frugal living
Going Google
Over the years, I’ve moved from dial-up, to DSL, to Cable Broadband, and have recently cut the cords and gone strictly wireless with my Sprint Mobile Broadband modem. I’ve also gone from Yahoo! Mail, to MS Outlook, to Mozilla Thunderbird, to Google Mail. And I’ve gone from Internet Explorer, to Mozilla Firefox, to Google Chrome. Lately, I’ve been moving all of my contacts to Google Contacts and am keeping my schedule in my Google Calendar. I cut the cord on my landline years ago and have had a Sprint cell phone and used a voicemail service ever since. This month I got a Google Voice account and now have a local voicemail number, so I nixed the voicemail service.
You could say that Google is my go-to service. And it works seamlessly with my Sprint service. My voicemail, contacts, calendar, and email are all accessible from my Samsung Reclaim. You might even say that I am gaga over Google.
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Important Definitions
Frugal – economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wastefulVoluntary Simplicity – a lifestyle that is less pressured due to a focus away from accumulation of goods and more toward non-material aspects of life
I recently unsubbed from a Yahoo! group whose purpose was to discuss frugal living specifically for people who don’t have children at home. It started out a good group. Unfortunately, one particular member hijacked the group and turned it into a whine-fest about lack of funds and how expensive everything is getting. I’m just not interested in that sort of negative discussion.
I believe in being frugal and I believe in voluntary simplicity as a lifestyle. However, I hold these values by choice, not because there’s not enough money to buy groceries or pay the mortgage. Frugality and simplicity have nothing to do with poverty. You could be on that Forbes 400 list of the richest people and choose to live a frugal, simple life. There’s a big difference in choosing frugality and being forced into frugality. The first is a freeing lifestyle choice. The second is a prison of want.
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