We are working to position ourselves in a place where money won't be an object. It is a long time coming, and granted we would be in a better place had the economy not taken such a drastic turn for the worse. I don't really want to get into a "Bush-Obama", it's all your fault kind of fight. I think Americans as a whole got greedy. "We" wanted more, more, more.
I noticed something fishy five and a half years ago, when Brian & I were looking to buy a home. Nearly every one we went to look at was empty. Are you serious? How can people afford to have two houses? Why are all these perfectly good houses empty? Then newly married people that we new were building nice, new homes. Really? Seriously? Is that necessary? What happened to buying a nice, older home. Doing some sweat equity and having some pride in what was yours and what you worked for?
People just borrowed for what they wanted. Got way in over their heads. Children & adults getting every toy imaginable.
I would love to go back to a simpler time. Where if you didn't make it or work for it, it wasn't yours to have. Where people slowed down. Where family dinners were the norm, not the exception. Where you could take your kids to the store and they didn't know to ask for everything. Where people got enough sleep.
How nice would contentment be in this day and age?
I'm still home and I still love it, and the kids do too. I think they would rather come home to the smell of freshly baked bread than an empty house. We learned to live on one income, and MOST of the time I am content. Just once in a while I would like to splurge at the mall - oh that's right, I forgot I don't like to shop. Love your insight, Angie!
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