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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The above response related to this person's response: I'm trying to say that we want is based on our life experiences and those are based in part, on money. So you want mangoes because you've had them and liked them and you've had them because you could afford them. If you could never afford them, you wouldn't know you liked them so you may not want them. Maybe you'd want an apple instead.

The issue isn't whether we had mangoes, like mangoes, and want more mangoes based on our experience. This thread is about people who like/want mangoes for whatever reason (even if they never heard of them before). Some will get them whenever they want them and others will assess whether it is worth it in that moment to have them again. Obviously, we aren't talking about people who don't want mangoes or guac, smoothies or gas. We also aren't talking about how our experiences shape our desire for something. There can be no experience with something (let's say a kid says "Mom, buy me a Godiva chocolate bar" and the mom has never heard of it before and it isn't for her anyway. Her desire or lack thereof to buy it isn't based on her experiences. But whether she decides to buy it or anything else (so long as she can afford it) is largely based on whether she's a mindful buyer or not.[/quote]

And part of the reason it feels so nonsensical to the people who say "get the guac" without a second thought is that someone else's decisions about what to spend money on is so personal!

My immigrant father would have told us "no" had we dared order a $2 soda when eating out as kids* - but when I was a full-grown adult, with a well-paying job, I mentioned to my parents that cherries were $8/lbs (DC area, early spring) and I wasn't going to buy them.   When my mom visited me a few weeks later, she said my dad insisted that she buy me some cherries.

To him, fruit was worth the extra cost - but soda wasn't.

*pretty sure he'd never tell his grandkids "no"! :lol: 
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Wld your dad have said no to cherries at that price when you were a kid?[/quote]

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