Tabs, you finally said something that I absolutely agree with without a shred of doubt. :) Sadly, I have to admit that I have slightly expensive taste and it will be a little bit hard on me. :( I grew up very poor and unlike other people who grow up that way, I want the finer things I couldn't have when I was younger. Well, it was fun while it lasted.

When I buy I buy quality, that is what my Granny always believed and she passed it on to Daddy and Daddy to me. Daddy in paticular is a saver.

That is not to say ya buy the Deluxe mdl, but ya buy a good brand. Ya buy wholesale if ya can.

For U boyz near or in Big Cities just go an check out your local estate auction houses. That is where to buy stuff ya want.

Instead of goin down and buyin your kid $50 or $100 Tenny shoes...Head on over to Wally World and $10 later the kids got shoes...That is where we are headin real quick...

This little downturn is going to wipe out a lot of the Middle Class, people were just livin on fumes for the past 7 years anyway.

Now I think America is going to go back to a 1910 standard of living. Much smaller MC, larger class of working class people.