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That's why it's called a hack, there is some luck involved along with the perseverance.

In my case I've recently been rewearing a much older less stylish belt as an example of what life was like when Ronald Reagan went from the first low-class actor in memory to become elected president of the USA.

It was just barely tight enough to begin with and I ended up having to poke some additional holes so it would still hold up my pants. For that reason it's been relatively ugly for quite some time, but has never failed to fit.

A common saying back then was "belt tightening of the '80's".

That was 40 years ago, but no better time than the present to break it out again.