{"id":2204,"date":"2008-12-03T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrichslowly.org\/blog\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2019-10-15T21:34:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T04:34:23","slug":"how-to-afford-anything-but-not-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/how-to-afford-anything-but-not-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"How to afford anything (but not everything)"},"content":{"rendered":"
You can have anything you want \u2014 but you can’t have everything<\/i> you want. That’s the lesson I learned from a recent conversation with my cousin<\/a>. And that’s the lesson photographer Ken Rockwell imparts in an essay that explains how to afford anything<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n Our ability to buy expensive toys has nothing to do with how much money we do or don’t earn.<\/b> Like everything in life, it has everything to do with how well you use what you have.<\/p>\n[…]\n What I’ll describe has always worked for me. I hope it helps you. Everyone’s situations are different, but hopefully my skinflint lifestyle will give you the idea. This is all about prioritization and not wasting what you do have, so if you prioritize differently or enjoy spending money on something I consider wasteful, go right ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Rockwell says that it’s important to understand the difference between cheap and frugal. As we’ve discussed at Get Rich Slowly before, the cheapest option isn’t always the best. Sometimes the most expensive choice actually costs less in the long run. Cheap means focusing on price above all else; frugality means seeking value for your dollar.<\/p>\n In his essay<\/a>, Rockwell provides real-life examples of how he’s made choices to save money so that he can afford anything he wants (especially cameras). Some of his anecdotes are funny. Some are inspiring. They’re all great examples of how to get rich<\/a> slowly. Here are a few of his tips:<\/p>\n “Most people are too stupid to be poor,” says Rockwell’s brother. He means that most of us are unwilling to make sacrifices now in order to have the things we really want in the future<\/b>. Instead, we fritter our money away on stuff that doesn’t even matter, stuff that brings us little or no value. We settle.<\/p>\n To be able to afford the important things, you must be willing to give up others. Or, as Dave Ramsey puts it, “If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”<\/p>\n [Ken Rockwell: How to afford anything<\/a>, submitted via e-mail by Dan K.]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can have anything you want \u2014 but you can’t have everything<\/i> you want. That’s the lesson I learned from a recent conversation with my cousin<\/a>. And that’s the lesson photographer Ken Rockwell imparts in an essay that explains how to afford anything<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n Our ability to buy expensive toys has nothing to do with how much money we do or don’t earn.<\/b> Like everything in life, it has everything to do with how well you use what you have.<\/p>\n […]<\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[476],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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