I haven’t posted in forever (so long, in fact, that wordpress has changed its user interface since I last logged in)(it’s neat, too). I’ve had so much work to do at work (fancy that!), but things are slowing down and I hope to get back in the posting swing of things to some degree. And to start — the best quote I’ve seen about the recession thus far, which comes not from an economist or a policy wonk but from Alvertine Williams, 86, in this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article:
“People are all broke, honey,” she said. “But you start boiling the pot of beans instead of eating whatever you want.”
Oh, and black bean mango salsa sounds delicious!
This can’t be the beginning stages of a new depression, we haven’t gone through the relapse of the guilded age yet.
Or has it already begun?
Wow! You are so ahead of the depression curve, way to go! Although — yeah, mango salsa is decidedly non-Depression. Did you put the salsa on the beans? ‘Cause that’s kind of disgusting.
I spent a week, two weeks ago, eating what was in my pantry, in a way of compensating for increased food prices. Of course, I was back in Whole Foods last week, trying to recover my stomach. A friend was with me in the grocery store the other day, complaining about the high price of laundry detergent. I said, “What am I supposed to do? Go down to the creek and pound my clothing on the rocks?” Well…maybe we will be. I think about this non-recession we are in a lot lately…and ways to save money.
Um, you know what I did this weekend? I boiled a pot of beans. I also made mango salsa, which seems decidedly non-Depression. I don’t have any good stories- I’ll just be over here in the corner darning socks if you need me.