Long hours job and terrible food… Is it a life worth living?
And he apparently saved his money in shoeboxes. I wonder whether there’s a smarter way…
Id much rather be poor and happy than rich and eating…. That….
ALT?
This man is the definition of a diligent worker but not a very smart one. Work hard, not smart lol
Holy hell. Keeping your life savings in shoeboxes 😂😂😂
If after a full medical checkup he has absolutely no problems, then yeah, good for him.
Wait, I don’t understand the math here. The article says he made 5 million yen a year, and finally managed to save 135 million yen after 21 years of frugal living.
I may just be a simple country Gaijin, but 5 x 21 is only 105 million yen, isn’t it? And that’s only if he literally saved every single yen he’d ever made.
Edit: Reading his original Twitter post he actually save 1å„„35万, so Â¥100.35 million and not Â¥135 million. Still, that only left him with Â¥4.65 million to survive for 21 years. Even the modest Â¥30k a month dorm he lived in would’ve added up to Â¥7.56 million by itself already.
Nah I’m going to spend on good food I enjoy because it makes me happy. If I have less to sit on in my retirement then fine, hopefully I’ll be rich with many happy memories and my health.
i would have serious health issues. eating bland meals is good but eating the same every day is just weird.
as a guy from the west who earns even less than this guy here (supermarket worker) i envy how much this guy pays for living alone. 255 dollars for his apartment? dream. i bet food and living costs two to three times as much in the west than in japan. electricity too.
i tried living off rice with various sauces too for a week or so. sometimes i even ate cooked rice alone. but i always get diarrhea from rice lol. i know too much information.
but eating cooked rice every day would literally kill me or make me into a state where i couldnt work anymore because of constant diarrhea 😛
While he may think he would happy after many years. I would say it such a waste if in your early adult only eat simple stuff like that. Your taste changes as we age. You may not gonna enjoy the meal that back then you want to eat.
I wish he sometime eat special stuff once in a while not really 21 year in a row…. Oh and is he single?
*Unfortunately, the man’s happiness was short-lived.*
*He recently revealed that his savings had significantly diminished due to the yen’s depreciation since the start of the year.*
*The man also expressed concern that if the yen continued to weaken, achieving financial freedom might remain out of reach, rendering his 21 years of hard work seemingly pointless and tragic.*
Insane
My granny was like that. After the war, she would scrimp by eating crackers and milk for most of her meals.
Good for him but what is he going to do now? If he retires, he has to move out of the dorm.
He probably have the money but he probably doesn’t know how to use it. Retiring early from a job to do what?
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Long hours job and terrible food… Is it a life worth living?
And he apparently saved his money in shoeboxes. I wonder whether there’s a smarter way…
Id much rather be poor and happy than rich and eating…. That….
ALT?
This man is the definition of a diligent worker but not a very smart one. Work hard, not smart lol
Holy hell. Keeping your life savings in shoeboxes 😂😂😂
If after a full medical checkup he has absolutely no problems, then yeah, good for him.
Wait, I don’t understand the math here. The article says he made 5 million yen a year, and finally managed to save 135 million yen after 21 years of frugal living.
I may just be a simple country Gaijin, but 5 x 21 is only 105 million yen, isn’t it? And that’s only if he literally saved every single yen he’d ever made.
Edit: Reading his original Twitter post he actually save 1å„„35万, so Â¥100.35 million and not Â¥135 million. Still, that only left him with Â¥4.65 million to survive for 21 years. Even the modest Â¥30k a month dorm he lived in would’ve added up to Â¥7.56 million by itself already.
Nah I’m going to spend on good food I enjoy because it makes me happy. If I have less to sit on in my retirement then fine, hopefully I’ll be rich with many happy memories and my health.
i would have serious health issues. eating bland meals is good but eating the same every day is just weird.
as a guy from the west who earns even less than this guy here (supermarket worker) i envy how much this guy pays for living alone. 255 dollars for his apartment? dream. i bet food and living costs two to three times as much in the west than in japan. electricity too.
i tried living off rice with various sauces too for a week or so. sometimes i even ate cooked rice alone. but i always get diarrhea from rice lol. i know too much information.
but eating cooked rice every day would literally kill me or make me into a state where i couldnt work anymore because of constant diarrhea 😛
While he may think he would happy after many years. I would say it such a waste if in your early adult only eat simple stuff like that. Your taste changes as we age. You may not gonna enjoy the meal that back then you want to eat.
I wish he sometime eat special stuff once in a while not really 21 year in a row…. Oh and is he single?
*Unfortunately, the man’s happiness was short-lived.*
*He recently revealed that his savings had significantly diminished due to the yen’s depreciation since the start of the year.*
*The man also expressed concern that if the yen continued to weaken, achieving financial freedom might remain out of reach, rendering his 21 years of hard work seemingly pointless and tragic.*
Insane
My granny was like that. After the war, she would scrimp by eating crackers and milk for most of her meals.
Good for him but what is he going to do now? If he retires, he has to move out of the dorm.
He probably have the money but he probably doesn’t know how to use it. Retiring early from a job to do what?
Send this man to the Philippines or Malaysia.
Chill.
What a depressing storyÂ