Frugality!
You can save money by buying used stuff, or by buying last year’s fashions. If you go back in time far enough with fashions, you can actually lap everyone by being retro, and therefore more hip than other people. Remember, 80’s cartoons are hip. 80’s clothing isn’t, yet. Here are some ideas:
- Instead of a new car, buy a used one.
- Instead of buying new clothes, see what your local Goodwill has.
- Instead of Swine Flu, get SARS. Haven’t heard about SARS in awhile? Well, be the first to make it popular again.
- Instead of putting effort into a blog post, phone it in and reward yourself with a nap.
January 11th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
“Remember, 80’s cartoons are hip. 80’s clothing isn’t, yet.”
Darn. Guess I better put away my tapered acid washed jeans, L.A. Gear hi-tops and neon green scrunchie.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:59 am
This is a great blog you have here. I have a humor blog myself which I hope will bring laughter to everyone’s day. I’d like to exchange links with you to help spread some traffic around between each other.
Please let me know if this is possible.
Jason
HilariousHeadlines.com/talk
January 12th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
I’m going with SARS. I need a vacation with pharmaceuticals.
January 12th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Angi: Not to be rude, but it’s pretty safe to just throw most of that away.
Jason: Your proposal is interesting. I will investigate further.
Jenny: I’m glad someone else thinks SARS is due for a comeback. Maybe you could combine the two and get Swine SARS. THAT should keep you for awhile.
January 13th, 2010 at 8:46 am
This post made me sad. From the title, I thought it was going to be about one of my favorite topics — frugality. Instead, frugality is used as a segue into ideas for retro hipness.
But fine. I’ll play your game.
While everyone else embraces the 80s and waits for it to be cool again, I’ll embrace the 90s. Yep. I’m one step ahead of you.
Goodbye shaving my entire face, hello soul patch. Goodbye regular wallet with nothing attached to it, hello metal chain that will attach my wallet to my pants. Goodbye regular attire, hello Doc Martins and flannel shirts.
In related news: Goodbye girls being attracted to me, hello life of loneliness.
January 13th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Oh not SARS, they don’t have TummyFlu for it.
January 14th, 2010 at 1:21 am
Kev: I apologize for misleading you. I am not frugal at all, mostly due to my expensive and fickle tastes. For example, I refuse to use a GPS device more than once. After a trip in the car, I discard the GPS device I was using, and unbox a new one I had waiting in the trunk. I like them fresh, you see. It’s hard to be frugal with tastes like that.
Walter: I believe you’re correct. If I recall correctly, I don’t think there was much of anything they could do for SARS. I was about to make a “Velveteen Rabbit” reference in my reply to you, but upon further investigation it appears that the velveteen rabbit was not burned at the end of that book as I had thought. I’m actually glad. I always thought it wasn’t appropriate to end a children’s book by setting the protagonist on fire.