[The KG9 Kid]

"... Establish smart spending habits. Live like you're poor. How do you do that? Drive your cars into the ground, don't eat out very much, avoid expensive and potentially unhealthy processed foods, buy food in bulk, buy just enough clothes to fit your needs, and use public transportation. ... Use credit cards only as a convenience to avoid carrying cash; limit your credit card spending so that you can easily pay off the balance each month. Make every dollar count with your spending, so you can free up money to invest in the future."

Good advice for those who want to waste their youth eating Top Ramen sandwiches in the expectation that their lives won't be cut short leaving them free to live their old and weak years in what will sure to be some archaic understanding of 'comfort'.

Not burdening yourself with unsupported debt is good advice, but the rest of that stuff looks like a recipe to live your life in the background like a schlub.

But I understand completely that not everyone can live their life like Errol Flynn.

[Niuhuru]

” the depletion of your financial resources in your retirement years due to high bills for medical and long-term care expenses.”

And supporting endless out of wedlock children on welfare via single mothers. You have a good point on not making the youth of this nation live on Ramen noodles if they can avoid it.

[Persevero]

As Tom Petty memorably said, You don’t have to live like a refugee.

I have been under the poverty line for most of my life, but honestly, live a little once in a while.