How to Save $ — The 30-Something Funemployment Edition
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2 min readOct 20, 2015
- In summer, slice bread and put it in the freezer (yes, you have a freezer now).
- In winter, bake bread to heat your tiny house.
- Cut off sprigs from overgrown herb bushes. Stick them in water and sometimes they grow little roots = new plant. For free!
- Buy lettuce with the roots still on (from one of those fancy supermarkets). Stick it in some dirt. Voilà — three months’ supply of lettuce.
- Drink tap water with a squeeze of grapefruit. People are just giving away their grapefruits. Pretend it’s Perrier.
- Find a friend with too many chickens. Offer to relieve them of their growing motherlode of eggs.
- Don’t stay in hotels.
- Organise a blind wine tasting with friends. Discover that most people prefer the $5 red. Remember this when inviting them over for dinner.
- Speaking of blind, save that visit to the optometrist for your next big paycheque (whenever that is). Understand that the world looks better through a gentle blur filter.
- All your friends make homebrew now. Visit them. Often.
- Make coffee in your kitchen with your low-end espresso machine.
- Just before Christmas, remind your aunties how much you love luxury teas.
- Cut up your credit card (you already have a good credit rating — don’t lose it).
- Floss regularly (we’re playing a long game here).
- Never iron anything. (No-one needs crisp ironed shirts when they’re funemployed.)
- Become a hair model = free, quirky haircuts that remind you of being twenty. Except you’re thirty.
- Fregan?
