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I’m genuinely trying to understand my dad’s behavior because it’s driving me crazy and I don’t understand why he does this.

He will literally take used paper plates out of the garbage and reuse them instead of getting a new one. He also keeps taking dirty dishes out of the dishwasher and reusing them rather than just letting them be properly washed, and doesnt clean the dishes, his hands or his body with enough soap and water. He is very frugal in everything he does and its to the point where it drives our family insane!

It’s not like paper plates are some huge expense, and obviously reusing something that has already been in the garbage seems really unsanitary to me. I’ve told him this, but he continues doing it.

Has anyone dealt with a parent who does things like this? Why do you think someone would behave this way? Could it be extreme frugality, growing up without much money, anxiety about wasting things, hoarding tendencies, or just a habit he refuses to change?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who have seen similar behavior in their parents because I’m trying to understand what is going through his head.

The latest AI infrastructure numbers continue to look extremely bullish for memory and storage.

CoreWeave reported roughly $104B in revenue backlog and added another $25B+ in customer commitments after the quarter. Nebius just reported 454% YoY revenue growth, more than $40B in customer commitments, and said demand is strong enough that it could essentially sell its entire 2027 capacity today. These are from the latest company updates available as of August 12, 2026.

This matters directly for $MU and $SNDK because every expansion in AI compute brings huge additional requirements for HBM, DRAM, NAND and enterprise SSDs. CoreWeave has already entered long-term memory and storage supply agreements with companies including Micron and SanDisk.

Micron is saying DRAM and NAND demand continues to significantly exceed supply, with tight conditions expected to persist beyond 2027. SanDisk's data-center business has also exploded alongside AI infrastructure spending, with major portions of future capacity already committed under long-term agreements.

What we're seeing now is AI demand spreading far beyond just GPUs. The cloud companies actually deploying this infrastructure are showing enormous backlogs, massive customer commitments and years of forward capacity demand.

If these companies are already fighting to secure compute capacity years in advance, they also need to secure the memory and storage that goes into those systems. That could keep supply extremely tight and pricing strong as AI infrastructure continues scaling which is a very bullish setup for the whole memory sector.

At the KeyBanc Technology Leadership Forum on August 10, Micron said customer demand has strengthened since its latest earnings report and that 2027 could be even tighter than 2026. Micron says data-center customers are still asking for significantly more DRAM than it can supply, even with memory prices already at very high levels. The company also said it still doesn't have clear visibility on when industry supply will finally catch up with demand.

This lines up with TrendForce’s August 4 report, which said DRAM supply is expected to remain tight throughout 2027 as AI continues consuming huge amounts of HBM and DRAM capacity. TrendForce reported that these constraints are even pushing NVIDIA to consider lower-HBM configurations for Rubin Ultra an (ai gpu), while HBM demand continues growing faster than available supply.

This is an extremely bullish setup for the memory industry, AI demand keeps accelerating while new supply simply cannot come online fast enough. If customers are already fighting for memory and Micron believes 2027 will be tighter than 2026, pricing power and margins could remain elevated far longer than a normal memory cycle potentially benefiting Micron, SK Hynix, Samsung and the broader memory sector in general.

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