Everything gets more expensive.
This saying has been with me for as long as I can remember. And that’s been a while.
I remember my first independent purchase with my own pocket money. It was supposed to be a bar of chocolate, the red one from Lindt.
Against the background of what my parents said, I took 5 marks with me. That seemed expensive to me, but reasonable. Half a century later, the tablet still doesn’t cost as much as I pocketed at the time.
Everything is getting more expensive again: electricity, heating, bread, petrol, rent, loans.
However, it is – and therefore the introduction – always a question of perspective: flying within Europe for 9 euros was never realistic. Buying a kilo of pork for less than 10 euros could not feed a pig or its shepherd. And when it comes to the T-shirt from Asia, which hangs colorfully printed for 3.99 in discount stores, not everything is going right either.
We suspected it, but we preferred not to ask.
It’s time for a change of perspective: Let’s buy what is necessary. And if there’s anything left, something that’s worth something to us.
We leave the rest hanging, standing, lying.
Elsewhere that means saving to death, I call it: appreciating.
Haven’t we all longed for the real things and then settled for the fast-moving?
Now is the time to do things differently.
What a chance!
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