Chinanews client, Beijing, November 4th (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) Recently, a hot search for "women who graduated from two homes in 9 years" caused heated discussions among netizens.
A woman named Wang Shen'ai has a monthly salary savings rate of 90%, and she spends less than 100 yuan a year on clothes.
Relying on this awareness of saving money, I bought two houses within 9 years of graduation.
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The combination of "stingy" and "buying a house" quickly aroused great debate among netizens.
Some people think that there is no need to promote such excessive thrift.
Some people think that this way of life is undesirable, "It's just living, not living".
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Some people say that money is not saved, but earned.
Others said that spending money to make themselves really happy, "I want to carry LV to squeeze the subway."
Some people are puzzled by the comments of netizens, why is Thrifty still being laughed at?
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"It's a good way to pull"
Why does a hot search about "stingy" cause such a big controversy?
In fact, the video in the hot search is only a fragment. The complete video comes from the talk show "Talking to Strangers" hosted by Chen Xiaonan.
The show focused on Douban's "King Group", a large community group with nearly one million members.
What he is concerned about is why so many young people actively choose to lower their material desires in an era of great material abundance?
And Wang Shenai is a senior member of Douban's "Piece Group".
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In the program, Wang Shenai stated that what she pursues is a minimalist life, that is, "do not add entities unless necessary."
She shared that she had worked in an advertising and marketing company and had seen that many advertisements instigated everyone's anxiety, and many people pursued advanced consumption and overdrafted income to put on face.
In her opinion, it is better to save a house of your own by living with low power consumption than this.
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She pays attention to "the way to dig," not to take advantage of others.
Picking is a kind of trade-off, a kind of wisdom, in the case of limited resources, do your best to live your life.
She is not asking everyone not to consume at all, but not to become a slave to money and material desires.
Similarly, she also emphasized that everyone should not become slaves.
If you feel uncomfortable, or someone close to you feels uncomfortable, you are still advised to make changes.
In the show, Wang Shenai mentioned her native family. When she was a child, her mother gave her money, and she always threw it on the ground for her to pick it up, because she should know that money is extremely difficult to earn and every penny should not be wasted.
She has a special concept of money since she was a child. She worked part-time to make money during college and bought a small house in a small town before she graduated.
The house gave her a great sense of security, and there was a kind of "the joy of the little hedgehog returning to the hole" when she went home every day.
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"Respect everyone's consumption outlook"
As the controversy became more and more, Wang Shenai also responded to Douban, saying that after more than three days of interviews and shooting were cut into half an hour, many words were deleted, including a lot of "respect everyone's consumption outlook, others It doesn’t matter to me if I don’t spend my money on consumption."
All the parts about how to buy things cheaply or without money have also been deleted from the video.
She emphasized: "Everyone spends money if they are willing to spend it, and there is no way to prevent everyone from spending it. You can call me perverted, crazy, crazy, everything is fine, but don't say I don't let people spend money. There is no harm to my family, I Haven't done anything hurtful, please don't scold me with my family."
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Afterwards, Wang Shenai issued a post again to clarify the fact that someone said, "She and her husband treated her children badly because of the mortgage for the mortgage." The child has not suffered any bitterness.
In terms of mortgages, since she and her husband's provident fund is still relatively high, they can completely cover the mortgage.
She also said that she does not have a hoarding disorder, the home is minimalist, and that she does not do repeatedly washing her hair and face with toilet paper and detergent.
Does the consumer wave do not believe in the story of "pulling the gods"?
In fact, what Wang Shenai presents in the program is only an individual life sample, and her consumption outlook is closely related to her family and life experience.
As she said, others are happy to spend money, but she is not happy to spend money, so she takes the initiative to choose a lifestyle that suits her.
In the process, she also summarized and shared various sustainable and reproducible “stingy” methods, which also gave some power to passive and thrifty people. She believed that they were “not stubborn people, but people who live seriously, as long as they are People who live seriously are all lovely people."
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From her narration, we can see the traces of social development and changes on the lifestyles of young people.
Some people think that they should be consumed in time, while others practice a minimalist life.
In addition to the "picking group", there have also been multiple communities on the Internet such as the "consumerist retrograde group", the "heart-wrenching saving group", and the "low-consumption research institute".
Why do so many young people take the initiative to reduce their material desires?
Some, like the king of God’s love, gradually realized the pitfalls behind the consumption boom and began to examine the behavior of "buy, buy, buy", see through the routines of the consumer market, and explore what is "IQ tax" and what is "created demand" ".
Others have a deeper thinking about life and use practical actions to resist excessive desires.
Consumption or picking is actually just a different choice.
You don't need to insult because of differences. Intuitive life is valuable, but the ability to reflect on life is also worth cherishing.
As netizens said, people have their own ambitions, and no one way of life is better, but adults should learn to respect and accept that others have a different life trajectory from themselves.
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