Frugal Advice is Feminine
Monday, 16 January 2012
[Excerpt from Guru Kaur's blog on the Be the Woman... Private Online Community for women...]
The thud on the doorstep of January's crop of French magazines I subscribe too usually heralds the tone for the year ahead. The crise economique is undoubtedly the backdrop for 2012. Marie Claire Idees, Elle a Table, and Marie Claire Maison are all taking the view that this is a great opportunity to reclaim a part of us which we lost sight of during the heady heydays of a blast of the consumer economy.
All of the advice given on how to cut your coat to suit cloth and get a grip on finances at a household level which will both reflect and lead a national debt rehabilitation, both in advice columns and throughout the whole tone of the magazines, has a hidden benefit of getting us in touch with our feminine side.
The overriding attitude is get back to making your own:
Specifically yoghurt and jam feature highly as a way to save money in the kitchen and also to be a better housewife with a healthier family
- Making your own beauty products from leftovers in the kitchen
- Recycling vintage - the flattering way of describing second hand - furniture with a fresh lick of paint, and getting out your sewing machine to give new life to curtains.
- Making toys...
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