westend wrote:
jwmII wrote:
How about the Retirees who are in route home from spending the last two weeks over at one of the many Indian Casinos in our state and stop by your place of business where you do RV repair and they want their water heater or their generator or their RV whatever repaired and then ***** to the high heavens about your bill and their being on a fixed income. These tight wads are out their by the thousands and the Lord only knows how much they dropped at the casino.
You would be surprised by the number of old farts like me that are Children of the Children of the Great Depression. Those depression era children tried to instill in their own kids the ideas of frugality and protecting their money that made survival possible in the '30's. An awful lot of them succeeded in passing along those types of ideals.
Here's a test to help one identify oneself for this behavior: Is it a Sin to not accept someone's castoffs if you know that they would just landfill the item if you don't accept it?
Ha, it's too bad that this last recession didn't teach anyone a ^&*($@!ing thing!
People are spending again like $ is water. US personal debt ratio is at an all time high I believe and Canadians are on average waaaay overextended, moreso than the US.
The only upside is I'm gonna need new car and truck again in a couple years and waiting for all the re--tards to have their bad financial decisions catch up with them so I can get a couple big fuel su cking vehicles cheap like I did in 08-09.
Does this make me cheap or just opportunistic? lol
