Quote from: Piggymonster on Today at 11:41:36 AM

Quote from: Darker45 on November 01, 2021, 01:55:34 PM

I wish it is this simple. From where I'm living, an ordinary person wishes to buy a house as early as possible, but ends up buying one only after retirement at 60 years old or above. My parents must have wished to buy a house as well. Today, they're both old and separated. They were never able to build one for the family. It is very common for an ordinary person or family in my country to wish to have a car one day. To the majority of them, that wish will remain so until the day they die.

I felt emotional after reading your post, life is hard specially in poor countries and now when the pandemic hit makes life far worse for the poor. Economic crisis, job loss and unemployment stress many families are struggling to put food on the table how much more on buying a house and car?. Though life is tough, but it is not a hindrance to live a comfortable life. The best things in life are free, they come in the form of good health, family, love, friendship, simple pleasures, we should focus on improving the quality of our life not on just acquiring material wealth.

I agree, of course. After all, comfort is relative. I don't say that poor families living in small huts, sleeping on the floor, cooking with firewood, and so on are not living a comfortable life. As a matter of fact, I have seen genuine happiness in many of them. But they, too, have dreams.

However, I don't actually disagree with OP. Getting things off your list as soon as possible is better than having it delayed, that is if you have the money and those things on your list are things you actually need. This is what inflation and monetary devaluation is all about. Buy it today because tomorrow things are going to be more expensive.