Before, a topic on the Internet went viral: why can parents save money, but we can't?
The answer is: when parents are thirsty, they drink water, and when we are thirsty, we drink cola, milk tea, beverages, coffee, and fruit tea;
When our parents are hungry to eat, we are hungry and eat hot pot, barbecue, Japanese food, and Sichuan cuisine;
Parents use iron pots to cook rice, and we use stew pots, casseroles, frying pans, woks, and air fryers;
My parents went out on the bus and subway, and we went out to drive and take a taxi......
As netizens said, young people nowadays are not without money, but they have no concept of money.
You can buy a whole chicken for a takeout order, you can buy a bag of 50 catties of rice for a hot pot outside, you can buy 30 eggs for a cup of milk tea, you can take a taxi for a month, and you can buy a refrigerator, an air conditioner, a washing machine, and a microwave oven for the money you can buy an Apple mobile phone......
Under the brainwashing of consumerism, young people are becoming less and less conceptualized about money.
Recently, a full-time mother posted a shopping list and said that she just bought 59 yuan of underwear, and her husband spoke badly on the street, and it is really difficult to be a full-time mother with no money in her hands.
At first glance, the description of this passage feels that her husband is very excessive, and the underwear of 59 yuan is indeed not cheap, but the underwear is intimate clothing after all, and it is not too much to buy a better one. Four pairs of underwear are only more than 200 yuan, as for this money, do you attack your wife on the street?
However, a netizen in the comment area pointed out the problem in one sentence: it is not the problem of underwear, but the problem of the entire shopping receipt. After a closer look, it turned out that the mother not only bought a pair of underwear for 59 yuan, but also bought a pair of shallow socks for 29.9 yuan, a pair of boxer briefs for 89 yuan, and a few small goods such as underwear and socks, spending a total of more than 800 yuan.
It can be seen that this lady does not only pay attention to the quality of certain goods, but also pays attention to the quality of all aspects.
If his husband has a lot of income and an annual salary of hundreds of thousands, it is really not worth mentioning to spend 81,100 at a time, but judging from the attitude of the other party, it is obvious that his husband does not have the financial ability. It's not a stay-at-home mom at all, and it's not a problem of not going to work at all.
Even if most people go to work, they earn a few thousand yuan a month, can they afford to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars every time they shop? Underwear costs 800 yuan, so sweaters and undershirts must not cost 1,000 yuan? Do shoes cost hundreds of yuan a pair? Do down jackets cost thousands? Do fruits also have to eat dozens of yuan a catty? Do vegetables have to be pollution-free? Do you want to eat imported snacks?
average income families, who have this financial strength.
Therefore, the reason why my husband is angry is probably not because of this shopping, but because for a long time, his wife has not considered the family situation and spent money lavishly, so that he was overwhelmed, so he couldn't help but blame her on the street.
Nowadays, many people are brainwashed by consumerism, thinking that people should live in the moment, eat well, wear well, use good, cheap unhealthy, cheap tasteless, delicate, and worthy of themselves.
Under this concept, many people do not consider their own income, do not take into account the financial strength of their families, and blindly pursue high-quality things. If you don't have it, you can set up credit cards, borrow online loans, consume ahead of time, and don't want to tomorrow after today.
I used to have a friend like this, the income is not high, but I like to buy clothes, every time I go out, I dress myself up brightly, and I owe more than 10,000 credit cards in a year after graduation, even so, I can't help but buy clothes when I go shopping. I also worked in Guangzhou for a few years, I saved a sum of money and planned to come back to buy a house, when she left, she said that the monthly salary is not low, why can't I save money.
It's strange to be able to save it.
Thinking about Wang Manni in "Thirty Only", with a monthly salary of 17,000, she dares to rent a house of seven or eight thousand, and she wants to buy famous brands when she buys shoes, and she also says: Only at the age of twenty do you pay attention to style, and at the age of thirty, you should pursue quality!
In the world, you need to set a credit card for free to go on a cruise ship and upgrade a cabin.
I've never been against people looking for quality once in a while, you can go on a trip and buy a product that you like but exceed your daily consumption. But in ordinary life, you still have to live within your means, otherwise how to live your life.
Underwear should be bought, socks should be bought, home clothes should be bought, and when the child has difficulty paying the tuition, can it still be exquisite?
However, in the final analysis, what is the reason for this phenomenon, is that some parents are too rich in raising their children, "no matter how hard they are, they can't be bitter for their children", they can't afford to eat themselves, they have to feed their children, they have to wear cheap clothes, and they have to buy expensive ones for their children. I save money on my own, but let my children live a life beyond the family level from an early age. After a long time, children will think that this is the standard of living they should have, and they don't care about the life or death of their parents.
When he entered the society and began to earn money on his own, he found that his income was far from enough to maintain his past life, but the habit had been formed, and it was difficult to change it.
When we say "don't have children if you're poor", we mean that those parents who don't even plan to meet their children's daily needs are not suitable to have children, not that they must give their children a luxurious life in order to be eligible to have children.