[anu7df]

Yet another lifestyle article with pearls of wisdom like drastically reducing expenses by cutting maid service and weekly massages. Do these guys even know what real life struggle is for most people? Not sure why this is up on the front page. He is able to retire at 32. Good for him. Let's move on and talk about something meaningful or at least fun.

[dwaltrip]

I don't think this is an advice piece. It seems like he just wanted to write about his story.

[anu7df]

Point taken. But I guess it was the tone of the article with bullet point realizations that irked me. Either there are way too many millennials with blog posts filled with trivial philosophy pretending to be Kant's second coming or I am too cynical. It is probably the latter and I am only 36, but get off my lawn..! :)

[pasquinelli]

i thought you must've been exaggerating about the maid service and weekly massages.

[dhruvkar]

To be (sort of) fair, he's based out of Brazil. In many developing countries, maid service and massages is fairly standard for the middle class.*

source: I lived in India and China.

[smsm42]

It may sound more glamorous than it is. May be just somebody coming couple of times a month to clean up the place, it is not uncommon thing in many places and not that expensive.

[mattquiros]

I feel for OP because I've gone through something similar. I was motivated by money because I was born poor and went through the stresses of work and starting up because I wanted to be richer than I needed to be. People struggle in their own ways and there really is no need to compare them.