I agree allan, I also have some friends who have not been affected at all by the current economic climate but have changed their spending habits as if they have. I’m not sure if it is out of fear, guilt or just a strategy but even those not affected are behaving like they are.
I realize i have changed my paradigm as well, the original plan was to take advantage of the situation as much as possible, be a hermit crab, take the house, car and everything else from the overindulgent in due time. After I stole some FB’s house, his car and wife just didn’t interest me as much. Either the tin man got a heart or the lion didn’t find courage, jury is still out on that one. Where the jury did come back is on the fact that no matter how bad things got or get, they stay the same, we are just people trying to enjoy the time between birth and death, the ups and the downs have their purpose. I better go to bed, the laker loss has me out of sorts.