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In reply to the discussion: I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore [View all]Warpy
(112,817 posts)between 2003-2006. I didn't even realize it had gone until I inherited a surprise when my dad died and had money again. I bought a Sunday paper and looked at all the sale adverts and realized I didn't want any of it.
About the only thing I needed was clothing since my thrift shop wardrobe was getting worse than threadbare. I went to a mall (they were still booming in 2006) and discovered there wee kids' clothes, men's clothes, and Britney Spears inspired slutwear for teenagers and that was it, except a few items designed in polyester by Omar the Tentmaker in the old lady section.
So welcome to my world. I'm afraid it bodes ill for the retail sector, which was already on the ropes before this virus made an appearance. The only thing that is going to rescue any semblance of an economy is a significant rise in wages at the bottom along with a rise in taxes at the top, and no Republican is going to allow that.