Happiness Through Subtraction

Financial Independence Podcast

The Mad Fientist

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

If you want to use money to make you happier, stop thinking about what you can buy with it.

Instead, think about how you can use it to remove the things in your life that make you unhappy.

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0:00.0	I'm blind to give you a true finance.
0:05.0	Hey what's up everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast that usually gets inside the brains of the best and brightest in personal finance to find out how they achieved financial independence.
0:15.0	But today's episode is going to be a bit different.
0:18.0	I have been thinking about a lot of my old content lately and there's stuff out there that's maybe 10 or 12 years old that probably 90% of you
0:26.2	haven't ever even heard of, let alone read.
0:29.0	I don't blame me for not wanting to go read a 10-year-old article, but I figured if I read it out loud on the
0:34.1	podcast, that's definitely something I'd be more interested in listening to
0:38.2	rather than, yeah, like I said, going to read an old article. And a lot of it
0:42.3	still applies just as much today as it did back
0:44.8	then and today's episode is exactly that I'm revisiting one of my old posts I'm
0:50.4	going to read it to you and in reading it I want to mentally process it myself because I was just on the Mindy on Money
0:57.5	podcast and I was talking about how I'm trying to see money these days as more of a tool to improve our lives because I'm
1:05.4	trying to get out of that old autopilot savings mode where I just keep chucking it
1:10.0	onto the pile and I was thinking about how to use the money to improve our
1:15.7	quality of life and Mindy mentioned like actually looking into ways to use money
1:22.1	to remove things that are negatively affecting your life and I told her that I wrote a post long ago called happiness through subtraction and I told her that even though I wrote that post I did not even consider that over the last few
1:34.7	years as I've been trying to figure out how to use our money to improve our lives and I
1:39.7	said I was going to go back and reread that post because I obviously needed a refresher because I didn't even think to do that.
1:45.0	So while I'm reading it, I might as well read it to you. So if you like this type of thing, send me an email, let me know.
1:52.0	If you don't like it, send me an email, let me know. If you don't like it, send me an email, let me know.
1:54.8	But this is a little experiment, and I hope you enjoy it.
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