Dec 02 2008
Am I Missing Something?
I did not do much shopping on Black Friday. I went in search of a laptop, saw the lines at Best Buy were just to long and instead decided to buy a radio for my car. I have been without the radio for almost three years now. It was stolen from my car and at the time I decided it was a luxury I could do without.
While that was the only item I bought on black Friday, I saw throngs of people out shopping away the hours. Maybe many of them were doing the same thing I was doing . . . . picking up a minor item that I had been denying myself for quite some time. Maybe many of them were out shopping like there was no tomorrow. . . . buying eveything in sight with a for sale sign on it. I’m not sure which most were doing, but as I watched it all I wondered if I were missing something. Is the economy not as bad as the media has led me to believe? Are other consumers much better economists in that they ascribe to the philosophy that the average consumer will be the catalyst needed for jump-starting the economy?
I just don’t know what the answer is to my questions. I feel compelled to hold my dollars closely. . . .but if we keep tanking in terms of our economy, the money held so closely won’t be worth the paper its printed on.
So again I ask, am I missing something? Numbers have never been my big thing. What can I do to process all of this financial data that is filtering into my eardrums and trying to take purchase in my consciousness?
