Economic shocks are not fun, but to lighten the mood I figured to share a weird but hilarious subculture: vrekken.

A "vrek" is the dutch word for somebody that is extraordinarily frugal in unhealthy ways. The vrekken culture embraces this as a quality and then escalates it to Olympic standards. Not even out of necessity, instead as an avenue for creativity.

Here's one such vrekken news paper of the "Saver of the Fatherland": https://www.vrekkenpagina.nl/

I'm unsure if there's international versions of this culture?