Some types of extravagant spending:
1...Extravagant weddings: Americans now spend an average of $30,000 on getting married and the more affluent often shell out six figures.
2.,,“Premium” coffee-to-go: It’s okay to treat yourself occasionally to take-out coffee; it certainly tastes better than most home or office brew. But twentysomethings buy $3 java drinks.
3...Expensive option packages on new cars: Thanks to all-too-easy credit, our average-priced new car now sells for almost $30,000.
4...Cigarettes: We puffed away $88 billion worth of tobacco products in the U.S. last year, and people in New York City now fork out $7 for a pack of smokes.
5...Fuel-inefficient vehicles: In the mid-1980s, we all questioned the sanity of people still driving gas guzzlers – and now most of us are spending $40 to $60 a pop filling up our own.
6...Christmas shopping: It’s not what we blow on holiday gifts -- $450 billion last year -- but how thoughtlessly we spend much of that sum that’s become a colossal waste.
2006-11-14
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