Hi, Prof. Stanley: I’m willing to participate in any surveys/studies you may be conducting in the future.

Your book describes my parents in the 1980s except my dad was frugal and my mom wasn’t. Obviously, they would have accumulated more wealth had they both been frugal. To this day, while my mom has continued to accumulate wealth through investments, she gets her jollies by conspicuous consumption (her parents were UAWs). And I