March 2024
HOW TO BECOME INSANELY FRUGAL
Making money is difficult, being frugal and saving money is free.
Frugal is sexy.
- Have no memberships, subscriptions, services. Build your own home gym.
- For your phone just have an iPhone SE. Don’t own a laptop or a computer, just an iPad Pro.
- Never buy any new clothes.
- Don’t drink alcohol, smoke weed, do drugs
- For leisure activities go hiking or to nature places! Bring a 60 pound weight vest
- Don’t pay for media and entertainment, produce your own media and entertainment for yourself! For knowledge and wisdom just download free PDF and e-books of ancient Roman and Greek writers.
- Never buy a house, or property unless you could buy it in all cash. Never take out a loan or mortgage
- Just make and drink coffee at home!
- Better to just cook 10 pounds of meat — ribeye, beef ribs and bone marrow for yourself at home, than to go eat out. Even perhaps better than eating at all you can eat korean. barbecue.
- Just drive a 2010 Prius!
- Be insanely insanely picky; if you demand only the best and the most supreme of things, most likely you’ll never buy anything. For myself, a lot of my frugality is steeped in the fact that I don’t think anything is worth it really. Not really that I’m virtuous or anything.
- Don’t consume anything supported by advertising that is free; ultimately that “free“ sponsored podcast that you keep listening to what cost 2000s of dollars and dumb products! For example anyone who bought that scam peloton bike.
Not “rest“, but *heal*
Assuming you just went through an insane major boss battle, certainly you need time potions to heal!
What are your potions? Organ meats, ribeye, beef ribs, bone marrow.
Healing, having a healer, or going to the inn.
Better to buy a Tesla than a house
Like a Tesla model X, like a really small house on wheels. All glass! And you don’t have to pay property taxes on it!
Or a cybertruck?
Who was Plutarch and his quotes
Plutarch was a Greek biographer and essayist, born in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Roman province of Boeotia, around the year 46 AD. He lived during the early Imperial period of Rome, and his works have had a lasting impact on the Western intellectual tradition. Plutarch is best known for his work “Parallel Lives,” a series of biographies of famous Greek and Roman men, paired to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. His work aimed to provide moral lessons through the lives of these historical figures.In addition to “Parallel Lives,” Plutarch wrote a collection of essays and dialogues on various topics, known collectively as the “Moralia.” These writings cover a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, religion, morality, and social issues, showcasing Plutarch’s interests in ethics and his insights into human nature and conduct.Some of his notable quotes include:”The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” – This quote emphasizes the importance of inspiring and stimulating the mind rather than just filling it with information.”To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.” – Plutarch highlights the ease of criticism compared to the challenge of improvement.”Character is simply habit long continued.” – This suggests that consistent actions over time form one’s character.”A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.” – Plutarch points out how a small number of bad qualities can overshadow a person’s good qualities.”The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.” – Suggesting that a person’s true character is revealed through how they handle adversity.Plutarch’s works continue to be read and respected for their deep moral insight, engaging storytelling, and practical wisdom. His influence extends through Renaissance humanism to modern times, impacting both literature and philosophy.
How much does an ox weigh?
I’ve lifted 1000 pounds, I suppose I can lift an ox!
The weight of an ox varies significantly depending on its breed, age, and sex. On average, an adult ox can weigh anywhere from 1,000 to 2,600 pounds (about 450 to 1,180 kilograms). Some larger breeds can even weigh more. It’s important to note that “ox” refers to a working animal, which is typically a castrated male bovine trained for draft work. The term does not specify a particular breed, hence the wide range in weight.
Against Borrowing Money
“I cannot carry a goat, put an ox on my shoulders.”
“Do not borrow, for you will never able to pay it back”
Persians: debt is the first crime.
Nothing can come out of nothing; natural philosophers
“there is interest before interest and other interest too”
Bonds and agreements are like fetters:
“they bring into Greece boxes full of bonds and agreements, like fetters”
Wish to live free —
The joy of ease:
“the asylum and sanctuary of frugality is everywhere open to the sober-minded, affording them joyful and honourable and ample space for much ease.
Build a temple of liberty for ourselves, our wives, our children
“build a temple of liberty for ourselves, our wives, and children.”
Borrow from your own table
“Why pay court to the banker or trader? Borrow from your own table. You have cups, silver dishes, pots and pans. Use them in your need.”
“Plato in his Laws881 does not permit neighbours to use one another’s water, unless they have first dug for themselves as far as the clay, and reached ground that is unsuitable for a well”
Never borrow money –
“Ought there not also to be a law about money, that people should not borrow of others, nor go to other people’s sources of income, until they have first examined their own resources at home, and collected, as by drops”
Excerpt From
Plutarch’s Morals
Plutarch
https://books.apple.com/us/book/plutarchs-morals/id511195428
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Body vs Mind vs Soul
Cowardice vs prudence
Envy vs competition
“no one ever yet called a fever health, or consumption a good condition of body, or gout swift-footedness, or paleness a good colour; but many call anger manliness, and love friendship, and envy competition, and cowardice prudence”
Excerpt From
Plutarch’s Morals
Plutarch
https://books.apple.com/us/book/plutarchs-morals/id511195428
If you’re sick stay in bed!!!
“Gently, Stay in the bed, poor wretch, and take your ease,”318
“he who is ill in body straightway gives up and goes to bed and remains there quietly till he is well”
I don’t like weird homoerotic stuff
The new outlier.nyc stuff is insanely weird — the Willie Norris stuff?