We live in a materialistic world. Just ask Madonna! Most everything in our lives is centered on money, and the love of it. Sometimes, it makes me wonder what kind of lives my children will live. Will they know the value of a dollar? Or, better yet, will they know that there are some things you should never trade for money? Money is a powerful thing in our society, but, when it comes down to it, money will pass away like everything else.
             There are numerous things I wouldn't ever give up for any amount of money. Take family, friendships, and true love, for examples. How could you give up your morals, your character, or the things you believe in for something as transient as money? You cannot put a price on the intangible things in your life that you hold close to your soul. I would never trade the values my mother and father have instilled in my life.
             There is no amount of money or any kind of bribe that would make me give up things that my relatives have given me. Whether the teddy bear my grandfather gave me when we were going through a hard time, or that old end table in our house that my great grandmother used to put her bible on, there is no way that special things from my family could ever be traded. Even though the old jewelry of my grandmothers collects dust in the drawer, it is special to me because she wants me to have it.
             The tangible things we own are easier to price, but some things, I could never part with. Possessions are just possessions, mainly, but when something has personal significance, it is a different story. There are specific rules in my house when it comes to selling things at a yard sale, on Ebay, etc. You cannot sell anything that has a name, has ever had a name, or anything we would cringe at the though of selling. For example, my older sister played a flute in the band her sixth, seventh, and eighth grade years of school. The flute, named Frederica, was handed down to me when ...