There are two ways to live: how the society expects you to live and how you actually want to live. If you are fortunate, your idea of living will match that of the society. Unfortunately there are not a lot of people whose ideals match up with the ideals of the society. We have our own priorities and wants and needs, which include being frugal, but since we do not live in isolation; we end up succumbing to social pressures and start living the way we are expected to.
While all else might just have a mental impact but one thing that has a mental, financial and every other kind of impact on us is the society’s expectation of how we should spend our money. Being social does not allow us to be frugal and we end up spending a lot of our hard earned money on things that we ......