Lord, it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way.
Thus sayeth Willie Nelson….
Frankly, I have found that being humble is just hard even if you aren’t perfect. There is nothing in the world more degrading than pure humiliation, and I have endured a lifetime of it.
The hardest part of saving money, is the part where people all think that you’re poor and pity. People automatically assume that if you look poor, you are poor, and you always will be.
It seems to be sometimes, that all the “nice” people want to make sure that they hang around with all the right people in the social groups in order to succeed in life.
Meeting these standards can get expensive and can really drain the bank account on a regular basis.
If you have a high income, it’s very important to show it off in order to socialize with the elite.
You must
- Drive a BMW or a Mercedes, or other expensive car
- Always keep your nails and feet properly manicured
- Buy an expensive haircut every six weeks
- Buy expensive clothing on a regular basis
- Buy the nicest house the realtor will sell you
- Socialize regularly at places that cost lots of money
- Go on Cruises at least every other year.
- Hold parties to impress your friends.
Saving money is not entirely socially acceptable, and doing so makes you a bit of a social outcast.
People treat you better when you dress nice. They take your advice, they honor and respect you. You can say what you like, and if it’s a bit weird, then you’re just an eccentric.
If your clothing is patched and you have a Band-Aid on the huge dent in your car, the “nice” people avoid you like the plague and think that you are a crack head ignoramus.
This one time, I was at my kids school dance and I was talking to this rich lady. Her name is Nancy Palace Soda. As soon as this lady saw her other rich friends she just walked off while I was talking to her. You know why?
She saw my house right after I moved in. We’d got a great deal on a foreclosure, and hadn’t fixed it up yet. She’d seen my junky car…
…and just assumed that I was a pauper, not good enough for her elite club of snobs.
Well, screw her! I almost gave her the evil eye and used my mind tricks to make her husband lose his job or cheat on her or something. But I didn’t. I don’t do mean stuff like that anymore.
So why do it? Why save money when you really don’t have to?
There is a time in everyone’s life where they really hate their job and want to quit. But they can’t because the bills are far too high. So they have to keep trudging on through misery.
Sometimes this is not the case, and unforeseen tragedy occurs, they get laid off, the company closes down or moves away. Then what do you do to pay the bills? It can be very stressful. Then a person really is poor. This is embarrassing.
Saving money and paying off debt is just a means to an end. If you do it long enough, you just might not have to be frugal anymore.
I still think up money saving ideas. It’s fun.
Here’s my latest:
I like to have my dishes perfectly spotless, and sometimes it seems like the only way to get them that way is to buy those expensive Cascade Tablets that cost $4.00 per week.
I like to cut back where I can and I’m always trying to find a way to wash my dishes cheaper. That’s when I found this:
This is a bottle of Dawn power clean detergent. Five minutes of soaking in this is like soaking your dishes overnight. So I mixed just three tiny drops of of it with about a cup of water, stirred it around, and threw it in the dishwasher. I ran the light china cycle of my dishes, and they came out virtually spotless.
It seems to be that a lot of my money saving ideas end up breaking my appliances. I'll let you know if my dishwasher breaks. I wouldn't be surprised. Everything in my house keeps breaking.
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