Welcome, Seian. This is a pretty strange land, all right!

wow, you said, received a Private from a member who was upset by my writing : On other hand, perhaps some lean, tough years taught me to be more money conscious.
The Poster thought I meant my statement as a criticism of younger folks.

Well now, this sounds to me like someone was a little bit paranoid. There was no ref. to age, at all. And rather a lot of young adults have had "some lean, tough years", too.

Also--I hope there was a private joke/explanation behind that remark about Sparteye, none of whose posts I have found to be offensive.

Perhaps we could lighten up a bit, folks?