Buying things, or just consuming them.
Over the years, I’ve managed to show more than my share of brand loyalty to automobile manufacturers. Let’s look at the vehicles I’ve owned (with a couple of my wife’s thrown in): 65 Ford Mustang My first ever car, (I wrote about it the other day) and chock full of maintenance problems starting at day […]
If you watched the Super Bowl, you might have seen the latest in the big-bucks Pepsi ads: “Brown and bubbly.” Go ahead, click, nothing worse their than a can of Pepsi wearing headphones. But now? When we have diarrea at our house? Instead of saying “I’ve got the squirts” we’re gonna say “I’m having a […]
I’m probably doing enough worrying for the both of us. Sooner or later, things are gonna have to change… “The free-spending ways of the American consumer kept the saving rate — normally the percentage of after-tax income socked away — in negative territory for a seventh straight month. For all of 2005, the rate was […]