On the other side of a metaphorical fence, I've a feeling I need to spend *more* money in 2025. Why? To help declutter, which includes assistance selling and shipping many of my belongings. This expenditure could be construed as an investment - in my mental health and lifestyle, to type the least. Beyond this, outside of essentials and things that will be used and bring joy to my life, I think I'd rather begin spending money on positive experiences over material items. This is a paradigm shift in perspective I wish I had in my teens. All the best!
My iPhone 7 serves me just fine and I eschew this idea of needing a new one. Thank you for being vegan! While I live in an area prone to earthquakes and power outages I am starting my serious emergency kit but otherwise hope to spend little in 2025. Great video.
I plan to not buy soda, or other fizzy or acidic drinks. My teeth seem kinda ruined from excessive sugar intake and insufficient dental care in my childhood and early teens, so even with a fairly healthy diet and moderate intake of carbonated drinks, I had a small new cavity this year and my teeth are often sore to cold if I have had too much acidic fruits and drinks recently. The sugar or artificial sweeteners are not healthy either so I will really try to save money and improve my health this way.
All of those are my habits, too, and don't think I'll change that in 2025. My already small income is going to be smaller on top it! 🙃 No panic though. Compliments to the ladies who cut your hair, it looks great. We cut our hairs at home with a very good pair of scissors from Fiskars, Finland, and on top of it we have scissors and knife sharpeners from the same quality firm, a good investment. I love the Moomin mugs, and I started a collection for my grandkids, but nobody needs all of them. You can enjoy the variety where ever you see them. 🙂 Keep your parfumes in the fridge (perhaps in a bit of alu-foil, too) as they go rancid with time. Myself I don't use anything parfumed if it can be avoided...therefore I insisted on a washingmachine of our own, it is very dear to me. I thank it every week! Hubby and me boycot Black Friday/Week sales as being too commercial and newfangled, as are Halloween and Valentine etc, but we watch the Lucia program on TH-cam, and cook something nice for our old Nordic traditions, adapted to be vegan. I'm very happy that there are people who produce and sell such produce I do want to buy!
My husband loves books and will look on Amazon for deals. He specifically looks for used books for about $10.00 USD , including shipping. Once a book he has been wanting for a long time appears in his price range, he buys it. On average, he saves about 1/3 the cost.
For the laptop, if you don't do anything too demanding, try Linux. It uses much less resources than Windows, and it will improve your experience. Changing the old HDD with an SSD will also help a lot.
@SunnyKindJourney Thanks Seve! The saving is going SPLENDIDLY but I am planning also on doing a TEFL (Teaching English As a Foreign Language) course and I will need a good one. Also probably a lapel mic and maybe headphones.
as long as you are happy. you do you. life is short so make sure that you are happy. I disagree with many of your suggestions. but as long as you are enjoying life. then do it. im a luxury enthusiast so we are different. But I do like your videos.
I think it is quite useful to buy a new phone now, because it takes much better photos than 5 years ago, much better haptics and the battery life is much better and the screens are bright in the summer and almost all phones offer 5+ years of software updates, which was not the case in the past. But in the next 5 years it will be difficult to make progress because phones can't take photos better than dslr, so at the moment it's ideal to upgrade for the next 5 years. But I agree about other things, even about 1 perfume :D
I still use an iPhone 6 which I got in 2015. It's still going, screen is surprisingly not cracked and I've had the battery replaced once. And while it can't load a lot of webpages and most apps don't work on account of the OS being wildly out of date, for my purposes, it's fine and does its job.
That's great! 🙌 Yeah I think it's good to know what your own purposes and needs are. So many phones that are now available has so much stuff I know I will never even use
I have a Samsung note 9, I'm on my third or fourth. Its got everything. Stylus. Easy to replace battery, removable SD card holds up to 1tb, nice size. I can find them for 60 bucks. I keep an extra in my travel bag. .if it had an e-sim... id be set. I recently spent 300 on a note 10, I turned it on, then I put it in my desk and haven't touched it... bought another note 9. Yeah, id like a new one, some of the real new ones are appealing... but why? 1200 for a phone is crazy.
Same here. I used a flip phone for years, first IPhone was a 6s and used it until last year. Bought a small iPhone SE because it fits in my pocket. Will use it for years too. Not the latest and greatest but serves my needs.
Seve, I bought (Amazon) & installed a new battery in my Samsung Galaxy S5. Ran like new until phone carrier required upgrade to a 5G phone, which they provided free.
Carrier giving free phones, sounds like a top notch customer service 🫢 Did that come with some more expensive phone subscription package you need to commit to or it was just a great deal overall?
This year has been quite low buy for me, and I managed to save up my first 10k into my investment funds! In the end I managed to deposit exactly 10k this year, had a few thousand there from before. Which is great as I can finally start to see some returns on my investments and that keeps me motivated!
My current phone has a non-replaceable battery and after five years that battery is starting to fade. Which pisses me off because this phone (a Galaxy J7 Prime) was a gift).
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What are some things you’re planning to *not* spend money on in 2025? 👇
Clothes, books, gadgets and many more things
On the other side of a metaphorical fence, I've a feeling I need to spend *more* money in 2025. Why? To help declutter, which includes assistance selling and shipping many of my belongings. This expenditure could be construed as an investment - in my mental health and lifestyle, to type the least. Beyond this, outside of essentials and things that will be used and bring joy to my life, I think I'd rather begin spending money on positive experiences over material items. This is a paradigm shift in perspective I wish I had in my teens. All the best!
Clothing and shoes. I do NOT need any more. I have already stopped most other things.
Food.
@@susanp.collins7834 Susan, are you producing all your food? Congrats, then, that is really a huge step!
I really enjoy these types of videos, thank you for making them🇺🇲
100% agreement from me!
😂 Therapy before Rolex. Good one!
Need to consult the therapist first haha 😂
My iPhone 7 serves me just fine and I eschew this idea of needing a new one. Thank you for being vegan! While I live in an area prone to earthquakes and power outages I am starting my serious emergency kit but otherwise hope to spend little in 2025. Great video.
I plan to not buy soda, or other fizzy or acidic drinks. My teeth seem kinda ruined from excessive sugar intake and insufficient dental care in my childhood and early teens, so even with a fairly healthy diet and moderate intake of carbonated drinks, I had a small new cavity this year and my teeth are often sore to cold if I have had too much acidic fruits and drinks recently. The sugar or artificial sweeteners are not healthy either so I will really try to save money and improve my health this way.
Try Zevia or Cove or Poppy, all natural carbonated drinks. Irony is 3x as much as the crap pop
All of those are my habits, too, and don't think I'll change that in 2025. My already small income is going to be smaller on top it! 🙃 No panic though. Compliments to the ladies who cut your hair, it looks great. We cut our hairs at home with a very good pair of scissors from Fiskars, Finland, and on top of it we have scissors and knife sharpeners from the same quality firm, a good investment. I love the Moomin mugs, and I started a collection for my grandkids, but nobody needs all of them. You can enjoy the variety where ever you see them. 🙂
Keep your parfumes in the fridge (perhaps in a bit of alu-foil, too) as they go rancid with time. Myself I don't use anything parfumed if it can be avoided...therefore I insisted on a washingmachine of our own, it is very dear to me. I thank it every week!
Hubby and me boycot Black Friday/Week sales as being too commercial and newfangled, as are Halloween and Valentine etc, but we watch the Lucia program on TH-cam, and cook something nice for our old Nordic traditions, adapted to be vegan.
I'm very happy that there are people who produce and sell such produce I do want to buy!
My husband loves books and will look on Amazon for deals. He specifically looks for used books for about $10.00 USD , including shipping. Once a book he has been wanting for a long time appears in his price range, he buys it. On average, he saves about 1/3 the cost.
For the laptop, if you don't do anything too demanding, try Linux. It uses much less resources than Windows, and it will improve your experience. Changing the old HDD with an SSD will also help a lot.
From PHILIPPINES here. ❤
Glad you found my channel :)
My laptop has terminally passed. It has been refurbished twice. Which is now I am watching videos about saving and making money.
Hope you'll be able to make and save enough to get a new one!
@SunnyKindJourney Thanks Seve! The saving is going SPLENDIDLY but I am planning also on doing a TEFL (Teaching English As a Foreign Language) course and I will need a good one. Also probably a lapel mic and maybe headphones.
as long as you are happy. you do you. life is short so make sure that you are happy. I disagree with many of your suggestions. but as long as you are enjoying life. then do it. im a luxury enthusiast so we are different. But I do like your videos.
I think it is quite useful to buy a new phone now, because it takes much better photos than 5 years ago, much better haptics and the battery life is much better and the screens are bright in the summer and almost all phones offer 5+ years of software updates, which was not the case in the past. But in the next 5 years it will be difficult to make progress because phones can't take photos better than dslr, so at the moment it's ideal to upgrade for the next 5 years. But I agree about other things, even about 1 perfume :D
I still use an iPhone 6 which I got in 2015. It's still going, screen is surprisingly not cracked and I've had the battery replaced once. And while it can't load a lot of webpages and most apps don't work on account of the OS being wildly out of date, for my purposes, it's fine and does its job.
That's great! 🙌 Yeah I think it's good to know what your own purposes and needs are. So many phones that are now available has so much stuff I know I will never even use
I have a Samsung note 9, I'm on my third or fourth.
Its got everything. Stylus. Easy to replace battery, removable SD card holds up to 1tb, nice size. I can find them for 60 bucks. I keep an extra in my travel bag.
.if it had an e-sim... id be set.
I recently spent 300 on a note 10, I turned it on, then I put it in my desk and haven't touched it... bought another note 9.
Yeah, id like a new one, some of the real new ones are appealing... but why? 1200 for a phone is crazy.
Same here. I used a flip phone for years, first IPhone was a 6s and used it until last year. Bought a small iPhone SE because it fits in my pocket. Will use it for years too. Not the latest and greatest but serves my needs.
Get the free pens. Chuck 'em in a box. Give them to people who don't have.
THANK YOU for being vegan 🌱
Seve, I bought (Amazon) & installed a new battery in my Samsung Galaxy S5. Ran like new until phone carrier required upgrade to a 5G phone, which they provided free.
Carrier giving free phones, sounds like a top notch customer service 🫢 Did that come with some more expensive phone subscription package you need to commit to or it was just a great deal overall?
This year has been quite low buy for me, and I managed to save up my first 10k into my investment funds! In the end I managed to deposit exactly 10k this year, had a few thousand there from before. Which is great as I can finally start to see some returns on my investments and that keeps me motivated!
That's awesome, way to go! 👏
Support comment🙌 wishing you nice holidays with your loved ones!
My current phone has a non-replaceable battery and after five years that battery is starting to fade. Which pisses me off because this phone (a Galaxy J7 Prime) was a gift).
Yeah that must be frustrating
False.
@@moratomi YOU show me how to open this phone up - it's SOLID.
you can replace the battery without new phone
Not always - my Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime has a non-replaceable battery.
Yeah I am aware, I have changed it once already 😉
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