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Frugal? Or Moral? Meandering thoughts this morning....
I have been thinking about this a lot. I hang out on the LLNOE board and I think about it. I am not one of those people who just saves money where ever I can. I lower my expectations of what my money can do for me to stay moral in my choices. Or at least I strive for that. Does that make sense? (I am posting this here and NOT there becuase I know it does to many of you...)
Like Black Friday. The idea that you have to be up at dawn and fight all of these other people for a 'thing' is rediculous to me. I don't support it, and I probably never will again (only place I used to go is JoAnn's, but I have gotten pickier there too).
I'd like to say it is my morals that is holding me back, but mostly it's just the older I get the pickier I get. And the more full my house gets the less I need... I replace things with nothing short of the top of the line... and I don't replace them until I can afford the top of the line, so I deal with Goodwill stuff a lot, and that is ok with me. Becuase even there I am picky and won't buy unless I love it.
I don't understand two things about modern culture. What is that pull to buy just cus it is on sale? And why buy things for people just because it's Christmas?
When I tried to do this (only for one year when I was with Chris 11 years ago) I found myself buying something for one person, and then two for the next, and then feeling bad because it wasn't even so having to find MORE for the first person just to make myself feel better. And sometimes they would never know... like they lived in different states. lol... It was stupid. And I spent a lot of time wondering why we were buying all this stuff... to apease our guilt?
Does anyone know what I mean?
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