What you are if you forego climbing da "vine to Heaven", and instead return to speculating in Levi's, Lee, and/or Wrangler shares on Wall Street.
The famous fairy-tale got it all wrong --- Jack and his mother weren't merely poor to begin with, but they had previously squandered their savings on investments in big clothing-manufacturers. So after they'd spent all of the giant's gold, they had to go "back in the jeanstock" with the gold they could get from the enchanted goose's eggs, and the ticket-sales money they got from showing off the magic self-playing harp.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)