I agree enthusiastically with #6. I've never purchased a new car and I don't plan to ever do so. A 2- or 3-year-old car with fairly low mileage still has most of its useful lifespan ahead of it and costs as little as half of what a new car does.

Furthermore, I love to shop at used book stores, but I also find it hard to resist the look, feel, and smell of a new book.

Should anyone buy timeshares?

Not only are you childless, but you apparently never were a child yourself. Or you had some kind of twisted experience. Did you really only have a stuffed animal as a child?

I agree that most children have far too many toys, and most new toys are low-quality pieces of junk which are intended to promote some TV show or movie, thus discouraging creativity. Blocks, Legos, Tinkertoys, dolls, cars, balls, and the like are much better that 99% of the contents of Toys R Us, and are just as well bought used. But "only a stuffed tiger"? Please.