[id]

>I eat quite well on 5€ a day. Eating out would cost me about 25€ a day. That's a 7k€ per year difference.

But the thing is, a lot of people could easily make additional 7k€ if they switched jobs / renegotiated their salary / tried out other ways to make more money. Especially if you enjoy eating out from time to time, it's probably not worth the effort to try and save a few thousand not doing it when there are other, much more impactful choices to be made.

[bradleyjg]

Underrated point. There are people for whom investing energy into saving money has a decent ROI, but if you are reading HN that’s probably not you.

Instead it’s far more likely the most efficient way to get more money is to work on your career and not learn how to cook well, fix your own car, or extend your commute way out into the country.

That doesn’t mean you can’t have a hobby of cooking, if that’s what you love—go for it, but be honest with yourself. If it was about getting to FIRE you should order in a pizza and working on leetcode.

[MaxBarraclough]

> FIRE

Having googled this I presume you meant Financial Independence Retire Early.

[nicbou]

Where do y'all work where an extra €7k post tax is so easy to reach for?

[zemvpferreira]

It's not easy but it's not that hard either. My girlfriend is up around 20K/year this year simply from changing job and negotiating firmly. This coming from a previous salary of maybe 20K. (Lisbon, Portugal where 40K is a pretty good wage)