It's always been a minus life.
I've already tried all sorts of things.
I've tried budgeting and I don't know how many times I've cut up my credit cards.
In a world where you can buy everything with your mobile phone without a physical card, cutting up your card is of no use.

--- p.9

'Spending fast' literally means 'stopping spending'.
The point is very simple.
Set a period of about a year and do not spend any money except for absolutely necessary items.
I decided to challenge myself by rebuilding it to suit me, except for a few important things, and sticking with it.
I've read many financial management books in the past and done what they told me to do, but I often gave up halfway because they didn't suit me.
However, since fasting is a method that writers like me have already tried after failing at existing methods, there is not much to follow and it is simple.

--- p.10

Was what I thought was 'necessary' all this time truly 'my thoughts'?
--- p.
51

It is important now to steadily reduce consumption.
Because consistent small spending leads to huge loans and credit card bills.
The saying, 'Your clothes get wet in a drizzle' didn't just come out of nowhere.

--- p.110

Looking back, it was a series of endless worries and hardships.
The cycle of consumption that can never be broken unless you deeply think about and reflect on why you spend so much money every moment.
It was a desperate struggle to escape that shackle.

--- p.111

When I finally arrived in Nairobi and saw the boxes I had sent from Korea, I realized I didn't need them.
Is it the pressure and temptation of Seoul that makes me feel so needed? Korea is a place that makes me feel so needed.
If I happen to click on one of the countless ads that come my way every day, I find myself ordering it as if possessed.

--- p.119

I'm not here, feeling anxious and uncomfortable because I can't go to a Michelin restaurant, because I don't live in a big, spacious apartment like other people, and because I can't post decent photos on social media.
I feel more comfortable and free here, where I can just live as I am, because no one knows me.
I wear the same thing every day.
There are no friends to meet, no hot places to go, and just the fact that each day is smooth and peaceful fills my heart.
In this place where people so different from me live, perhaps I have found my true self.
--- p.123

What does it matter what others think of me? Whether they recognize me or not, I am who I am.
I don't change.
Today, as I was choosing clothes, a question came to mind.
“What if I look like a country bumpkin?” I reply.
“So what!” I took out my freshly washed pants and t-shirt and put them on.

--- p.135

It's one thing to travel, it's another to carry everything that sustains life on your shoulders.
Even the spoon feels heavy.
I decided that from now on I would buy things with the thought that I would carry all this weight.
If you have the standard of 'I can carry it', you will at least not buy similar items again.
--- p.139

You have to decide what you 'can't live without' rather than what you 'would be nice to have'.
I already have enough of what I need.
--- p.140

A consumption fast is an act of reducing the opportunity cost of my life.
As I spend less on living, the range of actions I can choose from expands.
If you reduce and lighten your living expenses through consumption fasting, you can challenge yourself to do what you want even if you receive a slightly lower salary.

--- p.151

It's not about having enough money to buy everything you want, it's about having enough money to do what you want.
This is what I think true economic freedom is.

--- p.152

The savings interest rate is 2 percent per year.
Taking inflation into account, it's actually close to a negative interest rate.
I chuckled at the very cute interest rate.
But now I know that these cute yields will protect my future.
(My stock return was minus 15 percent.)
--- p.154

From the life of a tenant farmer, where I had to give away all my hard-earned money every month even though it didn't seem like much, I now enjoy the small joy of being an ordinary farmer who puts the grain I harvest into my own barn.
It was a great relief to know that I wouldn't have to move money from one account to another every payday, the 25th, or receive credit card statements.

--- p.158

I will continue to make mistakes often and I may have an accident at any time.
But as always, I won't give up.
I want to live more lightly and freely, looking for places to cut back and avoid unnecessary spending.
I decided to continue my fast in the future.
Because when it comes to dieting, maintenance is more important than success.

--- p.159