Have you ever converted anyone to mustachianism?

[RootofGood]

Some people clearly think it's weird, but I now have other converts to the brown bag lunch club.  :-)

I converted one guy to bringing his own lunch.  When I started working at my former employer, everyone went out to lunch every day.  Then our office moved downtown (the mecca of overpriced lunch fare).  I kept bringing my own lunch and turned down virtually all offers to go out.  Over time, one guy started bringing his own lunch.  We would hang out and chat at lunch. 

I've been bringing my lunch 4 days a week for close to a year and my co-workers never got it. I'm taking a "big" vacation soon, the kind that would cost most of my co-workiers thousands in airfare alone. Airbnb for lodging and airline points for free flights and car rental will make the whole week <$1000 for my wife and I. When one of them asked how I could afford a trip like that, I said "Remember how I bring my lunch all the time? That's how." Could almost see the light bulb turning on inside his head. He's actually brought leftovers a couple times now.

I'm sure I'll be known as "hey remember that guy that retired really early and brought his lunch all the time?  Maybe that's a smart thing to do..."  :)

I nearly chomped my tongue off biting it so hard when I hear coworkers with $200k+ household incomes talking about being broke.  As they dig in to their $12 take out salad.  If facepunches didn't violate the workplace harassment rules, I would have doled them out liberally. 

[Basenji]

My girlfriend, mostly.  Beyond that, I have a coworker I'm going to try to slip some mustache, someone that seems open to it.  Unfortunately, the ones that need it the most would dismiss it immediately.

Young guy in my office, say 23?, works part-time while working on his M.A. He has one more semester and is really bright. So I "slipped him the mustache"  today (emailed him the URL). A few minutes later he said to me, "I didn't know it was possible to retire at 30 without being a tech millionaire." I smiled and said, "Just read some of it. I wish I had read this when I was your age." He might not be converted, but I felt like fucking Yoda.

[ketchup]

I slipped said mustache to the coworker I was talking about and he's now 1000% onboard.  He's read a bunch of MMM and ERE and has totally got the mindset down.  He was already saving 35-40% of his income he figured out, and he's now going to really crank that up.  He's stopped paying for lunches out at work, and he's planning his out from his crazy cell phone contract.  He and I now have lunch together most days, talking about some of the nuts and bolts of this lifestyle.  I may have just changed the course of his life. 

[Cheddar Stacker]

I slipped said mustache to the coworker I was talking about and he's now 1000% onboard.  He's read a bunch of MMM and ERE and has totally got the mindset down.  He was already saving 35-40% of his income he figured out, and he's now going to really crank that up.  He's stopped paying for lunches out at work, and he's planning his out from his crazy cell phone contract.  He and I now have lunch together most days, talking about some of the nuts and bolts of this lifestyle.  I may have just changed the course of his life.

Splendiferous. Nice work ketchup!

[ketchup]

It's great!  Today during lunch he told me started reading a book over the weekend that he thought I'd be interested in that his girlfriend's dad gave him.  It was called The Millionaire Next Door.

My face was something like this:

[prefrontalfinance]

It's great!  Today during lunch he told me started reading a book over the weekend that he thought I'd be interested in that his girlfriend's dad gave him.  It was called The Millionaire Next Door.

My face was something like this:

Next week he'll bring in Your Money or Your Life, haha. That's good though! He is, as they say, one of the lucky 10,000

[jordanread]

^
One of my favorites!!

[S0VERE1GN]

the most important person of all: myself.

[fantabulous]

I've managed to plant the idea with at least one of my coworkers. Not sure how well he's stuck with it, as he switched departments shortly afterwards for unrelated reasons. I did get him to start questioning those small tech purchases that most IT workers love making (and I still have issues with this myself).

[ambimammular]

I'm working on my awesome neighbor. They went through some tough times and hit bottom, so they are ready to listen. There's a lot of education though, so we're starting her husband on Dave Ramsey/Suze Orman and working him up to MMM. So far, so good.