Dalvin Brown

So I spoke to one person who hoped to have 30 people over and she had a new barbecue grill that she got as a wedding gift and could not wait to celebrate with everyone.

And then she saw the price of ground beef and I was like, I cannot buy that beef for 30 people.

Instead, she's now just going to cook hot dogs and she's going to ask her guests to each bring a dish.

I spoke to another family who would typically go on a road trip to see the in-laws.

And because of the price of gas and the cost of groceries, they're just going to stay home and pluck stuff from the garden.

And there was another person who hoped to get invited to a couple of barbecues.

And he said this year, no one's having them.

He hasn't gotten a single invite.

So he's staying home as well.

The current housing market complicates it for people who are going through divorce or wanting to go through divorce.

I looked at some data that suggested that there are a lot of invisible divorces that are happening in households where people don't make a ton of money or feel like they maybe can't support themselves as an individual, so then they still stay together.

What I also saw was that people may have gotten married or bought their house when interest rates were better.

And so now interest rates are higher.

They're like, oh, I would be paying twice as much for half the house.

The main person that I spoke with had a huge house.

When she was married, I think it was five bedrooms.

She had a room specifically for her Peloton.

And then when she divorced, the housing market was totally different, and she wound up paying more for her rent than she was paying toward her mortgage.