We have all seen the television programs that show extreme cheapness. Frugality is about stewardship of your family's resources. Frugality isn't about making your family go without. Children should never worry about money. It is wise to teach them money is a tool.
Frugality can become cheap fast. Skinflint, stingy, parsimonious, miserly, and tighfistedcome to people's minds when frugality is discussed. Frugality in our family goes hand in hand with reducing our carbon footprint, meeting retirement and education goals.
If my family requested different products I would do so. It happens from time to time. Our daughter will ask for a purchased skincare porducts, only to find that homemade is better for her skin. Our son has a thing about shoes and his hair. We never buy anything but Nike for him. He has requested going to the Barber shop. Frugality is about buying the best quality. We buy quality over best deal for things like shoes, mattresses, and other long term things.
Frugality is difficult when you have rental property. We are dealing with the health and well-being of people. We changed the ceiling fans to have better lighting, we hired bug control and mice abatement(it is a an old farmhouse),replaced the smoke and C02 detectors, and put in a new dishwasher. We ended up putting in 1,000 dollars worth of upgrades. We could have left things as they were, it certainly would have been CHEAPER.
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