Comments on: Why is everyone keeping up with the Jones’s? http://www.fillyourmoneybox.com/why-is-everyone-keeping-up-with-the-joness/ Everyone wants to earn money, save money, and learn how to keep it. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:38:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: heaps! http://www.fillyourmoneybox.com/why-is-everyone-keeping-up-with-the-joness/comment-page-1/#comment-3510 heaps! Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:15:20 +0000 http://fillyourmoneybox.com/?p=3#comment-3510 This is probably the biggest reason why people are in debt. Meaning that if one lives in a higher class neighbourhood, they feel the need to have what everyone else has. Perhaps it is because of fear of loss of ego or reputation among neighbours. One way to control your impulse buys is to wait a 24 hour period to see if the impulse subsides. If you still want the item and have thought through whether or not the item is really necessary, then you will probably purchase it after that time. I myself am from the younger generation but my parents have brought me up in a way so that I appreciate everything that I have (gadgets and electronics in particular). And if I ever have kids, knowing where the generation is going with new gadgets, I will make sure they earn and deserve something before they actually receive it. Cheers, Wahid This is probably the biggest reason why people are in debt. Meaning that if one lives in a higher class neighbourhood, they feel the need to have what everyone else has. Perhaps it is because of fear of loss of ego or reputation among neighbours.

One way to control your impulse buys is to wait a 24 hour period to see if the impulse subsides. If you still want the item and have thought through whether or not the item is really necessary, then you will probably purchase it after that time.

I myself am from the younger generation but my parents have brought me up in a way so that I appreciate everything that I have (gadgets and electronics in particular). And if I ever have kids, knowing where the generation is going with new gadgets, I will make sure they earn and deserve something before they actually receive it.

Cheers,
Wahid
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]]> By: Mary Mac http://www.fillyourmoneybox.com/why-is-everyone-keeping-up-with-the-joness/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Mary Mac Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:06:13 +0000 http://fillyourmoneybox.com/?p=3#comment-71 So true - ive started to think is it need or greed whenever I purchase So true – ive started to think is it need or greed whenever I purchase

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