Make these saving tips from Monthly Magazine Home a motivation guide in case you are preparing for your future house.
While some rom-com with work-related setup gives lessons of “Adulting 101” in a subtle way. Monthly Magazine Home gives you harsh yet sensible lessons when it comes to saving up money for owning a house or just plainly saving for the future.
Monthly Magazine Home threads on the story of a man who likes buying houses and a woman who prefers renting a house. The story takes on the topic of “owning or renting”, which is a nagging concern for people living in Korea and anywhere in the world.
The main characters Ja-sung and Young-won first met when Young-won is forced to leave the house that she rented. Their first impression of each other is not so good. But fate intertwines them when Young-won got hired as the new Magazine editor to the Magazine company that Ja-sung owns and manages.
Because Ja-sung recognizes Young-won as a poor woman who has no permanent house, he gave her the nickname Na Zero-won. Young-won is determined to prove to him that she can own a house someday.
A lot of occurrences happen that lead to Ja-sung offering Young-won a temporary apartment where she can stay while working on her money-saving goals. Young-won follows Ja-sung’s pieces of advice on saving up money and it definitely works.
1. Skip buying that expensive morning coffee.
Young-won’s daily morning coffee costs KRW 4,000. In her mind, Ja-sung nags her that in a week, it’s KRW 28,000 and KRW 1.46mil in a year, she eventually turns around and heads outside the café.
2.Dismiss the 50% off notifications from online shopping apps no matter how tempting it is.
Refuse to reward yourself of obliging to all those monthly shopping sale events. Invest in buying things that you really need.
3.Skip on buying new things just because some things are a little outdated.
Young-won stopped herself from purchasing a new curtain even if her old curtain didn’t match the interior of her new apartment to add to her savings.
4. Try going over-the-counter when withdrawing money from your bank account instead of an ATM
Ja-sung appears on the ATM’s monitor reminding Young-won that the machine charges a fee of KRW 1,200. Soon enough, Young-won is convinced and walks even further to her primary bank’s ATM.
5. Join a community on homeownership.
Ja-sung says it’s better to have like-minded companions on your journey on saving up for a home.
6. Take that free kimchi that the host is offering for you to take home.
Even though that kimchi creates a funny accident for Ja-sung and Young-won, this scene speaks about the little act of kindness we never realized helping us save money.
7. Don’t be a pushover, learn to say no when colleagues are cheering on you to treat them for snacks or coffee.
Young-won’s co-worker especially Chief Go constantly pressure her to treat them snacks and coffee. Ja-sung keeps appearing on Young-won’s phone screen to toughen her up. In the end, they didn’t push the idea of making her spend for them.
8.It helps to have a convenient-store buddy to split the cost on those 1+1 deals.
Gyeom and Young-won are the cutest 1+1 deals pairing every fan of the drama root for. We would have missed this idea if not for them.
9. Don’t easily throw that old hair tie and use creams or lotions sparingly.
Chief Ui-joo wanted Young-won to have more care for herself since she was a fine lady, however, Young-won wants to be more practical than fancy.
10. Create a KRW 10,000 per day spend calendar.
This is one of the super frugal methods that Ja-sung suggested on spending only KRW 10,000 per day.
Just like Ja-sung’s famous quote “Don’t be indebted to tomorrow’s me”. Young-won and the viewers can learn to manage finances that will help in the long run.
Monthly Magazine Home is now on its 12th episode and the drama keeps getting better and better. We can’t help but love every character like Editor Sang-soon, Chief Go, and Shin Gyeom. It’s a unique romantic comedy that offers valuable lessons in life, love and career that can help a lot of viewers.
Monthly Magazine Home is now exclusively streaming on iQiyi
PR Source: iQiyi
[wpedon id=”3227″ align=”center”]
