Waste money on Tobacco??

[timj219]

I personally regard the money I spent on cigarettes when I smoked them as wasted. But my cigar budget is money well spent. The only money I spend now that I consider wasted is the cable tv bill and various crap like drapes and pillow shams and matching dishes. But my wife likes that stuff so I don't complain.

[jimdandy]

So the article must be assuming waste to be anything non-essential to life. Therefore the person who typed that crap is, by his own "definition", a waste. (and it's starting to stink so someone take out the garbage)

The only way to waste money is to destroy it. If you get perceived value in exchange for it, it has not been wasted.

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

The only way to waste money is to destroy it. If you get perceived value in exchange for it, it has not been wasted.

[Krish the Fish]

I spent two households' worth this month... I'm sure Habanos is pleased.

[omowasu]

Originally Posted by Subvet642

Yup, there's nothing like a bunch of paid busy-bodies rendering value judgments on how other people live their lives.

THANK YOU! Who cares what people are spending their money on, and how others feel they "waste" it? I read this article as well, and I thought it was awful. Spending money - especially leisure money - is what keeps this economy going.

I also like how they titled the article "Ten Things Americans...", as though all Americans can be lumped under one banner of wasteful spending. That one wasnt worth the hard drive space it was stored on...

If I smoke one stick a day I'm already at $3650 a year. Stocking my humi's while smoking one stick a day...blows all predictable averages completely out of sky

[OLS]

Originally Posted by JaKaacH

It is worth remembering that this average includes households where no one pays for tobacco products.

I thought it was hard to steal cigarettes? Apparently not in America.

[OLS]

Originally Posted by Subvet642

Yup, there's nothing like a bunch of paid busy-bodies rendering value judgments on how other people live their lives.

If you remove the word PAID from this sentence, you have what's generally wrong with America today.
ESPECIALLY in the Bible Belt.

[JaKaacH]

Originally Posted by OLS

If you remove the word PAID from this sentence, you have what's generally wrong with America today.
ESPECIALLY in the Bible Belt.

Thanks..

Originally Posted by OLS

If you remove the word PAID from this sentence, you have what's generally wrong with America today.
ESPECIALLY in the Bible Belt.

If you replace the word "America" with "the world" and "the Bible Belt" with "they who should not be named" this statement becomes more powerful.

[kaisersozei]

Originally Posted by akumushi

That whole article is kind of meaningless and asinine. What constitutes waste? While I agree with their point that most Americans are overleveraged, and that spending money you don't have on luxuries is terribly irresponsible, i think that if you have good income and enough savings and property to be reasonably secure in your future, then there is absolutely nothing wasteful about spending some of your liquid assets and enjoying your money. That article presupposes that money is a useful and desireable thing in and of itself. Wrong. IMO, If you plan well, you should die having lived life to the fullest and left your family self sufficient and comfortable. Dying a billionaire doesn't mean anything if you had to starve yourself of all of life's little pleasures to get there. Once you've taken care of the basic necessities, provided for your family, prepared for the future and left a cushion for unexpected emergencies, spending your money on experiences or the finer things in life is the best possible use for it. The only problem is that a lot of people seem to have forgotten about the first part of that statement.

+1

[jimdandy]

Originally Posted by OLS

If you remove the word PAID from this sentence, you have what's generally wrong with America today.
ESPECIALLY in the Bible Belt.

So... are you saying that it is people in the Bible Belt who frequently involve themselves in the business of others???

[OLS]

Originally Posted by jimdandy

So... are you saying that it is people in the Bible Belt who frequently involve themselves in the business of others???

Without breaking forum rules, I can only say that I have met a lot of people here in this area
who do not see the log in their own eye for trying to help me get the speck out of my own.
I think that a lot of times, people forget that in America, hundreds of thousands have
died for the right of everyone to do their own thing. But once or twice a week, they get
reminded that it's their duty to help me realize the error in my ways. It gets old FAST.
I CHOOSE to do things my way. It is not intended to be an insult to their way.

At the risk of being hypocritical, YES, I do tend to exhibit similar behaviors on this forum.
But this is not America, this is CA, lol. The rules are slightly different, lol

[Volusianator]

Originally Posted by timj219

The only money I spend now that I consider wasted is the cable tv

Easy...I work for Time Warner Cable.

[shilala]

I used to always say "I spend my money on women, drugs and booze. The rest I just piss away."
I guess it just depends on what you consider a waste.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

The only way to waste money is to destroy it. If you get perceived value in exchange for it, it has not been wasted.

I can argue that.
Go to Harbor Freight tools and buy a come-a-long.
Oops, I mis-read your statement. I didn't get a perceived value, ergo, wasted. Although I perceived a value when I bought it.
Now I'm all confused with English. I'm gonna go read a thread that's not over my head.

Originally Posted by shilala

I can argue that.
Go to Harbor Freight tools and buy a come-a-long.
Oops, I mis-read your statement. I didn't get a perceived value, ergo, wasted. Although I perceived a value when I bought it.
Now I'm all confused with English. I'm gonna go read a thread that's not over my head.

Besides, if you used the come-a-long once to get out of a mud hole it was worth it.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

Besides, if you used the come-a-long once to get out of a mud hole it was worth it.

What if you got half way out, smashed your fingers, swore a lot, broke the come-a-long, and threw it in said mudhole?
Better to stay stuck, walk home, and call your buddy to pull you out, right?

Originally Posted by shilala

What if you got half way out, smashed your fingers, swore a lot, broke the come-a-long, and threw it in said mudhole?
Better to stay stuck, walk home, and call your buddy to pull you out, right?

But then you can take the come-a-long back and trade it in for a 74 piece socket set and a box of bandages. Life is good!