Learning of Value
abbaci | 25 January, 2010 21:11
Learning of Value
I see this principal all over as I go through my day. I see rims on car wheels that cost upwards of $500, just for a little bit of decoration on a vehiclewedding dresses. I see people spend four or five dollars for a cup of coffee, hundreds of dollars for cell phones that they almost never use, thousands of dollars on huge television sets that they almost never watchPigment yellow. All around us are ads and commercials that keep us wanting to buy things that keep us dissatisfied with the way things are, and those ads and commercials are trying to convince us that if we just buy some more stuff--no matter what the cost--wePigment red'll be happier and more content.
But somewhere along the line we have to learn to make our own decisions about valuePigment blue. There's a common law of economics that states that many poor people will stay poor because of the decisions that they make about how to spend their money. How many people have you known or known ofPigment yellow, for example, who have little money yet who buy a very expensive car with high monthly payments? And how many people are in trouble right now because they bought houses that wereBicycle helmet more expensive than they could afford?
While I wouldncarbon black't say that the answer to our money issues would be to skimp and save every penny and never have any fun in life, it is important that we learn about value and about when to spend how much. A few years ago, for exampleChildren Bicycle, my wife and I had cell phones. At the time I worked half an hour from home, I was on the road with sports teams a lot, and my wife also was on the road quite a bitSki helmet. The cell phones made sense, even though we didn't use them much--at least we knew that if anything happened, we could contact one another.
Then we moved someplace where we didn't need the phones any more, for we both worked close to one another and we weren't on the road much. Suddenlybumper car, the $75 every month to keep the phones made no sense, so we got rid of them. They were now just a luxury item, no longer as necessary as they were beforedoor mat They simply didn't have the same value that they had had before. And even though it had been quite convenient to make an occasional phone call from wherever I happened to be, that convenience wasplay equipment no longer worth the amount of money we would have had to pay to maintain it.
Money is hereoil filter, and it's a part of our lives. We can live with it and have it work for us, or we can squander it and lose it and become angry and frustrated with our loss. The choice is ours, but one thing is for sure--the path to happiness doesn't lie in exchanging our money for goods or services of little value; rather, we need to make sure that the money we spend is money well spentDiscount golf club. Only then can we avoid the resentment and frustration that will come over having wasted money when we didn't need to.
I see this principal all over as I go through my day. I see rims on car wheels that cost upwards of $500, just for a little bit of decoration on a vehiclewedding dresses. I see people spend four or five dollars for a cup of coffee, hundreds of dollars for cell phones that they almost never use, thousands of dollars on huge television sets that they almost never watchPigment yellow. All around us are ads and commercials that keep us wanting to buy things that keep us dissatisfied with the way things are, and those ads and commercials are trying to convince us that if we just buy some more stuff--no matter what the cost--wePigment red'll be happier and more content.
But somewhere along the line we have to learn to make our own decisions about valuePigment blue. There's a common law of economics that states that many poor people will stay poor because of the decisions that they make about how to spend their money. How many people have you known or known ofPigment yellow, for example, who have little money yet who buy a very expensive car with high monthly payments? And how many people are in trouble right now because they bought houses that wereBicycle helmet more expensive than they could afford?
While I wouldncarbon black't say that the answer to our money issues would be to skimp and save every penny and never have any fun in life, it is important that we learn about value and about when to spend how much. A few years ago, for exampleChildren Bicycle, my wife and I had cell phones. At the time I worked half an hour from home, I was on the road with sports teams a lot, and my wife also was on the road quite a bitSki helmet. The cell phones made sense, even though we didn't use them much--at least we knew that if anything happened, we could contact one another.
Then we moved someplace where we didn't need the phones any more, for we both worked close to one another and we weren't on the road much. Suddenlybumper car, the $75 every month to keep the phones made no sense, so we got rid of them. They were now just a luxury item, no longer as necessary as they were beforedoor mat They simply didn't have the same value that they had had before. And even though it had been quite convenient to make an occasional phone call from wherever I happened to be, that convenience wasplay equipment no longer worth the amount of money we would have had to pay to maintain it.
Money is hereoil filter, and it's a part of our lives. We can live with it and have it work for us, or we can squander it and lose it and become angry and frustrated with our loss. The choice is ours, but one thing is for sure--the path to happiness doesn't lie in exchanging our money for goods or services of little value; rather, we need to make sure that the money we spend is money well spentDiscount golf club. Only then can we avoid the resentment and frustration that will come over having wasted money when we didn't need to.
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