The Observer
Just splurge a little
Even a bad economy is no excuse for hyperfrugality
Hard times produce neurotic behavior. There's nothing neurotic, of course, about the brute fear that consumes parents with three children who have both lost their jobs. There is nothing neurotic about trading down from meat to SpaghettiOs for dinner, or staging a family vacation in the backyard. Nothing neurotic, in short, about doing what you have to do to get ... (Full article: 912 words)
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