Some people are perfectly happy paying full price without checking if there is a discount code. Others would sooner walk into the sea. They have been called cheap and difficult, but through another lens, they have been called debt-free, financially stable, and occasionally smug about it, which is their right.
The online frugal living community is large and evangelical about its methods. But these are not people who are struggling. These are people who made a decision that the default way of spending money is a trap, and then built an entirely different system around that belief.
Some of their hacks are brilliant. Some are the kind of thing you read and think "I could never" before doing it anyway six weeks later when the credit card bill arrives. All of them are worth knowing. People flooded to the internet to share their most proudly frugal ways of living, and the thread delivered everything from grocery strategies to life philosophies. You will feel richer for knowing them.
