Recently, the Daily Mail reported that an Australian woman named Natasha posted a photo on social media and said, "A $53 can't buy much now, even at Aldi."
从图片中可以看出，她用53刀买了些包装肉类、蔬菜、面包、谷类食品、酸奶和奶酪。这些看起来都是人们的正常开销，也没有什么很奢侈很昂贵的食物，但却引起了网友们的不满。
这张照片被上传到Facebook上的一个名为“Centrelink：靠低收入生活、小贴士、提示和节俭生活”的群里，立即引起了一些主页成员的愤怒。一位名叫Sandy的女性表示，她曾“被迫两周只花60澳元”，供两个人生活。而Natasha一次就花了这么多钱，才买了这么少的东西。
她说：“我都在批发商那里买东西，买水果店的促销商品，经过多家比价才找到了最便宜的水果店和肉店，他们的肉每公斤6澳元左右的肉…瘦肉每公斤8澳元，必须要动脑筋省钱才行！”
Another netizen criticised Natasha for saying: "it's a luxury to buy meat, and it's not necessary to buy mushroom slices and packaged food. Aldi's $14 bag of mushrooms this week is really cheap, but it's better to grow a bucket than spend that money."
Frugal netizen Tara also posted a photo showing what she bought for A $8.15, including shellfish, bread, rice paste, packaged pasta sauce, sugar and bottled water.
Natasha面对这些突如其来的批评很是困扰，她解释说：“虽然你们觉得买肉很奢侈，但是这些东西我能吃很久啊，这些4.5刀买的奶酪就够吃两周的了，并且我贫血，每周必须要吃一次红肉，请大家不要对我这么苛刻。”
对此，网友们也展开了讨论：
这个来自英国的网友认为，“那个说每两周只花60刀吃饭的人，不是在撒谎，就是在吃垃圾。我不久前刚搬到西澳，虽然我是个厨师，但也没办法靠每周不到150刀的预算去养活一家人，特别是不算买零食和酒，还要实际考虑到营养的时候。”
“我觉得没什么问题，我每餐需要花费40-50刀。我们喜欢有营养价值的食物，不想吃香肠和意大利面。”
虽然我也在努力，但就是不能像别人一样支付得起买烟买酒买咖啡的费用，那不节省还能怎么办呢？
Other netizens have opened a pattern of mutual tear, accusing Tara of buying bottled water.
Some netizens began to offer money-saving tips: dried beans are healthy and inexpensive, and buying more spare at discount is also a good option.
In fact, saving is not right, but excessive saving, not only will reduce the quality of life, in some kind of Chengdu health is also a kind of injury, have to think about how to save time, better to think more about how to make money. After all, money is earned, not saved.