No, not Household Finance the company.....household finances in real life. I seem to remember back in the day, when my parents were very, very frugal in their spending. We didn't get everything we wanted. Granted, we didn't have that much to want in the first place then.
Then came the 80's, when I started my family, and everyone had boats, dunebuggies, campers, and the kids had Atari games, then Nintendo, skateboards, pagers, you name it.
NOW, those kids have newer houses, bigger toys, and more debt than some entire countries. How did we get this way, anyway? Did we fail to pass along our was of life? Wasn't it supposed to trickle down?
Consequently, with all this debt, we have more foreclosures, more unemployment, more bankruptcies, more repossed toys, etc. etc. etc.
And, all the kids these days have so much more to want for, thanks to modern technology, advertising and the internet. I am in no way saying that our modern society is bad, nor is all the wonderful technology bad. It's just all in how we use it, I guess.
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