Have recently been working with a teaching tool, that I call "wants or needs". This "game", has a list of 50 or so, things that the population cannot live without. Each person marks these items as a need or a want, depending on their personality. After you mark all of them, pretend that your income has dropped by one third. Retake the excercise, deleting more of the items. Most folks end up with 10-16 things, that they just can't live without. Depression era women are around 6 to 8 items. Country folks, 8-11 items (and that includes feed for livestock), city folks 16-18 items (or at least most of them, that I spoke to). I have discovered that lipstick and expensive hair care items are a priority to many city folks, but they do not understand why someone would need to buy feed. Oh! cell phones are "way up" on the list with all demographic areas.
At the end of the game today, I asked my favorite Senior Clara, a question. Being a newly married woman during the Great Depression, what were the most important things any person would absolutely need. Clara responded, "food, water and a warm place to stay...everything else is just a WANT".
So what are your needs?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment