe to
speed skate each year.

That seems to be a good definition, especially since it also overlaps with
frugality being about making good purchases.  If I buy electronic gadgetry
at garage sales for very little, one could argue it's not frugal to do so,
yet if I'm doing it it's more frugal than the people I'm buying them from
who so badly had to have those items they paid top dollar for, and yet
no longer want.

Running a hot shower with nobody in it is not frugal, I don't think you
there is any way to spin it in a frugal way.  But if it gives someone
pleasure, then it's hardly a bad thing.  It likely isn't smart if someone
has lots of debt and isn't frugal generally, but by being frugal generally
it allows for some perks.  Frugality shouldn't be about living a monk-like
existence.

One might assume that when you travel, you are frugal, trying to get a
good travel price.  Someone who travels on a whim loses out on advanced
booking prices, someone who can plan ahead, or wait patiently, can save
money.  ONe might also assume you don't rush out and buy a new wardrobe
each time you travel.

   Michael

 

Michael Black wrote:

frugal, and I allow

It isn't possible to define it precisely.


Clearly not frugal.


Nope. Nothing like frugal.


An entirely separate matter to what is frugal.


No one said it was.

 


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