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From a super-saver to embracing ‘die with zero’
After a lifetime of saving for the future, I recently opened up to the idea that maybe one should use up one’s wealth before one dies.
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The idea is to spend money, time and energy in a balanced way so that over your lifetime, as your time and energy run out, so does your money.
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I went shopping for a new mobile phone last month. This was after my three-year-old Samsung Galaxy Ultra S22 fell out of my pocket, bounced off a rock, cracked its screen and became unresponsive.
I almost always choose the second-newest model in the market – new enough to be up to date with all the latest technology, but not as pricey as the latest model with all its bells and whistles. As a long-time Samsung user, this meant I was choosing between variants of the latest Galaxy S25 model: or as the electronics superstore JB Hi-Fi’s website put it – “the S25 for daily smarts, S25+ for more screen, S25 Ultra for all-out grunt, or S25 Edge for that iconic curve”.
