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How to solve your
money problems
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Spending impulses
Living in an affluent society, one very often feels an almost irresistible yearn to buy. One dashes head down into unrestrained and ruinous expenses as one is encouraged to do so by advertisers. Most of these expenses don't cover essential needs, but only concern unimportant comfort equipments or even perfectly useless gadgets. One is constantly incited to buy for the perverse pleasure of buying, for the unavowable pleasure of possessing rather than for the legitimate pleasure of using.
Sometimes it might happen that one buys heaps of things of which one really doesn't have a real fundamental need, but only for the purpose of showing off. Watch out here! "One often ruins oneself with a view to maintaining that one is rich" (Gustave Le Bon). Think to replace your ruinous belongings with a charming personality, with qualities of the heart.
Sometimes one can also buy things in order to boost up one's shaky morale. But expensive purchases only have a very ephemeral, very hazardous result. Have recourse rather to more reliable and more economic methods to preserve your joy of living.
To sum up, try by all means to dominate your desires instead of letting them dominate you.
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