719: Living Well on the Trailing Edge of Luxury by Mr. Money Mustache

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🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Mr. Money Mustache shares how far we've come and why you should consider buying almost everything used. Episode 719: Living Well on the Trailing Edge of Luxury by Mr. Money Mustache (Saving Money & Financial Freedom). Mr. Money Mustache is a thirty-something retiree who now writes about how we can all live a frugal, yet awesome, life of leisure. He and his wife studied engineering and computer science in Canada, then worked in standard tech-industry cubicle jobs in various locations throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s. Then they retired from real work way back in 2005 in order to start a family. This was achieved not through luck or amazing skill, but simply by living a lifestyle about 50% less expensive than most of their peers and investing the surplus in very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a rental house or two. The original post is located here: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/29/living-well-on-the-trailing-edge-of-luxury Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 719, living well on the trailing edge of luxury by Mr.
0:06.7	Money Mustache of Mr. Money Mustache.com and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:10.8	Welcome back or welcome for the first time if you're new here.
0:13.2	This is where I simply narrate blogs for you.
0:16.1	Sometimes books, but in any case always with permission.
0:19.3	Now it's here today's post as we optimize your life.
0:26.8	Living well on the trailing edge of luxury by Mr. Money Mustache of Mr. Money Mustache.com.
0:33.9	The only constant in the world is change.
0:37.2	That old quote is amazing because it is so true no matter how deeply you think about it.
0:41.3	What is even deeper is that it is credited to a guy in 500 BC back when things were changing
0:47.2	almost unfathomably slower than they are right now.
0:51.0	Let's review a little North American history to be even more amazed.
0:54.8	For thousands of years the natives of this continent lived a pretty constant lifestyle,
0:59.4	hunting, skins, lots of cool techniques and tools but only very small changes over hundreds
1:04.8	of years.
1:05.8	In the 1500s the Europeans started pushing their way in bringing their farming and somewhat
1:10.6	more complicated industry.
1:12.6	It took only 300 years to get to the point of making things such as steam engines in the
1:17.4	1800s.
1:18.7	From 1900s to the 1950s people were shocked at the advancements of things like cars,
1:23.8	television and washing machines.
1:26.0	Technological change was much faster than that of the 1800s but it still seems slow to
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