Author's profile: A vegetarian, a member of the Hebei Writers Association, when I was young, I was obsessed with words, I thought that I had published books, I had been a screenwriter, I could get away with it, I didn't expect that the paper media was sluggish, the Internet was rising, in the spirit of love for words, I worked while writing, starting today, I was ready to spend only five yuan a day to record the days of my frugal life.
Yes, you heard that right, my standard now is to spend only five dollars a day to get by.
You might think I'm making an international joke, no, and listen to me. Before, I was a loose, uninhibited person, spending money and no planning, later, I met a netizen online, we in line with the love of words, often chat, and later also talked a little homely, and then I found that his standard of living, is only to spend two dollars a day.
He is a Shandong native, Shandong people can make pasta, his wife and children watch their grandchildren at their son's house, and he is generally the only one in the family. His family grows a few acres of land, the annual income is about seven thousand, because he loves to write scripts, expecting his scripts to be made into film and television dramas, so this netizen all year round, buried in the home to write scripts, farming when farming, he grows some vegetables in the yard, there are beans, leeks, eggplant, tomatoes, etc., he likes to eat vegetable boxes, generally at noon to burn a few vegetable boxes, sometimes leeks and eggs, sometimes with fennel and eggs. A panning box, making a pot of porridge, is the meal of the day.
He said that eating a vegetable box, without stir-frying, is convenient and nutritious. He said that his average daily consumption is two yuan, he does not smoke, drinks alcohol only when he is at his son's house, occasionally drinks a little, and usually eats home-cooked meals. There is very little social interaction, once a year there is a grand scale of ancestor worship, because his ancestors were once a Three Pin Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty, there are many descendants, Tiannanhaibei, every time to the Qingming Dynasty, there will be a dinner activity initiated by the patriarch, because his family has a large amount of money, so he does not have to consider the problem of spending money, it is a few rich people in the family to invite guests, including ancestor worship ceremonies.
He often shared with me that he made a dish box "delicacy", and later, I felt that his simple life, although it did not have the luxury of chicken, duck and fish meat, but really achieved Tao Yuanming's chrysanthemum picking under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the situation of Anshan.
Inspired by this friend, I also intend to start today and live simply.
In fact, my family is not a rich and noble family, the family structure is also very simple, my lover works in a unit, four thousand yuan a month, my daughter is studying at the university, and now she is studying at home during the summer vacation. Since I was laid off in the factory, I have been wandering, a few years ago to write a paper media, earned a little writing fee, and then the paper media downturn, the network also want to write a little, but I am worried that the body can not eat, so, or give up the network text.
Over the years, the work I often do is the housekeeping industry, and I have experienced a lot of people, and I have tasted all the sweet and sour. Originally, I did housekeeping in order to accumulate social experience and story materials, but in the process of experience, I felt that I had lost myself, because the housekeeping industry was very hard, and I had planned to do housekeeping while writing, but there were too few people with this kind of ease.
This month, because I was going to handle the 4050 thing, the staff of the Social Security Bureau pulled us into a group and said that within half a month, something was notified to us and let us be on standby at any time, so, this half a month, I could not go out to work. However, in our hometown, is a small county town of eighteen lines, it is difficult to find a job, go to the hospital to do cleaning, only 1200 a month, has not been off. I think that in the past half a month, I stayed at home and was also very idle, so I wrote a nod and started my simple life by the way.
Yesterday I bought 21 yuan of ingredients at the supermarket, and today I didn't go out for a day, rolled noodles at noon, beat the noodles, and stewed a plate of chicken gizzards. Today's consumption is 0.