Every week I like to feature a few frugal articles that caught my eyes. Curl up in your favorite reading nook and enjoy. Hopefully these encourage you to live frugal lives!
Overpopulation, Overconsumption — in pictures via The Guardian
In this breathtaking and heart-wrenching group of photos, The Guardian has captured the cost of capitalism. From overproduced lands to trash in the guts of animals, our lifestyles have major consequences. The photographers of this series have captured the essence of our problem of overconsumption. Now, what should we do about it?
Stuff it: Millennials nix their parents’ treasures by Jura Koncius
This story cracked me up, because it’s totally true for me. With my more minimalist lifestyle and household, I can’t envision taking on all the material goods of my parents and grandparents. Sorry, mah! 🙂
These Debt Strikers Are Refusing to Pay Their Student Loans by Bill Kilby
For-profit colleges are one of the nastiest developments in recent educational history. They suck the life out of their students, over-promise/under-deliver, and sack their graduates with atmospheric levels of debt. Finally, a group of students from a for-profit collegiate system is saying “no.” They’re not paying their debts. And, frankly, all the power to them!
For richer or poorer: The challenges of marrying outside your class by Jessi Streib
Rising income and wealth inequality has some painful unintended consequences for couples. What happens when two people fall in love — one person from wealth and the other from poverty? The economics of marriage and coupling have never been more potent. This article is an important, critical view at these divided times.
Thanks for sharing those – the guardian article in particular. What a world we live in… hope you have a good weekend 🙂
Saw that guardian story earlier this week, totally nuts!
As a professional European woman, who was reared in a ‘normal’ middle class family never wanting anything, now married to an African man reared in a rural African village whom was 20yrs old before he first wore a brand new item of clothing I find the Washington post article interesting. Will have to do some more research – figure out our unique relationship!
Ha! I can also relate to the Millennials article! My mother still hasn’t forgiven me for selling/donating 95% of my grandmothers house contents after an inheritance. .i dnt need 5 sets of saucepans, a dining table & chairs and 11 sets of Waterford cut glass crystal glasses! I dnt need anything. I just want 3 or 4 items that I love and remind me of my grandmother every time I see them on display in my hse every day. Surely that means more than a storage full of items that probably won’t be opened until I pass. I found the difference in our approach intriguing at the time
my goodness, the guardian pictures are bleak. I know of some of those situations but not all. Not particularly inspiring but definitely brings me back to earth.