Hula hoop... gone! Frugality, however, will become more than a fad

Remember the hula hoop?

Around and round she goes, when she stops nobody knows.


I bet some people still have one buried in the garage under a box of polyester bell bottoms because those items were just passing fads.

But not the habit of frugality many are now developing.

[Geez. At long last, I say.]

‘Being frugal a means of survival’ wrote the local paper on Monday [link to The London Free Press article], along with examples of how people plan to make do.

What they didn’t say is that struggling for survival will last a long, long time now that the North American economy is in the toilet and there are new dogs on the block sinking their teeth into the world’s diminishing resources.

China and India, with populations that far greater than N. America’s, want our turf and will not be denied.

Don’t be too quick to throw out that box of polyester pants.

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