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(psychologically and financially) by being nutty about the little expenses.I could go on. There are so many stories.CS: In recent years especially, the idea is presented that it is good, even patriotic to spend money. After 9/11, that what citizens were told to do. This would mean that the flip side (not spending money) is bad and unpatriotic. Thoughts?LW: Americans have really internalized that message. And it started long before 9/11; after World War II, economists and politicians promoted the idea that consumer spending would save the American economy from another depression. And we ate it up. A story in Brides magazine in the early 1950s told young women that you buy and how you buy is very vital in your new life and to our whole American way of living. This was the post war gospel.But clearly, we're out of balance. If there's anything our current recession should tell us, it's that an economy built on debt is not sustainable. In the end, the house of cards always falls down.CS: Do you think that the day will come when cheapness won be something that the average person is ashamed of? Will we get to the point that people will be bragging about how cheap they are?LW: Doesn't everyone have a friend who says, got these hand tooled leather cowboy boots for only $5 at a yard sale A lot of people boast about their bargains or their cheapskate habits. Many brave souls tried to one up me while I was writing the book, but my story about how my father uses hand signals instead of his car's turning signals almost always takes the cake.Author Jeffrey Archer eyes millionOn offer at the charity sale