1000% agree with this sentiment; we've been blowing through cash all year, and I cannot imagine how, e.g., friends who make 1/4 the income can even survive, let alone thrive. I've never felt this way before, where I'm actually concerned about how friends and family will get by, without even taking into account the possibility of wide scale layoffs.
You're right, it becomes habit. I think about the times when my wife and I went shopping for things for our house, and once we started breaking out the wallet and became an addiction, and all of a sudden we found ourselves spending way more than we thought we were going to and we couldn't stop until we made a conscious effort to stop.
1000% agree with this sentiment; we've been blowing through cash all year, and I cannot imagine how, e.g., friends who make 1/4 the income can even survive, let alone thrive. I've never felt this way before, where I'm actually concerned about how friends and family will get by, without even taking into account the possibility of wide scale layoffs.
You're right, it becomes habit. I think about the times when my wife and I went shopping for things for our house, and once we started breaking out the wallet and became an addiction, and all of a sudden we found ourselves spending way more than we thought we were going to and we couldn't stop until we made a conscious effort to stop.