I am normally not one of the people who show off with money at all. We have a "decent" car, a "decent" 3.5 room apartment and are overall living very well within our financial possibilities and able to save quite good money here. However, we love to travel and do in fact spend easily as much as the terribly unhappy folks described.

I am neither ashamed of it nor do I feel the need to explain it... but anyhow: I can highly recommend "Haben oder Sein" from Erich Fromm - a philosopher who developed the theory that in his modern world (the book was written in the seventies) he witnessed two types of people: Some are materialistic and want to "have" everything. Others are experience oriented and want to "be" everything. I personally do not care about having a lot - but I love to make experiences and frankly am happy to be financially able to travel far and see exotic things there. There might be people who need to spend the money to be able to say that they "have been to X" and that they paid more on their holidays thatn the Jones' - I do not and I met many likeminded people who simply love to travel and find it a better way to spend money than many other ways...

I found a lost plot today, it must be yours.

Life must be getting you really down?

Nope, thats the blue ones on Tuesdays, Today is Sunday, red ones, am quite happy thanks.

Using the logic of some clever folks here if you say you are happy then that mean you are unhappy So what is making you unhappy? Send me a private message if you need any financial or emotional help.

Physician heal thyself.

You keep coming back for more. The fountain of wisdom flowing from my orifices must be attracting you?

Please don't kid yourself - what is flowing out of your orifices actually rhymes with trap.

Can we get back on topic now, I was about to ask you why you claimed to be a Buddhist and then sold out your spirituality for the sake of not losing face on an Internet site and saying you were a Buddhist by namesake only. Can you explain what a 'namesake' Buddhist is ?

...as for coming back for more, I take that as admitting to be a troll. I think you blew your cover in your lack of knowledge in your own professed faith.

My trap is so fragrant that it seems to attract all the flies.

I think that whatever it is, you need to shut it then.

Do I come across as someone who cares about saving face? Name sake Buddhist means I was born in a half Buddhist family and I act Buddhist when it suits me only.

Back on topic would be discussing wages and savings not Buddhism. So are you managing to save much?

A Buddhist does not let flies die of hunger. They need to feast on trap.

It seems we are back on topic, I am back dealing with a hypocrite...

Good night Troll.