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In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American VirtueCheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare, she realized she had turned into him. In this
Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare, she realized she had turned into him. In this lively treatise on the virtues of being cheap, Weber explores provocative questions about Americans' conflicted relationship with consumption and frugality. Why do we ridicule people who save money? Where's the boundary between thrift and miserliness? Is thrift a virtue or a vice during a recession? And was it common sense or obsessive-compulsive disorder that made her father ration the family's toilet paper? In answering these questions, In Cheap We Trust offers a colorful ride through the history of frugality in the United States. Readers will learn the stories behind Ben Franklin and his famous maxims, Hetty Green (named "the world's greatest miser" by the Guinness Book of Records) and the stereotyping of Jewish and Chinese immigrants as cheap. Weber also explores contemporary expressions and dilemmas of thrift. From Dumpster-diving to economist John Maynard Keynes's "Paradox of Thrift" to today's recession-driven enthusiasm for frugal living, In Cheap We Trust teases out the meanings of cheapness and examines the wisdom and pleasures of not spending every last penny.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 10/11/2010
ISBN: 9780316030298
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Christian Century 10/19/2010 pg. 56
New York Times Book Review 11/28/2010 pg. 28
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SO MANY SPOONS! it was great for my program. a bit flimsy but when all you're using them for is yogurt and cereal its not a big deal.
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Providing spoons with ready-to-eat meals for unhoused in our area.
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Wow! Instead of arriving in a huge box with spoons in disarray, these came in an easy to store box with the contents neatly packaged.
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