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    Points:3

    Buying commodities based on your needs can lead to a happy life

    As technology has been developing at a faster rate when compared to the olden times, new items are launched in the market right from expensive to inexpensive commodities. While some people are wise and buy things only based on their needs, some others buy as per their wants. Needs can be considered necessities but wants are just the opposite of it.

    For example, having one expensive television can be taken as a need for entertainment by some while others might prefer having more than one television which they might take as 'want' as they want it to be present in their bedroom in addition to the one they already have in the living room. By having two televisions at home they would have to spend extra money which might have been used for buying something that they would have needed to buy.

    What is surprising is even a few families which are not so rich also have more than one television at home. By possessing more than one television had they not bought something which they wanted to buy? Is it a thought-provoking question or a funny one? What is your answer to the question? Please discuss.
  • #769786

    Points:5
    It all depends on the financial position of an individual. I know a family who are very rich. Only wife and husband live in the house. They are senior citizens. The wife and the husband have separate bedrooms and each room is provided with a TV. They have a guest room in which there is a TV and in the living room also they have a TV. They have ACs in all rooms and they have everything for spending happily. They have a car and a driver. For them they are all necessities. So what we feel as a luxury, may not be a luxury to other family.
    I have seen some families even without a single TV. But they sit together and enjoy by talking with each other and take food together. So I feel the buying will depend on your richness. Earlier days we used to have one landline phone. But now every individual is having his own mobile phone and no landlines any more. Like the needs will change from time to time.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #769790

    Points:5
    We are living in an age of consumerism. There are people who can afford to spend money and they are buying gadgets at an alarming rate and their houses are turning into a warehouse. Some middle class people also who have habit of copying the ways of rich people are unnecessary spending money on duplicate and redundant gadgets.
    Keeping a large inventory of items in the house is not an advisable thing. Extra items in house will always be a clutter. Further, the fact of life is that clutter is always a source of stress in our lives.
    To promote their products company will always be luring the gullible customers to their items but it doesn't mean that we should be blindly buying those items. We must see what is the utility of those items in our houses. If we are buying it just for keeping it in one side in our house then it is merely a foolish act.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #769794

      

    Points:5
    In many cases, it is seen that wants are ever-increasing. People who want things continuously never stop and want even more. If we analyze our necessities then only we will be able to find out what we actually need. If people keep on purchasing things just to fulfil their desires a time will come when they will find it hard to store them properly without discarding the previous articles. This surely will create a mess if one doesn't have enough space in their house. Even if one has enough space many items will not be used after a certain time when the desire for the article ends. One may have the capability to purchase a lot of things but if many of those things are not used, or only used for the time being then it's a kind of waste.

    If we think of happiness I would say it is a state of mind and the more condition we attach to remain happy the more easily we will become unhappy because the happiness will not stay when those conditions are removed.
    Sankalan

    "Life is easier when you enjoy what you do"

  • #769805

    Points:4
    Observance of which pattern would provide happiness- sticking to needy items or purchasing a lot more in the departmental store for the future needs is the individual priorities. For many of us, minimum buying at any moment as per needs offer us satisfaction. But one thing is sure we are tempted to take a lot of items though these articles are not to be used in the immediate future. Storage of all such items can pose a lot of problems in stacking such items. Moreover in due course, we cannot remember exactly in due time of its availability in our store rooms. Improper stacking could cause pilferage of the packets amounting to additional losses.
    Hence we should be satisfied with the minimum purchase at a time.

  • #769808

    Points:5
    The author is correct. From small items too we can plan like this. A relative of mine used to buy vegetables and fruits on daily basis from the shop as the market is by side of their house and thereby they avoid refrigerator use. Every morning her husband used to buy vegetables and greens when he goes for walking in the early morning. In this way, we can do if the availability of such things nearby our house.
    Further I am seeing many have televisions for every room in one house in the name of privacy or not to disturb others etc., but the charm and joy of collectively watching television in the hall with all family members will get vanished if we have separate televisions for each room.
    One day my brother bought a round box with five chambers in it made of thick plastic, though online. As I was in the house when it received through courier, I saw that by opening and presumed that it is for his tablet keeping purpose. Later he told that he bought is for my sister in law (his wife) as she asked for keeping the masala ingredients in the kitchen. I wondered and told whether she can use the box meant for it made of stainless steel which is very well available in house in three numbers as used by mother and elders.
    Similar to this many of us wasting our money and increase the liability of purchases.

  • #769820

    Points:4
    I want to add to this discussion that in today's world the business environment has become very competitive and tough. Companies are vying with each other and introducing newer and newer products. So in this situation it is natural that they will grab the attention of consumers for their products and for that they will make all sort of schemes and techniques and offer discounts and what not. This aggressive marketing is affecting the mind of people to quite a good extent and many people who otherwise will not go for these items have started thinking what is the harm if I buy this one or that one.
    So in addition to their money power some people are being encouraged and inspired by the aggressive marketing of the companies for buying new but redundant items.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #769823

      

    Points:5
    I have no intention to divert from the topic but I am trying to trace the difference between this thread and the one by the author that had recently won a special award in the Thread of the Fortnight contest. I think the message the author is trying to convey in both these threads are the same though the way it has been put up are a bit different. Buying commodities as per your requirement only means that you are a minimalist and buying commodities for the sake of it irrespective of your needs is being a maximalist. Hope I am right. Please correct me if you have a different opinion.

    We have been telling time and again that members should take care not to repeat topics, albeit in different manners. One may be conveying the same idea but care should be taken to bring it our from a different perspective/ angle so that we get to have a discussion of a different kind. It might be these kind of interventions that some are claiming to be discouraging but please give it a thought and say whether it is fine to have similar threads, especially back to back. I don't think it needs to be encouraged. I have chosen to make the point clear instead of locking or deleting this thread so that the message (though repeated time and again) is made clear once again.

    Members are requested to please continue with the discussion on the main thread.
    'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all'.
    -Aristotle

  • #769836

    Points:5
    The very essentials for humans are just the basic three " Roti,Kapda aur Makaan"- Food, Clothing and Shelter.
    Anything above these three are non-essentials in the extreme sense. But here is the difference between the other species and humans in this world.

    I is human nature to move to something different and more enjoyable when the basics are satisfied. Humans always yearn for comfort and convenience. He always want to reduce or even avid physical exertion as far as possible. Towards this he used other animals and birds making them do various tasks. As he was not fully satisfied with these ,he invented machines and appliances. Now we know where we are. Still we cannot say it is end. The search for further convenience and comfort and making human life more enjoyable and luxurious will go on.

    So the characteristics of essential and non- essential will undergo changes. Those which were seen as luxury once are no longer luxuries and they have become almost essentials in modern human life.

    We need just a small stock of vocabulary for our daily essential life. But we did not rest with that. We went on acquiring more and more words to be used as alternatives and substitutes to give ease, variety, beauty and attractiveness to our conversation. Similarly we have invented various food recipes, though we could live with very simple foods.

    Everything is like that. Development also comes by moving from one to many and various.

    I can narrate a simple example. Recently I had to take up an overnight journey by train. I have difficulty in using the Indian Toile in trains. At home I am using the European closet. So for use in train, I had bought a pack of toilet seat guard(disposable paper made).
    Now how this can be termed- as need or want?

    Most of us are now put in such situations. The same matter may be need for one(at one time) and want or unnecessary for other. So it is just relative: relative view, relative perception, relative truth too.

    But what can be adopted is to stay within one's own means and not to overspend by getting into debt traps.


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