The Credit Crunch Lifestyle

All cool and dandy listening to the pundits on CNBC and Bloomberg or the news going on about how the credit crisis will affect mere mortals and how the consumer and house buyers are not gonna cope.

They can talk.

The ground they’re standing on isn’t shifting, at least not yet. Not long ago they thought Sub-Crime-Mortgages were a nifty idea by simply repackaging “no way Jose´” and selling the risk infested stuff to the banking and finance nerd-herd all over the planet.
 
To them the crunch spells slowdown and recession in the most abstract way, as a kind of analyst’s data, but what about the real people?
They are confronted with at least living stagflation, rising prices and great difficulties to get financing?
 
So is there a life on the other side of the big squeeze if you got used to that spend-spend-spend-lifestyle?
Yes there is!
Well, if I was you I would pay them back big time as well as changing the way we live in a good way. Because you can.
 
Without you, the stock market listed business big shots cannot function properly. If they even lose a part of your custom they will have to explain these results to their shareholders, why you have ceased to buy their mostly useless and / or unhealthy products. Their banks will get fidgety and per chance will have to think of proper ways of earning money instead of sponging and highway methodology.
 
Teach them a lesson.
And do yourself and your loved ones a favour.
 
Why not try to see in the current spending stopper a chance to embark on a more relaxed and healthy lifestyle?
Not because you are forced by the circumstances but by your very own informed decision and inspiration.
 
Why not try to live a more natural life including food prepared at home instead of carrying your hard earned currency to the burger mills too often?
 
Why not try to enjoy more time with friends and family beyond the shopping centers and buy-now-pay-later world?
 
Why not buy less stuff  the industries want you to need but really you don’t and rather save either for things you truly want or in general to have that lovely little nestegg tucked away for a rainy or sunshiny day rather than debt?
 
Why not consider a living in a smaller home including the benefits of smaller expense, less work inside and around the house and bad sleep because of the mortgage?
 
Why not think about a small car too and get rid of the stress and stress and strain of owing?
 
Stuff what others might think, do what you please instead of being remote controlled to keeping up with the Jones’.
Less stress means longer and better life expectancy.
 
Why not feel and be as free as you can? Because you can.
 
That is how our ancestors lived.
Carefully but more joyfully.
 
Why not give it a try?

This article published by MIZPAH Magazine -  ©2010 www.mizpah.tv

© Helena Lind

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