I'd just like to point out that true frugality doesn't lower your status. It raises mine because I have a higher standard of living and thus appear to have hig

I'd just like to point out that true frugality doesn't lower your status. It raises mine because I have a higher standard of living and thus appear to have higher income than I actually do. Miserly-ness is the result of something I call naive cost benefit analysis, which is an analysis that leaves out important variables.