Comments on: A Nation of Shopaholics? http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/11/28/a-nation-of-shopaholics/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Fri, 24 May 2013 17:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: luke http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/11/28/a-nation-of-shopaholics/comment-page-1/#comment-656024 luke Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:08:23 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5501#comment-656024 I think it comes down to a simple thing….I have kids. My kids don’t know how crappy the economy is, nor how crappy the world is going to treat them. I look at my 401(k) more than I should, and I worry about money more than I should. But Christmas is looming…should I punish my kids because of the global melt down and my worries of the future? No. Should I explain to them the cause and effects of a bad economy? Absolutely. My son wants a .410 shotgun, my daughter a guitar, my youngest boy a computer game he can play. Am I going to say sorry kids I’m struggling to pay the mortgage and not get you those things? No. I”ll make it happen. That doesn’t make me a shopaholic, that makes me a dad who doesn’t want to destroy his children’s view of the world.

]]> By: Financial Samurai http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/11/28/a-nation-of-shopaholics/comment-page-1/#comment-655985 Financial Samurai Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:23:22 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5501#comment-655985 I think it’s important for others to shop till they drop, so the rest of us can get rich.

Best

Sam-urai

]]> By: ProFuzz http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/11/28/a-nation-of-shopaholics/comment-page-1/#comment-655948 ProFuzz Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:54:22 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5501#comment-655948 Shopaholics 50/50. Usually we don’t buy the not needed stuff, but everybody will agree with me that sometimes it happens!

]]> By: Broken Arrow http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/11/28/a-nation-of-shopaholics/comment-page-1/#comment-655927 Broken Arrow Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:34:30 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5501#comment-655927 To me, he’s saying that the pendulum is swinging back from conspicuous consumption to a more normalized form of consumption….

I agree with that.

Yeah, I think that in only 2 or 3 years ago, we were kind of a nation of shopaholics. You don’t get into this sort of recession without a systemic problem spanning the whole nation.

]]> By: Sue http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/11/28/a-nation-of-shopaholics/comment-page-1/#comment-655877 Sue Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:29:20 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5501#comment-655877 i believe that there are many more closet frugalistas than people believe. otherwise why would companies spend so much money on advertising? if we were all shoppers than we would buy products without any hesitation. thus negating the need for large advertising funds.

]]> By: LuxLivingFrugalis http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/11/28/a-nation-of-shopaholics/comment-page-1/#comment-655860 LuxLivingFrugalis Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:05:26 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5501#comment-655860 Hubster and I both old school frugalists! Our training, which was from those Great Depression era parents who harped economical pragmatism, has stuck with us and stood us in good stead. Thanks folks! For a bit of a while there in the mid to late 90′s we got off track for a bit, but were able to reign ourselves back in.

Waste not, want not!

Viva la thrifty!!

~~L.L.Frugalis,
69 days totally Debt-FREE

]]> By: John DeFlumeri Jr http://www.pfadvice.com/2009/11/28/a-nation-of-shopaholics/comment-page-1/#comment-655850 John DeFlumeri Jr Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:21:52 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=5501#comment-655850 Shopaholics all the way. Buying stuff we don’t need.

John DeFlumeri Jr

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