Wow... forty plus years of Scouting under my belt and it still amazes me how we often forget that one of the three foundations of Scouting is Character Development. In my humble opinion, the personal responsibility of 'thriftiness' is a huge element of that; teaching our Scouts and yes, our Scout families too, that we pay our own way should be one of the things we constantly put before them.
Moreover, I think that we often forget that we shouldn't be in the business of 'business'; we shouldn't ever work towards building huge war chests of money for our units so that we can be like so m
