You didnt disagree you engaged in strawman. We had 1 TV we kept for 20 years. We never ate out. It wasnt that clothes were more or less, we used hand me downs and 4 to 5 different kids wore them. We had 1 phone line for 6 people not 6. We didnt go on exotic vacations even though we were upper middle class. My next door neighbor (a very successful dr) kept a Buick Skylark for 15 years. We just lived differently back then as did most people. The world is a different place today.