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As soon as the Revolution ended, all of that well-meaning frugality sort of went out the window, and suddenly everybody wanted Rococo furniture from France and these British idealsof gentility where flirting was practiced as an art and everybody wanted to have a parlor with a piano and a tea set -- were very popular. So thrift has been a virtue Americans havesort of taken on when it's convenient and jettisoned when it was no longer necessary.
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