1. Don't own a microwave.
2. Own a screen to which I can plug my computer to stream videos (or for my man to play video games), but no cable.
3. No landline.
4. Own a 2004 Hyundai Sonata, paid for in cash, with 60,000 km on it (yes, you read that right). She has a large dent in her side, but it's the same side as my dimple in my cheek, so I feel one with her (she's called Gertrude).
5. Name my car because I keep her a long time.
6. Bring my lunch to work every day.
7. Consider the ability to bike instead of highway-drive to work a deciding factor in switching jobs, among others (I start in a week!).
8. Go out to eat maybe once every few months, and only to pubs or ethnic places where it will cost me 20$ for a lovely evening out (these are rarely planned, and I allow them to happen randomly simply because they're so rare and always enjoyable with old friends).
9. Make dinner every night (why is this weird, I don't know).
10. Shop extensively for the best deals for flights for vacations, never stay in hotels (prefering home/apartment rentals), make my own meals on vacation, live like a local.
11. Favorite activities are camping and playing outside, mostly for free (I respect and encourage paying national or provincial park entrance fees to protect and care for our wild territories. Restaurants and stores, meh, I don't like giving money to them).
12. Manage my own investments.
13. Repair things on my own or with the help of Youtube (or once, called my dad on the phone for moral and technical support to replace a toilet pump at my rental property).
14. Understand that spending 15,000$ a year is a balls-out luxury lifestyle that the majority of the world population cannot have. I realize that all purchases, after a safe and clean place to sleep at night and food and clean water, are, by definition, not survival necessities. I base my purchasing decisions based on this assumption.
15. Above all, feel that all things above are NORMAL. Everyone else is weird.
