Zero Par - Shen City "Zero Par Tribe" PK "Cool Frugal Tribe", Should We Become Mortgage Slaves?

"Zero-Pressure Tribe": Living without pressure

"Cool-Cheapskate Tribe": Calculating savings carefully

"Every day when I open my eyes, a string of numbers pop into my mind: 6000 for mortgage, 2500 for food, clothing and daily use, 1500 for Ranran's kindergarten, 600 for social engagements, 580 for transportation fees, three or four hundred for property management, 250 for mobile phone bills, and 200 for gas and electricity.

From the first breath of my awakening, I need to make at least 400 yuan every day. This is the cost for me to live in this city."

--Hai Ping

I believe those who have watched "Snail House" must be familiar with this line. In the drama, more or less everyone can find their own life's shadow, especially some young white-collar workers feel it deeply. Under various pressures of life, some people have evolved from "mortgage slaves" into "Cool-Cheapskate Tribe", while others have chosen not to be "mortgage slaves", "car slaves", or "wedding slaves", and become the "Zero-Pressure Tribe".

"Cool-Cheapskate Tribe": Saving is glorious, wasting is shameful!

On May 17th, a website forum initiated a thread titled "Show off my frugal life after becoming a mortgage slave," allowing some netizens with similar experiences to find like-minded allies. The slogan "Being a mortgage slave is not a crime, being frugal is reasonable" quickly became popular on the Internet. Not taking taxis, going Dutch when dining out, cooking by oneself, for those "mortgage slaves" who need to pay off their mortgages every month, "cool-cheapskate" seems to have become a very good way of living.

Currently, "cool-cheapskate" has become a fashionable way of living, and here "cheapskate" is used in a positive sense because the "Cool-Cheapskate Tribe" advocates the consumption concept of "saving is glorious, wasting is shameful." Members of the "Cool-Cheapskate Tribe" are not necessarily poor, nor are they misers. They have high education levels and substantial incomes. Being meticulous about spending is not stinginess for the "Cool-Cheapskate Tribe," but rather a way of saving. "Unconsciously, I have been categorized as a member of the 'Cool-Cheapskate Tribe'," Mr. Wang, a citizen, told reporters that his original motivation for being frugal was due to becoming a "mortgage slave". Later, after paying off the mortgage, this form of consumption has become a habit. He rarely bought discounted clothes before, but later his wife bought the same piece of clothing at half the price, so he decided to only buy new clothes during mall sales. Thus, habits such as not taking taxis, cooking at home, going Dutch when dining out, and doing housework by oneself were formed.