I found this to be an interesting article. It spoke to my belief that spending time with family is important and the different ways those memories can be created. I believe that any activity that a family can do together is a great investment in the each individuals future as well as the families future. In my family a lot of the family activity was spent sailing on our boat or canoeing and camping trips. I have countless memories from those trips and are some of the happiest memories of my life. What ways are you creating life long memories for your family?
Some Purchases May Still Be Worth the Price
By Ron Lieber, NY Times
In the last month or so, it has become much harder to take out our wallets without feeling guilty. No single authority figure has told us not to spend. But people are scared, and that fear is showing up in lower sales on all sorts of big-ticket items, from autos to electronics.
But it’s easy to forget a couple of important things. First of all, the vast majority of people in the United States are not going to lose their jobs. Second, most of us work not merely for subsistence but so we can spend money on things and experiences that bring us some form of contentment. So let this serve as a reminder that there may be plenty of good reasons left to spend what you earn.
This is not a call to consumer patriotism, a suggestion that we all go shopping for the good of the economy. Instead, I’m merely suggesting that if you’re feeling undeserving of anything special at this particular moment, or think you should help perform some sort of collective penance for our national overspending, you may want to cut yourself some slack.
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