Saving yourself into the poor house

Sense and Sensibility column: "Saving yourself into the poor house...Perhaps it might be a good thing, especially when thinking about life four or five years down the road, to look more closely at these tempting small "incremental expenditures" for "Big Deals." "Saving yourself into the poorhouse" is what my mother--or perhaps it was my grandmother--used to call it. Just spend a bit more to get lots and lots of good stuff.