T.Bird on a Wire » What are your thoughts? http://tbirdonawire.net/tbirdwp Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:24:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Food for (my) thought http://tbirdonawire.net/tbirdwp/2007/09/20/food-for-my-thought/ http://tbirdonawire.net/tbirdwp/2007/09/20/food-for-my-thought/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:51:36 +0000 tbirdonawire http://tbirdonawire.net/tbirdwp/2007/09/20/food-for-my-thought/ Lifehack.org has an article on How to Avoid Being Enslaved by Consumerism by Scott Young that I found very interesting.  I’ve always felt comfortable that our family lives well within our means, but often wish for less “stuff” to worry about.  I dislike shopping and rarely buy expensive things for myself (except for a new camera recently).  I wear a lot of the same clothes I’ve worn for nearly 10 years as well.  So this begs the question, could I scale back even further and still not feel as though I’m living paycheck to paycheck and be afraid that we won’t have something we truly need.  Could I work less and “live” more even on a smaller paycheck.  Hubby grew up where they could barely rub two nickels together to make a dime and he has definite worries about that.  I grew up having what I needed and did not experience those worries.

Definitely something for me to think about…

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What are your thoughts?

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