I don't know about you but I don't spend very much on.. anything really. I try to reuse things, I repurpose things. Most of my cloths are at least 8 years old at this point. When I build a new PC it takes me months to be willing to pull the trigger and I look at release cycles for various hardware to know when the current gen will go on sale. Why spend more than you have to even if you could afford it? Archive: https://archive.today/fn2kx From the post: >>Many Americans are pinching pennies, exhausted by high prices and stubborn inflation. The well-off are spending with abandon. The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets. Those consumers now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%. All this means that economic growth is unusually reliant on rich Americans continuing to shell out. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimated that spending by the top 10% alone accounted for almost one-third of gross domestic product.