Comments on: Moolanomy weekly roundup #14: “Frugality” edition

By: Make Friends, Earn Money

Make Friends, Earn Money — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:19:25 +0000

I especially liked “What is frugality and are we frugal?” at GLBL. It kinda makes to think a little depper about this whole aspect and reflect on your own personal life. Thanks for the round up

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:54:35 +0000

Pinyo – yes, she heard it – thought it was funny too.

Mike

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:22:10 +0000

@Brip Blap – yes it’s good exercise and I don’t mind it occasionally. I wish we had some professional help though. Regarding the baby, I have been practicing with my almost 2 years old nephew, so I think I am ready.

@FourPillars – that’s hilarious. I hope your wife gets to hear it too.

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:55:23 +0000

I like helping people move – as BB said it’s good exercise and it’s also a social thing.

BB is right tho – once our “possessions” get too much then it’s tough to impose.

Funny line – in our last move I had some friend s help, and after moving a ridiculous number of boxes packed full with some of my wife’s large book collection one of them asked me why I didn’t marry someone who was illiterate.

Ok, it would be funnier if you had spent a few hours helping me move first…

Mike

By: Brip Blap

Brip Blap — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:11:42 +0000

Ah, it’s good exercise, you’ll live longer Wait til you have the baby and he/she’s 30 pounds or so like my son – then you’ll see what carrying a squirming heavy load around all day up and down is like. Makes those 50 pound loads look like cupcakes!

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:55:30 +0000

You’ll be tired too if you have to carry 50lb loads up and down 3 flights of stair the entire day. I was wasted after the 10th trip of so.

By: Brip Blap

Brip Blap — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:49:47 +0000

Oh, I understand the difference – I just mean it’s sad that we get to that point from two points of view: 1, too much stuff, and 2, everyone is too tired to help. Life moves on…

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:27:23 +0000

Regarding enlisting friends to move, I didn’t mean it’s embarrassing, or not able to bother friends. There’s just time in most of our lives that we just accumulate too much possessions, and friends only have so much energy to give before they are completely wear out.

By all mean, call your friends to help with little things, but don’t burden them to move all the big furnitures and your library of books from your 4th story walk up apartment.

I hope you can see the difference.

By: Brip Blap

Brip Blap — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:35:30 +0000

Thanks for the link! Actually, to build on your comment about Patrick’s post and his response in comments, it’s actually sort of a sad thing that there is a point in your life where you can no longer call up your friends to help you move.

It’s unfortunate that as life moves on we start getting embarrassed about being frugal and helping each other like we might have when we were younger. It’s true – when I was in my early 20s I wouldn’t think anything about helping my friends move, or asking for help – now I would be embarrassed to ask. Everyone gets busy, has families, other things to worry about, true. But I still fondly remember the days when I could pack most of my possessions up with the help of a couple of buddies and move in a few hours with a small U-Haul. Now it would take days to pack, professional movers to get the couch, etc. down the stairs. Life moves on.

Anyway, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with either of your comments, just an interesting thought for me out of that.

By: Mr. Cheap

Mr. Cheap — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:42:24 +0000

Thanks for the link!