Seven Generational Ruminations

In the personal finance section of this web site I go over a model for living that some call Living Beneath Your Means. It isn't a new model for living, and in previous generations they might have called it making do. The general LBYM idea is, no matter what your income is, you can live such that your costs are less than your income, and you then set aside (invest) the remainder. The more money you can invest from the remainder, the more freedom your future has.

ReadyMade magazine offers information that helps one limb of the LBYM idea work. When you want something, here's a question to consider. Do you

1. Buy a pre-made object ?? ...or...
2. Do you build it yourself ?? ...
3. Do you do without ??

What if the object you want doesn't exist? Or maybe it exists but you can't afford it? What then? Do you do without and simply be frustrated? What if you could make it yourself?

Similarly, what if you have too much junk cluttering your life, but it pains you to throw perfectly good things away? For example, what do you do with leftover altoids tins?

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