Do you ever think about how we use to value a dollar? When I was a kid 20 bucks was a good chunk of change, $100 was only something really rich people had and $1000 was like flying to the moon in your big wheel (weren't big wheels cool).
Now the value of a dollar has completely changed. Even as a teenager twenty bucks could last a weekend (you see, when everyone puts their twenty into the "beer fund" it can go a lot further, it's simple high school economics). However when responsibility comes knockin' you find that you'll blow through hundreds of dollars in an afternoon (must I even mention every trip to Walmart for "just some toothpaste"), if you don't know what I'm talking about you must not be breathing air. My daughter thinks $200 is a lot of money, if she had that much money she would buy a "real" robot that moved and talked and ate things (you can get them at Toys R Us for $199). Don't you wish you didn't know how very little 5 fresh hundred dollar bills really were. For most people thats their car payment and groceries for the week. For a kid you could buy an arcade, a sports car and a machine gun.
However there are most people who are in there 40's who know the meaning of a buck, they know that $500 will pay 8 minum credit card payments, the heloc on their house, the second mortgage on their house, the boat payment, car lease and the student loan, all provided they can get two more payday loans by next friday to cover the difference. At least with children they're just nieve, not retarded.
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I suppose that is the key huh? If a person can understand that though times have changed the way money should be handled has not. Perhaps it is not valued as it once was but it has never so much been about the worth as how it is saved and spent. $5.00 dollars may not be as much as when our parents were kids but it can be $5.00 dollars closer to paying off a credit card or down a morgage. It'll also buy a card for a loved one or a soda with two straws. Times may change but people really don't. At least not at the core of necessity.
Ok, reading your blog just makes mine feel stupid. Maybe you could pop over to mine for the fluffy stuff:)
Liz's Most Beautiful Sister:) Nicole
My kids and I keep a bag of change in the car for "emergencies" and they think we are loaded! "Oh mommy, we can go there, we have lots of money". Oh, to have a kids perspective!
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