| Do you need all the stuff that you have? |
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| Written by Karen Leslie | |
| Friday, 16 July 2010 18:11 | |
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As some of you know I spent some time recently in the remote Fijian village of Waibogi on a project for Rotary. I’m still thinking about what lessons I can learn from the culture and people there.
One thing that has really struck me on my return is how much ‘stuff’ we have here. The people lived simple lives and I’m not suggesting that in the modern world I could live on as little money as they do – I would need money simply to pay my internet service provider to write this! In fact I think that they are still learning about money management since they’ve never really had much money to manage until recent years. However I do wonder whether we need all the stuff that we acquire over the years. Do we really need to spend the money on all this stuff?
I know this idea wouldn’t go done well in the USA since there they need to encourage people to spend because their economy is built on people spending money and getting into debt. I don’t know what would happen there is everyone became experts on money management. And I’m not saying don’t spend money on stuff I’m simply suggesting thinking about it a little more before you do. It could be part of your money management so that you spend money only on stuff that you really, really want. As part of my money management if I see some stuff that I want I will think about it overnight and if I still want the next day I’ll go back and buy it. Most of things that would be impulse buys I don’t go back and buy. We all have so much stuff around us already and I’m as guilty as anyone. I have a wardrobe full of clothes that I hardly wear – some because I don’t like them anymore and some because they don’t fit me anymore. So I’m thinking about getting rid of lots of my stuff either to charity shops or maybe selling the stuff on an auction website. I will add that I bought a lot of this stuff before I put my overnight thinking money management rule into place since I certainly wouldn’t have bought that bright green two piece suit if I had thought about it overnight! If I get rid of all that stuff what would I put in its place? Maybe I would simply leave it as space. I do think that we accumulate stuff to fit the space that we live in. When I lived on my own in a smallish flat I didn’t have as much stuff since I didn’t have the space for it. Now that I live somewhere much bigger we seem to spread out to fill that space too. What stuff do you have that you could get rid of?
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