• @Smokeydope
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      1 year ago

      Either earn enough or become super frugal and cut down on the expenses to the point you can actually save with what you make The biggest thing a single person can do to reduce their expenses is cut out the rent payments by living in a vehicle for a bit while working and use that money to pay it off. But obviously not everyone has the mental fortitude to adapt to such a radically different lifestyle or freedom from responsibility to do so even if they wanted to.

      • @Bgugi
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        31 year ago

        “life is too expensive to be sustainable…”

        “HAVE YOU TRIED BEING HOMELESS?”

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        11 year ago

        It doesn’t have to be that extreme, you could just live in circumstances that you don’t prefer that aren’t on the road. I live in a dilapidated garage that is the cheapest thing around. I hate it, I have a playschool size “babys first refrigerator,” no clothes dryer, far from anyone my age, etc… but I can save a few hundred a month that I would have otherwise been throwing away at some corporate landlord.

        The idea was to do this until I made enough to afford a house, but COVID came and said “fuck your future and just about every one else’s too. Also I’ma kill millions of you but somehow make housing prices increase anyway.”

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          1 year ago

          About the clothes dryer thing, look into this kind of portable washing machine+spin dryer

          I watched nomadic fanatics review of one and honestly looks to do a pretty decent job. Heres the review vid

          I live in a 4 season canvas tent offgrid myself. Good on you for finding a way to save $ by giving up some lifestyle convinence. I hope you find ways to further improve your quality of life within the garage.