Understand This About Consuming

What's good, y'all? It's your boy Samir Gardner. Hope y'all doing good. So, um, I just realized something. I was reading a book and I realized something that happened to me in the past that I think that actually, like, bro, it can help you so much with your just like money in general, just emotional buying, basically. Because I think that's so big, yeah, bro. We just basically— a lot of people don't realize this, and I preach that a lot in my past videos. We buy things, but we don't realize, like, we want to be happy to buy those things. Like, when we buy things, we want happiness, we want comfort, and everything we think is gonna make us happy. But the thing we don't realize is it can't keeps us, for most of us, it keeps us tied to a job. Once you buy something, a $30,000 car, that means you might gotta work for 1 year just to pay that 1 car. But if you didn't buy it, like, it's like you're saving 1 year of work. So basically, a lot of people are just selling their time to other people, to other companies. So What I want to say is wait before you have the money, wait before you can afford that thing, like 10 times or 5 times before you actually buy that thing. And it's not about like being frugal or, you know, saving too much money. It's about like, bro, once you— this is why I realized once you got enough money to buy that thing, once you got a lot of money and you're like, oh, I can buy that thing easily. You're not even gonna want to buy that thing anymore. I don't know why I gotta make a separate video on that or something. I don't know why yet, but I think the reason why is we realize like, bro, money is like— even if you just like, to be honest, once you worked for something like on a business, you make like a $200 paycheck, but for like 1 year. Like, it might, it might be like this. And then once you go to the job, a job, you spend like 40 hours and you get like a paycheck of like $500 plus. I don't know how it works, but look, the thing is, it's like easy money, but at the same time it's not easy. But you know, it's easy because you just gotta do the work. But once it's in business, it's like you gotta do something unique, something that's kind of like adventurous. And you realize that money cannot be spent on me going to the restaurant. If I made a paycheck of $200 and I don't want to spend that money on a $100 meal at a restaurant, it doesn't make sense. Why would I spend my hard-earned money, that's real hard-earned money, when, you know, because money doesn't flow in abundantly at first. Like, yeah, yeah, it's going to, But money is not like, if you make $50 just from you selling things, you think you're gonna spend that $50 on some chips, on some food? No, you're not going to. You're not going to, to be honest. You're not going to because you realize that money is like, okay, I gotta maybe regrow that money because it's not a problem about spending for most people, selling their time is the big problem. But for some people that are like rich and everything, if they buy something, it doesn't even matter because they're not selling their time for money. They're not selling their time for money. That's the thing you gotta be aware of. A lot of people think we got to work 40 hours a week to get enough money to buy that car, that house, and everything. But the thing is, like, bro, you buy that car, that house, and then you just work more before it, just for it, for it. You don't— you gotta be able to— I know I'm not a financial advisor or a millionaire or something yet, but you see, you see people, people literally spend their money and then they gotta work because they gotta repay that thing. It's just that basically. But what happened for me, for example, I started working at a job and I realized like, okay, I'm getting, because I'm not, I wasn't used to get money, bro. I used to only get money for gifts and everything. You know, I'm not like getting money randomly like this. And you know, once I got my first job, I was like, oh, I'm making like $1,000 a month. And I thought that was a lot. And so I'm like, oh, I can buy my dream computer now. Like literally, bro, ever since I was a kid, for so many years, I always wanted like this gaming PC, like a $4,000 gaming PC with the colorful keyboard and the mouse and the, you know, basically like the $10,000 setup. You know, I used to watch videos every day. I used to literally write down everything I was gonna buy with details and the price and everything so I can buy it. But I didn't have the money. I was like, oh, I have like $200, but you know, I cannot wait like another 5 years to get to like $2,000. It's gonna take too long. So once I was— I realized like I had a job and like I looked at the computer I could have bought for like $3K or something and it said I can pay for like I think I can pay like $100 a month for maybe, I don't know, 20 months or something. I can buy it. $100 a month, or I think it was $50 a month, but at the same time it doesn't make sense, but it doesn't matter. But look, if it was $50 a month, well, that's only like, that's 5% of my paycheck. That's 5% of my paycheck. So I realized I can buy that thing. It would have been done because I would literally cut off 5% of my paycheck. But at the same time, I was like, I can literally buy it right now and I don't even gotta worry about money. I don't even gotta worry about having no money or something because I got a job and it's only 5% of my paycheck. But then I was like, I can buy it just right now. I didn't even wanna buy it anymore, to be honest. Well, I— it used to be probably my biggest desire to get like this nice gaming setup and everything, but now I can get it. Like, for example, a dog. I always wanted a dog. Like, bro, that was like this and the gaming PC. Like, the dog, bro, it was like my— the biggest desire I ever had to own a dog. And then with the years and everything, it was like 4 years, bro. I asked my parents, bro, I used to Literally wanted a dog so much. Like, I was talking about it like 24/7. I was allergic to dogs and I was like, I'm gonna find a way to not be allergic and everything. I used to have like, that was like my main goal in my life. That was my purpose, to be honest. But now I can't afford a dog if I go work to a job. If when I had my job, I can't afford a dog. But a dog is maybe like $1K. Yeah, also has expenses. But I can afford it. I can afford it, but I, I didn't want to. It's like all my desires just left. And you know, at the same time, I've grown up, so yes, but my child desires should, should like still be like something that I want. Yeah, I still want a gaming setup and everything, but it doesn't really matter to me now. Like, it doesn't really matter if— yeah, I want a dog, but it doesn't really matter to me. I just— I don't want to pay for it. That's the thing. I don't want to pay for it. I know it's not maybe the biggest expenses, but it's still the expenses. And it's not because it's an expenses that I don't want to buy it. It's just I don't have the desire anymore. So once you got like the money, once you got like all the money, I'm saying like if you have 10 times or more the money of what it actually costs, you— I swear you're not even gonna want it anymore because it will sound dumb. Especially when your money comes from business and you're making not much money, you're not gonna spend that money because that money is like— it proves your progress. You're not just gonna blow it away. That's how it works, bro. That's it for the vid. Hope y'all liked it. Comment, share, subscribe, then like and more. Peace.