Search Engine Results:
I’m always amazed at what my research turns up on the internet. If the law of supply and demand applies to the World Wide Web the same way it applies to products and services in the physical world, it’s easy to see why so many of us are in financial dire straits.
Just for giggles, I chose some terms that people have used to find their way to this blog. I couldn’t believe that there were 1.2 BILLION results for Money, 436 MILLION results for Cheap, 92.1 MILLION for Free Wii, but only 576 THOUSAND for Living Below Your Means. It’s also very telling, to me anyway, that CHEAP beat out the number of results over FRUGAL by 757%.
Based on the law of supply and demand, one could reasonably conclude that the majority of people value money but not saving it, anything they can get for free, and don’t know the difference between cheap and frugal. I’m absolutely floored by these numbers. I hope that the real issue is that the creators of websites and services and search engine optimization hope to get people to visit them based on what they think are hot search buttons… and not that we, as a whole, are not this completely screwed up in our priorities.
What are you searching for in the internet? Are you finding the information you need to make more fiscally responsible decisions? What do you wish there were less of? More of?
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To me, the difference between cheap and frugal is enormous. I think frugal means making the right choices in what you buy, and sometimes that doesn’t mean being cheap. For instance, I only buy quality furniture, but I buy it mostly secondhand, and I try to find it as cheap as I can. So in price, I’m cheap, but in quality, I’m frugal, because I know it will last a long, long time. Also, in clothing, I buy a lot of quality clothing secondhand in classic styles, and I learned a long time ago how to mix and match to get several outfits out of a few pieces. That’s frugal. The cost of cheap sometimes is higher than the cost of frugal quality.
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