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The premise in the original post seems backwards... if you have no time to shop for groceries because you are busy working so many hours. How is that impressive?
The premise in the original post seems backwards... if you have no time to shop for groceries because you are busy working so many hours. How is that impressive?
I think it's the idea of "Oh my time is just so darn important, I hire minions to deliver my groceries, food, etc."
The idea isn't grounded in reality obviously...but I think that's the thought.
Whenever I see someone working on their phone or laptop or iPad on the bus, or plane, or anywhere in public - or when I see someone having food or groceries delivered to their house - if I take note of it, my first feeling is pity. I'm certainly not impressed.
I don't think of it much one way or the other. "Oh, there's Mr. Stewart mowing his lawn" "Oh, there's Ms. Smith pulling weeds" "Oh, there's that nice lady getting a pizza delivered". It's just an observation to me. Not one loaded with any kind of...judgement I guess.
Now...I MIGHT notice, if the chef pulls up in the limo. LOL
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Whenever I see someone working on their phone or laptop or iPad on the bus, or plane, or anywhere in public - or when I see someone having food or groceries delivered to their house - if I take note of it, my first feeling is pity. I'm certainly not impressed.
Do you think people are living their lives for you? I don't think they are doing it to impress you....Lol.....
At one point, when I was a stay-at-home mom, we had our groceries delivered... we had one vehicle, one income, and small children. It was easier and cheaper to pay $10 for them to be delivered. I could go through and make my list while calm, the option for impulse buys was absent, and I didn't have to try to rush around when my husband came home from work. We had them delivered because a second car wasn't in the budget yet. I stayed home because daycare would have been too expensive. LOL - we had things delivered because we had less money, not more of it. I have no idea what my neighbors thought, if they thought anything.
Whenever I see someone working on their phone or laptop or iPad on the bus, or plane, or anywhere in public - or when I see someone having food or groceries delivered to their house - if I take note of it, my first feeling is pity. I'm certainly not impressed.
I work as hard as anyone and have nearly no time with two young kids 10 and 8. Yet, I go out and do my own grocery shopping, my own lawn on weekends, etc. I do not envy them I think they are lazy and just wasting money on things they can easily do if they made the time. I have plenty of money to blow on those things but simply choose to not pay anyone to do what I can do myself.
What you are describing here is ‘choice’. You choose not to ‘blow’ your money on lawn maintenance and grocery shopping (which you have every right to do). So why is it you aren’t allowing someone else the option to choose how they spend THEIR money (not yours) without YOUR judgement?
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