Is it rude or taboo to suggest frugality?

Far as a taboo, there's the adage of 'don't talk about money, religion, or politics' but that wouldn't really apply in a presentation situation IMO. Likewise I wouldn't be concerned if it was rude during a presentation because while exploring a specific topic I feel there's an obligation to examine anything relevant to the topic. It would be rude to lecture someone checking out at the grocery store about frugality. Could be considered impertinent to admonish one of your friends about their budgeting or to be more frugal.

Part of that is just people dislike others meddling in their business. Other part is this is a consumer based society. People are judged on both sides of the scale. By that I mean there's people who will say you spend too much and there's people who will think you don't spend (or have enough stuff or the stuff you buy isn't of high quality). It's almost like you can't win.

I don't consider frugality to be 'saving money' though. I consider frugality to be about limiting waste be it money,time, or resources. I mention that because if it was described as being solely about saving money, the audience was correct to question its feasibility. A super simple example: stopping at the store on the way home from work versus going home first then back to the store. I consider the time savings the important part.

Also remember frugality has a slight negative association to it. Could have likely avoided the problem by listing each aspect of frugality with regards to time/money/resources. Like saying efficiency or time management. Budgeting for monetary frugality. Unfortunately I don't have any means to condense this down to save ya'll time in reading it.

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