This is a short post but a little epiphany that came to me the other day
and I wanted to share. At a recent homeschooling conference, I had to
bail a friend out because the vendor selling the books she needed would
not take cash. That's right, they would take checks, credit, debit,
anything but cash. It is very curious, however, I have realized more
and more how we have gotten away from the use of cash. I am trying very
hard to move in the opposite direction. We do have credit cards and
debit cards, although we have never carried a balance. {Actually, to be
honest, I did carry a balance once because I wasn't being frugal and
attentive and figured I will just take a couple of months to pay. I
learned very quickly how much more it costs to do that and never did
again!} However, since I have moved from working part-time to being
home ful-time, I am trying harder to save a bit of money and manage my
money better because there is signifcantly less of it. It is proving a
difficult transistion, but I am making headway and have actually save
about $200 over the past six months.
The main way that I have saved money is using cash because I can easily
move a dollar or two to a "savings envelope" when ever I feel like it
and that money is actually saved. I am not just living under the
illusion of saving big because of coupons, etc, which do have their
place but do not put money in your pocket. Anyway, I began thinking of
how our culture is becoming one of the virtual. Letter, pictures,
bills, payments--everything can be accomplished at the click of a
button, which is great sometimes, but we have lost something. One thing
we are losing is our focus on God.
Read more at
Veils and Vocations.
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