Curated Links: 06/17/2024 – Avoiding Keeping Up with the Joneses
When Keeping Up with the Joneses Costs a Fortune
Designer clothes, lavish birthday parties, tech toys and private tutors. Doting parents trying to keep up with the Joneses can end up spending shocking amounts of cash to keep their kids on the cutting edge.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/when-keeping-up-with-the-joneses-costs-a-fortune-161722788.html
Source: Yahoo News
Spending as Social and Affective Coping
The Spending as Social and Affective The Spending as Social and Affective Coping (SSAC) scale is a new measure of the ways people spend money to cope with difficult emotions and to connect with others in their social environment. The use of this scale could help us better understand how people’s coping is shaped by social values around spending, identify when this spending becomes problematic, and explore how this type of spending money might be effected by interventions aimed at helping people cope with their emotions and connect with others.
https://www.apa.org/education/ce/spending-social-affective-coping.pdf
Source: The Counseling Psychologist
Choosing Between Making Money and Doing What You Love
If you’re really passionate about what you do, but it’s not going to make you a lot of money, should you still do it?
https://hbr.org/2012/03/choosing-between-making-money
Source: HBR
Money and Impressions: A Fool’s Game
In a society that is quick to measure worth by the number of zeroes in a bank account, it is easy to get swept into the temptation of displaying our financial well-being—hoping to impress others with how much we can afford.
https://www.becomingminimalist.com/money-and-impressions-a-fools-game/
Source: The Minimalists
Save Yourself the Stress of Trying to impress
So don’t work so hard to impress your dates that you become someone else. If you’re a slob, be the best slob you can be. If you like making out on the first date, go for it, and see if she’s into it too.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/06/28/save-yourself-the-stress-of-trying-to-impress/
Source: Chicago Tribune