Congratulations, on your NEW CAR!
A shiny new car, with leather interior, heated seats, nagivation system with a DVD player for the kids.
That new car comes with so much more!
- $500+ a month car payment!
- Monthly insurance that covers everything, I mean it is a nice car can you have to be fully covered, what if something were to happen to it?
- The gift of buying new tires!
- Weekly Gas refills!
- Worry that someone will ding it in a parking lot, break into it on the street.
- DVD player so the kinds can be zombified every time you get in the car! Conversation and individual thought = bad. Kids raised by cartoons = good.
But is it really? Want to take a month of work and go to Fiji? Europe? Australia? Don't forget you have to make those car payments, you have to worry about where to park it, it has to be safe. It's too nice to leave parked in a driveway, someone might steal it, oh gosh, someone might steal it, better keep it insured. It's going to depreciated in value while you are gone, gosh that sucks. Someone dinged it, $1000 for a touch up? ugh, but it's a nice car, can't have it all dinged up.
I had a conversation with a friend this morning, they were telling me about their apartment and how amazing it was and how much work they put into buying all the nice stuff for it, the glamorous furniture and that one the people that owns 1/2 the stuff is leaving and it's such a shame. This got me thinking? At what point do you stop owning stuff and does stuff start owning you?
Having stuff is having stuff. No more, no less. It's not an accomplishment. If your stuff is designer and expensive it tells the world that you have to have that type of thing to justify your existence. "Look, I have a nice car, I'm special" is that really the message you want to tell the world?
"I think that people will like me more if I have nice sunglasses/shoes"
Stupidly overpriced items aren't an example of accomplishments, they are an example of pretentiousness.
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