Yesterday I saw some interesting tweets and a blog post regarding monthly budgets being a game. It got me thinking and in my opinion turning a tight budget as a game for kicks and laughs lessens the important lesson a budget teaches. Which is self-control.
Many people who place themselves on it think that they cannot survive on one and thus test the waters. Yet millions of families and people have no choice but to live on a budget, which they do survive on it.
Now only does it make living on a budget a game takes away the value of it, it also causes people to think less of a budget. Like being on a budget is silly or makes people just cheap. Which for the most part, could not be further away from the truth.
Many families who live on a budget do not do this for kicks and laughs like some bloggers, or do not do it just to be cheap-for them it really is a matter of surviving. People need to see that in this economy, many people have to be frugal and this is not a game.
Do you think living on a budget for games is wrong? I want your opinions to be heard.