Spare, I seem to remember a while back an article about Americans savings habits. We save too little was the gest of the article and we should be saving around 20%. How bout cell phone payments approching a car payment cost. 700 Billion, bend over fellas here it comes!
Here's an article from 1997 that talks about our saving habits.
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/...ditorial4.html