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kicking around Saturday

April 12th, 2009 at 05:40 am

Saving log - $0 tip box
Spending log - $12 breakfast + $10 bath salts and apple

I overheard this night as I walked through the Summer Streets program: "If you don't want to learn about memoir, try using our teleporter ... or study alien spores and brains."
(from the guy out in front of Greenwood's Space Travel Company - its a front for a non-profit writer's group).

Made me smile.

Again, I jogged the 3 miles, aka the mock 5K. Also did it in 47 minutes, jogging all the way, so it wasn't a fluke that I did it. Also my hips felt far, far better than last week. I could actually walk back home after the jog - much slower and took much longer than 47 minutes.

Planted purple carrots in an orange po- um, CONTAINER. Who says p-um, CONTAINER gardeners don't have a sense of humor.

Read an

Text is article and Link is http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/economy/11cheap.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=frugal&st=cse
article in the New York Times today whose tone saddened me a bit. I'm not frugal as a competitive sport. I'm frugal because greater amounts of savings makes me comfortable in my place in society, and I'd rather have the money rather than greater amounts of branded stuff. I'm quiet about my saving in real life. If times get much worse, its really best not to brag about what you saved.

4 Responses to “kicking around Saturday”

  1. SicilyYoder Says:
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    Wish I could jog even a mile:>) We are gardening,too. Isn't it so much fun!! I find it relaxing.

  2. PauletteGoddard Says:
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    I skimmed the article as I was photocopying today's crossword. Plastic surgeon, real estate investor, cutting up credit cards for fun. I love that corporate media is so mocking of the lifestyle of consuming little more than you need, but then, we witness death throes of corporate print media--not even their advertisers can save them.

  3. whitestripe Says:
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    hmmm. i found that article a tad annoying too. the thing that grates on me the most is that a lot of environmentally friendly things they are only doing because they are 'showing up' others or because it's now considered fun or trendy.
    i can understand how a lot of people get annoyed at the jones's 'discovering' frugalness now, because they have no choice, when a lot of people (like most on this site) have been practising it for years and have even been ostracised or considered strange because of it.
    but an interesting article to read, thanks for sharing! Big Grin

  4. baselle Says:
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    Sicily - gardening is great all around exercise - digging, stretching, weight lifting bags or piles of whatever you've got. I feel a bit like a lazy piker for putting things in containers, but they face my patio and I can move them, watch them and fuss over them.

    Paulette & whitestripe - in a nutshell, I think frugality and green-ness is being co-opted by the a&&holes. It would be too much to ask that these a&&holes die gracefully. Smile

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