Also, with the price hikes and everything recently, The cost of living has gone up while their salaries haven’t. What’s happened is people who haven’t had to budget before now are now needing to budget. Yeah, they still make enough that they can live quite comfortably it’s not like they’re going to starve, But they can’t just buy that new car every year anymore.
I don’t think a family of 4 with 100k gross is buying a car a year. Even my legit rich FIL gets one every 3 years or so. Though he doesn’t play at trying to make them run forever like we do. Even having enough now to pay for maintaining an older one (11) feels so luxurious to me compared to my past.
Also, with the price hikes and everything recently, The cost of living has gone up while their salaries haven’t. What’s happened is people who haven’t had to budget before now are now needing to budget. Yeah, they still make enough that they can live quite comfortably it’s not like they’re going to starve, But they can’t just buy that new car every year anymore.
I don’t think a family of 4 with 100k gross is buying a car a year. Even my legit rich FIL gets one every 3 years or so. Though he doesn’t play at trying to make them run forever like we do. Even having enough now to pay for maintaining an older one (11) feels so luxurious to me compared to my past.
Yeah, they might try regular maintenance instead…