POST 8 

MONEY AND ADVERTISING

Money, Money, Money what an issue! I am from a different city so when I came to study to Santiago, I had to move out of my parents house and start living on my own. In that moment mom and dad said: you'll have a $15.000 chilean pesos budget (this was on 2006) so you need to organize your self, and to distribute your money wisely. As you can see at young age (I was 18) I started to be responsible of this. 

So if you ask me how do I spend my money, I could say that I spend most of it buying food, and cleaning stuffs. I'm a saver, I go to 3 places, in each store I see if they have the product, write the price on my cellpone, and after that I compare, this method allow me to buy in the cheaper store! hahaha I'm a crazy woman I know.

Of course as a woman when I get into a store ... specially retail and clothes one, I love everything in it, and I want to buy anything, but as economist says "there are multiple needs, but a limited amount of resources". So in that point I hate designers, and people who works in advertising and marketig, because they made you believe that you really need all that stuff.

I'm a under control consumer, I'm the kind of girl who wants everything, but at the same time, I know where my priorities are, so If I need to pay the bills I would not spend this money in another stuff.

I consume alcohol and (sadly) cigarettes, but I think that no one should promote the consume of this substance. Because they are really bad habits and also unhealthy substsances.

As I said before the economic model affects the perception of needs, makes you wish things that you normally can't afford, but that you can actually buy thanks to a credit card. Also makes you believe that your happiness is determined for what you have or buy