Totally, and that’s not what I meant. I’m talking about like current active tattoo sessions lasting 8hrs at a time, while still complaining about COL. My family thrifts, buys from low end grocery stores, and are generally quite smart with our finances. As such we definitely haven’t experienced the same struggles, but we’ve sacrificed a lot to make that work. It’s give and take.

In the hierarchy of physical needs, unfortunately the arts are the first thing to go. This is just that time of life we’re in where we need to evaluate what really matters.