I ran across some interesting data that had been gleaned from the US Department Of Commerce. Seems like a person can find out how many cans of spam are consumed to how much the median household pays for a pair of

shoes from 1930's to 2009. All these figures are adjusted for inflation. Here is an explanation of what has happened to us from 1970 to 2007 or so. Much of

the discretionary items we Americans spend our money on seems to be less today

than the things…