[dfwgator]

Keep in mind, back then there was less stuff to buy. We didn’t have all of the gadgets we have today, heck a lot of families didn’t even have a car.

[Richard Kimball]

Yeppir. Most of the homes in my old neighborhood were 2BR 1Bath. No central heat or air. Lots of families had one car. One phone line in the hall. One B&W TV. Part of it is tech improvement, but I went by my old house and we had four people living in a 2 BR 1 Bath house of about 900 square feet.

The only kids I knew who had their own bedrooms were either only children or their sib was the opposite sex.

I'm not knocking living well, but many of us have developed expectations that are pretty high. Most of us still live far more opulently than any other group of people in the history of the world.