Recessionista: A creative spirit who uses charm, ingenuity and grace to balance a fabulous lifestyle with a depleted bank account. The Recessionista eats well, looks great, and inhabits milieus which please her.
She is ahead of the game.
She borrows from the Freegans' philosophy, but does not sacrifice quality for her endeavours: binning for cloth behind outlet stores to make her own yoga clothes? Indeed! Binning for food scraps behind a downtown fancy restaurant? Oh Muffin, don't do it!
A shift in perspective is often all one needs to kick start the challenging yet charmed life of a Recessionista: instead of looking to those who appear to have more money than you and pining for the life they lead, stop and realize how much is actually at your fingertips. Not in a smug way, but with gratitude.
And anyway, one look into the dark recesses of the 'well to do's' credit ratings or debt load would reveal that perhaps their situation is not as enviable as we thought, therefore envy is wasted energy and often groundless. Use that energy to find the cheapest organic apples in the city, to organize clothing, shoes & book swaps, and to barter your way into a show with a basket of cookies or a half finished bottle of Sailor Jerry...
This is no trend: it is a state of mind. Living in Vancouver is expensive, but who ever said that paradise would be cheap?
1 comment:
LOVE the nod to my fabic binning! xox *d
ps.post more!! xo
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