<p>have you read her comics about childhood, demons, cooked bologna sandwiches?</p>
<p>Oh yes she is great- must be the weather- the Pacific Northwest has lots of musicians/artists/writers.</p>
<p>Interesting article, written by people in the depts of Psychology from eminently respected U’s, titled “If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://dunn.psych.ubc.ca/files/2011/04/Journal-of-consumer-psychology.pdf[/url]”>http://dunn.psych.ubc.ca/files/2011/04/Journal-of-consumer-psychology.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thought provoking as well as fun to read.</p>
<p>Thank you post #117 so much for going back on track. Have a great day.</p>
<p>Interesting article, ihs. The only point I disagree with is the one that suggests not to comparison shop. I agree that its pointless to do it after a purchase, but I love finding deals and bargains, and helping others do so as well. It brings me great happiness.</p>
<p>As for a question asked earlier, I hesitate to bring this up again and apologise for going off topic momentarily, but there is a big difference between someone being selective in how they say something vs lying. A person who only watches tv shows by streaming them though their PC or Ipad is not lying if they say they don’t have a tv in their house. They are telling perhaps a half truth, but they are not actually lying.</p>
<p>Back to the topic-- I know several kids who did teach for America after college. Found it very rewrding. But it was temporary and they returned to school for graduate or professional degrees. They arent rolling in $$ (at least not yet), but they are happy.</p>
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<p>One reason the thread got off-topic, or more accurately has spent many pages exploring one related topic from the title (happiness v. money…) is the OP needs to be a bit more clear.</p>
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<li><p>“I believe happiness is important and she knows what she has already.” I’m struggling to understand that sentence. I think if you can say more about what you meant by “she knows what she has already” that might help. For example, does she know she has enough of a safety net from family resources that she won’t starve under a low salary such as preschool teachers make? or does she “know” that she has a college education so whatever she does next is a first stepping stone…? I’m truly trying to understand what you are saying here. Sometimes, clarity in an OP helps make a thread stay on track.</p></li>
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<p>And so you know I’m truly sympathetic, my D logged in l8 months after college graduation as a talented but uncredentialed preschool teacher herself, at low pay, struggling to pay rent “elsewhere” in a distant city! I’d just like to see the thread be as helpful to you as possible.</p>
<p>Loudly professing not to like TV, or never to watch it, or not owning one, has become such a middle class affectation. I know there are people who genuinely are indifferent to TV and never watch it because it doesn’t interest them, but I find the transformation of a distaste for TV into some kind of virtue to be deeply snobbish and pretentious.</p>
<p>I was reading an article about working-class academics and their experiences in the middle-class world of academe, and someone mentioned his surprise at the almost ritual denunciation of TV as part of academic identity. Strange, really, considering how important TV is to an understanding of the world we live in. It’s like being proud of not using computers.</p>
<p>I’ve never really noticed anyone not owning a tv for some kind of status purpose. I must have missed that memo. </p>
<p>All the people I know who don’t have a tv don’t have one because they can’t afford it. That’s college life for ya :). </p>
<p>I have a tv but no cable. I still get to watch some shows that are on basic channels but I mainly only use it to watch sports and use it to watch some movies from netflix. The only thing I’d miss about my tv is sports.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I feel culturally deprived not knowing who’s performing on Dancing With the Stars or who’s the most recent American Idol.</p>
<p>Got news for you. There’s this exciting new technology for learning about the world we live in. It’s called “reading.”</p>
<p>Do you really think that the only thing that’s on TV is Dancing with the Stars or American Idol? We are in a golden age of television. There is some very high quality stuff out there.</p>
<p>Do you really believe that people must choose between books and TV? Do you believe that the ownership of a TV is some kind of deep indicator of intelligence (or lack thereof)?</p>
<p>You don’t even have to watch TV or particularly like it to acknowledge that it has had a huge impact on culture and cognition in our age. To deny that seems, well, perverse.</p>
<p>NJSue- I’m curious. What exactly am I missing by not having a tv? I have one, but like I said, I only use it for netflix which I could just as easily get on my computer. I really want to know what I’m missing. </p>
<p>I don’t really care whether or not someone has a tv, but I’ve really never noticed anything lacking in my life because of not having one (and I didn’t have one for 2 years while in the dorms).</p>
<p>wine and popocorn ready. This is going to be more entertaining than TV.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes - my kids also do not watch TV, but they watch TV shows on their computer.</p>
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<p>Maybe THAT’S why I don’t care about cable. CC is far more entertaining :p</p>
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<p>That’s fine, but I still don’t really see what I’m missing. I don’t have the time to follow a series so about the only shows I ever do watch are things like Family Guy (which I love and can watch thanks to Netflix lol). </p>
<p>Seriously, nothing against tv. I enjoy it from time to time. I just don’t see how not having one means you are missing something. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>If you have a computer and can watch Netflix, you’re not missing anything. But you are watching material that was originally produced for TV and will therefore be denounced as brain-rotting garbage by all the middle-class snobs.</p>
<p>The point is not that TV is a life essential; of course it’s not. The point is that anti-TV snobbery is silly.</p>
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<p>No, I forgot about The Survivor. I really missed watching Patti “Potty Mouth” Blagojevich eat bugs.</p>
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<p>Unless one is blessed with unlimited time, one must choose how one spends one’s time. And you might want to note that I did not limit “reading” to “books.”</p>
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<p>No, but I believe that gluing oneself to a TV set tends to dull one’s natural intelligence; and there is a huge body of research on TV’s effects on the development of children.</p>
<p>I guess we should never go to live theater then, because it takes away time from reading. Just like TV.</p>
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It could be site specific, not only academic devides. Something totally fine in one part of the country could scoffed at somewhere else, or just plain absurd.
If you want to fit in, you play the game with their rules. if you don’t know it, look around and copy others.
where I am, the list is long: not owning TV, not owning barbie doll, animal printed garments, garments made out of animal (shoes made out of cows are somehow OK) not dying nor bleaching hair, not tanning the skin, don’t drink coke or any sort for breakfast meeting, no banal fast food for lunch, no certain Chinese takeout, no certain Indian takeout, not all pizzas are created equal, so are bagels, don’t mention where you went school or send your kid to unless you absolutely must, don’t tell if you are taking vacation, let alone how gorgeous it will be.
It is an old news but here is some ideas, it may contradict what I stated above, but they also like “irony”
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<p>People don’t tend to spend hours every evening at live theater. Many people do just that in front of their TVs.</p>
<p>usually people who say one should give away all their worldly possessions never had much in the first place or if they did they did not earn it themselves. They think that if everyone would give all their worldly possessions away, then we could all be the same and sit around the camp fire singing Kumbaya. Then no one would “feel bad”.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know what “people” do. I only know what I do. I like watching TV. I’ve never watched Survivor, however, so I didn’t understand your reference. I’ve also never watched American Idol. I do, however, enjoy watching Dancing with the Stars once in a while. I also enjoy watching old Hollywood musicals. I’m surprised that I’m not drooling and dragging my knuckles on the floor by now. I’m sure it will start soon. My D must be a moron, because she watches TV too. However, she also got a 770 on her verbal SAT and reads copiously too.</p>
<p>bears and dogs, you are right that “if you want to fit in, you play the game with their rules.” This is true, if you feel that the game is worth playing and the people worth impressing. Those are big “ifs.”</p>