What is that like?
I think for the most part it's human nature....to wonder about other people. What's their lives really like; past what you see in public. For instance, yesterday there was a young couple, younger than us, with 3 young children, talking about their nanny. They drove up in a huge, decked out SUV complete with sunroof and everything. How does such a young couple afford all of this? I see other families on the internet with pictures of their kids in front of these beautiful houses. How does everyone afford this? Then, you watch one of Oprah's Debt Diet features and it's all about couples with 2, maybe 3 kids, who make $80,000+/year and are $80,000+ in credit card debt. That's over $10,000/year more than we make and we're not doing great, but we're thankful to not be in credit card debt at all. Wow, what we couldn't do with an extra $800/month additional income!
It's these things that make me wonder....could we have more (material things) or is most of America in this kind of debt Oprah talks about.
It gets harder as your children get older and start to recognize that you don't always have the things other families have, go to the places they go and do the things they do. Definitely not on any sort of a regular basis. At the same time, I'm proud that we're teaching our children priority and what's truly important in life. Being together, only doing what you have the means to do and save to do. At the same time it's right up in our face, everywhere we go, that a lot of people have a lot more. I'd say we're right in the middle and we're very thankful for that. One life changing event and it could totally go the negative way and while we try to be prepared it's impossible to prepare for everything.
Just some random thoughts this morning.
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