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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 6077946, member: 31286&quot;]OMG, we live on different planets, man.&nbsp; Those folks who gave their kids one orange for christmas and survived the depression were absolutely frugal, that doesn&#039;t mean they were able to save money.&nbsp; It&#039;s really not a matter of opinion, it&#039;s statistics and fact.&nbsp; They used a much higher percentage of their income on day to day expenses than we do today - although at least 40% of Americans today do not have any significant savings.&nbsp; If people waste money on trivial things today at a higher rate in the past, which I think they might, it isn&#039;t because the want to as much as because they can.&nbsp; That expensive rifle your refer to was both a rarety and in some cases their everyday tool, unless they were the landowner.&nbsp; And that - doesn&#039;t count.&nbsp; Check out net worth by percentage today, then cut it in half in real dollars and you might be somewhere near 19th and early 20th century life - especially in the city where after the civil way the majority of people in the US lived.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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