On Money: The Virtue of Frugality

A bit of a reflection on my relationship with money. I have at least one more post worth of material, but perhaps not enough for a series.

I’ve always been frugal. As the child of immigrants, I’ve grown up intensely aware of the existence of money, and the advantages it conferred: material goods and experiences; that it also granted power and status was beyond me until a much later age, and even then I’m not sure exactly what it is that the wealthy upper echelons do. My family was never poor, but we were careful about our spending. When a buck could be saved, it was.