On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote:
> The problem (and this is something I've suffered from) is that you > only know how to deal with hand to mouth. There is no experience > investing extra money because there has never been extra money. If you > somehow happen to have a bit more at the end of a month, that is (at > best) getting put into a savings account because you know that you'll > be short again sometime soon. The short months always outnumber the > ones that aren't. That's why you're fucking poor. I think this has lots to do with it. Living paycheck to paycheck can make a person simultaneously resentful and jealous of "the rich". It's very common for someone living paycheck to paycheck to get a windfall of some sort and rather than save the money in a saving account, blow it on something either so that they can feel rich or just because they simply don't know what to do with it. Saving it for the "time you'll need it again sometime soon" just isn't wired into the thinking. Some of this is lack of education and some of it is emotional spending. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348742 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
