Originally Posted by
BruceBC
darn, hate when I have to spend money on things like car repairs uggggggg!
I was lately revisiting Calvin Trillin's "Tummy Trilogy" and "Feeding a Yen," two of the best examples of food writing I know. (Four examples? One is a trilogy, after all...)
Anyway, he writes about his late wife Alice, who had her own brand of economics: if you don't purchase something you want, you then have "saved" that money to be spent on something else. So: if you don't buy the big-screen TV, you now have that equivalent amount of cash to drop on kilts.
Not being an economist, nor playing one on TV, this makes as much sense as any other economic theory to me.
:ootd:
Dr. Charles A. Hays
The Kilted Perfesser
Laird in Residence, Blathering-at-the-Lectern
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