Today’s Oracle takes us to the Virgo monthly for Jan. 29, 2008
Invest in the things that have always been around: Leather, wood, denim, hemp, flannel. Not antiques, but rather those enduring products and substances, and things that have lasting value and don’t wear out. Resolve to purchase nothing that is made of plastic. For one year, purchase only hardcover books. You are already the master when it comes to being frugal; now is the time to come out of the closet about it. It’s okay to have a garden and it’s okay to can your heirloom tomatoes. It’s not just that their crude equivalent costs two bucks at the store — it’s that you want to know what you’re getting. Every time you touch your debit card, ask yourself: “Do I know what I’m getting?” You will be surprised at the answers!
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Working with a student who just did her master’s thesis on ecological literacy, and found this site – http://www.storyofstuff.org/ – a good reminder for the holy-daze of consumerism upon us, not to mention the corporate colonization besieging us.
Yes well…I prefer an audit trail…I save cash for those…special things, where the receipt doesn’t have to go in the jar for the bookkeper…tho point taken…
how about “make no purchases with plastic” too
“Invest in the things that have always been around: Leather, wood, denim, hemp, flannel. Not antiques, but rather those enduring products and substances, and things that have lasting value and don’t wear out.”
LOL. I have been a throwback all my life, preferring natural fibers, hating synthetics, even in the 70’s when everyone thought they were great, real dishes, not plastic, and real cooking, from real ingredients. I’d differ on the antiques, tho, especially when it comes to houses. A solidly-built antique house beats all for me.
“It’s okay to have a garden and it’s okay to can your heirloom tomatoes. It’s not just that their crude equivalent costs two bucks at the store — it’s that you want to know what you’re getting.”
Not only *OK*, but preferable, leaning more and more towards necessary, these days.
We’ve taken our world as far into synthetic and biochemically-altered as we dare, and are all facing the repercussions.
I’m knitting most of my Christmas gifts this year, as I usually do, and not from synthetics, nor superwash, another unhealthy *modern* adaptation of a real fiber – wool – for people who can’t take 2 minutes to handwash anything.