Comments on: Around the blogosphere, in your backyard http://www.debtreduction101.com/2009/04/24/10554_around-the-blogosphere-in-your-backyard.html Digging my way out of debt Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michelle http://www.debtreduction101.com/2009/04/24/10554_around-the-blogosphere-in-your-backyard.html/comment-page-1#comment-501 Michelle Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:18:06 +0000 http://www.debtreduction101.com/?p=554#comment-501 David ... it was a great and well thought out article. I love the articles that compell people to respond! :) David … it was a great and well thought out article. I love the articles that compell people to respond! :)

]]> By: David G. Mitchell http://www.debtreduction101.com/2009/04/24/10554_around-the-blogosphere-in-your-backyard.html/comment-page-1#comment-500 David G. Mitchell Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:30:37 +0000 http://www.debtreduction101.com/?p=554#comment-500 Michele -- Thanks for your thoughts on my article. I actually agree with both you and with Paul, who has commented before me on your blog piece. While it is important to think about how we spend, it is also important to spend on the things that are important to us. At the end of the day, for you it is hard to put a price on the memories that you made on your wedding day. I would never judge you or your family for spending the money that it cost for you to create those memories. Nevertheless, keep my article book marked and think about it if and when you have kids who want to get married! Cheers! Michele — Thanks for your thoughts on my article. I actually agree with both you and with Paul, who has commented before me on your blog piece. While it is important to think about how we spend, it is also important to spend on the things that are important to us. At the end of the day, for you it is hard to put a price on the memories that you made on your wedding day. I would never judge you or your family for spending the money that it cost for you to create those memories. Nevertheless, keep my article book marked and think about it if and when you have kids who want to get married!

Cheers!

]]> By: Paul http://www.debtreduction101.com/2009/04/24/10554_around-the-blogosphere-in-your-backyard.html/comment-page-1#comment-498 Paul Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:04:42 +0000 http://www.debtreduction101.com/?p=554#comment-498 If you argue that a wedding is a huge waste of money, then you have to argue that EVERYTHING that isn't absolutely necessary for bare survival is a huge waste of money. Certainly you can save money on things in your wedding, and you can only spend what you really have available (thankfully for weddings, parents usually help out!) Yes, weddings are generally extravagant, more so than even most of the extravagant "extras" in daily life - but like you said, you can't put a price on the memories and the experience and the people. I guess in the end, if that is not a priority to the people getting married (i.e. if you really both want to elope) then by all means, do, and save that money for something else! But if you want the wedding experience, people, memories, etc. then choose to spend your money on it and enjoy it and be happy that you did it. Frugality isn't not ever spending money on non-essentials, it's prioritizing and choosing within your means. If you argue that a wedding is a huge waste of money, then you have to argue that EVERYTHING that isn’t absolutely necessary for bare survival is a huge waste of money. Certainly you can save money on things in your wedding, and you can only spend what you really have available (thankfully for weddings, parents usually help out!)

Yes, weddings are generally extravagant, more so than even most of the extravagant “extras” in daily life – but like you said, you can’t put a price on the memories and the experience and the people. I guess in the end, if that is not a priority to the people getting married (i.e. if you really both want to elope) then by all means, do, and save that money for something else! But if you want the wedding experience, people, memories, etc. then choose to spend your money on it and enjoy it and be happy that you did it.

Frugality isn’t not ever spending money on non-essentials, it’s prioritizing and choosing within your means.

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