Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to appreciate being able to stretch a dollar in any way we can, and that includes the small things in the house!

Stretching the Cables

I'm one to use a lot of things until they are on their absolute last legs, or break complete. The other day my phone cable finally died.. 3 years later!

It was a sad day for sure that my phone cable broke, mainly because most of the cables these days do NOT fit in my phone case! I have one of those fully sealed phone cases to keep out water and all that, so the bottom of the case is sealed up to prevent water to seep in in case I drop it, as well as prevent dust and other unwanted things from getting inside the phone. That comes with it's challenges though, namely that the charging cable has to be a very specific size, the original size from the phone manufacturer, in order for it to fit! Damn it!

Because of this fact, I have been incredibly careful with my phone cables! We buy them off the internet, as do most people these days, but the issue is that the cables we buy very frequently don't fit my damn phone! lol. This makes it a real pain to shop for cables because how do you narrow it down to fit as it would from the factory? OEM? Hard to find OEM phone charger cables.. lol

I think that it's important to have this mindset with a lot of the things in our lives though. Yes it is often the case that buying things can benefit a small business but at the same time, there are a lot of things that we don't need to buy. I have been really trying to change my mindset over the last few years to one of scarcity. I won't go to the extreme of washing paper plates and stuff but I do try to stretch the dollars that we have as much as we can, and not buying all kinds of things like phone cables if I don't like the color or some shit is what I am trying to do.

The consumerist aspect of society is challenging because it's the manufacturers of the products that are causing a lot of the issues of today, namely pollution of the environment. It's not impossible to clean this up and do better, but they have a financial incentive to do things as quickly and cheaply as possible, which also means that safety and standards get thrown out the window. There are ample places in the United States that are clear examples of manufacturing processes gone wrong; cancers, permanent chemicals in the water, hormone disruption. Lots of other examples.

If we all change our mindset, which I think many thankfully are, to stretching a dollar we spend on something like this as much as we can, we can do a number of things. Save money is a primary one, especially as we are being afflicted with intentional economic destruction (a topic for a whole different day/post..), it's important to be able to stretch dollars and values as much as we can!

What about you, have you been trying to stretch things out as much as possible to save some money? What are some examples of you doing this? I would like to hear about them in the comments!

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