Money Illusion

An illusion is a magician the mind hires without telling you. Money Illusion is one of its favourite tricks.

What the illusion teaches is not distrust of the eyes but respect for the gap between seeing and knowing. In that gap live most of our avoidable mistakes.

The housewife with her kitchen budget runs a tighter ship than most finance departments. She knows the difference between price and cost — one is on the tag, the other is on the month.

Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. The idea has done its job if, the next time it happens to you, you smile before you react.