What do I need? What do I want? What’s the difference? Needs Needs are essential for us to survive. Water Clothing Food Shelter Wants • Wants – are things that make our lives better. You don’t need them to survive. • Car • Holidays • Mobile Phone • Tablets Goods and Services • GOODS –products we can buy and take home with us. These are tangible as we can see and touch them. • SERVICES – Something someone does for us which helps us. We cannot see and take the physical object away with us so it is intangible.