What you told them is too SIMPLE for many people to understand, I am not joking, you have to complicate things for some people. I sold printing equipment for many years and I had a dealership on one add on attachment that was so simple that most of my customers never were able to grasp how it worked. They kept trying to tell me that it worked in some strange way that they imagined. It really is amazing to see people overlook the obvious and search diligently for a complicated solution to a very simple problem. Then when you realize you have done it yourself it really hits home. I’ll go away now but I could talk about this phenomenon all day, it is fascinating.
exactly... I keep trying to tell my wife this.. we had a 3 month period where we were buying $50 bottles of wine... that adds up when it’s 2 or 3 a week.
we put the kabosh on that habit.
simple math, spend less than you make, save or invest in something stable, the money that you do not spend.
oh yeah and get married... 2 incomes really help.