Money stashed away for buying littlepleasure or home items. Extra side money earned just for fun spending.
I'm using the egg money I earned on the side from ebay to buy the surf board I always wanted.
Farming women would earn "butter and egg money" from their poultry to be used for clothing, shoes, extra treats like white sugar or oranges, and anything store-bought for the home. Men would use crop money to pay the mortgage, or buy livestock or seed for next year.
The wealth of a young asian immigrant who appears balling and acts hard, but either they or their family just owns a cash-only asian restaurant and evades taxes. Prevalent in the asian comunity.
Yo check that sweetwhip, is he an accountant or is he pushing weight?
Neither, man. He's butter soft, and thats just egg roll money.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”