random musings...

It is always good to plan before buying big ticket items such as TV (Plasma/LCD), Car, Game Console, Furtuniture, Sofa, Bed set etc. Budget and Planning are cohesive; if you plan more your will buy good stuff with everybody’s blessing (wife, kids, in-laws etc). Soon after marriage, I took my wife to buy a tv.My budget was $200.00 and I didn’t had any plan which tv to buy. My wife liked Sony model, because she was familiar with only that brand name from India and she wanted that. But I was looking for low end models to fit in my budget. My wife asked me to buy it. I said my budget won’t allow us to buy it, we can buy Daewoo TV model same size as Sony and I argued that we would get $ 100 as mail in rebate. She got angry and whisked away from the shop and sat in the car. So we didn’t buy anything that day. There after. I’m using formula (Plan, Budget and Buy) that first I go for good brand and news.com reviews and then we would narrow one or two models.Finally after debate about pros a...

According to a recent study by GE Money, the average woman spends 399 hours and 46 minutes shopping each year. That adds up to nearly three years of retail therapy over one's lifetime. Total hour per year is 8790 - 400(for shopping) we have 8390 for other activity the main one is sleeping at 8 hours per day then total time for sleeping is 2920, and we need to work to fuel shopping including commute I'm guessing 10 hours per work day 2300. Self care, body wash and make-up we need 4 hours per day that itself 1460. So our final number is 6680. Oops I forgot to add cooking and dine out 2 hour per day. Final number is 6680+730=7410 So we have free time to spend with family is 980.We are spending only 11% of our time with kids and family. Is this the way life should be?