Why Should You Be A Conscious Spender

I was having a conversation with my wife one day which quickly became an argument. The argument 😛😛 was about not buying more clothes when she already had a lot of clothes. I think lots of you people who are reading this blog might have had this uncomfortable discussion with your partners.

What should be the answer to points which sound reasonable from one point of view:-

1. You only live once.
2. Money is there to spend, what good is money if you don't spend it.
3. Why should i stay frugal when i am earning money, so on and so forth.
4. New clothes/ gadgets/ shiny  things give me happiness.

In this blog i want to discuss all these and more that why being a conscious spender is good and also the only reasonable and scientific way of life is to be frugal.

Everything that you consume, in some way comes from nature. Be it clothes, mobile phones or a car. Everything that you throw away to get a new shiny thing again harms nature.

Now for the first argument 

1. You only live once.
   Counter Argument:- Its exactly what i want to convey, you only live once, why would you want to work 50 hours a week till 60-65 just to consume shit material stuff which only makes you happy for a week, its the most shallowest form of happiness. True happiness comes from two things. Greater purpose in life and freedom to work at your own terms with people you life.
   
   
   
2. Money is there to spend, what good is money if you don't spend it.
   Counter Argument: If you don't spend the money, the money works very hard for you to earn more money, it will result in you building a big enough corpus quickly and since your spending habits will be in check , you won't need too much money to actually be free and financially independent. The benefits of it is insane, you don't have to work for a bad manager anymore, you don't have to deal with people you don't want to deal with anymore etc.
   
   
3. Why should i stay frugal when i am earning money, so on and so forth.
   Counter Argument: For your own sake, its the only logical way. Humans have always been social animal meant to spend majority of their time in the nature. But we have bought ourselves all the things that keeps us locked inside, cars instead of walk or cycle, mobile phones which takes away atleast an hour a day in reels and shorts , an hour which can be spend walking in a beautiful park surrounded with nature. When you consume less, then automatically less is produced in the economy, and once less is produced everything becomes magical. Imagine a city where there are lesser cars and more people walking in the road, won't you prefer it over constant honking noises. Imagine a world where there is no child labour working in clothing factories because of greed of some businessman and ignorance of us consumers. Imagine a world where our mountains are unpolluted with plastics because they are not in demand. Imagine a world where you are not always distracted with your phone light popping up. Frugality is the only scientific way to live. 

If you buy a 7 seater big car like fortuner, scorpio etc, while 80%  of the days you will drive it alone, then you should think about buying smaller hatchback like TATA altroz, tiago, baleno etc. Not only you will be saving a ton amount of money in fuel, maintenance and insurance cost, you will also be harming the nature a lot lesser.  Ideally if you are able bodied and have to travel to a distance of upto 1 km, use the best travelling machine in the world, your legs. If you have to travel till 4 km, use a bicycle and then if you have to travel more than that, try to use public transport. Car should be the last option, you sit in a cage to drive in traffic, while getting frustrated at the traffic and some moron driving recklessly and honking continuously. Believe me, you will be thanking me in 10 years time if you follow it, You would have saved so much on fuel and insurance cost and you will be so much fitter because of all the walks and bicycling.

Since you are reading this, i assume you yourself are a little bit frustrated with how dumb and ignorant the population is, next time anyone says why you are frugal, say to them because frugality is the only logical way.