Having grown up in a poverty mentality home with poverty mentality mom and dad and relatives and in a blue collar town, my only saving grace was that my mom, as frugal as she was, managed to have very wealthy friends. But I KNOW how poverty mentality feels. Not good.
My parents chose for us a beautiful home, in shabby disrepair, in a well-heeled neighborhood so that even though it took close to ten years to make the house liveable, we all had a good perspective on how life SHOULD be, not just how my relatives saw life after having lived through the Depression.
Poverty mentality is anti-LOA. Being cautious with money, careful not to pollute or live to excess or overstep your place in the world is not anti-LOA.
The easiest way to figure out if something is anti-LOA is by how it makes you FEEEEEEEEEEL doing it. If rejecting Walmart makes you feel good because they abuse their workers and ruin small town economies on a global scale and you feel good recycling and buying clothes on consignment because they are in too good shape and shouldn't just be thrown away...you are being pro-LOA.
If you feel guilty, sad, bad or martyrish being frugal or that you will be punished if you don't worry every second about the world and the state of things, you are being anti-LOA.
Doing what is good for my home, my planet and the people and species on it does not make me feel bad in the least.
Jennifer  |