Previously, this website reported that Yoko Ogasawara, a 75-year-old Japanese money-saving master, spent only about NT$200 a day, and passed the lifestyle of zero entertainment expenses, which can be said to be a stingy master's style. She further shared the unique clothing standards and used existing items in "ESSE Online", adhering to the "sophistication" of life philosophy that does not increase or purchases.

"Little Beauty": A philosophy of life that does not increase or purchase

was once a gallery and art museum, and is now an art prose writer. Ogasawara calls his lifestyle "Keikaka ロロー (小氏)", which is a descriptive derived from "丨コロー (神氏)", which means a philosophy of life like "一氏" and "一氏". She said that she is indeed a dating family. She has no strong desire for food, clothing, housing and other materials because the living environment with fewer things will make people feel refreshed and at ease.

Although the apartment she lives in is still equipped with basic daily necessities, she has established a principle since she entered the annuity life ten years ago: no more items are added, no longer buying unnecessary things. This is because her monthly annual income is less than 40,000 days (about NT$8,000), and she is unable to work part-time jobs due to health factors, so she needs to be more careful.

Practice "1,000-day round life every day"

Ogasawara practices "1,000-day round life every day" (approximately NT$200), and will be requisitioned 7,000-day round life every week from a nearby bank as the "money bag" for this week. Only one 1,000-day round ticket is used every day as the day's expense, mainly for purchasing ingredients.

If there is a large expenditure such as electrical failure, needing to buy blood pressure or sudden hospitalization, it will deliberately lead money from a financial institution that is farther away and difficult to access to, thereby preventing hindering consumption.

Due to the decline in physical strength in the past year, shopping out has become difficult, so I switched to home delivery services to buy food. Currently, it costs about 3,000 to 5,000-day rounds per week (about NT$600 to 1,000 yuan), and it can still be controlled within 1,000-day rounds per day.

When she uses the order directory, she will first record the "things I want to buy" plan as she wishes, enjoy the pleasure of choosing, and then review whether she "really needed" many times and delete unnecessary items as much as possible. The most important thing is that you don’t have to feel a pity in this process, but instead recite it as “It’s great to be able to reduce it”. This is the key method of learning in a savvy way.

"Sessional Selection" for clothing and daily necessities

You can often see many beautiful clothes and daily necessities on the streets. Although she no longer buys them now, she recalls her shopping methods in the past and always asks herself first: "Can this piece of clothing be worn in one piece?" She is still wearing a sweater hand-written by her mother at her 10s or the clothes she received on her 20s birthday.

When she chooses clothes, she does not follow the trend. When she sees popular products on the street, she will deliberately avoid popular models. This is one of the tips to avoid irritating buying.

She chose: not the styles that friends wear, not the products that are sold out, but the quality of materials, neatness of the texture, artistic design and color, etc., and classic clothing that can be worn until old age does not feel abrupt. Such clothes were difficult to find, so she was patient and would not buy them if she couldn't find them, which made her feel happy.

Don't rely on convenience small things. Use wisdom to solve life problems

The so-called "convenience small things" are completely prohibited at home. She believed that these items were mostly just gimmicks and were often piled up into "dummy objects" due to insufficient practicality.

For example, when the bottle cover cannot be opened, it can be solved with a rubber band on the cover for most of the time; while the fruit jar of the metal zipper cannot be opened, knock the edge of the bottle cover with a small hammer to make the air pressure change and open.

Others include: the transparent rubber attached to the bag for reuse, the bowl for cooking is replaced by a plastic container of miso or tofu, and the trousers for stationery is replaced by a garment, etc. She emphasized that she did not treat shopping as fun, did not add items, and could use existing things repeatedly, and even if she was called "small" she didn't care. This was what she called "small learning method".