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I think some people outright enjoy thriftiness, while others not only don’t, but also can’t imagine why anyone would. I’m part of the former group, while my mother is part of the latter. I get actual pleasure out of wearing my shoes until they have holes large enough for me to fit two fingers in, keeping my house in the 50s during winter, severely limiting the number of times I go out to eat, and figuring out where I can buy various food and cleaning products for the cheapest price per ounce. It’s practically a hobby (and fittingly, one that’s free). My mother, on the other hand, cannot stand that I live like this, and it took her several years to realize that I wasn’t just desperately poor. She simply cannot fathom why anyone would voluntarily live in a state of genteel poverty. I imagine those wealthy, thrifty individuals are probably just more like me, while you and most people are more like my mother.
Edit: On reflection, “hobby” isn’t really the right word. There’s just a little warm glow of satisfaction you (or at least, I) get when looking at a thermostat that says “58.” How can I describe it? In my high school accounting classes, we used physical ledger books and wrote everything out longhand. The feeling I got after finishing my calculations and finding that all my mental arithmetic was correct and all the books were balanced is similar. It’s not a hobby, exactly (I’ve certainly never done accounting exercises for fun), but it’s… satisfying. Yes, I think that really is the best term for it.
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