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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you compare a middle-class lifestyle today to 50 or even 25 years ago, we eat out a lot more, have a lot more technology, have better car, travel a lot more, and have bigger houses.

See e.g., The 90s Weren't that Great: https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-90s-werent-that-great
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When many of us state that, we get called "boomers" (despite not being a boomer at all)

Yes things cost more now.  But yes, also, we now (majority of people) spend way more on things that either didn't exist 30+ years ago or simply was not done much then.  Growing up, we had one rotary dial phone in our house (my parents were too cheap/too poor to have a touch tone and pay extra), we got to eat out 1-3 times per month.  And "eating out" was often simply takeout pizza for the family.  There was no getting coffee, lunch out at work, ubereats or takeout.  My parents took lunches to work and any drinks they wanted went with them in a thermos.  I had to take my own lunch for school or use my bday/xmas/allowance/chore money to pay if I wanted to eat lunch at school.   
We had one B&W TV (it was 1994 before my parents owned a Color TV).  We had rabbit ears/antenna, no Cable, no streaming, etc.

My mom was a SAHM and the youngest kid was in 2nd grade before we had a 2nd car in the family.  And we didn't live somewhere with public transport.  It was we lived without a car or mom got up early and drove dad to work to have the car to run errands during the day.  But you don't need to do that more than grocery shopping once per week, and you also then do your target type shopping if needed at same time, normally on Sat or Sunday after church.

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