My mom sent me an email with this photo of the Water Bridge in Germany. It's pretty much a canal/river on top of a normal river. It cost 500 million Euros.

One of the things that I've been struggling with is how I spent my money. I have a good job and I get paid pretty well, but I find myself reluctant when it comes to making unnecessary purchases. I always ask myself why I need to buy myself luxury items when there are other people out there that need that money a lot more than I do. When I see things like the Water Bridge it saddens me to think that the 10% of people that own 90% of the world's wealth (or whatever that statistic is) don't really give a hoot about the other 90% that has squat.

I have to confess that I spent a lot of money when I first started making my own income a couple years ago, but people change. Just think of what you could be spending your money on next time you make a trip to Best Buy or somewhere.