Recently, a friend of mine told me he was tired of the amount he spends on a monthly basis on his family.
I told him it could be because of the economy, and I went ahead to ask him how much exactly he was spending that was making him frustrated. He said #1 million, and I was shocked.
You are spending #1 million monthly? What exactly are you spending on that is making you spend #1 million?
After all the explanations, I realized that it was something that could actually be managed, especially if he let go of certain things that were not really important. Cos it was those little little things that add up and became big amount...
Personally, I can live a good life with #300,000 monthly with my family. But #1 million is just too excessive for me because I keep asking myself, what exactly am I buying that would make me spend #1 million every month?
With the current economy, I have been able to reduce the amount I spend monthly to around #100,000–#150,000. This is because I also stopped buying certain things, which has helped me reduce my cost of living.
When I moved to my new location, the first thing I stopped buying was pure water. Back in my former apartment, I spent about #4,500 on pure water every two weeks. But in my new place, one bag of pure water is #500 from the motor and #600 from retailers.
So there was no way I was going to keep spending around #12,000 on water every month when I had another option. I simply decided that we would start drinking the borehole water.
Until 2023, I survived on well water and borehole water. It was when I moved to another area and the water was so bad that I had to switch to pure water.
Now that I am back in an area with good water, I switched back to borehole water to manage my expenses, and everything has been fine so far.
Normally, we are supposed to eat to live and not live to eat, like many people do. So, to manage costs, I also started eating to live. This is why I only eat twice daily now, in the morning and at night.
This has helped me save on gas and also makes my foodstuff last longer.
I am not starving myself by eating this way because I believe that eating excessively is not good for the body either.
These two changes have helped me manage my money better. There are more things I have done to reduce my expenses, but I will stop here for now.
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