It seems that Traditional groups rarely spend more money on opening new chapels nowadays, even though there's still hundreds (if not thousands) of Trads forced to attend Mass in hotel rooms, or even forced to stay home on Sunday.

The SSPX is wasting money on a new seminary in Virginia, why can't they use that money to open more parishes?

I just think it's frustrating.

My experience is that conservatives, and traditional Catholic's are more
tight with their money, and many are not needy.
The reason the Liberals and the Left won the cultural wars are because
they freely donate large sums of monies to their causes that they
strongly believe in.

The reason the Liberals and the Left won the cultural wars are because
they freely donate large sums of monies to their causes that they
strongly believe in.

They won because the Right wasted their money backing false opposition.

They would also need more priests.

I would think the SSPX has enough for another chapel or two.

Why is providing for the education and formation of our future priests a "waste" of money?

Now there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made? For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her. But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.

They already have a seminary in Winona, why do they need another one?

They could be (and in fact, should) be using that money to open parishes where people don't have any TLMs.

Like I said, waste of money.

If space was such a dire problem they could buy some trailers or a steel building or even spend a couple million on a new masonry dormitory.

Abandoning the current seminary is wrong.

People today can't hold on to what they have.  They are always grasping for more.

That is the reason for the change in the SSPX, and that's why they're abandoning Winona.

Our Catholic ancestors weren't constantly getting rid of old buildings for "bigger and better"

That's what the Jєωy people do.

Way back when, Fr. Wickens said, "Dig a hole and the people will begin to come."  The difficulty is that it takes land and resources to dig a hole.  Those who would truly long for a chapel do not seem to have them.  Another problem is that tradcats are so geographically scattered.  If a chapel were provided for all who want one within, say, 15 miles of home, there would be many chapels for one or two families, and quite a few for a congregation of one!  Also, tradcats are excluxive to a fault, no different from conservative protestants split into a zillion little sects.  There is a man who stopped going to Mass with his entire family when he found out that the priest had a devotion to St. Padre Pio.  Yett another person quit the SSPX and no longer goes to Mass because she was scandalized upon seeing the priest eat a graham cracker a few minutes before Mass.  She called the DS to complain.  It turned out the priest, who was visiting, is diabetic and his sugar level had fallen dangerously low.  (He'd have fallen comatose during Mass.). It was explained to her, but she was even more upset that the "Society ordains diabetics."  The priest was an older man who'd become diabetic decades after his ordination.  When he ate the cracker he did not know anyone was watching.  If there are enough people like this, then we don't deserve any more chapels!  We've not appreciated the graces we've been given.,