[ClearCase_guy]

People are financially illiterate. They used to teach this stuff in schools, but that stopped a long time ago.

Also, our whole culture is obsessed with consumerism and impressing other people with all the swell stuff you bought, or the fabulous vacation you had. It’s a shallow existence.

[Murder of Crows]

“...our whole culture is obsessed with consumerism and impressing other people with all the swell stuff you bought, or the fabulous vacation you had. It’s a shallow existence.”
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Spot on. You just described half of the people in Southern California.

[griswold3]

Live below your means. Debt is slavery. Enjoy the decline, Progs.

[ridesthemiles]

Added to by 20 +++ years of PARTICIPATION TROPHIES

GREAT RESULTS, EH???

[cpdiii]

I owe nothing except the mortgage on my house at a very low interest rate. It is only 120 k. I have enough money to pay that loan off. Today I earn more interest in CDs than the interest on my mortgage. When and if that reverses I will pay it off.

My grandparents who knew the depression and raised me, taught me well.