All about the Money

All about the Money

Alright like the last thing I wrote this isn’t going to be a rant but of a viewpoint on people and money. Why people get into debt? Why they don’t set their priorities straight etc. This will be a writing in which I want to just talk about some things and why so many people mismanage their money because of ego.

You see people all the time who go and drive these $50,000 luxury cars. They will go and spend that extra money on the car just because of the logo on the car. Lets take 2 very similar cars that are actually made by the same company: The Lexus ES and the Toyota Avalon. As many of you probably know Toyota owns Lexus and the 2 cars I mentioned here are similar because they are both considered luxury. The Toyota Avalon has a base price of about 27k and then Lexus ES has a base price of 33k. So you are going to be spending an extra 6K for a different logo on the car. That is not worth the money, but people will buy it because they want people to know they are driving a Lexus. A car is simply something that will get you from one point to another and there it stops.

Now I know what some people are probably thinking and that’s “but if you have a good car people will know you are successful.” That’s not true and I want to use an example of this. I know a guy who sells real estate and he is going around driving a beat up Toyota Tacoma and then there is a guy who is making as much money as him yet he feels the need to drive around in a Porsche Cayan (however the hell you spell it). Now when I first wanted to get into real estate people would tell me, “you got to be driving in a fancy car so they know you’re successful.” That is not true because people look at the person who they are dealing with and not the car they drive. There are people out there who are loaded yet they will drive in the most economic car out there.

Now the car thing went on a little longer then I thought it would, but I’m guessing people don’t realize that there are little ways people spend their money foolishly. Let’s look at something as simple as food. Now let’s say you’re at work and its lunch time, so you go down to get a sandwich and a drink and then your spending about $10 a day on food. This ends up being you spending $50 a week on food and $200 a month. Meanwhile you can go to a deli and get enough roast beef, cheese and bread to last you a week of lunches at that same $10 dollars that only got you one sandwich. You can take it even further with it. Your eating dinner and you decide to cook up some pasta. Cook up more then you’re going to eat and then save the leftovers and use it for lunches or even dinner tomorrow. Little things like that are going to get you more money.

Remember that if the most important thing you should always put above everything is that you should always have food on the table, a roof over your head, and clean clothes to wear. There are people out there who drive an Escalade yet they are living with 5 other people in a crowded apartment. This is because of there ego. They know that people are more likely to see them in there Escalade then people will see them in there sausage fest apartment. People want to give the illusion that “yah I’m rich.” Those people are going to be in debt and living in a shithole for a long time because they are not smart with money.

Alright that is pretty much all I wanted to get across in this rant. I’ll be doing a video rant in the very near future and I already know what I am going to be ranting about so don’t worry. Some of you may have seen my test video rant but I don’t consider that my official first one. Anyways have a nice day and remember my 3 rules. If you don’t know them, then get your foot out of your ass. If this is the first time you are reading one of my rants: Don’t Get Pregnant/Get someone Pregnant, Don’t Get Arrested, and don’t get killed.