Other people seem to have been raised mostly like this:
Let's go to the quickie Mart and get a giant 39-cent pop!
This is how I was raised:
If we thought about spending a quarter a day on a can of soda but instead we collected that money and invested it at 5%, how much money would we have after 15 years? If you want to be rich you better not go to the Quickie Mart.
Thus it comes to pass that in my downhill years of life I have just now discovered that quickie marts sell a variety of slushy flavors. A weak one might have only two such flavors. A powerful quickie Mart will have a wide range of flavors and types of slushy. It appears to be candy flavored corn syrup whipped into some kind of foam with little bits of ice. Over time it shrinks down into an alarming concentrate. I am presently supping on such a concentrate flavored with cherry lime. I am not fit to live in the modern world.