A Cost-Effective Guide to Living a Better Life: HowToLiveBetter

Which other members are automatically charged on the mobile phone? Are the passwords for commonly used email addresses repeated on other websites? In the rental contract, when will the deposit be returned?

Taken individually, these things are not complicated. But it’s easy to get into trouble when no one reminds you. Today I will share a project with 60.5k stars on GitHub called HowToLiveBetter, a cost-effective life guide. It organizes things in life that are worth knowing in advance into entries so that you can refer to them at any time when you encounter anything. This guide includes:

Covering daily expenses, account security, renting, as well as work and family life. For issues related to medical insurance, social security, health and law, each article states the cost, benefit, level of evidence and original source. Only journal articles and official documents are cited.

This life guide contains a total of 34 chapters and 687 pieces of advice! ! !

Let me share with you some guides that you can often use. In the "Don't waste money" chapter, the first item talks about automatic renewal. It reminds readers to look through the chargeback lists of payment platforms and app stores to find those services that are rarely used but still continue to be paid.

Use a separate password for your email address and do not duplicate it with other websites. The reason is easy to understand. Many accounts can reset their passwords via email. If the email password is the same as that of a small website, the password leaked by the small website may be used to try to log in to the email, and the scope of influence will also expand.

In the chapter "Renting and Buying a House", the guide reminds readers to confirm the deposit amount, return time and deductions when signing a contract, and gives the source of the regulations.

This guide marks each item with grades A, B, and C, but these are the project's own classification rules and cannot be directly regarded as certification of recommendations by an authoritative agency.

Level A has corresponding research data, or corresponds to the original text of laws and policies; level B has research support, but cannot give an exact number; or is only supported by a small sample and a single study; level C may be based on experience or common practice. It also provides a clear reminder that the numbers in the study do not necessarily represent a cause-and-effect relationship, and some of the content is controversial or remains to be verified.

This guide is suitable to be put into favorites and opened again when you encounter specific problems. People who have just started living independently, or are preparing to change jobs or rent an apartment, can also choose relevant chapters to read first.

Project address:

https://github.com/eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter

Online reading 1:

https://eternity4719.github.io/HowToLiveBetter

Online reading 2:

https://cdyforever.github.io/how-to-live-better