Financing for new construction: realistic or rather wishful thinking?

I know what you mean: crumbs on the board just wiped off with a damp cloth, lunchbox where a roll, tomato, and cucumber were, quickly wiped out, etc. I do it that way too. However, my husband balances out the use of the dishwasher.

Anyone building a new house worth hundreds of thousands of euros and thinking about whether to wipe the lunchbox with a damp cloth because of a few crumbs out of thriftiness or just put it in the dishwasher should really consider if they still have their life under control.

Then just buy a few cans of ravioli and a camping stove. You can warm them up in the garden and eat straight from the can.
If necessary, even with chopsticks, so you don’t have to dirty any cutlery.

That way you save real money, protect the environment, and don’t have to think so much anymore.

A bit provocatively formulated, but I share the message. It’s already absurd how you can quickly throw out 1 million in one place and save the last cent in another. Even with rational ecological awareness, this cannot be explained, because anyone who is consistently ecological first reduces their space consumption, as that saves the most CO2 and raw materials. Then there is no new construction, but rather a 3-4 room rental apartment in a large residential block. Therefore, I think that the ecological aspect is mostly just a pretext to glorify inner stinginess.

I can only explain this with a stingy upbringing that has deeply ingrained itself into the subconscious. It is particularly bad in Swabia. There, for decades, they saved at every corner in order to be able to build a little house. They preferred to put on a jacket rather than heat, sat in half-darkness rather than turn on the light, and also ate very hard bread to avoid throwing anything away. In the past, this was financially unavoidable. The children (who are now building themselves) could now afford a better life in many cases, but this already pathological and partly irrational frugality does not easily go away through generations.

Honestly: I’d rather forgo a longer day trip by car (because that’s all it is) than spend the whole year thinking about where I can save the last percent of energy. That means organizing the entire daily routine around energy optimization and thus killing any spontaneity. For me, a horror vision, but to each his own.

But it’s not just about electricity consumption, that was just an example. It’s about the fundamental attitude. It’s no use saving on electricity consumption and otherwise throwing money out the window. It continues with water consumption, heating and shopping behavior, fuel consumption in cars/choice of means of transportation, and it doesn’t stop at clothing purchases and garden design. Each topic on its own achieves almost nothing; it’s the accumulation of saved little things that makes the difference. Of course, one can go through life completely carelessly and without thinking (if one has the money for it), but I don’t want that. When I see the ecological footprint other people have (including those who live in apartments instead of houses), I don’t feel guilty because of our own home and instead try to act resource-efficiently and ecologically reasonably in other areas.

Whoever builds a new house for hundreds of thousands of euros and thinks about whether to wipe the lunchbox with a damp cloth to save a few crumbs or just put it in the dishwasher should simply consider whether they still have their life under control.

Then just buy a few cans of ravioli and a camping stove. You can warm them up in the garden and eat straight from the can.
If necessary, even with chopsticks, so you don’t have to dirty any cutlery.

That way you save real money, protect the environment, and don’t have to think so much anymore.

Sorry, you didn’t understand anything.

That is simply housewife work, in modern terms economical, if you want to use that thing again or several times a day. You don’t think about saving then, but about using.
Or do you get a new glass from the cupboard six times a day just because you want to drink a glass of water six times a day?

By the way, you don’t have to use a quote for the entire thread when a person is explicitly addressed.

Don’t you find it slowly embarrassing just to see yourselves and regard your conditions as the center of the world? Hey, fortunately there are still many other people who live differently than you – and certainly not worse.