In my quest to try and live simply, I am always try to remind myself that although most of the time most of us feel poor we are actually really rich and I was heartend to hear 70 year old Hugh Stretton say this on Counterpoint.
You may think it's a fanciful idea but I would like to report that I just happen to have had a happy middle class childhood some way out of Melbourne in an outer suburb where's there's plenty of space. I had a brother and a sister and we had an old motor car, the family did, and we went for an annual holiday about 100 miles away, and we did a lot of things that kids want to do now and greatly enjoyed them. There's a great deal of stuff we didn't have and do, but if I cost that happy childhood as it would cost now, if that's all you had now, it wouldn't cost too much, it would be open to nearly everybody. But then there would have to have been, I suppose, better education for more parents, things like that, but those again don't have to cost too much.
This was a life, I suspect, with out $3000 stainless steel BBQ's, plasma screen TV's, ensuites on bedrooms, overseas or interstate holidays, dishwashers, new cars, iPods, mobile phones, etc... But everything someone needs to make them happy.
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