The Price of Overly Frugal Living

How obsessive budgeting strips away your most valuable resource: time

Darius Foroux
Forge
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3 min readNov 8, 2019

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MyMy grandfather is the most frugal person I know. For as long as I can remember, he’s worn the same few cardigans, one of which has a hole in it. Years ago, my mother bought him a new cardigan, but my grandfather refused to even take the tags off. A piece of clothing must literally be falling…

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Darius Foroux
Forge
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