Throwing money at a problem

Throwing money at things makes us feel powerful and grown-up when instead we might need to stand back and see if we couldn't do better by changing the situation another way.
I know I'm as guilty of this one as anybody.
Throwing money at it doesn't alleviate the problem,it merely delays it ,puts it off until the next time when it goes wrong again . And it will ,of belive me ,it will ..it always does ..
We tend to think that if we spend more money on something it will solve the problem ..sometimes we need an approach of time and attention and finding out ,like our grand parents, who didn't throw away things and get new ones when it stopped working ..