Where the simple living forum and YMOYL shines is helping with this little switch in your head
I think this is an extremely important point. There are hundreds of wonderful strategies discussed at this forum. The sad thing is that they benefit only a small group of people. All middle-class workers would work this stuff if only we could figure out how to flip that switch in their heads. Do that (and I agree with the comments above that BobSmith pointed to a good way to do it--thinking of this as life planning rather than financial planning) and all the rest just follows over time.
I think this is an extremely important point. There are hundreds of wonderful strategies discussed at this forum. The sad thing is that they benefit only a small group of people. All middle-class workers would work this stuff if only we could figure out how to flip that switch in their heads. Do that (and I agree with the comments above that BobSmith pointed to a good way to do it--thinking of this as life planning rather than financial planning) and all the rest just follows over time.