Okey, I am really getting tired of this recession and too much spending accusation that's going on everybody's life. Let's just face it that most people now live in what we call "progressive" way of living. I buy a new smartphone just because there is something new...nothing wrong with what I have yet I get suck into buying and owning the newest gadget. Reasons of course could be from THAT "I can afford it" to "I am cool and it's just what's expected of my image".
Lifestyle (sociology), the way a person lives to one's own ability
as I seriously looked at it's meaning ...it just made me cringe knowing that it is most wrongly practiced by the jobless, students or family that are struggling in paying their bills.What is it that makes the wearing of branded clothing and owning the latest makes it okey being more acceptable and a magnet for friends and admiration? Why is it such a barometer of who and what the person can be? Why are we buying these stuff to be happy, feel happy and look happy?
Let us go to the second hand shops or the car wreckers lot....and look at all and everything we can see in there. Let us look at them as if they were still new....those now unwanted, old and used or broken things were once somebody's dream. These just becomes a file of junk in time. Yes, nothing stays forever in terms of these tangible items so why build your hopes and ruin your finances pursuing them haphazardly? Why not be happy with what we have that works and enjoy it longer before discarding them. Whys not build your love for the person you want to buy the car for before spoiling them with material goods. Wouldn't it be better to build your pennies in a jar(money in your bank)? Celebrate the rise of your coins and be not scared in spending because you won't owe anybody.
Let us go back to some commonsense way of life. These here will be a some common sense way to start over again.
Clothing...shoes and bags
1. Used it until you change your size, your job or your age ( to be appropriate)
2. Learn to repair
3. Buy second hand...and sell your used,unneeded clothes and accessories
4. Learn to love what you have and wear/ use it.
5. Accept used clothes when given/gifted.
6. Fix it, fix it fix it and use it.
7. If its' too much...to bear...to keep...to maintain...DONATE or Sell.
Transportation
1. Lease
2. Buys preloved cars with certificates
3. Use the public transportation as much as you can or better walk if not too far.
4. Ask friends to lend you a hand when you need to pick up bigger items or needed to go elsewhere.
5. Biking is a healthy way to go around the city.
Food
1. Buy on sales
2. Cook just the right amount or less.
3. Eat raw or fresh...it's quicker
There are so many online information....but we still have to be reminded as we always go back to being a spoiled brat and forgetting how it feels having more money in the pocket,more love ones without paying for their attention, better sleep because there are no unpaid/exorbitant bills to be looked into in the next mail.
The can afford image only works for the really rich and Hollywood actors whose got millions to pay for it. Wake ups friends...start shopping in your closets and clean up your bikes and sneakers...we can afford these in our wiser tighter ways.
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