Hanging with the Money Crowd

is the title of the story on Yahoo! Finance today written by Jean Chatzky. It starts:

One of the summer's biggest stories carried the headline "Weight Gain Is Contagious!" Sensational? Sure, but based on some pretty good science.

Humans are social animals and we do follow social norms (at times behaving like automatons!). The article makes some very good points about money habits about your peer group - and also about money habits of your family, your closest social group.