The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More
Summary
- How to be frugal, but also enjoy life
How I discovered it
- Sandi recommended
How the book changed me
- Save money and enjoy life more? I am sold
Details
- Make specific time for conversations
- Enjoy each experience fully by stretching it out
- When you buy few things you make more effort to buy good quality stuff
- Appreciate the technology in the items you own
- Humans are born intrinsically motivated, but learn to become extrinsically motivated
- Making frugal choices results in greater appreciation of pleasures
- The more an item is advertised, the less money is used on item quality
- When we buy higher quality food, we are less likely to throw it out
- Cultivate the art of imparting new information to listeners
- Economic activity is a poor way to measure human happiness
- Develop a personality instead of using conspicuous consumption
- Don't be ashamed about naming your price
- Total financial independence may not lead to happiness
- Frugal travel may lead to discomfort, and that is ok
- Frugal travel gives you a more intimate experience of where you are visiting
- Save money by reducing the quantities of cleaning products used
- The most energy efficient item is the one that you already have
- When an experience goes wrong it can be just as worthwhile as when all goes right
- Experience creates an identity as well as social connection
- Take time to ask older ones about their life lessons
References
Quotes
- Appreciation that we can fly in a plane - Louis C.K.
- The Frugal Hedonist expects that life will be a multi-coloured journey of pleasures and struggles and joy and death and adventure and boredom and epiphany and love and loss - Annie Raser-Rowland