Comments on: When more is better and when enough is enough http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/when-more-is-better-and-when-enough-is-enough.html Financial independence, frugality, self-sufficiency, ecology, capitalism, and voluntary simplicity Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:53:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: moneychallenge http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/when-more-is-better-and-when-enough-is-enough.html#comment-148 moneychallenge Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:16:20 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/when-more-is-better-and-when-enough-is-enough.html#comment-148 "I think the main challenge is not so much in making a living but in comparing oneself to one’s neighbors and feeling bad about having less." I so agree with you Jacob. I wrote about something very similar recently. After I stopped watching TV for a while and moved away from the relatively well-off community I grew up with, it hit me just how strongly I had been affected by these external influences. Learning to recognize what is enough for me and my needs... it's taken some work but I'm getting there! “I think the main challenge is not so much in making a living but in comparing oneself to one’s neighbors and feeling bad about having less.”

I so agree with you Jacob. I wrote about something very similar recently. After I stopped watching TV for a while and moved away from the relatively well-off community I grew up with, it hit me just how strongly I had been affected by these external influences.

Learning to recognize what is enough for me and my needs… it’s taken some work but I’m getting there!

]]> By: Coupon Fetcher http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/when-more-is-better-and-when-enough-is-enough.html#comment-120 Coupon Fetcher Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:45:46 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/when-more-is-better-and-when-enough-is-enough.html#comment-120 Great tips. Especially the notion of not worrying about keeping up with the Joneses and instead focusing on enjoying the things in your life that you do have. Something I am always working on. Great tips. Especially the notion of not worrying about keeping up with the Joneses and instead focusing on enjoying the things in your life that you do have. Something I am always working on.

]]>