I feel like adding onto the subject of Stop Saying "I'm So Broke".
My family and I are actually temporarily living in a trailer park right now as sort of a downsizing experiment, but also as a method of saving money for our dream home that we are going to build on a plot of land we bought, and I was incredibly upset about the prospect at first. I felt pathetic that we had to live in a place like this, even if it was only for a short while, but as we started filling the mobile home with various expensive things such as a HUGE HDTV and several other smaller HDTVs, video game consoles, an expensive gaming PC, (to be fair, my cousin gave that to my little brother, so we didn't spend a dime on it), nice furniture and an RV in our driveway, I thought to myself, "Man, we really aren't that bad..." Then, my brother made friends with a boy who lives in the trailer park. This kid has been living here for a few years, and hardly has anything nice. He told us that he spent his 8th birthday in a homeless shelter, and I'm complaining that I have to live in a mobile home filled with nice things, and temporarily at that??
To be fair, we are struggling financially, and we're trying to make money in various ways, but compared to some of the people that live here? We're very well off. I need to stop complaining...
Edited by Tree, 31 October 2015 - 09:29 PM.