Austerity stinks. Try picking up a little escapist (’junk’) reading at rummage sales or thrift stores. A buck or less a book, and you can take a break from even the worst austerity program.
>>Try picking up a little escapist (’junk’) reading at rummage sales or thrift stores. <<
When I am in corporate housing, I always supplement the furnishings (and pick up things like throw pillows and even sweaters) from the local thrift shop.
Anyway, I was browsing the reading material aisle and came across a MAD magazine from somewhere around 1982 — they were spoofing “the Wrath of Kahn.”
It is still hilarious and is also a heck of a time capsule! I treasure that magazine and have put it into a careful sealed comic book preserver.
“A buck or less a book, and you can take a break from even the worst austerity program.”
I find “geocaching” one of the cheapest pursuits with great benefits (exercise, area history, something to be done with friends/family or alone); I get out with the kids, and show them things you could pass within 100 feet of every day of your life without ever knowing it was there.
Oh, AMEN to that! I have Frugality Fatigue big time.