Quote:
Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
I guess good times is relative but over the past decades the percentage of wages spent on food dropped remarkedly. (I read somewhere it dropped from 25%+ to below 10%). If that were true then that is some capacity to save.
If you are buying luxuries that is also capacity to save, do you really need that luxury?
|
Food is just one part of household expenditure so whilst that may have dropped - what about the sharp rise in house prices and rental costs?