(Note: Please treat the details of the article rationally, read it with humor, and follow it carefully.)
The easiest way to learn to live a hard life is to talk to the poor. They will tell you many good ways to save money and save money.
For example, if you want a haircut, look for the cheapest barber shop. One is a barbershop in an old-fashioned residential neighborhood in the city, with comfortable chairs and air conditioning, and the lowest price for a haircut is about 8 yuan. You may also find cheaper – under the overpass, some demolition and construction of dilapidated houses, often put a barber shop, haircut fees are generally about 5 yuan, even as low as 4 yuan.
If you’re going to eat, go with the people who save the most money, like cart-haulers, cleaners, assembly line workers. You have to eat where they eat. In Both Beijing and Shanghai, you can get noodles with a Shaxian delicacies for 3 or 4 yuan, or you can buy steamed bread for 20 yuan and pickles for 50 yuan. A meal costs only 1 yuan and 7 yuan. Three yuan a jin of onion pancakes are not difficult to buy. You want to eat better, you can come to a rice, rice with steamed pork shrew is about 8 yuan, want to remember: let the shopkeeper add rice in advance, generally do not charge additional money. Ask the shopkeeper for a few more cups of free water instead of drinks. Even mineral water ($1.50) is an unnecessary extra expense.
If you like to eat fruit, you can buy a bargain. Fruit shops sell fruit that is about to go bad or just a little bit of it for half the normal price. There are two more rules to remember: the first is to wait for the cheapest season for each fruit, and the second is to buy the cheapest fruit possible. The nutritional value of fruits and vegetables has nothing to do with price. For example, eight cents a catty watermelon, even five cents a catty pulled rattan melon (is finally even the vine pull the last of those small melons), with 65 dollars a catty imported cherries from the United States nutritional value is the same. 70 cents a catty of white gourd, with ten yuan a catty of imported vegetables, nutrition is not big difference. You can also save money if you buy the ones that carry the broken watermelons. Watermelon rind is a kind of very good health to reduce weight food, so you do not discard watermelon rind, the rind of inner layer can be cold mix, the hard rind of outer layer can be fried with oil a little bit brownish, add a little white sugar, taste is also very good. When you’re poorest, you can ask for free watermelon rind from the juicer and eat this healthy food for nothing. Stewed wax gourd skin is also edible.
If you eat ordinary grain, how much will you get for the least amount of food a day? The cheapest noodle in the supermarket is one yuan eighty-one catty, you only need one yuan eight noodles a day, three cents of salt, one cent of water, plus the electricity bill of thirty cents. So as long as you have an income of 70 yuan a month, you don’t have to worry about going hungry.
Worried about running out of animal protein? Eggs in the supermarket are only 4.60 yuan a kilo. The chicken is only 6 yuan a kilo. Rich people may buy a dozen one-kilo eggs or drive to the mountains for the expensive free-range local chickens they believe were raised on birth control pills. But is the pill really so harmful? The lower class of laborers who eat this kind of chicken are rarely obese or sexually inadequate, and the harm of the so-called birth control pill is just a bourgeois decoration concocted by the middle class to flaunt their taste in life.
Don’t waste money on clothes, either. Bai Fumei will buy a discount brand clothes, the original price is 2,000 yuan, after the discount only 800 yuan. If you really want to save money, do what I tell you: Shop at a labor supply store. I bought 50 yuan two-layer cowhide reverse leather oven shoes (the kind for the foundry workers), the bottom is cut from car waste tires, a real environmental friendly and strong product, wear resistance is higher than most high-end leather shoes. If you’re lucky and the soles are made from imported Japanese Bridgestone tires or American Goodyear tires, or even have kevlar puncture proof strips inside, you’ll make a killing. A pair of soles will last you 10 years. There is no need to waste money on shoe polish for work shoes with reverse leather. When they wear out, go to a shoemaker, fix them for five dollars, and they will last for years.
Labor protection stores can buy mechanical workers’ uniforms, which cost a few tens of dollars each, and are the same color as the pants, more than four times cheaper than the jeans and jeans of the same strength from the fashion store. Do you want a strong belt? Instead of buying A Piercardin, buy a rubber band (cut from a scrap inner tube) at a labor department store for $1 a meter, plus an industrial belt buckle for $1 a pair, and for $2 you have a very strong, springy black rubber belt. Of course, you can also spend more money on extremely strong belts like those used by electricians.
You may need to buy a few more bags. Bai Fumei will go to the United States to buy a Louis Vuitton or Chanel, and then proudly tell you that you have saved a whole $8,000 compared with the domestic purchase. However, you go to labor insurance supplies shop to buy the bag, canvas waterproof, electrical bag, tool kit, 30 dollars a, definitely stronger than Chanel ten times, practical volume is also many times larger, and has natural anti-theft performance, you do not have to cover your bag on the bus.
Don’t compare cars with your friends. Although used qq is not expensive, you probably don’t need to buy a car at all. You can buy a bike as an exercise vehicle. You can even have the luxury of owning seven used bikes and changing them every day from Monday to Sunday. The most practical car is the permanent PB202W, which is adopted by the Post office. It has a rear load folding rear frame and can also be fitted with a front shelf. It can carry several large bags with a load of 150 kg. If you need to bring a lot more, you can buy a bigger the tricycle (rod under the frame is two or three tubes of that kind of, the more upscale tricycle and similar to the automotive spring steel plate spring suspension), ninety percent used new is about 700 yuan, cargo load porsche and BMW than absolutely, you can use this help a friend move the car. If you go out to travel, you can put a board on the tricycle, you can sleep on it at night, a few boxes under the board, will not be stolen. Many people spend the night on a tricycle, usually free under an overpass. You can travel around China on a tricycle for less than a few yuan.
There’s no shame in not having a car. Your friends who have cars, if they had more money, would keep something called a spinning bike at home and ride it in place. Is there anything worse than driving to and from work and sweating on a bike at home with the air conditioner on?
The biggest expense, you say, is the house! Yes, a lot of people buy expensive houses. It is a fact that the houses in Beijing and Shanghai are expensive. But a lot of people complain about traffic jams and air pollution every day while they stay in Beijing and Shanghai. How abnormal it is! Housing in China isn’t really in short supply, with urban residents living on 30 square meters per person, while rural residents live on far more, leaving many villages with only a cluster of old folks and a lot of empty apartments.
If you have to live in Beijing and Shanghai, you can buy a small property in the suburb 50 kilometers away from the city, with three bedrooms and one living room. A 300-square-meter yard will sell for only 300,000 yuan (such a large yard with a single family, such as a small siheyuan, will sell for tens of millions in the center of Beijing). Then rent an 8-square-meter studio near your workplace, or an upper berth in a 15-dollar-a-day “job-hunting apartment.” All you need at night is a bed, a laptop on the bed and a bag under the bed. Every Friday night, I would ride my bike for three hours and go back to my comfortable big house in the country for the weekend.
Some people will say: small property easy to dispute ah, property rights can not be guaranteed ah, not good to resell ah. You have to decide, do you buy a house to live on your own, or to increase the value of the money? The dispute of small property right house, probability does not pass 1%, and you buy the commercial house in the city, the probability that is forcibly demolished exceeds 2% absolutely within 20 years. Buy a city house money, you can buy a lot of small property in the countryside. Of course, if you are poor, I don’t recommend you buy, go to empty villages where almost the whole village emigrates to the city, rent is almost free, you can live for your whole life, and those villages will have fewer people and more empty houses.
As a money saver, you can also travel a lot. Hard seats are not expensive: the Shanghai-Xi ‘an express costs 182 yuan, and the Beijing-Beijing express 179 yuan. If you’re lucky, it’s cheaper to get on a local train that stops every few minutes. You can also bring a used folding bike and continue cycling wherever you go. Don’t stay in expensive youth hostels where silly foreigners make their money. You can find cheaper, bargain – able hutong inns. Of course, you can stay under the overpass for free. The key is to find an overpass near the free overnight public toilet. Some free toilets turn off the tap after 9pm. You need to get the water in a plastic jug before they turn it off. You can shower or wash your face or brush your teeth in the evening. Traveling by tricycle is a cheaper option, as I have mentioned above.
There is no need to buy a drink when you are away from home. Tap water can be drunk directly. E. coli levels 10 times higher than normal won’t cause diarrhea (unless you’re one of those people who never drinks tap water). Many years ago, my medical school friend told me that he had tested his own tap water and found 200 times higher levels of E. coli. I tried his tap water for a week and was fine. As long as you get used to drinking tap water, life will have a lot of convenience. To be on the safe side, take norfloxacin with you when you travel. Ten dollars worth of norfloxacin will last you for years.
Don’t worry about gutter oil or anything. So far, I have never seen a single report of testing data showing that the concentration of hazardous substances in gutter oil is high enough to cause significant harm to humans. Food standards are very conservative, many harmful chemicals exceed the standard of 10 times eight times the food, as can be eaten. You check the Internet who toxic chemical ingredients description materials, you will know that according to your normal intake, most of the toxic ingredients of food can exceed the standard dozens of times and you can eat according to.
Learn to survive in the wild. Don’t look at sites that teach outdoor forums. That’s where the rich pretend to be forced. You have to look at a tramp, think of a white-haired girl, you know how strong the life force is. One of my schizophrenic neighbors, an old lady who went crazy during the land reform, never had a bath after she went crazy, slept on the ground full of cockroaches and rats in the garbage, mainly scavenging for food in the garbage, never saw any disease after the land reform, and lived until the beginning of this century, longer than Deng Xiaoping.
Seeing a doctor is a costly business. However, many poor people in remote and poor mountainous areas have never been to a hospital in their lives, and their life expectancy is only ten years less than that of urban residents. Forty years ago, most farmers, mostly relying on barefoot doctors, could also solve most of their medical problems. You can solve about 90 percent of medical problems by just reading the Barefoot Doctor’s Manual (which I read in fourth grade). If you are highly educated, spend two months reading a few books like Xue’s Internal Medicine and Google yourself, you will go to the hospital much less often. Some illnesses, you know, it’s no use going to the hospital. Some illness, you know not to go to see also fine. You only go to the hospital if you need tests to confirm your diagnosis or if you have to have surgery. Besides, you hardly need to go to the hospital at all. In Chinese drugstores, you can buy all prescription drugs. With such good conditions, why go to the hospital every three days? If something happens to you, it’s not that big of a deal. You have to live a little more cheerfully.
Don’t throw away the medicine when it expires. The standard of medicine is very conservative. Many medicines are still used after expiration of three to five years. Today’s medicines are packaged in very good, air-tight vacuum systems, and most of them are chemically stable and expire decades later. Drop the medicine on the floor, just pick it up and eat it, don’t listen to the doctor say there are bacteria on the floor. Unless you happen to be near the plating bath and there’s a splash of sodium cyanide on the floor. The general ground, is not a big harm.
The reason most people can’t live a hard life is because of a thing called responsibility. Those middle class will feel that they have the responsibility to give their children a good future, even think it is a sin to give their children in today’s China, so they must give their children in America. You should know that the present era is the happiest era in human history. If it is irresponsible to let children live in Today’s China, almost none of your ancestors is responsible. As long as you give your child rice paste (rice flour is about 3 yuan per kilo, much cheaper than milk powder), you have done your duty. Whether or not your child has the money for an education, or whether or not he or she is able to move into the upper echelons of society (as opposed to being relegated to the bottom), that is not your responsibility. As long as he or she lives, he or she has to live.
As for your parents, you have no responsibility for them either. They only gave birth to you because they wanted to. It’s not your responsibility to look to their children. And even if they have expectations, I believe most of them want their children to be happy. If you eat dried noodles, wear a denim smock, and carry a kit every day, you’ll be happier and happier than the rich, and they won’t feel the pain.
Occasionally, when you have money, you should also pass the days when you buy dao and sable fur coat for wine. Otherwise, as time goes by, you will easily lose your pride. It’s not about hoarding possessions, or enduring hardships. It’s about having the courage to give up what you once owned, if necessary, or to let go of your “opportunity cost.” Li Hai has a famous saying: used to the detention house, where can lead.
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