It Pays To Be Cheap

Your thoughts on frugality

I wrote a little while ago about inflation and budgeting and the question of what, exactly, my grandparents meant when they told their children in the 1950s or 1960s, “We can’t afford that.”

I don’t mean that I’ve never heard of or can’t imagine poverty. What I mean is, these are families which had multiple children, sent at least some of them to college…