The money blues

My money talks to me. It likes to say, "Bybye."

My father told me this quote yesterday and it struck me right away as being terribly true. Our money really does say goodbye as it's flying from our hands, waving like the Queen of Shiba. I'm sure it has a jolly time off on dozens of new adventures as it changes possession time and time again, but what about us? We have to go and work hard simply to earn it back, nevermind actually make enough for a nestegg. I really admire those who put away money each month, patiently waiting for years as they build their bank accounts or safes (whichever one they fancy) and spend frugally. I'm quite the frug myself. (Another new word. You see, I wrote "frug" - Fr-OO-g - instead of "prude", much kinder I think.) Whenever I see something I want, I usually go home and think about it, working myself up into an excitement over buying this one 'thing'. By the time I return to pay for it, the item just doesn't meet my expectations and I bypass it, going on to the next one. As you can probably imagine, this has saved me from quite a few ridiculous splurges - a handy quality, I should say!

Sometimes I wish we could go back to the days when trades were the common currency. You have a rabbit? I have a duck, let's trade! Tit for tat, you know? People were more satisfied with their "purchase" that way, and if something went askew, a hot headed brawl ensued - entertainment included! But the "powers that be" didn't like that very much. It gave them little control, if any, and so gave the people too much freedom, which the PTB began trying to diminish years ago. Wampum also sounded rather promising, attractive jewelry being made into a type of coinage used for exchanging. But alas, identical to the problem today, too much of it was made and so it dropped in value. It dropped straight out of the system. Too bad, if we couldn't have stuck with the bartering program it would have been nice to at least have pretty money.

Speaking of pretty, have you seen the new bills that are coming out now? Plastic and even more fake than the paper stuff. Pretty soon, the old 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 dollar bills are going to be collector's items. Like the 2 dollar bill - I wish I had one of those. But despite the government's near complete takeover of the monetary system, they will never be able to degrade the value of gold and silver (At least I hope not!). Sure it rises and falls with the tides, but in the end I believe it will strand strong. Like David in David and Goliath. Sorry, totally random thought.

Money, or rather the lack of, has the power to destroy as well as to create. They built all of those enormous skyscrapers in the big cities with money, money they could print off their machines as fast as they were spending it if they wanted. But those buildings destroyed thousands of miles of nature; trees and animals, all for the sake of what? Oh, right, the growing population. I know they say the Earth is overpopulated but what they fail to mention is...well...that it's not. If people were taught to grow their own food and provide for themselves instead of consuming without producing, the Earth would be a much happier place, and without many of the problems we 'enjoy' today. Yet, again, the issue of elite control comes back into play.

I have a friend who's mother is best friends with mine and she works long exhausting days to provide for her children. The oldest one (my friend) just turned eighteen, and so her mother stopped recieving the monthly government allowance while at the same time, the men on pedestals decided she was not paying enough taxes for the amount of money she was making. Can you believe it? My boyfriend experienced rather similar treatment after a car accident he was in last summer. Not only was he charged a large monetary sum, but his license was taken away for nearly a year. How is that supposed to help improve his driving? (And the accident wasn't even his doing). The reasoning that we are subjected to today leaves me baffled and angry, is this justice?

Yesterday I finally bought my first car. It didn't happen in the way I expected but it happened, and I don't regret my decision - it's a good little car and exactly what I was looking for, even though it does have a few issues (of course) that are entirely fixable. The thing that dampened my excitement was the procedure I had to go through AFTER buying the vehicle. Insurance and signing papers and dishing out even more of my hard earned, hard saved money made me yearn for the old days when my biggest worries were whether I would get to have a "play-date" with my best friend or get the doll I was after. Simple things. When you're young, all you want to do is grow up but once you hit a certain age the younger years are much more appealing than the future ones. I geuss I hit it a little early. My father told me that I have to be careful of my possessions owning me. In other words, once I have things that require monetary support, aka: a job, I have to keep bringing in the moola in order to keep hold of that item. I started with a phone and the monthly payments that go with that, then a laptop with all the trappings and now a car, the biggest one of all. Good thing I'll be working two jobs this summer, eh?

Anyways, I don't have much time before I head off for a VERY busy day at work, but I needed to get some thoughts off my chest. And the scary thing is, I haven't even scratched the scratch in the surface on the money subject, but maybe that will be initiative for you to go find out more yourself, something I need to do as well. Knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss. Which would you prefer?