Yep, we’re out there.....and probably in here.
>> Then, in the drop of a Dow Jones average, frugality suddenly became fashionable
Bull.
That’s how it SHOULD have been, when the subprime “crisis” hit and high fliers had the rug jerked out from under them.
Those of us who lived within our means, saved, and paid off debt SHOULD have pWn3d those debt monkeys. The value of their accumulated stuff should have approached zero, and we savers should have been able to acquire it at ten cents on the dollar, while they take up residence into Cardboard Box City, permanently broke and unable to ever again repeat their foolish excess.
But, alas, it was not to be. They are just being bailed out at our expense.
Cup of moral hazard, anyone?
Let me convert this pile of trash to the truth in short form.
“WE the dims have ****ed up this nation so badly that you will never enjoy being affluent as a nation again. **** you all... get used to it...
love,
the party of the ass”.
My cheapskateness comes from having very simple tastes.
Being called a “Consumer” instead of a Citizen for the past decade pushed me into the realm of the third-finger salute to advertisers and retail establishmets.
I believe that more of it can be attributed to how one is raised rather than how much one has.
I was taught to be frugal so I wouldn’t have to be frugal later and what I learned is that frugality becomes a way of life and I hate wasting money on anything. Hence my utter hatred of wasteful government...and there’s no better example of “wasteful” anywhere.