Overspending can also be sparked by a person's desire to give the image that they're in a higher financial bracket than they really are, she said. It's a denial of their present state. She listed toys, computers, video games and gambling as major money-drainers.
People think that once they get a bigger house or a bigger car, they're going to be satisfied.
For a moment, he continued, people may even feel that satisfaction. Both were killed. He stated that God must be a part of people's lives for them to escape the obsession of affluence. If you don't touch the transcendent, you get caught up in the new Mercedes, the upscale. When you leave out the transcendent, you don't cope.