I'm going to focus on the elephant in this comic strip. The use of the phrase 'purchasing power'. Who talks like that? Gladys needs to understand that they should be using extra money to shore up their finances and saving it for their future. Instead, she wants to continue to buy moronic tchotchkes.
Don't get me wrong, I buy moronic tchotchkes too but I feel guilty about it because I'm damaged from growing up poor.