Mealprep my meals at $3 a meal

>undeserved
Nah, people who have common sense and aren't brainless cattle fully deserve the sense of superiority. What a horrible life yours must be if you look at the average wagie wasting away his earnings every Friday at the club and think "we're totally equal, he is not inferior to me at all".

the difference between us and them is they waste their money on overpriced useless shit and complain about being poor

this guy is doing the same
youtube.com/watch?v=56XYThTXgOQ
>inb4 hurr dur cnbc
he has a good point why normies will be forever poor

>brainless cattle

Nice one edgy teenager. Grow up.

This.

Who the fuck cares OP? Hit jackpot, be fucking rich and come back later to laugh at them while they still need to work for a living. Normies are on a normie job because after all they are just that: normies. I'd rather kill myself instead of being that mediocre

Eat good food
Fuck women
Drive fast cars
Live life
YOLO motherfucker.

They spend $13 a day more than me.
22 working days a month = $13 x 23 = $299 which makes $3588 a year.

Now assuming a very conservative growth of 25% a year with cryptocurrencies, I'd have $1,538,106.96 when it's time for my early retirement.

i bring soup in my thermos when i go into the office. i refuse to spend $8 for lunch at the cafe. i make a lot of money.

Good for you. So why do you give a shit that your coworkers are going to starbucks? Sounds like you have some self-esteem issues to be honest. Its not your problem.

Nice saving money.
Life isnt only about money tho.
Id rather have fun eating with my mates at some place than loner eating some dry chicken prepmeal

t. normalfag spending $10 a day on hipster food

Yeah and my coworkers will throw jabs at me for bringing a gallon of water to work. It doesn't really matter in the end because I know they're just making banter/conversation. I doubt your coworkers are trying intimidate you into drinking starbucks. You just like to victimize yourself because you're a fag and need to think low of others because you yourself are a boring ass loser

Absolutely SEETHING

That actually seems quite delicious, OP. Don't give a fuck about normies. They're cattle who bow down to (social) media, gov't, big companies and so forth.

>than loner eating some dry chicken prepmeal
I see. So you're one of those who can't understand why sometimes people like to be alone and do their own thing. Please elaborate, I'm truly interested in this point of view as it seems to dominate society.

Why are you seething? Because its the truth? Its time to grow up and stop worrying about other people's lack of frugality. This is high school level stuff. Once you reach adulthood you're not supposed to be concerning yourself with the mistakes of others

>intermittent fast
>go to the grocery store every night
>buy a cooked chicken for $5
>buy broccoli for $2
>full until the next night

not really, it's the 'penny saved penny earned' mentality

i'm also pretty frugal, never eat out, meal prep at home, mostly drink water/coffee (brew coffee at home), and don't drink much alcohol or waste money on entertainment.

I generally save ~$20-30k/year more than most of my friends by doing these things. I get to take a nice vacation each year where many of my friends cannot afford to, and I get to invest most of this money into stocks or crypto which results in gains (money working for me) where my friends/coworkers do not.

I like my way better, I'm more comfy, more financially stable. I could afford to lose my job and not find a new one for ~5 years and still not be poor and homeless, where many of my friends/coworkers who are living the high life are actually just living paycheck to paycheck and keeping up appearances.

Frugality is the best way to live if you aren't part of the 1%. Always, and I mean ALWAYS live way below your means.

Where are you getting 25% annual growth?

>guy who brings his own lunch but can respect people who do differently
isn’t a loser, manages to become friends with his coworkers

>guy who brings his own lunch and thinks he’s superior to people who don’t
absolute loser, needs a pat on the back from anonymous posters on the internet who also think hes a loser

Frugal people are the ones who “make it” but then immediately make a thread about how they’re thinking about killing themselves because the money didn’t change anything.

>$8 a meal
Kek, try to $20.

>Once you reach adulthood you're not supposed to be concerning yourself with the mistakes of others

>/coworkers/ are bullying OP - not the other way round
>OP is at fault because "he is concerning with mistakes of others"
What kind of inversion is this?

YoY growth of my diversified crypto investment portfolio

Because they can't see beyond keeping the appereances and that makes them slowly waste their money, time and interests

This. That kind of negativity just leads me to believe OP is just a generally unlikable person. People acting like they're special because they're frugal and brag about it as if thats not basically the majority of this board ahahahaha

pure neckbeard circlejerk is all this thread is

Literally what. How? Do you not exercise?

Why are you still working? I thought everyone in Veeky Forums did crypto?

So you're saving $10/day. That's $3,650/year.

By the time you are retired at 60 you'll have saved maybe $142,350 at best.

Meanwhile, you'll have eaten the same thing every day for your entire life, while all your co-workers have realized money is fucking meaningless and have been enjoying themselves and trying new things and having great life experiences.

Good job, keep worrying about saving so that you can FINALLY start to live life at the time that you are first realizing your mortality and that you'll be dead before you know it.

I said that I WOULD RATHER , Alright?
I have nothing against OP and you.
I have meal prepped myself and the chicken will always be dry.

To the normie, life is nothing more than a race to consume as much as possible before you die. It's funny because their rampant consumerism also stops them from earning more money via saving and investing, which would allow them to consume even more.

In crypto that's a very low end estimate. If you're in crypto and not making at the very least 25% annual growth, what the fuck are you doing nigger?

meal prep is good tho. Also probably more healthy, so let's say he haves a year more to live

>Haha user chicken breast again? Haha!
>Omg stop bullying im gonna cwy

what a huge faggot you are. Like i said, you have low self esteem

since when is a coffee $15

normans life is being "individual"
while all of them look like they were copy pasted in mspaint
>same haircut
>same shit tattoos
>same clothes
>same music taste
>same interests
>travels to tourist magnets all round the world
etc

Yes, frugality is a curse of the greedy and selfish, people who will never truly enjoy life.

I went through some time where I had to be frugal out of necessity - I literally was eating rice and eggs every day. NOT healthy and NOT what I wanted. My co-workers didn't say shit to me. We all ate together, acted normal, and were friends. This guy has no friends because he's human scum.

There's no way that anyone laughs at you for doing meal prep. I don't believe that.

aww da mean poorfags at werk made fun of my chicken i cant handle da banter ;(((

complete and utter homo

Hmm, no. You're literally making no sense here - how is it that OP is taking care of others life when it's other people who are making fun of him?

Are you unironically and literally a normie?

A whole chicken is pretty filling user, that's your normal daily intake of protein for an average adult male

That's 130k more than his retarded normie coworkers will have, and if he puts even half that in crypto or other investments he'll probably have anywhere between 2x to 20x that.

>while all your co-workers have realized money is fucking meaningless and have been enjoying themselves and trying new things and having great life experiences.
Absolute cattle mentality equating spending money and mindless consumerism to living a great life, good job. Why are you even on Veeky Forums? You're blatantly not gonna make it.

dey makin fun of me im gonna cwy waHHHHHHh
dey made fun of my chicken bweast wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mommy plss help me

>tfw don't even make food for myself
>tfw go through a workday without any food so I can save money.

>their rampant consumerism also stops them from earning more money via saving and investing

you can't really blame them though since every bit of external influence is telling them to do this; government, big corporation, media, advertising, its all telling them to SPEND SPEND SPEND and PAY TAXES! NOW! NOW! NOW!

the government, corporations, and media don't care about your compounded gains in 10 years, they want your money right now so they can be the ones compounding the gains.

at this point it's cliche to say it but humanity is nothing but tax and profit cattle for the elite, and I know people tend to look down on this opinion but I legitimately feel superior for recognizing this and being a frugal spender who is aware of and avoids media and corporate influence as much as possible.

Relax, dude.

In all likelyhood it's just some workplace banter or a mild jab, not "workplace bullying"
And yes, OP IS at fault. We're not judging fault here between two children fighting on a fucking schoolyard, we're judging a singular person on his moronic behavior. WAAAAHH THEY MOCKED MUH PREP! Fuck outta here and stop caring so much about what other people think. OP is never going to make it even if prepping food is a wise financial decision

>>Meanwhile, you'll have eaten the same thing every day for your entire life, while all your co-workers have realized money is fucking meaningless and have been enjoying themselves and trying new things and having great life experiences.
What if I don't find making fake friends, with fake conversations and pretending to find their conversation topics interesting fun?

nice blog post retard

>eating meat
>calling other people dumb

Never change meat-eaters. Hitler would have gassed you

this is why i come to /biz

i cant even get off site for food so i bring my own

Then you don't find making friends fun, and that's fine. Most people will have at least a few things you can relate to them on once you get to know them, but if you don't give a shit to connect socially there's nothing wrong with that.

What there IS something wrong with, is judging others when you are equally if not more of a dumb piece of shit. Instead of living your life to enjoy it, you are busy worried about the people across the cafeteria and trying to justify your own inadequacies through judging them. Pathetic.

Yeah but I don't say stuff like "Oh, going to eat and pretend to be friendly with one another AGAIN?" every single day to them.

That's not even remotely true. I promise you that in 9.9/10 cases people who are more social in the work place will go on to make more money than their socially retarded peers. That $130k will be made by some of those co-workers in a single year, and most of them will close the gap within a 5 year time frame.

Next.

Maybe they can afford to lose 3 grand a year on pleasantries.

>OP is literally “that guy”
>”too intelligent” for friends but at the same time desperate to socialise as shown by this blatant blogposting

What’s the social equivalent of an incel because OP is that.

f4g

>you cannot enjoy your money
>having lunch is a luxury
never gonna make it OP

Nobody said you have to be friends with them. But being a pathetic wretched angry loser is not going to make your work environment any better and someday who knows, you may need these people to vouch for you and your performance someday. Its called networking dipshit. If nobody likes you and you're constantly snubbing them off are they going to give a shit if anything bad were to happen to you? Probably not

What if I don't find eating """nice""" food on a time limit fun when I have to deal with the fake concern and pretend to be interested in others for 45 minutes which is then sometimes followed by superficial and materialistic window shopping?

if you actually had money op you would realize your penny counting is utterly worthless

True. But it's all about balance. Let's say OP brings lunch 3 days a week and eats out 2 days a week. Save some money and also experience life too.
OP is a total fag.

Oh and putting aside the fact that you worrying about the "cattle" IS a fucking cattle mentality as shown all over this board, whereas I give no fucks about anyone around me and simply aim to enjoy my own life...

Why am I on Veeky Forums? Why are YOU on biz you reddit tier scum? This isn't a board to share your feelings about how you have no fucking friends and bitch about consumerism. Cry me a river. You need to focus the fuck up and stop worrying about defending your emo clique.

>all these asshurt normies revealing themselves and getting mad at being called out

It suddenly makes sense why pic related is the Veeky Forums motto, we have a lot of actual normalfags here. This sure explains a lot.

>at this point it's cliche to say it but humanity is nothing but tax and profit cattle for the elite, and I know people tend to look down on this opinion but I legitimately feel superior for recognizing this and being a frugal spender who is aware of and avoids media and corporate influence as much as possible.

Being right isn't cliché, because that's exactly what it is. Herd mentality is what is relied upon, doesn't matter if a few of us don't fall for it, the important thing is that the vast majority do. Best thing you can do is ignore the herd and do what you know you should do, generally the good stuff tends to float to the top, so if you have the right mentality you won't have too many problems being financially well off for your life.

>wagie cattle living paycheck to paycheck swears he will earn more because he has a lot of friends he goes out drinking with every Friday night

>networking is a thing
>you lose out on opportunity for $100 a month

To be fair OP that does look fucking disgusting.

>Dear diary,
>OP was not a faggot today. I wish him a healthy and wealthy future.
>I too wish I could save money and not get fat. Maybe his normie coworkers will someday be wishing that.
>A boiled eggy and salad seems like a Veeky Forumsbros luncheon diet dreams.
>Here I sit in the same position, saving money and tuna fishin'.
>To all the normies who'd laugh at that, I'll smile and watch as they get fat.

Stay rich and healthy, OP.

and listen to coworkers talk about their boring lives and pretend that I care about them? I don't give a shit about how their kids are doing or whatever goes far beyond the petty foibles of their lives.

Have you ever eaten a full roast chicken? Go to your local krogers or whatever you have for a super-market, find the whole chicken, usually roasting in a bag or plastic carton with a handle, take it home and eat the whole thing AND a stalk of broccoli and tell me you're not full for the whole day, shit is filling as fuck.
>pretend to be interested
>makes a thread on Veeky Forums to complain about what others do with their money
Come on, bud...

Enjoy your anemia and low serotonin levels while I hit on the hot waitress at the local buffet

>...
>calls me Reddit tier scum

Oh the irony. Also nobody is worrying about the cattle, we're laughing at them. Well, some of us are, others are enraged bovines like you shitting up the thread with your asshurt.

If you don't spend your gains on good food there's literally no reason to make money.
Food is the only true friend, anything else is a lie.

Balance is subjective. Regardless of that, it's not the things OP does w/ his money that matters, it's the fact that he's looking over his neighbor's fence ridiculing them for what they do with theirs. That ALONE tells me he's not actually living his life well since.

I hate people like that with a passion. "I'm better than you because I'm xyz..."

No, you're not better than anyone. In fact, you're equally as bad as what you imagine those other people to be, if not probably far worse. You are everything that is wrong with this world.

Veeky Forums "individuality"

>virgin
>buy high
>sell low
>has no nice things

Why did you choose to start fasting during the day?

OP can't handle the bants

Because they can leverage their social capital gained from eating at a common place for other things.

It depends on their working environment if it is worth that much though. Being a cubicle warrior makes it pointless. Eating with those with connections will pay huge dividends.

Social capital is really important regardless. Maybe stop being a LARPing loser, OP?

>Laughs at brown cattle
>Turns around to see many black cattle laughing at brown cattle with him
>Thinks he's not cattle

People like you are bottom dwellers.

I have something in common with Veeky Forums but not my coworkers who I dread talking to because I couldn't give a shit about their conversations or lives.

Food is only fuel to live, a temporary pleasure.

this is a repost from 3 months ago but that user ate broccoli chicken everyday

A) You don't know if your co-workers are on biz or not. This is an anonymous message board.

B) What in life is NOT a temporary pleasure?

Do you even hear yourself?

The temporary pleasure is my only true pleasure, everything is so damn shallow and boring. Probably because I'm a loner fuck. And no I'm not even fat, I just really like flavours.

>Id rather have fun eating with my mates at some place than loner eating some dry chicken prepmeal
Yeah but OP is at fucking work. Obviously it's necessary to spend money on your own happiness, but there's no reason to waste money on a fucking weekday lunch at work. Save the "eating with your mates at some place" for the weekend and you'll still be saving money.

Not having the company pay for your meals and on top of that, a kitchen stocked with snacks and beverages as well.

>Now assuming a very conservative growth of 25% a year with cryptocurrencies,
>lol

>hot waitress
>not realising it is a trap

Meal planning is incredibly smart and healthy but you really need to connect with your co-workers more. It kills your career to be to yourself. Don't turn down going out for a lunch on Fridays.

I used to be like that. Blowing all of my money on shit. Now I have like 20k of debt to pay off and I can barely afford to put anything into crypto. But coming here has changed my entire frame of mind. Now what I want more than anything is financial independence and freedom from wageslaving. So now I think about saving money and investing it 24/7. I’ve never been more driven to save money.

Spending used to be like a drug. I’d get a rush from spending money on shit. Now each day that I don’t spend a dime gives me the best feeling.

Lifestyle creep
investopedia.com/terms/l/lifestyle-creep.asp

So they get double the salary but then start spending double on food and clothes and their homes to keep up with the jonases.

A car is a temporary pleasure but it's at least 15 minutes of temporary pleasure compared to a 15 minute pleasure.

Even worse when you're on a leash during work hours and have to go out with them, find a seat, find a restaurant, argue where they want to eat, listen to their boring conversations, and get back to office. HOW are you suppose to enjoy food on a normal working day when the clock is ticking down when you have to go back?

>3/meal
Try 3.50 a day.

>worrying about the "cattle" IS a fucking cattle mentality
I was thinking about that the other day. There's this constant point made by some that "anons do have cattle mentality just like normies".

What you don't realise is what you seem to perceive as cattle mentality is actually people getting /naturally/ grouped in a collective mindset - to put it another way...
>normies are manipulated into joining a social group, and then follow all their ideas and trends
>anons have their own ideas and trends, and end up grouping people with similar thought processes (aka autism and aspies)

That's why you see so many similar stories here about anons being bullied either as kids or even in adult life.

That also explains why chans became so strong with meme magick, and normies, although always social and with similar mindsets, are still just... Cattle, for a lack of a better word.

Unironically this.
You only pack a lunch because you don't have anything more profitable to do with your time.
I can't personally speak to why your coworkers would spend money frivolously, but what you're doing is just as frivolous, except with your time instead of money.

And sorry to break it to you m80, you've only got a limited time, money is near endless.
Normies win again.