Cravings to spend, often come from your neighbors, social life, community. Ads don't influence me, at all. We lived in an affluent suburb of Chicago for @ 9 years. Anything social, going out to eat, a sports event, going over to a friends spurs judgement. I listened to women brag about their $300 haircut, watched the clothes change with every season and new designer fad, witnessed children learning these behaviors. The cars, sq. footage of a house, landscaping, decorating OMG. I firmly believe these people were in debt. I confess, there were many times I felt "lower class" b/c I didn't follow that crowd. I had to be around them since we lived in the community. Our house on the lower end of the spectrum, a small ranch. Builders knocked down existing homes (nice ones) and built McMansions on a tiny postage stamp lot.
I'm happy we lived the way we did.
I'm happy we lived the way we did.
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