Cost of living or prioritising the wrong things 🤔

[Sbrown32]

Firstly, this is not to offend anyone, I just find it a interesting debate that I recently came across and wanted to know others opinions on this.

Is it the cost of living or are we prioritising the wrong things?

When I came across this, the woman who was discussing this topic had some really good points (in my opinion), back in the day, we prioritised differently, we didn't have a takeaway each week (guilty of this myself tbh), food deliveries on our phone, we didn't grab a coffee on the way to work every morning, family trips out to the cinema or nights out used to be a treat not a given etc

I am pregnant with my first, and looking at ways we can cut down on spending whilst I am on MAT leave, when I really looked into my spending habits I have realised that I do a lot of these myself, I get a coffee each morning usually with a breakfast meal deal of some sort, we have a takeaway each week and we spend a lot on going out, date nights, cinema trips and going to nice places to eat etc.

I haven't decided myself if I fully agree with this or not yet so please be respectful.

I agree it's based around short term reward, boosting self-esteem and giving the illusion of wealth.

What I find interesting is that, as a fortunately financially comfortable person, none of these things have any appeal whatsoever.
They are not even on my radar.

Yes absolutely - immediate gratification and short term reward in an otherwise relatively bleak ( or perceived as such) existence.
One which is lacking the long term, generational material, physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual nourishment of affluence or stability.
This is also why the much maligned, much discussed ‘big flat screen telly’ phenomenon is so prevalent ( bear in mind many families get these for 40 quid off Facebook market place- not new)
A big telly, when you don’t have a car, don’t have money for days out, bus or train fares for ‘free activities’ in your nearest big town or city; OR the upbringing where ‘going on a walk’ (with the sandwiches you’d eat at lunch time anyway, and countryside on your doorstep) is even remotely on your radar - aforesaid telly gives an enormous amount of entertainment bang for buck , relatively speaking.