Bubble economy caused Amish to buy fancy carriages.
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Date: July 1st, 2009 2:16 AM Author: cracking aqua newt
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640811360577075.html
"People wanted bigger weddings, newer carriages," Mr. Lehman says. "They were buying things they didn't need." Mr. Lehman spent several hundred dollars on a model-train and truck hobby, and about $4,000 on annual family vacations, he says. This year, there will be no vacation.
It became common practice for families to leave their carriages home and take taxis on shopping trips and to dinners out.
Some Amish families had bought second homes on the west coast of Florida and expensive Dutch Harness Horses, with their distinctive, prancing gait. Others lined their carriages in dark velvet and illuminated them with battery-powered LED lighting.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031275&forum_id=2#12130668)
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