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Never Satisfied Series - Keeping up with the Jones'

Keeping up with the Jones – First of all, who the HECK are the Jones’ and who made them the measuring stick? SN: I’m actually a Jones. You’re welcome to try to keep up with me but you’d better bring your “A” game…oh and a good pair of trainers and roller skates! I’m just saying.

But I digress – you may not even know a Jones but I bet there’s someone you know who you think has it better than you. Maybe they have a really big house with a pool (complete with pool boy *wink*) and a full service cleaning staff.

Or maybe this person has 2 brand new SUVs, - completely customized like they just rolled in from Pimp My Get-Around or whatever. We’re talking TV monitors in the head rests, DVD players, surround sound and a mini bar <-------sorry, got a little carried away. Maybe they spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on vacations to the South of France, Topanga or the balmy beaches of Bora Bora. In short, they HAVE IT MADE!

So do you congratulate them on their good fortune? Do you wish them well and carry on with your own life? In a word…NOPE! You go out and take out loans to purchase a new mini-mansion with a hot tub, pool (with pool boy *wink*) and hire someone to clean your house once a month (okay so you’re still trying to keep up…) Fine, but you can’t stop there. Oh no. You’re fully committed to making sure that the Jones’ don’t get too far ahead. So you buy THREE new cars (SUV, BMW, and a HUMMER). So now you’ve got all these new bits of bling and flash that now you have to look the part. So, you whip out your plastic, which by now is begging for retirement, and go on a shopping spree. At the end of all this, you’re tired, and deeper in debt (aka – BROKE)!

And the Jones’? They aren’t worried about you. They are out doing their own thing. Besides, they are dealing with their own level of stress, angst and anxiety. They have a $3000.00/month mortgage bill, pool up keep (complete with pool boy *wink*), cleaning staff bills, gas bills for their SUVS – (gas is averaging about $4.00/gal in most places) and a host of other bills common to the non-Jones population. Besides, they have an image to maintain. Once they are established as JONES, the race is on. What? You don’t think the JONES’ have JONES’ to keep up with?

This is a time consuming exercise in futility.We’re talking a major drain of epic proportions. Black hole status, people!
I mean really, what’s wrong with enjoying what you have? Why aren't we ever satisfied with what we have?

     Now, do  I have all the trappings of a Jones? Am I a millionaire with a beach front house on the Riviera? Maybe not. But, do I have a British-accented, chocolate hunk serving me blueberry pancakes while I lounge by the pool typing this post ( "Oh, Iddy, would you bring me some cranberry juice, please? Thanks." ) 

Well....

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