We have been overselling cars in this country for years. It is ridiculous that a car model has to be changed every year. It is done only to satisfy a never-ending quest to have something someone else doesn’t have. I believe in, if it works don’t change it. But the drive to have the latest and supposedly greatest puts a lot of people deeper in debt. Most of the seven deadliest sins are involved in this drive: lust, gluttony, greed, envy and pride along with avarice.

My father used to tell me ‘if you can’t afford to pay cash for it, then you don’t need it’. I understood that statement because I knew where he was coming from but it simply can’t play today. Still, we need to learn to live withi...

We have been overselling cars in this country for years. It is ridiculous that a car model has to be changed every year. It is done only to satisfy a never-ending quest to have something someone else doesn’t have. I believe in, if it works don’t change it. But the drive to have the latest and supposedly greatest puts a lot of people deeper in debt. Most of the seven deadliest sins are involved in this drive: lust, gluttony, greed, envy and pride along with avarice.

My father used to tell me ‘if you can’t afford to pay cash for it, then you don’t need it’. I understood that statement because I knew where he was coming from but it simply can’t play today. Still, we need to learn to live within our means. Because struggling to live above our means is killing us.