Spending and Materialism

http://moneyandvalues.blogspot.com/2008/01/battling-roots-of-materialism-by.html
In this little gem, the writer makes a link between materialism and low self esteem. So I considered it for a moment, and lo and behold, for me, it's correct. Track when I blew my budget out of the water, and low self esteem was right there making the universe ache for me. Now its probably not 100%, and I don't think spending is a cause of my low self esteem. But it's a pretty good indicator of how I feel.

What did we do before the internet? I have so much good reading material on the web these days!