Great article! You pretty much paraphrased the first couple of chapters of Dave Ramsey’s book Financial Peace Revisited. It just goes to show that common sense and keeping money what it is – amoral – is the way it works. If we do good with it, it does good. If we do evil with it, it does evil.

We all have “stuffitis”. If we can get control the little brat we brush our teeth with in the mirror every morning, we can control stuffitis and our money instead of our money being in control of us.

I love what Tyler Durden says to the narrator in the movie Fight Club: the stuff you own ends up owning you.

Sherri

Just to be clear, I didn’t write that article (who would money be if it were a person) – that’s another blogger….didn’t want it to appear that I was taking credit for it.

Keep up the great work Craig, I gave ya a stumble!

I pretty much agree with what you said in this article. What one often forgets is never to be attached to its money and to its symbols.

To be rich, is really to be wealth conscious. Wealth is not to be defined by just money alone. One can be rich but can be poor in time. Another person can be rich but poor in happiness.

To feed our wants for modern living, we continue to obsess over the pursuit of money. The internet provides fertile ground for exploitation of greed. In it, I can see many dreams crushed and frustation over the lies that pervade around being able to earn money quick. I’ve grown up a lot since being sucked into many of such programs and never seeing the success.

Yet the pursuit of money is not wrong because we need to work hard for a decent lifestyle. It should
not be the ends but the means to the end (happiness, joy, comfort, etc).

Oops….I realise that I can be going on and on and on about the attachment to money. Well…I examine more about money issues on my site, in case you are interested to read my posts on wealth consciousness, money blocks, abundance, etc.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts,
Evelyn

Besides making a difference to your life you can make a difference to the thousands of others. I like Hugh MacLoud’s point 36 in his post many years ago creative “Being Poor Sucks”

Cheers.