Creatures of Habit

Creatures of Habit was Originally Posted on December 31, 2006 by lavarock

A coworker used to have a plaque on her desk. It read:

If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got”.

Think about it. We humans are creatures of habit. That is we do the same things over and over; sometimes learning from our mistakes and sometimes not.

There also is a famous quote that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

We need to learn from things. We need to pass along the knowledge.

Each year, countless children burn themselves because they don’t know “hot”. WE know hot, but we have not taught the children, thus they get burned.

Someone recently told me that they might be coming into money. They didn’t want to tell me too many details, but it appears that this woman in Africa has all these millions of dollars… I told them that this SCAM has been going on for years! The “bank examination” scam is another one. “Hi, I am a security officer at your bank. A clerk is stealing money and we need YOUR help…”. Sigh!

Each night there are countless Infomercials with get-rich-quick schemes. Whether it is real estate, Internet kiosks, stock programs or websites, there is someone who can make you a millionaire if you will just send them some money. Ok, so think about it. There is a company who wants you to “invest” in vending machines. The “best locations” are still available. They have been selling these things for years and the “Best” locations are still available? Then what did previous buyers get? If the deal is such a money-maker, why does the company need YOU in the middle? They would put their own machines in the “best” locations and pay someone minimum wage to load the machines. Why let YOU make millions when they could? Well, could it be that they make their money selling machines?

It is not much different than a company I saw that sells you a website. You don’t even need to have products to sell, they will provide them and even drop ship them to your customers. So you pay them to rent part of their website and advertise their products and you are supposed to become a millionaire? Nope!

There was a “Millionaire” who had these books that told you how you too could become a millionaire. If that was really the case, that he wanted everyone to share in his good fortune, then why did he charge for the book? Since he was a millionaire he could afford to give it away.

It is not just get-rich-quick schemes I am talking about. What about SPAM? Just today I got 40 emails all slightly different, telling me that I could drop my mortgage rate. Each was sent from a different email account and had different rates in them. Why would I respond to spam? I won’t but somebody MUST be, because if these emails did not bring in any business, they would stop wasting time sending them out.

Here is a thought for those people wanting to check out the rates… The message was sent to you by someone who does not operate a valid business, otherwise they would have your name spelled correctly. They would have a valid email address and a real business address. They would have a toll free telephone number. Since these idiots do not, how stupid do you have to be to send these idiots your social security number and personal information?

Do you really want to buy drugs from people like the above? People MUST be. What in the world would these people sell you when you think you are buying something else. Do I really want to buy drugs from someone in Russia? People do.

Here in Kona, the Safeway cycles through sales on 3 group of frozen dinners. The brands on sale this week will be on sale again in 3 weeks. This has been going on for years. So I buy the items I want every 3 weeks. Why waste money on an off week? So if your store has items on sale, why not buy them and store them. Why buy toilet paper or paper towels every few weeks when you can wait for a sale and stock up. Is your house so small that you can’t store a few things under the bed or in the closet?

A hurricane bears down on a coastal town. Everyone runs out to buy water and candles and so on. People! Water keeps! Candles rarely evaporate! Batteries will keep a year or more! Why wait for a disaster to head your way t o prepare? By the way, there are flashlights that you wind up or shake to make light. The same holds true for radios. There are flashlights with LED’s in the. You may never need to buy another bulb as these LEDs last forever. Over the years you have replaced so many batteries and bulbs that it makes your head spin, so learn by your mistakes!

If you don’t want to learn by your own mistakes, then watch those daytime TV shows and learn from someone else’s mistakes.

You cannot change someone else, thus if they cheated on someone else, they will cheat on you.

Weekly I see shows where women loan money to guys they just met. I may be old school, but I think men should not borrow money from women.

Another thing people have not learned. Never put anyone on your cell phone account! It will NOT work out. Also, there is no reason a personal cell phone bill should exceed $30 or so. It should NEVER cost you hundreds of dollars a month. If it does then you have the wrong plan or need to get a 2 cent a minute calling card and a pocket full of payphone quarters!

You made resolutions last year and then never followed them, so review these mistakes and don’t repeat them. You have a whole year ahead of you to make NEW mistakes!

By the way, I don’t proofread these blogs anymore. I found that I was spending hours correcting spelling and making it eary t oread, only to find that nobody reads it anyway. I learned

Hauoli Makahiki hou! (Happy New Year!)