C/O Emma

ELM sent me a magazine article from AU. You just had to read the first paragraph to know where it was going:

"Lauren Weber's father is, to put it bluntly, cheap. When she was growing up in the cold winters of Connecticut, he refused to turn the thermostat above 10 degrees Celsius. He washed all the dishes by hand, in cold water, [BERNIE AT LEAST USES HOT WATER] even though the family owned a dishwasher . . . She feared that her family was secretly on the verge of bankruptcy. They weren't-her father was, in fact, a professional economist. He didn't lack for money. A lifestyle of extreme thrift simply felt right to him."