I have never wanted to do a lot of shopping or buy things that I can do without. I use to love to read and I was always buying books.
When we moved here, I could not get a job for almost a year and the job I finally got was working at mcDonald's making $3.15. The next time I went to buy a paperback book, I thought, it will take me more than an hour of work to pay for this book. I haven't bought but a few books since then.
I don't think that the majority of americans are frugal. If they are, I sure have not met any.
