Comments on: Spend Your Money on Doing Things Rather Than Owning Things

By: Christiana Moore

Christiana Moore — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:36:55 +0000

Lately people are concentrating indeed on accumulating meaningful experiences than paying for something more material, like furniture, expensive cars, etc. Our grandparents invested almost all their money in their houses (at least my grandparents and even parents did it). I’m much more inclined to invest in myself, in traveling, learning more about new cultures and new possibilities of personal growing.

By: Broke Professional

Broke Professional — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:35:05 +0000

I have heard this statistic/study quoted a lot lately and I was at first surprised by it. But I guess it has a lot to do with marginal utilities, perhaps? I used your site as a source in my post about why traveling abroad is a good idea. Thanks for the source and the interesting take on the issue of whether it is more intelligent to spend your money on events or things. Happy new years.

By: zyva

zyva — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:31:25 +0000

doing the right thing is importance :)

By: MeMyselfAndI

MeMyselfAndI — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:02:17 +0000

I’d make sure my family was outside, and watch it all burn if I couldn’t go back in to get anything else out.
Otherwise, I’d have to say the first 2 things I’d get away from the house would be our cars (they sit in our 2 car garage all the time). Then I’d go for something like the photo albums and/or pictures.
Our important paperwork sits inside a safe, in our basement. And the safe is rated to withstand fire temperatures for 4 hours. I wouldn’t want it on our first or second story, because I think if the floors burned and the safe dropped, it may open up wide.

By: Money Skoop

Money Skoop — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:01:24 +0000

Spend Your Money on Doing Things Rather Than Owning Things…

When dealing with personal finance, it is important to remind yourself from time to time that our most valuable assets are things that cannot be bought….

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:18:25 +0000

It has taken me years to get rid of 50% of my physical junk. And I find I don’t miss it one bit. The manufacturing guys over at Evolving Excellence also commented on home clutter this weekend.

http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2007/06/less-storage-sp.html

Ken

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