Hello and happy Tuesday to all. I surely hope this finds you all well and safe.
It is a chilly morning here - at 48*F at 6AM. Looks to get into the 70's again today and be another lovely day. Yesterday was another perfection day - 70's, and a sky of pure blue - not a single whisp of a cloud. I did get to spend a lot of time outdoors.
Still no heat or AC being used here. It was 72* in the house this morning when I got up. All good.
I believe the hummingbirds have gone to the south this season. It has been a couple days since I have seen one. The feeders are still out. There are lots of stink bugs and box elder bugs around - a sure sign of fall. And I keep seeing grasshoppers - that is unusual.
Trees are still green for the most part. That will probably change over the next couple weeks.
Commercials. Ads. It is on TV, radio, on YouTube, on FB, in magazines - we are surrounded by the distracting noise. It wants you!!!!!! They want you to think you NEED to have what they are selling. They try the best they can to make it oh so attractive. They want you to think you can't live without it. They try to convince us that what we have and how we live, isn't enough.
NOISE - all of it.
I really despise commercials, for the most part. I will go out of my way to NOT buy things I have seen on TV or in ads over and over. Their crazy advertising dollars are not working on me.
I don't fall for it. I can make about anything I want or find something I have that will work as well. Truth be known, none of us need that much!!!!!
Sales, clearance, weekly deals, odd stores, using what we have, second hand, and just saying NO to all the noise SAVES MONEY - YOUR MONEY!
Society may call us cheap - I call it smart to know how to live better and well on less. We can have great meals for ourselves and our families, we can have a lovely and neat home, we can have an emergency fund for whatever may come up, we can beat the system!!!!!
It is a game - THEIR game - and we can play too!!
We all see and watch people buy and buy and have to have the newest and the biggest and shiniest. They go into debt to get it! They go to the after holiday "sales" and buy and buy - charging all along the way on the "sales" for stuff no one really needs. Then they pay and pay with interest on all those "sales" they got! Make sense? NOPE! That stuff cost them far more than it was ever worth.
It pays to stop and think how many hours one has to work - to purchase THE thing!
I know most of us here know these things. There is always someone new coming on board, and the goal here is to teach a better way. Life can be soooooo good with less - it really can.
It becomes your new normal and you will find the noise gets quiet and life gets a bit slower and you enjoy a lot more.
Have a beautiful day my friends.
My dad used to say that if everyone lived the way we lived (buying very little) the U.S. economy would collapse. I don’t care.
ReplyDeleteHow about the political ads? Obnoxious and misleading. They are almost totally one-sided in my area. I don’t have “regular TV” so I only see them on YouTube but that is more than enough. I’m not “buying” but I’m sure some people are or they would not be putting the millions of $$ in them.
I’m off on a sentimental journey for a few days so I will likely have regular TV in the hotel. At least I’ll get to watch the MLB playoffs! Barbara M.