Most kids have little conception of how much stuff costs and how that relates to what its reasonable to expect to earn. If you were insulated from these facts of life until you were in your late teens, it's not surprising that this just isn't information you make an effort to retain and so you're continually surprised. Unless you have some form of dyscalculia, the numbers will probably sink in sooner or later.
As for fixing things rather than throwing them away and buying new when something goes wrong, I think this is an excellent approach. Our economy is based on the concept of constantly increasing production and consumption, but most people don't have unlimited financial resources, and in the grand scale of things, our steadily increasing consumption of the world's finite natural resources just isn't sustainable indefinitely.
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Most kids have little conception of how much stuff costs and how that relates to what its reasonable to expect to earn. If you were insulated from these facts of life until you were in your late teens, it's not surprising that this just isn't information you make an effort to retain and so you're continually surprised. Unless you have some form of dyscalculia, the numbers will probably sink in sooner or later.
As for fixing things rather than throwing them away and buying new when something goes wrong, I think this is an excellent approach. Our economy is based on the concept of constantly increasing production and consumption, but most people don't have unlimited financial resources, and in the grand scale of things, our steadily increasing consumption of the world's finite natural resources just isn't sustainable indefinitely.