Those two little words describe what I want. I watch people that seem to want everything. The very big house, the 2 or 3 vehicles, vacations, toys, etc. Nothing is ever good enough. They want bigger and better; they want top of the line. Well, I refuse to try and keep up with the Joneses. I don't want to be like the Joneses, they actually seem like boring people.
So, I've decided that I want, "Just Enough…." I want a house that is Just Enough to fit the family. I want vehicles that do Just Enough or fit Just Enough. If we have things that we don't use, that's Too Much and needs to be disposed of. We need Just Enough stuff to make sure we aren't bored and have things to do but not Too Much that we never get to use all of it.
For example, kids toys. Kids toys seem to be one of the big problems around our house. The kids don't play with them. They do play with a couple, but for the most part, most of the toys end up on the floor for me to step on them. So, we go through the toys and keep a few things and get rid of the rest. That simple.
An example of Just Enough is that we have our Lagoon passes and our Zoo passes. We can effectively be busy every weekend and some weekdays just by those alone. We have Desert Star Playhouse passes and go to a show once every other month. (We got the economy Saturday Matinee Pass. We get to see the show but it is…. Just Enough…)
This gives us stuff to do. We will use them so they are effective. We will get our monies worth out of them and that makes it economical. It is something we can afford to do every year so it becomes a tradition. It is…. Just Enough.
So, my new life philosophy is …Just Enough… and if more people adopted this type of an attitude, we would be less in debt, we would have more fun as a family, and we would have less clutter in our lives. We could actually work less because our lives would be less expensive and we could spend more time doing instead of dreaming about.
