Debtfree Magazine April 2019
SA's Free Debt Counselling & Debt Review industry magazine. For consumers under financial strain or in debt review. The April 2019 issue. Topic: Keeping up with the Joneses - why you shouldn't bother.
SA's Free Debt Counselling & Debt Review industry magazine. For consumers under financial strain or in debt review. The April 2019 issue. Topic: Keeping up with the Joneses - why you shouldn't bother.
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WHY YOU SHOULDN’T<br />
BE TRYING TO KEEP UP<br />
WITH THE JONESES<br />
“Keeping up with the Joneses” is an old saying about trying to match<br />
the social status of people around you. It is the idea that you need<br />
to at least have what your neighbors and friends have or they will<br />
look down on you.<br />
The saying comes from a comic strip which ran from 1913 before world<br />
war one until 1940 during world war two. The comic strip was called; you<br />
guessed it, Keeping up with the Joneses.<br />
When we measure our personal worth against the things and lifestyle of<br />
our neighbours and friends or even people on TV or social media it puts a<br />
lot of pressure on us to have more, do more, spend more. All to impress<br />
people we do not even know.<br />
This idea is one of the contributing factors to why most Americans who<br />
earn over R1.8 Million each year are barely getting from month to month<br />
due to all their debts.
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