You are right - they way DH and I did things was very much like our parents and grandparents. My mom was not this way, but my grandmother was frugal and always gardened and canned. I learned so much from her and my MIL. I learned how to handle money from my dad and my husband from his dad.
But I think many have gotten away from that - maybe it has something to do with the breakdown of the family unit. I don’t know.
That, affluenza and the intentional redirection of us toward a debt economy, among other factors, I suppose.