Editor|Lao Yu
[From the author's real feelings]
"Children, don't be greedy, children, after Laba is the New Year. ”
It has been many days since the Laba Festival, and now there are 17 days left before the Spring Festival, and the smell of the New Year on the street is getting stronger and stronger.
Regarding the Chinese New Year, different people have different feelings, and the happiest ones are nothing more than children, new clothes, New Year's money, and all kinds of delicious food.
But the difficulties and pressure are often given to the family, who say that children look forward to the New Year, and adults cry and have no money.
Year after year, the most rare thing is money.
When it comes to the Chinese New Year, the most important thing is to spend money, and the little money you earn all year may be gone at the end of the year.
And I think that in fact, during the Chinese New Year, a lot of money is spent on face, and in fact, if you do a good calculation, you can avoid spending a lot of unjust money.
Among them, there are the following kinds of money, which I personally think is not necessary.
01. At the class reunion, acquaintances meet and rush to pay
We are a humane society, and when people interact with each other, many times the most important thing is face.
This point, every time you pay for a meal, you should see that it is often two or three friends who rush to pay, push and shove.
If you take the initiative to invite friends to dinner, or have a meal with fewer people, out of friendship, you can be generous to dinner.
It can be similar to class reunions, comrades-in-arms, company dinners and other things, and there is no need to take the initiative to bear the cost.
In this case, it is not cost-effective to take the initiative to bear all the expenses, because everyone eats together, and even if you pay, everyone probably won't remember you.
But this cost is often not low, and one meal may be worth a month's living expenses.
Therefore, when a large number of people have a meal, the most appropriate way is for everyone to contribute, which is the best.
02. Alcohol and tobacco that are too expensive
At the end of the year, when friends meet, the first thing they do is to smoke each other, many people pick and search on weekdays, and they can't help but be generous during the Chinese New Year.
Maybe the usual cigarettes are ten or twenty yuan of cigarettes, and at the end of the year, they will be replaced with thirty or fifty yuan cigarettes, and they will be distributed when they see people.
Actually, it's not necessary, if it's to treat yourself and want to enjoy it a little at the end of the year, that's fine.
But if it's just for the sake of face, spending a lot of money on tobacco and alcohol is actually unnecessary.
Today's era is no longer the era of the past, looking at smoke to distinguish people.
03. Blind comparison with red envelopes
During the Chinese New Year, it is inevitable to give red envelopes to children, red envelopes to elders, and several to go out.
But the red envelope is just to please a good omen and be auspicious, not to show face.
Now after a New Year, you will find that almost every day in the situation of red envelopes, today the family gets married, tomorrow the family enters the house, many people because of face, would rather borrow money, but also more red envelopes out.
If you pack too many red envelopes and go out, you may have face, but the practicality is not high, and you will only feel financially embarrassed.
04. Don't buy luxury cars, don't rent cars
In today's era, almost half of all people have started to own a car at home.
This also leads to some people beginning to have the heart of comparison, you buy a second-hand one, I buy a new one, you buy a 100,000 yuan, I buy a 200,000 yuan, it seems that only the car is better than others, there is a feeling of a successful person.
Some people even have to come back for a few times in order to rent a luxury car at a high price, and the rent will be thousands more than half a month, which is really not necessary.
For a car, it is best to buy a car that matches the ability, which can shelter from the wind and rain, and it is a good car.
05. Do not engage in gambling
At the end of each year, there is also a common bad phenomenon, that is, the atmosphere of gambling is relatively strong.
Generally speaking, it is often caused by gambling to make a person return to poverty as soon as possible, and the hard-earned money will be lost throughout the year.
There is a saying that is more ironic, called "The first day of the Lunar New Year sits in the village domineeringly, and the sixth day of the Lunar New Year leaves home." "Many people lose a penny in playing cards, and then they start to pack their bags and embark on the road of part-time work.
In fact, gambling is unnecessary, and gambling for the sake of face is very undesirable.
One of my uncles, 42 years old this year, has nothing so far, how many years, he has been gambling every year, and he doesn't even have money to go out to work.
In the past five or six years, I have threatened to quit gambling every time, saying that I will never gamble again and be a down-to-earth person.
But when I came back every year, I still lost all my money.
Everyone got together and asked him why he gambled, and his answer was also funny: Originally, I quit and didn't want to go.
But the people around me are shouting at me every day, I want to say not to go, everyone is coaxing, some say I don't have the guts, some say I don't have money, you say I'm not angry.
So for the sake of face, I must follow, and the most important thing is to be a human face.
In this regard, his grandfather often scolded him, and he didn't marry a daughter-in-law, and he didn't build a house, so he didn't know how to save face, but when it came to gambling, he would have to be faced.
I believe that there should be many people like my uncle, and you must not gamble because of face.
Conclusion
The above four kinds of money are usually unnecessary money that everyone is generally prone to spend during the Chinese New Year, and many people become poor after the New Year because of these.
In fact, the Chinese New Year itself is to have a good time, relax all year round, and the most important thing is to get together with your family more, talk together, and be warmer than anything else.
At the end of the day, I don't know what you think, and what other money is that you don't think you need to spend?