April 2, 2003
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I am a sucker for gimmicks. I Love pretty packaging. I love NEW and IMPROVED products. I LOVE it when I get something for free with a 30 day free trial membership! My latest...AHA (American Homeowners Association), free trial membership, and you get a FREE digital camera, with tripod and software. It has been shipped to me today, and should arrive at my house within 4-6 weeks. Now I just have to cancel the membership before they make me pay for it. Woohoo! You too can get one, if you are a big sucker like me. Not many are. Greg rolls his eyes, and reluctantly hands over his credit card when I ask him to pay for shipping and handling (only 7 dollars!! how can you lose?). I know, I know. I've gotten bit in the ass a couple of times, but I continue to believe that if you sift through enough crapola, you get a good one now and then.
Interestingly enough, it's the same capitalistic system that provides me with FREE bargains like this camera that I am currently rallying against and blaming for my lack of financial security. Which, but the way, is the reason I'm always looking for free stuff. Vicious circle. Oh, the irony! It is not lost on this woman, no sir. Our society does not reward women for staying home to keep house and raise kids. Our society does not reward people for conserving. Our society does not look kindly on people who don't care if they are ever rich. Some of us who chant ritualisticly that we want to be rich, want it so that we can get OUT of the rat race, and live happily on our farms, raising our kids to feed livestock and build their own houses. To care for the earth, our home. To plant trees. To grow our own food. Even sewing your own clothes has become kitchy instead of frugal. When I was a child I wore home made clothes because we couldn't afford to buy them. Now, I can't afford NOT to go to target or walmart to buy my son a T-shirt, because the raw materials are so much more expensive than the finished product. Hmph.
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Yeah, what sense does that make that the finished product is cheaper than the materials used to make it? Pisses me off. I'm constantly complaining about it to my mom, because I *want* to make my own clothes because I don't like hardly anything I see in the stores. Well, I finally went to the evil Walmart the other day because Julie (my SIL) told me they have fabric for $1 a yard there. Oh my god! That is unbelievably cheap! Most of it was crap, though I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Anyway I found some beautiful fabric for a shirt and a skirt. I am so excited!
yeah, you know HOW they can afford to sell everything so cheap?? misogyny and labor abuses, that's how!!
i absolutely refuse to spend dollar one at walmart. on principle.
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