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>Humblegoals
>Anyone here achieved this? How?
It's easier to have an alt lifestyle than most people think.

I sell vegetables in Poland. I earn 2,500 PLN per month, so something like €7,000 per year. I'll be 30 soon. Hear me out.

I live a very comfortable life, for what I want and need. I mostly spend time reading, finishing around 170 books per year. I can read at work (rarely busy) and at home. I have a lot of free time.

I'm clean, healthy, have heat and food. I get around by bicycle. I buy used clothes, but it's not like they have holes or smell, really. I guess life would be much harder if I didn't have my own flat. While I was getting a PhD I got one from my parents, but I never took any help outside of that.

I miss some things like the washing machine or oven, but every month I save a little bit of extra money. Even though I read mostly on kindle I can also buy used books from the libraries, see pic related. Sometimes they give them away for free too.

I'm having a hard time understand how people need to spend so much more than I do. I guess it's mostly because they can't cook. Socializing may be expensive too, but I dislike people. Everything else may just be people believing in commercials and paying for useless crap. The need to possess an expensive car or the newest console seems empty and funny to me, but each to their own.

>Quasi-neeting but I do want to be self employed somehow.
Working outside of your home is not so bad. If you don't want that because of the people, then just keep the distance from them but be polite. They will leave you alone. If it's because you feel like you deserve a better job than you can get, I encourage you to rethink simpler options.