Comments on: Too many people spend too much money

By: Need More Stuff – George Carlin – A Minimalist

Need More Stuff – George Carlin – A Minimalist — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:33:56 +0000

[...] they buy their house in, the style of their car. A year or so ago I blogged about the saying from Will Smith – Too many people spend money they haven’t yet earned to buy things they don&… and damn, isn’t that the [...]

By: 像马尼拉人一样过日子 | 迈理倪的中文博客-美国人在深圳

像马尼拉人一样过日子 | 迈理倪的中文博客-美国人在深圳 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:36:47 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:38:52 +0000

hey Kim!
thanks for reading my blog, awesome!!!

hope all is well – yes, i think by my moving to China, my perspective on life and reality as we think it is , has completely changed……

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:35:58 +0000

This post is right on…. The little things in life are being pushed aside for the bigger and better, which in the end, don’t matter.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:56:07 +0000

ok Echo,

now I understand more clearly.
but yes, I think the newer Chinese people are enjoying life more, spending more. China is RICH now, right?

By: Echo Zhang

Echo Zhang — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:28:04 +0000

hey mike, you are totally misunderstand. “spend it when you have it” i am not only mean go shopping,buy nice car to live today… it is also inculding do some inverstment in stock market,real estate and other fileds. The money deposit in bank it can not create more fortune,right?
And you can not image that a lot of chinese people,they suppress their personal demand to save money, their whole life is saving money for their children and their family. This life is too hard,why not relax and enjoy life sometimes? China has saved,yes, so what, still in rainy day,everyone still need to work hard….But appropriate deposit is necessary.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:00:39 +0000

you don’t seem to say what the normal chinese person would say.

i translate what you say here as “don’t save money, live today, not for tomorrow”

but what about a rainy day? seems China has saved, and now the world is having a rainy day

By: Echo Zhang

Echo Zhang — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:03:29 +0000

sure,money is not anything, but it makes us happy,that’s ture. People realize they exist in this world when they spend it, the money you saved almost spend for someone we loved not for ourself. so spend it when you have it.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:58:43 +0000

you know what is crazy, I have been declined maybe 3 times in China for a credit card….because I have no declared income here.

but they give university students credit cards for 5000 rmb? there isn’t income there?

maybe they can chase the parents?

By: mike

mike — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:38:35 +0000

hey Nigel,
well, yea, I am writing more, and I am just pushing myself to write more actually…before I leave the office, or when I am on the bus, I will write a post on my mobile phone, save it , download when I get back to the office, and post.
Maybe you think this one is not finished because I leave it taht way…I put the “…” at the end to make people think, and hopefully comment on the idaes they see.

By: nigel

nigel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:50:39 +0000

hi, mike! seems you are less busy these days, as you blog updates more often….
but is this article finished? seems it stopped abruptly…^_^

By: dswei

dswei — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:14:14 +0000

now only 5 thousand, haha.
lots of my classmate and friends go into bank group, almost everybank there are somebody I konw…it’s going crazy, I am already asked to apply credit card for more than 20 times in the past few months..

By: mike

mike — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:28:23 +0000

what was the credit limit? I am sure USA gives more credit easily…or at least did, when I was in university…..

maybe the same destiny will happen in China then, if credit cards are t oo ea sy to get, people spend too easy…

By: dswei

dswei — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:22:36 +0000

The same in china, my first credit card is also in my fresh year, and I only get a small cup. But I barely use it, haha