Having been involved in FI for a while, I’ve found that almost all goods and services are, to some extent, optional. On the flip side, a lot of goods and services can be obtained, at the right place and time, severely discounted or even for free (the small con). But essentially without exception, everyone working toward FI should own a laptop; and essentially without exception, one doesn’t find laptops disproportionately discounted.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve started buying used eBay laptops to address this. I’m not sure how novel an idea this really is, so let me outline the concerns I personally had before I started experimenting in this way.
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