"Goomba38" > wrote in message
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> PeterLucas wrote:
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>> Just a question.......... why is it that most Yanks are on a 'strict
>> budget' or any sort of budget?
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>> The only people we see on 'budgets' over here are people on the dole
>> (welfare.... no food stamps here!!) or lower income wage earners that
>> have 'gone beyond their means'.
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> Perhaps because as a single person she likes living within her income debt
> free yet also likes to indulge in costly travel and other expenditures
> that she budgets her money for. And all the while she maintains that house
> (and payments) in Arizona while living elsewhere for 3 month periods of
> time.


Not on a budget here. But one wants to use money wisely and live healthy.
It is a discipline of sorts. Surely, people in other countries do the same,
I would think.

Dee Dee