Are we cracking up?

What I mean is, are we re-evaluating our lives and habits? How are we changing our shopping habits? When you buy, for example at Wal-Mart, do you feel you are really walking away with a better deal? Is your money going further at Wal-Mart?

Are you signing up for memberships at big box discount stores, thinking that by doing that, and buying in bulk, you are saving money? Is more and bigger always better? In reality, where are you going to store the rolls of paper towels and toilet paper that you have purchased from Costco or Sam’s Club? Is your home turning into a storage facility the size of a corner market? Why do we feel better surrounding ourselves with merchandise that is going to take us a year to get rid of?

Those of us that have parents or grandparents that lived through the leaner times of WW II or the Depression of the 1930s are now just beginning to understand why they did such peculiar things like saving old plastic bags or reusing aluminum paper. We used to chuckle at their funny habits, but today in our own lives, things are not so funny any more. It is now coming clear to us why they did what they did.

Let this situation be a lesson to us all. This is reality, tough yes, but it is a fact of life.

The good times will come once again, but in the mean time, adjust to the present and learn to be wise and sensible about your own lives.