> > > From: Kragen Javier Sitaker <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:33:35 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: some notes on frugality > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
A lot of lists like this may not be relevant to countries and cultures other than the one in which the author lives. I have no clue when I will have power/electricity in the house to run my vacuum cleaner, and none of my neighbours even need, or use, one. So why would they share one with me? Can I wear dollar-store flipflops (which is the *cool* way of mentioning our very own "hawaii chappals* to a play, to a meeting? As for not washing dishes....I want to see any household where this is acceptable (not bachelor pads.) I have a very good morning dishwasher, working without electricity. Her name is Muniyamma, and when she's not there, an even better one...me. As for sharpening knives...I've not sharpened a knife in more than a decade.... Please, spare us the ridiculosity of these conspicuous-consumers-turning-to-conspicuous-simplicity lists. I totally agree with SRS' "bah". I would add, like Enid Blyton's P.C. Goon."Gah". Deepa.
