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Is it becoming HIP to be frugal?

March 6th, 2009 at 02:40 am

An amazing number of lunches are coming from brown bags these days...

Im having to watch out for bicycles on the roads...

Generics arent as plentiful on the shelves...but there is an abundance of name brand...

America is gnashing teeth at McMansions, McVehicles, McBabies and McGadgets...

America's Cheapest Family is a household name...

Oprah and Phil are both chanting spend less, save, down with debt!!

All of a sudden it's feeling like FRUGAL is the IN crowd...the place to be...the ones to follow...

wow.

The question is....is this our 15 minutes of fame? Are we the flavor of the month...or is Frugal the new American Dream?

I can see the Bumper Stickers:

Frugal and Proud
I was Frugal when Frugal wasn't cool
My wife can save more than your wife...
Waste not, save more!
Fashionably Frugal!

lol

hmm...I guess we hold our heads in frugal-pride and stay tuned.

Posted in general thoughts | 7 Comments »

7 Responses to “Is it becoming HIP to be frugal?”

  1. oceansluver78 Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 02:56 am 1236308197
    1236308197

    YES YES AND YES! even among the younger crowd as well.

  2. swanson719 Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 02:59 am 1236308379
    1236308379

    my friends always ask me how I have more money than them when they make more than me... A little budgeting and no finance charges can go a long way at the end of the month.

  3. thriftorama Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 04:17 am 1236313042
    1236313042

    It is more popular, but as you know, frugality is much maligned in the financial press. Everyone from the Wall Street Journal to BusinessWeek has run stories claiming the newly frugal are wrecking the economy. Funny.

  4. gamecock43 Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 05:07 am 1236316022
    1236316022

    Actually I think being financially wise is becoming hip.

  5. baselle Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 06:21 am 1236320470
    1236320470

    Yeah, unfortunately, I'm seeing what monkeymama has been seeing - my favorite cheap places and things to do being over-run.

    But I do feel like everyone's waking up as in the "men go mad in herds, but they turn sane one at a time."

  6. Ima saver Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 01:53 pm 1236347600
    1236347600

    Go, frugal, Go!!

  7. creditcardfree Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 02:47 pm 1236350847
    1236350847

    I love it that we are hip!! I've noticed more people with coupons and scanning the aisles at the grocery store. So cool!

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