You should not scrimp on the following things.
Thrift is a virtue and careful budgeting is an essential life skill.
However, there are things that saving too much is not necessarily good or beneficial. Below are behaviors that seem to be economical but are actually useless, sometimes even more wasteful.
Useless savings in clothing
1. If you buy socks that are too cheap, they will deform after a few wears and make your feet smell bad.
2. Being cheap, buying discounted clothes that don’t fit you, end up throwing them in a corner.
3. Often wear the cheapest clothes in the closet, not daring to wear expensive clothes for fear of getting them dirty.
4. Buy cheap cotton clothes, wash them once and they will be damaged. As a result, you will have to throw them away and buy new ones.
Useless savings in diet
5. Eat leftovers from the previous meal, and newly cooked food will turn into leftovers from the next day.
6. Use the refrigerator to store a lot of cheap vegetables, but they will spoil before you can eat them.
7. You regret that you don’t dare to eat delicious food, so you keep it in the refrigerator forever, and eventually it expires without knowing, and you have to throw it away.
8. Don’t eat breakfast or lunch but eat expensive dinner.
9. Don’t eat breakfast because you don’t want to spend money, but in the end you have to spend a lot of money to treat stomach pain.
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Useless savings when traveling
10. To save money on taxis, you can take the bus, but because you can’t judge the time, you miss the high-speed train.
11. Save money on bus tickets to walk, which makes your body tired. When I’m thirsty, I buy a bottle of milk worth 4 times the bus fare.
12. Leaving the car for a long time causes the battery to be damaged.
13. Save on parking fees if you leave your car illegally. You could end up being fined a huge amount of money.
14. To save money, refueling with poor quality gas will cause the car to break down and you will have to spend money on repairs.
Other useless savings
15. Buy a lot of discounted items: These are mostly unnecessary items that will sooner or later be thrown away or collect dust in the warehouse.
16. Stay up late and work hard, then use a variety of masks and skin care products to restore yourself.
17. If you don’t see a doctor for a small illness, it will become a big problem that will cost you a lot of medical expenses.
18. Household appliances bought at bargain prices but with no future warranty service.
19. Gambling with the desire to make money: Work hard to save every penny, only to impulsively participate in gambling and lose all the money.
20. Not paying attention to quality, only pursuing quantity: Everything you buy may be unusable or quickly break down over time.
21. For fear of wasting electricity, turn the air conditioner on and off frequently. But actually this is the action that consumes the most electricity.
22. Refusing to fix a broken faucet causes a small amount of water to be lost every day. And the sound of dripping water can keep you awake all night, leading to a nervous breakdown.
