Tightwaddin'

I'm not a tightwad per se but I run a pretty tight ship. generally speaking if I buy something I will buy good quality and won't stint myself. Im not a regular buyer of clothes, electronics or anything like that. My phone is shite, and my car is almost worthless.

I grow my own veg in my greenhouse and have recently taken on an allotment. We don't go away on luxury holidays rather will spend a few hundred quid going to Turkey or similar.

What I do have is a relatively valuable house in London with a very small mortgage on it, and I'm aiming to get that paid off in full in the next 5-7 years. I'm 31 and have a good pension through work - some people I know of the same age have no pension provision at all and that would terrify me.

But that said, you might get hit by a bus. Or your family might have a history of heart attacks at aged 60- in which case you may as well do what you want.

I'm actually reading 2 books sort of in this subject: Henry Thoreau , walden or life in the woods , and Ralph Emerson, self reliance. I haven't finished either yet but both are interesting reads.

I think it's pretty true that the things you own end up owning you. People think that new car on lease or a 700 quid iPhone will make them happy, when it's patently obvious to all and sundry that their consumerism is a sticking plaster over another problem..