When I was a young man, I rode the crest of technology. It was an expensive ride. Having the latest and greatest of anything was a very expensive proposition.
As I have become older and hopefully wiser, I realize that although the trough arrives a little bit later, it still gets there just as fast! And life in the trough of technology costs a fraction of this week’s hot item!
Impulse buying has long been both the marketer’s ploy and the scourge of the consumer. A good marketer creates demand where there is none.
When I think of the number of things that we say we “couldn’t live without” I am reminded that for the first part of my life we did just that and survived very nicely, thank you very much.
As for all of my “time savers,” I work more hours a week now that I ever have. That is an inescapable truth.
These days, I let the demand for a gadget settle down before I make a purchase decision.
And more often than not I find out that I wasn’t missing out on anything in the interim!
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