We are surrounded by enormous wealth, which is a great blessing. We can get amazing stuff for almost nothing, delivered to our house quickly. <\/p>\n
But this blessing comes with its own challenges. For me, one of the challenges is buyer’s remorse. E.g., I get a new pair of water shoes (for kayaking and such), and then over the next 12 months I see 25 different brands that I might like better. <\/p>\n
Someone might be tempted to think that if you do your research before you buy, this won’t be a problem. But that’s not true. First, you can’t possibly do enough research, and second, new products are coming on the market all the time. <\/p>\n
The solution, I think, is contentment. We have to learn that good enough is good enough. Or, as the old guys in Second Hand Lions said, learn to do without. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are surrounded by enormous wealth, which is a great blessing. We can get amazing stuff for almost nothing, delivered to our house quickly. But this blessing comes with its own challenges. For me, one of the challenges is buyer’s remorse. E.g., I get a new pair of water shoes (for kayaking and such), and … Continue reading “The urgent need for contentment in a product-rich environment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}