All Entries Tagged With: "money wasting"

Maybe I’ve finally become an old man. Maybe I’m finally out of touch with what’s hip and cool ("yo, sup dawg?"). There's just this whole new class of Joneses to keep up with, and I'm not sure wasting money and keeping up with them is a good idea. In my time, the Joneses were a simpler, nicer folk and it didn’t take as much to keep up with them. Now they’re just money-grabbing, materialistic fiends. I don’t like them anymore. Recently, browsing through a tech site, I saw a 103” Plasma TV from a reputed international brand. Really? Who needs a TV that size? I think 50” is overkill as it is. A projection TV is another thing entirely, I have one of those setup in the basement, but why a 103” Plasma? Does no one else think it’s just another way of wasting money? $71,000 worth  [...]

Ask anyone how much their money matters to them, and majority would say “Oh, very much”. But that’s quite far from truth. Same people would go home, wear new clothes, go out for shopping, and squander their money without any thought. They don’t bother about how their bills would be paid, how they would buy essential item for their house, how they would invest. And hence, at the end of the month, much before their next paycheck, they are all empty pockets, pondering on the value of money. Here is an exercise. Ask yourself, what is the value of money for you? The answer, however, has nothing to do with desire or greed about living a certain lifestyle. It’s about how you feel, how you honor it, how you make use of it. But the answer wouldn’t come easy. You will have to consider  [...]