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Making it work is brought to you by wealth simple which gives everyone access to simple affordable investing on cruise control i lived my entire adult life in new york city i loved so much about it the life theater never having to drive a car the beautiful old brownstones in my neighborhood but the income disparity among nyc residents can be discouraging to say the
Least when i first moved here i had a temp job at a hedge fund i was so thrilled to be making $15 an hour as a receptionist but obviously everyone else at the firm was making a hell of a lot more than that the divide between myself and the other employees could not have been clearer case in point the company provided a catered lunch every single day i would eagerly
Take leftovers home to save myself from having to worry about dinner meanwhile many of the others never bothered to partake in the free lunch happy to get out of the office and head to one of those many sit-down restaurants on park ave i would have dreamt of affording but i also realized that a lot of the time acting rich doesn’t mean spending a certain amount of
Money the most enviable thing about wealthy people was how easy so many aspects of their lives fell in comparison to mine i also realized that there were plenty of things i could do to make my own life feel easier more sophisticated or in some other way richer without having to spend a ton of money here are six rich person decisions i made for ten dollars or less
Number one upgrading an airline ticket i fly a lot for a non rich person i’m really close with my family none of whom live within easy driving distance i recently started sticking to just one airline to book tickets as that is the easiest way i found to rack up miles but when i was borderline broke i’d always get whatever was the cheapest plane ticket possible and
Let me tell you paying an extra nine dollars or ten dollars to get to pick my seat or board in the first section always made a huge difference whenever those options were available i could never have afforded a business class ticket but having just a little extra time to load my bags on the plane or make sure i could pick a window seat felt like such a luxury
Number two my investment i grew up hearing about the importance of putting money towards my retirement thanks to my relatively financially savvy parents and i’m so glad i knew to start investing from a young age but once i put money into my individual retirement account or ira i had no idea where to go from there i couldn’t pay a traditional financial advisor
To take care of my investments for me but the idea of learning the ins and outs of investing made me extremely anxious i write upon robo advisors which are services that manage your investments automatically via highly specialized software that accounts for your long-term goals and financial needs i found a robo advisor that let me open an account with no minimum
Investment transfer to my ira over for free the whole process only took a few minutes and i haven’t looked back since i was already putting $200 into my ira each month i’ve now set up automated deposits this means that $200 gets transferred from my checking account to my retirement account and then automatically invested each month without me having to do anything
I can let someone else do the heavy lifting and make the best investment decisions for me which truly makes me feel rich number 3 learning about wine literally nothing makes you feel more like the hot rich dad in the nanny than being able to decipher the back of a wine label and learn what kinds of wine you actually like to drink i picked up a used copy of wine
All the time by marissa a ross for just a few bucks and while i’m still not expert after eating it i can always effectively pick out a wine that’s going to complement whatever meal i’m having and that i know i’ll actually enjoy number four moving my savings to a high-yield account this feels like kind of a no-brainer for personal finance nerds but i didn’t realize
How much money i was leaving on the table by keeping my emergency savings and my no interest checking account i finally moved it into an online savings account that charged no fee and had more than a 2% interest rate this meant my five thousand dollar emergency fund would earn more than one dollars on top of itself in the first year just for sitting in the account
I can’t believe i didn’t think to do this sooner number five purchasing actual bathroom storage i’m not sure why but having a pristine bathroom absolutely screens miranda hobbs level sophistication to me i love my tiny new york apartment but my bathroom leaves much to be desired i finally purchased a few cheap floating shelves from my local hardware store and i
Feel like i’ve completely upgraded my life it meant i could actually have a place to put all my toiletries no more fumbling around in the back of an overflowing under sink cabinet for me number six sending back food i didn’t order i used to bulk at the idea of making any kind of fuss in a restaurant you never want to be that person who sends back food for being
Too hot or for not having enough sauce but that meant i also used to just suck it up and eat whatever was placed in front of me even if it was something i straight-up didn’t order of course there’s a fine line between being assertive in acting entitled but i’ve learned as long as you’re being kind to food service workers there’s absolutely nothing wrong with making
Sure you get what you’re paying for it feels a bit silly that this is a lesson i had to learn but i think it boils down to the main thing i’ve learned about feeling rich we are all entitled to a life that feels comfortable it makes room for joy no matter how much we may be figuring out how to make it work doesn’t mean scrumping every dollar or living as frugally
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6 Rich-Person Decisions I Made For Under $10 By The Financial Diet