Castillo de San Marco St. Augustine Florida
I heard Bill Bennett say that a couple of years ago and it has stuck with me. When we were children we wanted everything we saw. We would beg our parents to buy this or that and many times if they could they would. Other than the Star Wars toys, I don’t really remember all the things my parents bought me when I was a child. I do remember going camping, fishing, hunting, and family trips.
As adults many of us have not grown up, I am included in that. We want everything we see and if we can get it we do. As a whole we have spent ourselves into a very bad place, and while this is not about our debt it can be applied. At some point we must shed our childhood ways and begin to think like adults. We have to stop buying everything in sight for us or our kids. When we focus on getting more stuff we enter the “Rat Race” and begin to live for the stuff, and not live a God centered life.
What will your children remember when they are grown. Will they remember the time you spent with them or the things you bought them? Will you be able to spend time with them when you are older or will you have to keep working to pay for your stuff?
I know this is a short post, and maybe I am just talking to myself. If you have any thoughts on this I would love to hear them.
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I completely agree as a child I don’t remember all of the gifts or material things my mother bought me but I do remember the family trip to the lake where we stayed in a cottage. We were able to swim in the lake whenever we wanted, we played in the sand and had barbeque’s and bonfires.
Now as a mother myself I want to be able to give her everything I wasn’t able to have but that doesn’t necessarily mean the material things. I want to be able to take family trips with her to see the national parks and the Grand Canyon. To be able to plan fun but also educational trips that she will have memories of for years to come.