There's no way i was born to just pay Bills And Die.

in #esteem6 years ago (edited)

I had a chat with a friend of mine in his office today and he confided in me that he was having trouble covering the expenses of running his business and that he felt that he should just pack up and call it quits.

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Between paying for the office rental space and with the utility bills taking a sizable portion of his earnings.
There is precious little left for him at the end of the month.

My advice to him was to start by changing out his source of electricity which consumes a large portion of his earnings to a much cheaper solution Solar Energy .The money he will save from electricity bills once his business is powered by solar energy will help him scale up his business.

There are many bills that i feel are robbing us of our financial freedom and the only way we can get free of them is by getting rid of some bills.Many people go out of their way to buy trouble for themselves when they decide to live above their means often with the intention of impressing their neighbours,family,colleagues or love interest with their expensive lifestyle.

How do they manage that :-

  • By buying expensive cars that is expensive to maintain on their present income.
  • Living in very palatial accomodations that they can barely afford along with its insane utility bills.
  • Mounting shopping expenses.

To not end up broke as soon as you are flush with cash.It is important to find out and plug those leaks that is draining you of your limited resources.You need to employ self discipline in your life so you can better save yourself some money and invest them in worthy projects.

For me right now.

  • I have decided to exchange my car for a much more economical option.
  • I waste a lot of money on getting potable drinking water.So i have decided to get An air to Water converting machine
  • I have a solar electricity generating set which comprises of two solar panels,an inverter and a battery but unfortunately the inverter has some issues that needs to be attended to.

There are genius ways or alternatives that will save you a lot of money from the needless bills. If we are determined to find them.

To conclude this post I would like to hear about the ways you avoid paying costly bills.

Thanks for reading.

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Interesting post.

I've always been into minimalism (I lived in Japan and hate clutter) and into caring for the environment. So, I never got round to taking my driving license (an overseas job offer came along during my lessons) and never really regretted it.

The things I do buy I tend to care for. I got a decade out of my first laptop for example. Then, there's clothes. There are quite a lot of posh towns and villages where I live so I just go to the charity shops. I get to dress to impress whilst spending peanuts.

I probably blow all my savings going out as much as I do though but I've not hard too many financial problems for a while now.

Wow nice @zool237. First of all thanks for leaving a great comment on my post,it is truly appreciated.I also hate clutter and that is one of the reasons i don't buy things on impulse rather when there is an urgent and real need for it.Some of the best gears and accessories are usually quite easy to get cos people who buy them first hand get bored with them pretty quickly.How is your overseas job coming along ?

The overseas job? Returned 15 years ago! ;) Was out the country for 6 - 7 years though. Time of my life, it was. Never turn down the chance to visit Japan!

I will definitely love to go to Japan in the nearest future.I have heard wonderful things about the place.Hope you don't miss it too much

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