[PRCo] Re: Gas Prices

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

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> From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
> 
> 
> I have furniture which was used, cheap or free, mostly.
> A bookcase my father made me, 

This probably has tremendous value for you;  a keepsake isn't it.


> a bedframe which was bought "new" at IKEA, but everything 
> else is used. I'm a stingy b****d. New matters, sometimes.
> When it doesn't, why bother?

Sometimes it seems the American culture is keeping 'ahead'
of the Smith's and Jones' doesn't it.  It is encouraging to
know this is not universal.  We often say we should
'do our own thing' but in practice that doesn't seem to work.
Most of us don't accept when others do differently
from self.
> 
> 
> cheap is good. reliable is better. affordable reliability is better yet. 
> but i try to stick to sustainable, whether that means
> "new from somewhere i know it wasn't slave labor" or
> "someone else's castoffs", or something else.
> 
> this is not political, and i'm not going to push it at you.
> i don't live frugally, i just prefer to use money on things
> which are more exciting than a new couch, or a new car.

You spend according to your priorities - doing your own thing.
Can't argue with that.


Phil