Need or Want

[Immi666]

I'm doing an exercise with my Brownies in a few weeks where each group is given a load of pictures and they have to decide which things are needs and which things are wants. So far I have:- clothes, education, family, fire, food, friends, gameboy, house, make up, sweets, tv and water. I'd like to have a few more things, does anyone have any suggestions?

[Eve]

Jewellery.
Medicine.

[raysparx1]

A Car, Toothpaste, Pets, Electricity,Phone, Computer, carpets, Beds, Microwave, Toaster.Central heating.

[Octavius]

Money
A job/career
Holidays
Love/compassion
Public transport
Communication (letters/emails/TV news etc)

[Llamatron]

Soap (meaning sanitation in general)

Religion

[saxy_jag]

Love, books, liberty, choice, music ...

[Immi666]

thanks guys. some great answers.

[mibn2cweus]

♫ "Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you" ♫

The Hollies

[Binky]

Computer, lemonade, holidays

[Kingaroo]

When you say clothes, do you mean a coat in winter, or the latest trendy sneakers and sparkly slogan teeshirt? i'd recomend making that one a bit more specific. Same with food -- there is a lot of variety, some you need, some you don't.

And fire -- most childrens' experience is only with a fireplace or campfire, which are purely for fun. If you mean heat for your house, or a heat source for cooking, say that. Brownies are very literal.

How do you think the group will define "need"? If you have a troublemaker kid like me in the group, she'll point out that human beings survived for millenia without clothes or school (though they're pretty necessary to be a normal person in today's western culture.)

[madamspud169]

kitchen stuff like fridges and washing machines, bed, exercise, money, health, pets, telephone, iron, nappies

[flipflop104]

Here is the original "5 basic needs" theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarch y_of_needs

Anything over and above these are supposed to be "wants"