I believe that many people have heard the term "ineffective frugality", and thrift is a good quality in any era. But ineffective frugality has changed the flavor of the word frugality.
Ineffective thrift refers to behaviors that appear to be saving resources, but actually cause more waste and loss. This is especially true among the older generation.
There was a joke on the Internet before that it was ineffective and thrifty, because it was too hot in summer, I was reluctant to turn on the air conditioner at home, so I ran to the mall to blow the free air conditioner. It seems to have saved your money, but when you get to the mall, you have a cup of milk tea, a meal, and you have to take down the beautiful clothes when you see them.
Finally, when I returned home, I found that the air conditioner was not turned off, which seemed to be a funny joke, but the meaning behind it was very profound. Ineffective thrift is always an act of self-emotion.
"Ineffective frugality" in life
In life, the older generation has come from a hard life, and frugality seems to have become a part of life. "Ineffective frugality" has also become synonymous with the older generation.
We can often see fruit at home, but most young people can't remember to eat it. It is not uncommon for the fruit to spoil gradually, and the older generation of the family thinks it is a wasteful act, so they choose the fruit that is already bad and start eating. As a result, all the fruits eaten are bad, and in severe cases, it can lead to gastrointestinal problems.
Of course, there are also leftovers at home, which are also things that the older generation is reluctant to throw away. Always put it in the refrigerator, and as long as you can't finish it, you will always put it in the refrigerator and reheat it. But leftovers are often heated and eaten, and it is easy to suffer from gastroenteritis, and you will not learn a lesson until vomiting and diarrhea.
This situation will also have a huge impact on the family, and many young people will leave the children in the care of their grandparents or grandparents after they have children. The expired or expiring ones at home will be fed to their children, although parents are very disgusted by this behavior.
But the older generation often says, "This is how I came over when I was a child, how can today's children be so delicate." From the perspective of physical health, children's health will only get worse and worse, and getting sick is a frequent thing.
The older generation has such a mistake because they are used to living a hard life, but today's young people also have a lot of hidden consumption in their lives, which is unavoidable.
Take online shopping as an example, it has now become a part of life, and it is common for many young people to receive a lot of express delivery every day. However, there is always a gap between the pictures displayed in the online store and the actual product, and the product that I received with joy is very different from what I expected.
I wanted to return the goods for a refund but found that the merchant did not have shipping insurance, and because I was distressed about the shipping cost of more than ten yuan, I kept the goods by my side. Many of them are used once or twice and then put aside, which indirectly causes hidden consumption.
Therefore, if you are not satisfied with the goods you buy online, you should return them directly, and do not compromise, which will only cause an increase in costs. Useless things that are bought back and take up space at home are also very annoying to look at.
And many people buy a lot of inferior clothes in order to be frugal, which has a huge impact on our health. A T-shirt of more than ten yuan is still earned after the merchant sells it, and you can imagine how harmful this dress is to the human body. Deformation and discoloration are common things, and if they cause damage to our skin, the gains outweigh the losses.
There is also power saving, which is also a fine tradition adhered to by the older generation. But in order to save a few kilowatt-hours of electricity, the price in exchange is unbearable. In the past, there were families who couldn't turn on the lights when they went to the toilet in the middle of the night because of power saving, which led to the old man who smeared the toilet and fell and spent a lot of money on hospital treatment.
It must be a very troublesome thing for young people to move nowadays, and they will always look at the asking price of the moving company for the first time, and if they think it is too expensive, they will go to their friends. However, such a situation will cause your own trouble, and you should always express your gratitude to your friends after the move, and it is the right thing to treat you to dinner.
In the end, the cost of a dinner is higher than that of a moving company, and I owe a favor to a friend. You can't refuse something from others, otherwise you will be labeled as unjust, and in the end, it will not be good to spend money.
Many elderly people like to save empty bottles, plastic bags, and empty cardboard boxes. The accumulation of these things at home will only cause trouble, and in the case of plastic bags, the older generation seems to have a paranoid insistence that no matter what kind of plastic bags will be stored in drawers, even the plastic bags of soup and water are reluctant to throw away.
There are also empty bottles and cardboard boxes, if the bottles and cardboard boxes are not cleaned, and there are residual drinks and so on, which will attract ants or cockroaches in the summer, and finally buy pesticides to eliminate the pests. And once the presence of cockroaches is discovered, it means that there will be more cockroaches in the home.
The elderly at home will often freeze the meat and are reluctant to eat it, and some even put it in the refrigerator and gradually forget it. Even if it is frozen, the quality of the meat will change, and there will always be various risks when it is eaten again, which will pose a serious threat to health, and these conditions are believed to be in everyone's home.
Especially the older generation of kitchen supplies think that they can use it, and they don't care about the harm caused at all. For example, kitchen dishcloths are not washed after washing the dishes, and even after washing, bacteria remain. When washing dishes, bacteria will be contaminated to a greater or lesser extent, and this will definitely have an impact on your health in the long run.
In real life, there will only be more cases of "ineffective frugality", and many times it seems that a lot of money is saved, but once it has an impact, the amount of money spent will increase exponentially.
We should also pay more attention to this in life, some necessary expenses can not be omitted, the older generation due to deep-rooted habits have indeed caused a lot of troubles in life, for this situation can only we pay more attention to avoid some unnecessary harm.
Young people are much more cheerful in this regard, but it will also cause a lot of hidden consumption. This is especially true when we go to a mall or an online store, when we see something we like, we will have the desire to buy it. When I took it home, I found that the freshness passed quickly, and it had no effect at all when I put it aside, and finally caused economic losses.
For thrift and ineffective thrift, we should distinguish the difference between the two, when eating, we should do the disc action, for the material, we should judge whether it is necessary, if it is not necessary, do not rush to buy, in life to avoid unnecessary expenses.