Do you think we are "high maintenance" people?

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There was a time when a store sold mops, that was all they did. But now, they have to sell mops, and help save the rain forest. Everybody has their own pet causes. We want fast, cheap great tasting food, but get all over fast food places, because they are not supplying us with every vitamin known to man. We copmplain about anything and everything. We want government to provide us more, and more, but, of course, we are horrified if taxes go up 1 cent..
In short, do you think we are "high maintenance" people?
 

fuzzybuddy said:
There was a time when a store sold mops, that was all they did. But now, they have to sell mops, and help save the rain forest. Everybody has their own pet causes. We want fast, cheap great tasting food, but get all over fast food places, because they are not supplying us with every vitamin known to man. We copmplain about anything and everything. We want government to provide us more, and more, but, of course, we are horrified if taxes go up 1 cent..
In short, do you think we are "high maintenance" people?
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without a shadow of a doubt......you only have to go to the vast majority of cities towns and villages in India, huge swathes of Africa , China and the middle east to see just how really spoiled we are...,that's why I despise Snowflakes so much..
 

hollydolly said:
without a shadow of a doubt......you only have to go to the vast majority of cities towns and villages in India, huge swathes of Africa , China and the middle east to see just how really spoiled we are...,that's why I despise Snowflakes so much..
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Isn't it the truth. I've often thought about our grocery stores her in the U.S.. Everything you could want. You can eat expensive or relatively cheap. People still complain.
 
feywon said:
Some of us are more so, some a bit less. Some of us even have an eye toward how we will manage if it all breaks down.
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I think the toilet paper hoarding and food over buying at the beginning of the pandemic was a good example.

Then grocery store receipts started stating they were not taking returns on items overbought due to the pandemic. I guess people got sick of their 30 packages of pasta and 50 cans of beans real quick.
 
I went out to dinner last night with three other people. I thought the food and service were both excellent. Everybody else complained about everything, from the drinks to the desserts. I sort of wanted to stick them all on the airport runway in Kabul for just a few minutes to see what real problems look like.
 
Remy said:
I think the toilet paper hoarding and food over buying at the beginning of the pandemic was a good example.

Then grocery store receipts started stating they were not taking returns on items overbought due to the pandemic. I guess people got sick of their 30 packages of pasta and 50 cans of beans real quick.
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Living in the country we have always had about a months worth of non-perishables as well as household products on hand, well stocked freezers (we have a small free standing one as well as the one that's part of fridge). So we didn't change our habits much, we rotate products and watch the dates. Doesn't mean we haven't thought of our options if various scenarios came to pass.
 
A short story.
Some years ago I was watching a program on the after effects of a Central American hurricane. They showed a poor woman who was trying to earn some money to feed her child by bagging up sand to sell to make concrete. She was working in the blazing sun without any food or safe clean drinking water. My heart went out to her.
'The very next program was about a woman who was looking for a high-end house for sale in L.A. At one point, she said to the realtor, "You can't actually expect me to buy a house that has no private bathroom for my 8 year old daughter"
Yeah, I'd say the 2nd woman was very high maintenance.
 
Alligatorob said:
I am as demanding and high maintenance as I can get away with. If I want it and can afford it I get it.

I know I could live with a lot less, and I have, but why bother?
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well the thing is..I too have lots of 'things'I can afford them so why not ?... but in reality I don't demand a right to have them.

I'm fortunate I live in the west where these things are available to all..or at least most people.. but if I didn't have a nice car or an expensive phone.. I wouldn't feel it was my right to have them, and I dodn't go around demanding other people provide them for me .. I could easily do with cheaper versions of everything I have ..the difference between being High Maintenance and affording something is vast..
 
hollydolly said:
I'm fortunate I live in the west where these things are available to all..or at least most people.. but if I didn't have a nice car or an expensive phone.. I wouldn't feel it was my right to have them, and I dodn't go around demanding other people provide them for me .. I could easily do with cheaper versions of everything I have ..the difference between being High Maintenance and affording something is vast..
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Kind of a difference in definition. I would neither demand or expect anything I could not afford to pay for myself. The world is full of things I can't afford, but I am pretty happy with what I can.
Llynn said:
I try to live below my means
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I did that for many years, then one day realized that in the end I would just die leaving lots of money unspent. So now I am living at my means, and spending some of that saved money.
 
There is only one thing I indulge myself in. FOOD. However, no matter what I eat, I don't get fat. I have been at the same weight for many decades, 6'3" 185 lbs.
 
Alligatorob said:
Kind of a difference in definition. I would neither demand or expect anything I could not afford to pay for myself. The world is full of things I can't afford, but I am pretty happy with what I can.
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Yes precisely, which means you're not high maintenance.. Those who are high Maintenance expect everything as their right to have it regardless who may be footing the bill
 
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I think that we are definitely spoiled.

Go for a walk on trash day and lift the lids on a few cans.šŸ˜‰

Iā€™m just as guilty as anyone else but I do have some self imposed limits. I also try to spend as little as possible to get the things I want/need.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I think that we are definitely spoiled.
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No question, we are incredibly lucky to be living when and where we do. And we rarely appreciate it.

For most of human existence almost everyone on this forum would have been long dead, and poor and hungry when alive! For most humans life was short, brutal, and hard. For too many it still is.
 
I have lived with luxury and much convenience and lost it in a split second with no warning. I learned to take care of myself and not depend on anyone or anything. I lived for almost twenty years without conveniences that most people, even poor people take for granted. It was hard but I did it. Could I do it again? No. Would I want to? No. Even if I wanted to I cannot live without the conveniences I now have here. Maybe if I was physically able and younger I could do it......if I had to.
 
Well, since you asked, I would have to say yes. Today people are too much crying, complaining, grumbling, whinnying and belly-aching to suit this ole' guy! I am surrounded by a large army of "cry babies." What an army? What happened to the cowboy mentality where you did what you could or yoIu did without! Today the sissies are complaining that they are "uncomfortable" with certain things out there. Oh, my Boo Hoo, Hoo! I feel sorry for them, NOT!
 

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