Posted in Commonplace Book
Use it up
Wear it out
Make do
Do without
My thoughts:
I love this quote because it reminds me of what is really important to our family right now which is getting completely out of debt. The only way we are going to do that is by constantly keeping this at the back of our minds. In todays World, we are constantly being told to get it "new, on credit and that we don't have to do without". It is funny that when we discussed these with the boys and any examples that we could come up with, we could all give examples of the first three but the Do Without we rarely have had to live with. Now we may have to wait a while but eventually whatever it was that we thought we needed either ceased to be a need or we saved up enough to "Do With". I would be interested to know how many Americans actually Do Without -- my guess is not very many, including those that are poor. I think I will make it a priority to Do Without a little more often.
