The contrasting advantages and disadvantages of thrift and luxury, frugality and extravagance

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Advantages and disadvantages of thrifty people:

Advantages: Some thrifty people are emotionally willing to think about others and give sincerely; Thrifty people are very frugal, and they know how to live with the least amount of money in terms of food and clothing.

Disadvantages: Thrifty people are picky, selfish, and think about themselves.

Advantages and disadvantages of extravagant people:

Strengths: Know how to live.

Disadvantages: Pay more attention to spiritual satisfaction, which is the essence of luxury. For high-end consumption, the guarantee of quality is only the foundation, and more ingredients lie in the added value brought by the brand, which is the soul of the product.

Thrift means to save and be thrifty. Spend money or things sparingly; Willing to give, that is, willing to pay, not stingy. There is a give-and-take, not reluctant, a big give-and-take, a small give-and-go. Giving up is a kind of wisdom and attitude in life.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

From: Zhou Yi of the Ming Dynasty "The Tenant Balances the Children".

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. Food and clothing, if you think about it, you don't dare to spend it easily. A meal of wine and meat can be coarse for a few days; A piece of yarn silk can make a few pieces of coarse clothes.

It's enough not to be hungry or chilling, so why bother trying to eat good? There will always be days and no days, and there will be no time to think about them, so that children and grandchildren will always enjoy food and clothing.

Translation: It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Food and clothing, if you think about the difficulty of getting these things, you will not spend money easily.

Eat meat and drink wine at every meal, and you can buy coarse tea and light rice for a few days; A piece of silk can buy a few ordinary clothes. It's enough not to be hungry or cold, so why bother to eat and dress well? Often think about the time when you have it, don't wait until the time you lose it and then think about the time you have it, then you can often enjoy food and clothing as a grandchild.

In our era of high consumption, it is of great practical significance to revisit the teachings of the sages about frugality. Thrift is not only a personal attitude towards life, but also a protection of resources and the environment.

Thrift is a good habit that has been cultivated for a long time, and once it is discarded, it is difficult to return to the original state of life. So to cultivate, to persevere.

Original text: Zi said: "Luxury is not grandchildren, and thrift is solid; Rather than not grandson, Ninggu. ”

Confucius said, "Extravagance and luxury will appear not humble, and frugality and simplicity will appear cold." Rather than be humble, it is better to be humble. ”

Confucius's original intention was to say that the extravagance of the Lu State was too prevalent, and too many people talked about arranging, pomp, and comparing with each other.

It's easy to be rude, arrogant, and think that Lao Tzu is the best in the world, and people are easy to expand.

In contrast to luxury, it is thrifty, thrift will make people look shabby, save face, but compared to the harm of luxury, it is better to choose frugality.

This sentence is a university question of life, and it is difficult for people who have not experienced it to understand.

We know that frugality can cultivate virtue, and luxury can defeat virtue. Luxury, in fact, means excessive, extravagant.

Because of material luxury, it is easy for people to become greedy and arrogant, and if they go too far, they always like to put on a big show in everything, which is easy to breed arrogance and will inevitably lead to disasters in the future.

Frugal, according to the meaning of luxury, it is not difficult to deduce that it has the meaning of deficiency and stubbornness. Being too frugal will make people look shabby and be easily ridiculed.

Neither luxury nor frugality is in line with the golden mean. No matter which one is listed separately, it cannot win the approval of Confucius.

However, extravagance is a little more harmful than frugality. Therefore, if you have to choose between the two, it is better to be frugal than extravagant.

A person, habitually extravagant, will create the illusion of false success for himself. Even if you are really successful, you will be overbearing and lay the foundation for your own failure.

A diligent and thrifty person, as long as he can use it, it looks shabby, but he has real materials, so that such a person can go far.

Moreover, frugal people, in general, are not hot-headed and are sober.

Extravagant people are prone to hot-headedness, and they dare to buy luxury goods and wear them on themselves when they don't have much financial resources.

Living an ordinary life, I could have lived a better life than most people, but because of my luxury, the good life I could have lived was gone.

It's just that others laugh at us, but we live well for ourselves.

Extravagance is nothing more than using one's own funds to entertain other people's eyes and ears, and as a result, oneself will get worse and worse.

The harm of luxury is not mainly extravagance and waste, but the change of spirit, thinking that wearing a luxury luxury will become the upper class.

And thrifty, it looks shabby and faceless. But being calm and modest mentally will be more pragmatic.

So, instead of luxury, it is better to be frugal.

Bertrand Russell, in his book "The Road to Happiness", has this passage, which roughly means:

Everyone should work four hours a day, and the rest of the time should be leisure. If he is still planning to do a new job after four hours of work, which is enough to make ends meet, others will think that his actions are tantamount to taking food and drink from others, and thus an act of injustice.

In leisure, people use the money they earn to spend, and the act of spending provides employment opportunities for others. As long as a person continually spends his income on consumption, he provides for the subsistence of others as much as he takes from them.

In this way, the real sinners are not consumers, but thrifts.

It's interesting!

Thrift means to save and be thrifty. Nowadays, the shortage of resources in the world and the deterioration of the environment have raised conservation to a new realm called social conservation, which is to take the happiness of most people or even all people as the goal, pursue the overall benefits of society, pursue sustainable development, and do not affect the interests of the present and future generations, and strive to avoid all kinds of wasteful social movements.

Originally, the word "economy" was used as a kind of horse harness, and like other horse harnesses, such as the title, the bar, the danglu, and the same bubble, it had been cast in the late Shang Dynasty. Harness "saving" is used to connect the head and bridle accessories, in the mill of a lot of archaeological relics recorded: all kinds of harness "saving" a common feature is that it is small, in addition to the device, the main part is a single copper pipe or cross shape, its main use is as a cheek belt, collar belt, pharyngeal belt, nose belt and forehead belt connection point.

When the "saving" is put on the rope belt, the blind spike is like a bamboo link connecting the branches and leaves of the main pole. The "saving" of the harness is a borrowing of the "saving" of bamboo, and the meaning of many other words is further changed.

The meaning of frugality.

Thrift means living frugally and modestly.

1. Thrift is necessary to maintain human survival.

2. Thrift is the foundation of running a family.

3. Thrift is the magic weapon of a stable country.

4. Industriousness and thrift are conducive to preventing corruption.

5. Thrift reduces the cost of social production.

Frugality is a manifestation of respect for the average worker and for oneself. Every work is a condition of the finitude of life, and every person, including himself, cannot avoid entering into this situation as long as he exists in a social way. The awareness of the value of this result of labor constitutes a premise for thrift as a habit of life.

Student thrift system.

1.Dress plainly, neatly and generously, and do not take the initiative to ask the elders to buy new clothes and pants, etc.

2.Don't buy snacks indiscriminately, don't mess with pocket money.

3.Cherish food, cherish the fruits of labor, and do not dump leftovers.

4.Save water, do not open the faucet for no reason, use.

Turn off the water in time.

Describe hard work and frugal life. From the first chapter of the fifth brother of Lu Yao's "Ordinary World": "As a result, he has formed a way of arguing or living a double life that dares to eat and drink from the mountains and the sea, and can be diligent and thrifty."

There are many famous people in history who have touching little stories about thrift. Do not be related to the poor, do not draw from the rich. (Tao Yuanming).

Be diligent and thrifty, and look up the word for yourself.