It is odd how so many people fluctuate between a "just do it" and "I can't afford it" position.
I know a man who refused to go back to the doctor because he "couldn't afford" the co-pay and yet, just over a week later, purchased season passes to a local theme park because he works hard and wants to enjoy himself.
He also received a $1,200 tax rebate, which he told me about several times. Each time, was in conjunction with the fact that he needed the A/C on his car repaired. In other words, "Boy, I'll be glad when my stimulus money comes in so I can get my A/C fixed before summer." And yet, he received this money in the middle of May, doesn't have a repaired A/C, and now complains that he isn't sure where he'll come up with the money. (i.e. - He spent a big chunk of the stimulus money on... ???... pretty much nothing, so now, he "can't afford" to repair his A/C.)
Most of the people I know who whine the loudest about gas and food prices are the same ones who have no savings, payments on a flat-screen TV and a dozen other things, and who dine out or pick up fast food three or four times a week, burning through both food money and gas money... *sigh*... But they don't see it that way.
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