My husband and I figure folks often need a goal for money.

Something more than "avoid trouble." It has to be something that inspires or is fun.

Billions and billions go into crafting advertisements and store designs of all kinds. Companies are not messing around in such a fiercely consumerist society, advertising professionals are good at what they do.

So we figure it helps to have an actual counterbalancing goal tugging folks in another direction.

For background, I grew up rural poor and was a silent kid with holes and bleach stains in her clothes. I read in the school libraries during lunches. Lead to me running across finance books for teens.

As an adult, investing is a hobby for me, like gardening. The two feel substantially the same. Choose and plant seeds or bulbs, observe them growing or going through winter, keep an eye on the weather, harvest and replanting even more from the seeds, shoots or roots they give off.

It's peaceful and fun. Harvesting is a perk, but actually growing the stuff and feeling the seasons is the best part for both plants and investments.

Just thoughts anyway. To me it just seems fairly normal for folks to live paycheck to paycheck in a deeply consumerist society.

Mostly I just hope everyone finds something to work on that makes them feel actually happy and fascinated day to day, instead of going for advertisement promises that leave an empty or baffled feeling once achieved.