Originally Posted by Skinny
Young people need to work harder and stop buying $6 coffee! By Gawt! They should take peanut butter sammiches to work! $20 an hour is a lot of money!
I agree that inflation has outpaced income but the further we get away from the generation that lived through the depression, the more wasteful we’ve become. I was raised to conserve everything. Lights off, thermostat up (or down in winter), reuse everything possible (sandwich bags, tin foil, styrofoam cups, plastic containers just to name a few). Younger folks now are wasteful (using disposable utensils once for every day eating, throwing out food just because it is past the best by date, drinking bottled water for all your water intake and the list goes on. One can make the few dollars they have go further by conserving what they have and buying what they can afford. Its like my great grandmother said, “a woman can throw more out the back door than a man can bring in the front.