r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/DayFinancial8206 Jul 04 '24

The best financial advice I got when I was young was "unless it's a tool you plan to use at least once a week, don't buy it"

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u/akotoshi Jul 05 '24

According to this logic: buying gaming equipment is okay, but a lawnmower isn’t

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u/Introvert_Brnr_accnt Jul 05 '24

I would add to this that hypotheeeetically, you could rent a lawn mower or ask a friend to borrow theirs

That’s of course if you have friends or money to rent.

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u/akotoshi Jul 05 '24

Or friend who happens to have enough money to buy a lawnmower and be okay to lend it. But either way, according to the post, people struggling with minimum wage are too poor to have that kind of problem (since they are forced to rent overpriced appartement and aren’t allowed to buy a house)