A friend gifted us with a large TV monitor and our family has begun watching movies together on the big screen sometimes in the evenings.
I had not thought that it would make a difference to have and experience such a thing because I have a phone and laptop and have been careful to not indulge in the desire for more material things.
But as soon as we added the TV to our household, we could feel how we rose in status. Like many other families in America, technology in our household is now expanded.
And psychologically, it adds a bit of buffering and a feeling of warmth and security because we have a little more now than just bare-minimum basics.
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