And then I open a magazine (another luxury!) and some celebrety has just spent millions of dollars on a wedding, or a summer house, or x celebrity has requested a refurbished hotel room for their stay, or whatever and I find that appalling to spend so much on such frivolous things when I wonder how many mouths could be fed with that, how many lives saved, etc.
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I suppose I feel it's so sad that there are so many starving children (and adults) and homeless and sick and dying in our world, it seems just so wrong.

What's everyone else think?
I wonder exactly the same Ausgirl.. I always think if I won lotto, I would save the world ... nice pipe dream I guess.

Another flip side of spending is the affect that consumerism has on the environment.... all that waste, and all those resources being used to make more and more stuff.

ETA - I'm not perfect, I'm as guilty as the next person of buying crap I don't need... but in answer to the OP, yes I think about it