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tomsang

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Americans are fed up of being frugal!!!!
« on: May 15, 2013, 08:22:46 AM »
Americans are done being frugal. All that pent up frugalnish is reflecting in a large increase in restaurant spending.

http://m.nbcnews.com/business/restaurants-sales-all-time-high-recession-fades-1C9910479
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Rich M

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Re: Americans are fed up of being frugal!!!!
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2013, 10:48:59 AM »
Hilarious. 

More perpetuation of the idea that frugality = suffering.

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Re: Americans are fed up of being frugal!!!!
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2013, 12:01:15 PM »
Quote from: cjottawa on May 15, 2013, 08:53:21 AM
"That's what losing sounds like."

You mean peace & quiet?
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Re: Americans are fed up of being frugal!!!!
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2013, 02:25:10 PM »
I suppose it's personal taste, but having to tolerate a bunch of people "whooping it up" to the sort of "music" one could blast* is my idea of deprivation.


*And oh! what I'd give for enough hand grenades to actually blast some of it :-)
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Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!