The Bright Side
Jan 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm by Susie
Okay, enough of this doom and gloom. How about we talk about the upside of this recession?
- Like, no more food pornography? (We’ll be happy just to have food, let alone fine cuisine!)
- The death of yellow Hummers. Right there, a big plus!
- No more pedicure parties for ten-year-olds!
- No more farmland torn up for McMansions - we’ll need the land for food!
You must have some outrageous excesses you’ll be happy to see disappear. What are they?
NYC rentals going back to affordable.
I don’t really expect any of those things to happen. I think the really rich will come through with no pain at all and while the rest of us are scrimping and scraping for dinner, they’ll go on about their lives as always. I would like to be very wrong.
hmmm, perhaps without so much Stuff to substitute for it, people will start pursuing actual happiness. That being the stuff you can’t buy in a store. And hey, maybe kids will even start playing outside again.
Nah, probably not.
I’m so glad I have no credit. My boss is still buying like it’s 1999, though, so I’m a bit worried for my job…
People will always look for a way to keep up their bad habits and other people will always be willing to accomodate them. Here in my little midwestern town, the are offering a chance at winning a gas card as incentive for donating blood. Precious fluids indeed, though it is a little more honest and straightforward than the “Blood for Oil” programs brought about by our government.
http://www.starcourier.com/articles/2008/01/22/news/local2.txt
How about no more big box stores….can’t build them if people can’t afford to shop.
I look forward to the demise of all the “Flip This House” kinda shows, where the happy owner takes a $500,000 shack in a so-so neighborhood and makes it a $700,000 shack in a so-so neighborhood. Gotta have those granite countertops!
no more blogging, we will be too busy bludgeoning each other to death for food.
Buh-bye to the Ford Excursion and Chevy Suburban…or maybe the McMansion people will have to live in them instead?
No…..no, actually, I don’t want to give up any of my excesses…….Please.
Gug
I will no longer have to deal with my boss’ mansion and yacht and overseas vacations, because he eliminated my position! Hoorah, economy! (Actually, I’m very pleased I’m out of that job after 10 years of hell, but it would be nice to become employed again…)
based on the Great Depression, the rich will be buying up everything at discount and the rest of us will be standing in bread lines.
George Bush? Wait, we couldn’t afford him before either.
Not having to pay taxes (not that I do anyway)…
How about getting rid of all those ugly brown purses with the designer’s initials all over them. Maybe use the $12k to feed a third-world family for a year or two.