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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 712939, member: 12789&quot;]Wow!&nbsp; People have more options now for spending their dosh, much more so than is necessary than at any other time in history.&nbsp; Frankly I look at what my parents had when I was born, and they got by with far less - but then they did not even have a colour television, or practically any other of the trivial and sundry &quot;necessities&quot; that we now in the early 21st century cannot even fathom living without - cellphones, internet, personal computers, iPods.&nbsp; Even in the second and third world countries I have travelled in, people have far more now than Americans did 40 + years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you cannot fathom this, I have a 1975 Sears Catalog in some box somewhere, the prices of clothing, TV&#039;s, tools, everything was very high by comparison to what wages were then all those years ago.&nbsp; TV&#039;s frankly cost more then in real dollars, and more when adjusted for inflation than they do now.&nbsp; Practically everything cost more in terms of relative spending power then than it does now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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