So you want to be cheap, eh?

First off, find out what you are worth. How much money do you have in the bank? In your pocket? Stuck between the cracks of your tatami?

Now, when you buy something, write it down - always. Do this and you will know "where it's all going."
When you add it all up at the end of the month you can ask yourself if you really want to spend 20% of your income on Hello Kitty stickers or whatever.

Try to make do with what you have. Example: you don't need to spend 300 yen on bottled water each day. Buy one bottle and use that to put tap water in. If you are worried about the safety of the water (and you should be), get a water filter for your tap. There's an added bonus here. Since your water has been in the bottle only a short time, it won't have as much of the bottle's biphenol A leached into it as the stuff from France. Less hormone disruptors, less death. You save first on the water then on the cancer treatments. (Sound like cigarettes, eh?)

If you think environmentally, you will make do with less. Making do with less leads to buying less. Buying less means pissing off the Board of Directors of big corporations . There is always an added bonus, isn't there!

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