Frugality. It used to be a necessity. Today it is not. People have to write books to remind us to use a milk jug for bird seed.....and a broom handle to hold up a tomato plant. Quotes from THE SPIRITS OF 76, by Eric Sloane: Throwing things away has become an American habit. It must have made life powerfully meaningful and extraordinarily exciting to create necessities like soap...... The spirit of frugality began its decline slowly until the last few decades of acceleration, when we have overcome the fine art of saving and finally established a unique economy of waste. Frugality is frowned upon as being associated with stinginess or poverty, yet it is actually a source of the richer life because frugality is founded on the principle that all wealth has limits. Frugality is also a mark of intelligence and sensitivity.......... "Savings" nowadays refers only to money; if you say a person "saves" a lot, you usually infer that h...
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