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Making it work is brought to you by wicks create your own professional website for free at wix.com slash go slash tft i spent the majority of my early 20s living in an apartment with three dudes and no other women i definitely don’t miss living with that many roommates but i do miss parts of that living arrangement i’ve always mainly had girlfriends so living with
Guys necessitated spending more time around them which i ended up really appreciating for a number of reasons for instance i figured out a ton of things that weren’t worth spending money on at least for me living with the guys showed me a few better ways to stretch my dollar from observing both their good money habits and their mistakes here are the seven things i
Never spend money on anymore after living with all male roommates number one tech products with cuteness as the main selling point i’ve learned that it’s often more cost-effective to go more utilitarian with tech products but that’s not because i don’t want tech items and cute girly colors they just often cost way more and perform way worse i learned this the hard
Way with a pair of rose gold headphones i hadn’t bothered to find unbiased customer reviews and they crapped out after a few months my techy roommate let me borrow his boring black bear and he worked so much better and i found out they were 30 bucks cheaper i now know to read as many testimonials as i can when it comes to purchasing an electronic and that often
The cutest option is far from the best number two cheap purely utilitarian home items the guys seem to not really care about their everyday belongings they had a few special items they really took care of but their armchairs would always be covered with dirty clothes their shelves were always dusty and they didn’t take care of their dishes or cutlery a big part of
This was because they often just bought the cheapest item possible and never felt like these items were really theirs even though they were they ended up damaging or breaking things or wearing them out quickly as a result of their lack of care i resolved to always make sure my everyday items were ones i actually wanted to take care of i may spend a little more up
Front but i’m motivated to care for my things when they feel like a true part of my home number three jeans that last less than a year while my dude roommates never invested in home items one of them happened to be more than willing to splurge on the long-lasting clothing i can’t tell you how many times he and i have gotten into a drunken deep dive on the virtues
Of salvaged denim is the event mansplaining about jean quality yes and i about to go drop 300 plus dollars on a pair of stiff starchy jeans that are somehow the best ones out there hell no but i used to buy the cheapest jeans i could find which inevitably developed inner thigh holes after only six months my roommate showed me that it is more than possible to find
Great jeans that last literal years helping me seriously consider the cost per use of what i buy number four out sourced product assembly services i like many typical girls wasn’t raised to have a lot of construction type skills so i never took the time to learn how to do things like set up a new piece of furniture or paint a wall i just pay someone else to do
It for me but since living with these guys all of whom figured out how to manage any construction tasks simply because they didn’t even consider outsourcing it i realized that i can do all of that stuff too i’m proud to say that after mastering a few basic skills and tools i can now always figure out how to assemble something by myself number five gym equipment
You won’t actually use i’m looking at you aspirationally purchased pull-up bar that my roommates used maybe twice before leaving it to forever gather dust in our living room doorway i’m sure buying home gym equipment is cost-effective for a lot of people but it certainly wasn’t for my roommates who also somehow each had their own forgotten set of weights and it’s
Definitely not for me i’ve lived in an apartment filled by home exercise equipment that never got used i’d much rather pay for the external accountability of fitness classes rather than waste money on even more equipment number six food products that are more about packaging than quality the guys used to make fun of me for all the foofy groceries i bought that
Were clearly more about their amazing packaging design than the quality of the food and honestly if i hadn’t left with a group of people for whom the siren song of an adorable wine label or glass yogurt jar fell flat i may never have changed this habit it’s so normalized and women especially are so heavily targeted by pretty packaging they’re teasing didn’t make
Me swear off my beautifully bottled almond milk forever of course but it made me really think about which products i was buying and reconsider what had become my default habits when it came time to grocery shop number seven separate products for every element of my grooming routine i know it’s basically a meme at this point to make fun of men who use one grooming
Product for literally everything from washing their face to conditioning their hair and well that’s definitely not my case i couldn’t help but notice that in our shared bathroom my shelf of products literally took up as much space as three guys worth of bathing products and all of them had pretty solid hygiene it made me wonder how many of these individual use
Products i really needed and where i could save money by combining for example i now use a little bit of conditioner as shaving cream i also swapped out my fancy body scrub for a homemade one using raw sugar and lemons basically i’ve gone from having a full grooming aisle in my bathroom to just having the essentials and being much more discerning about how i spend
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7 Things I Stopped Buying After Living With Only Guys By The Financial Diet
