Brightness
06-27-2003, 04:26 PM
1. Know where your money goes -- develop a budget.
2. Actively reject the advertising industry's persuasive and pervasive attempt to squeeze you into it's mold.
3. Stress the quality of life above quantity of life. Learn the wonderful lesson that to increase the quality of life means to decrease material desire -- not vice versa.
4. Make recreation healthy, happy and gadget free.
5. Learn to at sensibly and sensitively. Eliminate prepackaged dinners. Plan menus ahead and buy ONLY to meet the menu. Eliminate non-nutritious snack foods.
6. Learn the difference between significant travel versus self-indulgent travel. Give your travel purpose, travel inexpensively and become acquainted with people as well as places.
7. Buy things for their usefulness, not their status.
8. Learn to enjoy things without owning them. Possession is an obessesion in our culture. If we own it we feel we can control it, and if we control it we feel it will give us more pleasure.
9. Teach your children by word and deed about the varied uses of money. Provide clear guidelines about what you consider reasonable and unreasonable expenditures.
2. Actively reject the advertising industry's persuasive and pervasive attempt to squeeze you into it's mold.
3. Stress the quality of life above quantity of life. Learn the wonderful lesson that to increase the quality of life means to decrease material desire -- not vice versa.
4. Make recreation healthy, happy and gadget free.
5. Learn to at sensibly and sensitively. Eliminate prepackaged dinners. Plan menus ahead and buy ONLY to meet the menu. Eliminate non-nutritious snack foods.
6. Learn the difference between significant travel versus self-indulgent travel. Give your travel purpose, travel inexpensively and become acquainted with people as well as places.
7. Buy things for their usefulness, not their status.
8. Learn to enjoy things without owning them. Possession is an obessesion in our culture. If we own it we feel we can control it, and if we control it we feel it will give us more pleasure.
9. Teach your children by word and deed about the varied uses of money. Provide clear guidelines about what you consider reasonable and unreasonable expenditures.