Yu Dafu said that every year in the south, in the autumn, we always think of the reed flowers of Taoran Pavilion, the willow shadow of Diaoyutai, the insect singing of Xishan Mountain, the night moon of Yuquan, and the bells of Tanzhu Temple.
For him, the southern autumn always entered too slowly, the grass and trees withered not completely enough, and the sky was not deep. However, autumn in the south has a unique charm of its own. Just like Nanjing, as soon as autumn comes, the plane trees on the street begin to be colorful, the lawn by Xuanwu Lake begins to shimmer with golden light, the lotus pond in the ripples of Mochou Lake gradually washes away the summer fragrance, the low-saturation residual lotus begins to appear, and the leaves on both sides of the Ming Xiao Mausoleum Road are colorful.
Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, ascending to the far horizon to see the autumn colors. /Figure worm
It's just that for Nanjing, autumn is too short, like a haiku of Matsuo Basho:
Autumn chrysanthemums are placed, butterflies are poured in, and dew is sucked.
Friends were traveling in Zhangye and heard that snow had begun to fall there. This autumn, it seems that the "whizz" has passed. Everyone's enthusiasm for the "Golden Autumn Tour" has not diminished at all. I wanted to see the autumn in the north and the autumn in the south. Travel has become a necessity of our lives.
Is saving money poor?
What do you bring with you when you travel? There will be a suitcase – with carry-on clothes, toiletries, etc., an ID card, and a heart that yearns for the destination.
My friend Dan Dan told me that she would definitely bring some money-saving tools with her. Dan Dan is the most money-saving person I have ever met. She seems to know all the festivals of the merchants, and there are always endless coupons. If I want to buy something, if I look for her, it will be cheaper, sometimes even a few hundred dollars.
Many people think that people who will save money must be because they don't have any money, but in fact, it is not a big fallacy.
Take Dan Dan as an example, she is a single girl, living alone in Guangzhou, earning 20,000 yuan a month, raising several cats at home, no mortgage pressure, life can be said to be very comfortable. For her, the money saved is actually insignificant, and a physical examination for a cat may not be enough. She told me that in fact, she used to spend money without blinking, but in the process of work, she got some realistic education.
After raising a cat, I found that the previous little shopping desire was nothing. /Figure worm
She works as a art distributor and always receives many big clients. Those customers who can casually take a million-dollar painting, "rich and powerful" is probably the most appropriate description of them. Unexpectedly, in them, Dan Dan found something in common: saving.
For example, there is a sister who made a fortune by investment, every time she takes Dan Dan to dinner, she chooses a good restaurant, she will always ask the manager first whether there are any special dishes and whether there are any discounts. If anything, if it happened to be what she wanted to order, the sister would order it. Every time she finished eating, if there was any leftover, the sister would also pack it up and take it away, and if Dan Dan didn't want it, she would happily put it in her car.
Of course, when choosing a work of art, when seeing what you like, the sister will also ask if there is a discount. If there are no discounts, she will want to get some tie-in giveaways. Dan Dan's colleagues feel that this kind of behavior is a bit of a "door-slamming", at least not refreshing enough. However, Dan Dan has served this customer for a long time, and she knows that the other party is by no means a person who cuts the door, and her tens of millions of net worth are not saved in this way. In this sister, she saw a mature attitude towards money.
Those who spend lavishly and never think about it are mostly upstarts, and for them, money is only a symbol of their status, an external decoration. However, people who really know how to use money will cherish every penny of their own money. Saving money, from this point of view, actually means taking responsibility for yourself.
Good province, good cool
Saving money is subtracting from life. Dan Dan felt this way, and she also "sold" this idea to some friends, such as me. Maybe it's machismo, and I don't think it's enough to calculate the methods that save money, and it makes people wonder if I'm poor.
But under Dan Dan's influence, I began to change. I came to understand that saving money has nothing to do with rich or poor. Besides, even if we are seen as poor, why should we care so much about the eyes of others? Like fish drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge.
Once I invited a friend to dinner, when paying the bill, I stood at the cash register with my friend, I asked the waiter if there was any discount, the waiter told me that there was a group purchase to buy, within a few tens of seconds I completed the operation, the meal saved more than ten dollars. After doing this in front of my friends, at that moment, I felt that my life was not so much burdensome.
This year's young people save money, starting with eating group buying. /Figure worm
My friend later told me that he didn't think I would care about the ten dollars, and it felt like I was really mature. I told my friend that if I just asked the clerk one more question, I could save more than ten yuan, so why not ask?
Since I agreed with this concept, my life seems to be less "willful", but more "small luck". For example, I look at a toy, but its price is always difficult for me to get started, and every time I pass by there, I will look at it a few times. Once I caught up with the mall to do activities, the discount was particularly large, plus I had some points to deduct, and finally I only used half the price to start. The toy didn't lose value because it was bought at half price, but it made me have a lot more fun buying it.
In the process of saving money, I not only experienced more fun, but also felt the true meaning of money, which has nothing to do with our identity, status or other external additions, money is just money itself.
How can I save money more easily?
Saving money is a good thing, but excessive saving money can also lead to a kind of myth, which is easy to put the cart before the horse. A friend told me the story of his mother. He said that his mother was a big fan of Jacky Cheung, and that year Jacky Cheung held a concert in Beijing, he specially bought tickets for her. Mom saved a lifetime, that time was the same, dead or alive refused to take a taxi, the result of taking the subway lost, by the time they arrived at the performance venue, Jacky Cheung on the stage had been singing for an hour. This is to save a small amount of money, and to cause big trouble.
Shang poor bi fell to the Yellow Spring, moved his hands and feet to find coupons, I have to say, this is indeed a troublesome thing. Money is meant to be saved, but if you are calculating how to save money every day, it will make spending money gradually become unhappy. Therefore, we need to find an integrated way to save money.
Master the small tricks to save money, in order to say goodbye to the Moonlight Clan. /"Please Answer 1988"
In 2019, I got married, I planned to go to Japan to play, but the surging epidemic bound our steps, so we began the domestic travel plan, within two years, we went to many places, Jilin in the northeast, Changchun, Lanzhou in the northwest, Dunhuang, and Lijiang and Dali in Yunnan, we found that the motherland's mountains and rivers or majestic or beautiful and flexible, all over the wind and things, as if in their lifetime, can not see these good mountains and rivers.
This autumn, we are going to hangzhou to play, I asked Dan Dan if there is any ultimate money-saving big move recommended.
The well-informed Dan Dan recommended to me the "Light Up The Holiday • UnionPay Accompany You to China" activity of China UnionPay Cloud Flash, and she said that there were many coupon packs in it. For example, if you travel, you can get an airline ticket; if you are driving, you can receive a fuel coupon and a high-speed reduction coupon. If you arrive at your destination and want to take the bus subway, you can get a bus and subway discount coupon for the corresponding city (for example, I am going to Hangzhou). If you're going to eat, there are also some branded coupons to claim. In addition, there are many supermarket shopping coupons, which are issued every day, but they are often very hot and need to be grabbed early.
China UnionPay cloud flash payment QR code. /Visual China
I was stunned and couldn't believe it. I don't know when it started, Dan Dan became a loyal user of Cloud Flash. She said that once overtime, home late, the courier in the courier cabinet locked for too long, has begun to charge overtime fees, she tried to use cloud flash payment scan code payment, the result was originally to pay a yuan, and finally only spent a penny. Since then, she has taken the app seriously and made it her primary payment method. She said that cloud flash payment seems to always surprise her, when paying inadvertently will save a little, and later a study, only to know that the original is issued a coupon.
Although I watched her go farther and farther on the road of saving money, it seemed difficult to catch up, but after she said this, I felt as if our gap was only such an APP.
Autumn is a season of falling leaves and ripening fruits, and the ancients felt that autumn was a sound and color, and it was very sad. But those who love autumn, there is no shortage of people, "I say that autumn is better than spring dynasty", and the beauty of autumn seems to never be lonely. Friends in Hangzhou posted the scene of osmanthus blossoms in the circle of friends, and I saw the gorgeous sunset reflecting the red water of the West Lake, which "lured" me and my wife, and we were about to leave for it in the near future.
Autumn in the West Lake is just in time. /Figure worm
Don't let autumn light wait, take your heart of beauty and go. But if you want to have a more economical autumn, I think you should go to Cloud Flash.
✎ Author | Vail
✎ Proofreading | Yang Chao
✎ Typography | Mochi
Cover | Autumn Fairy Tales
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