Text | Rice grain mother
When there was no rice grain, my rice dad and I used to wander around the world, travel by car, and taste food.
Of course, the happiest thing is to buy, buy, buy!
All kinds of stalls, small things from the market, crafts, are my favorite things to collect.
After becoming an old mother, the nature of buying and buying has not changed, but from self-pampering, gradually to invest more in children.
The former exquisite "urban beauty" has also been gradually molded into the old mother of Beijing's soil system in the wind and sand.
If you save a bag, you will think about signing up for a class for your child, and you are relieved that you are a long-term investment.
Later, as the rice grains grew up and gradually revealed the true face of "picking men", I sometimes hesitated before I wanted to buy something new, because I was really tired of hearing the rice grains complain about me.
I think that in terms of frugality, the following mother must be the "dream mother" of rice.
Can be thrifty like this, I read only one sentence.
This mom is a full-time housewife in Japan who raised 4 children with her husband, who works as a shop manager at a ramen restaurant.
The eldest son is in the third grade of elementary school, the second son is in the second grade of elementary school, the third daughter who is in kindergarten, and the youngest son, who is just 9 months old, and the family of six rents a small apartment in Saitama Prefecture.
This mom's most amazing ability is super saving.
In order to save daily water, electricity and gas bills, she usually sets a menu for the week in advance.
Spend a day, go to the supermarket to buy them once, then go home and process the ingredients and cook a week's worth of dishes at once.
This method saves time and effort compared to buying fresh vegetables every day and cooking on fire, and most importantly, saves money.
On Sunday, the stock in the refrigerator is basically bottomed out, and what you eat depends entirely on what is left in the refrigerator.
If there are really no leftovers, Mom will take out the rice balls frozen in advance and make a fried rice.
The family almost never drinks bottled drinks, and the drinks brought to the children are concentrated barley tea made by their mothers in tea bags.
Every morning diluted with water and divided into servings, at least 5 portions of concentrated tea can be made at one time.
When the weather is good every day, even if the light is a little dark at home, do not turn on the lights at all, because this can save electricity bills.
I don't know if it's because of this, the 9-year-old boss and 8-year-old second of this family have already worn glasses.
The clothes are also streamlined to the point that they can't.
The clothes of the whole family of 6 plus a simple wardrobe are not enough.
Everyone only has 3 sets of clothes per season, because my mother's philosophy is that as long as there are enough clothes to wear, even if there are many clothes, but there is only one body, so three sets of clothes is enough.
Every 3 months, Mom would take the children to a restaurant outside for dinner, and they went to the ramen shop where Dad worked.
Eating here is not only to improve the food, but also to let the children see how hard their father works to support the family, so that the children know from an early age that the family's livelihood can only be sustained by the hard work of their father.
And this mother is so frugal, in fact, in order to save 40 million yen (more than 2 million yuan) for the children as an education fund for the four children.
Mom said that her children may enter college or vocational school after high school, and when that time comes, she will let the children move out and live on their own.
Each child needs at least 5 million yen in tuition plus 5 million yen in independent living expenses, which adds up to 10 million yen, and 40 million yen for four children.
She feels that if children live at home all the time, they will always unconsciously rely on the protection of adults, but sooner or later they will have to face society alone.
Therefore, try to let children live independently earlier, you can accumulate rich life experience, even if you do not have the help of parents in the future, you can live well.
Coincidentally, there is also a couple in China who have taken root in Beijing by "slamming the door", and their goal is to change a school district house in the second ring road for their children.
Prior to this, the man had already relied on the savings saved by frugal living, and bought a house in Tongzhou District with a down payment of more than 2 million.
After buying the house, he traveled through Beijing's cheap furniture markets, carefully selected defective and second-hand furniture at discounts, and spent less than 10,000 yuan to buy a full set of basic furniture.
He originally thought that he would renovate according to the hostess's wishes after marriage, but he did not expect that he met a wife who was like-minded in "knocking on the door".
After the two got married, they were even more relentless in looking for all ways to save money.
A handful of coriander brought back when buying vegetables, divided one and planted it in a pot for 6 cents, and since then the coriander has been free.
The steamer at home is exchanged for credit card points, eggs are exchanged for farm games in mobile payment software, flour is also exchanged for bank cards and phone bill points, and the pad paper for steamed buns is also exchanged for red envelopes saved by signing in on the online shopping platform every day.
In other words, steaming a pot of steamed buns can almost be regarded as 0 cost.
In the kitchen, the steamer that has been used for many years has been blackened by the fire, and in the garbage can, there is no other garbage found except rotten vegetable leaves and used tissues.
The hostess specially had a memorandum with more than a dozen notes on it, all of which were in the order of check-in on major platforms.
If you stick to the check-in, you can redeem the basic necessities of daily life, and even resell the skin care samples exchanged for check-in.
The most things in the house are a bunch of cardboard boxes of different purposes.
long and narrow, placed next to the bed as a bedside table, filled with sockets, lamps and diapers; If it is square, it is used for storage; The smaller ones are squashed and ready to be collected enough to be sold to the recycling station.
On the dining table, there is a warm kettle that has been used for 7 years and has turned white, because boiling water is more cost-effective than buying bottled water with a water discharger.
There will be no more than 5 sets of clothes per season, and only 4 pairs of shoes in spring, summer, autumn and winter, all relying on the thickness of socks to adjust the temperature. You won't buy new ones unless the clothes are worn badly, or it's very necessary.
Most of the children's clothes are given by others, and they think that "clean and warm will do." Children do not feel the new and old clothes, and many adults keep buying unnecessary things for their children, in fact, to satisfy themselves. ”
In this bustling city full of consumerist temptations, they live an almost "ascetic" life.
But in terms of the education of their children, the couple is worried.
Their home is on the first floor, and every evening, the sounds of children playing and chasing and fighting in the community will reach the house, and the hostess once raised an objection in the property group: "It's good to read a book at home." The neighbor replied that the child was the age to play.
The hostess secretly slandered, "In such an environment, how strong self-control does a child have to be to study well." ”
All this stimulated them, and they had a new goal - to buy a school district house in Beijing's second ring road, so that the child could be a century-old child, "so that she can become a Beijing child who grew up in the second ring hutong." ”
In their opinion, the students in the century-old elementary school are very self-disciplined, and in that environment, their daughters will definitely hear about it.
Rice grain mother in "emptied 6 wallets 5 million, three generations of six people living in the imperial capital 40 square old and broken, what is the picture? In this article, I also wrote about two similar families.
The family of six emptied six purses and lived in a 40-square-meter old-fashioned apartment in the city.
In the 1.5 square meter bathroom, stuffed with toilets, sinks, showers, every morning the family takes turns "convenient", finally their turn, when washing, they have to bow their heads and bow their waist, grandpa often breaks his head.
The 3.5-square-meter cloakroom has to store the clothes of six people, and the exquisite grandmother can only put aside the hobby of dressing up, and suppress herself every day to live in the lower bunk of a 10-square-meter room, and her grandmother collapsed to the point of depression.
Another family of three has lived in an old 10㎡ bungalow for more than ten years, and recently gave birth to a second child.
The eldest son went to elementary school, but he lived in bunk beds with his parents, and he needed to go to the public toilet outside to go to the toilet, he had to go to the public bathroom for bathing, and he had to go to the yard for homework...
Now that a baby has been added to the family, the already mini house is even more stretched.
However, they have access to the highest quality educational resources.
The 10㎡ old and dilapidated school, the counterpart school is the famous Shijia Hutong Primary School in Beijing.
The 5 million 40 square meters of Xicheng is old and dilapidated, and it is likely to be the counterpart area of a cow school, in fact, people are buying not only houses, but school districts.
As for whether the immediate life is worth it, in fact, it is a matter of opinion.
It just so happened that some time ago, Migrain Mama saw a post and shared it with everyone
After 16 years as a "house slave", he sold a house of less than 90 square meters in Chaoyang, Beijing, for 11.4 million, and returned to Handan, Hebei Province to live a "longing life", living in a 100-square-meter house, holding 2 million pocket flowers in his hands, and 6 million yuan of regular income evenly spread out to 20,000 yuan per month, which is more than enough to live in Handan.
At this moment, he really walked on the "peak of life". The family living in the 40-square-meter old and dilapidated small school in Xicheng, compared with this, is indeed a little "miserable", not to mention the children and adults, but to say that the old man's grievance, it is really sad.
Just like the two mothers in Japan and China, in this society dominated by too many external disturbances, there are really not many people who want to reduce their desires and stick to their goals like them, so it depends on what you are pursuing and whether you want to spell out half the future for your children.
As for the life of saving food and clothing, or the life of experience, which is happier? Let's be free to prove this question.
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