Poverty, drawer pulls and you
Jun. 5th, 2005 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI recently ran across this article on living cheap and looking (but more importantly, feeling) rich. It's not an amazing article but I especially liked its point 5: purge the existing poverty from your life. Poverty does sneak in... it's the unrepaired cabinet, the way you don't have the right kind of spatula to flip eggs with and little things like that, things that result from inattention and not taking care of oneself. I find it fascinating that with this definition there can be plenty of poverty even in a high-cost lifestyle. The article points out quite rightly that if the real goal is to "live in comfort, ease and beauty" the monetary cost might not be large at all. Especially if one has mostly been paying attention all along.
Today's frugal living tip from me is to buy new pulls for the drawers/doors of an old piece of furniture to give it a facelift. HLM and I spent a surprising amount of time today looking at drawer/cabinet pulls for our new kitchen stuff, and long after we got home from the hardware store I realized that I could get new knobs for my old stuff too. I went back, got a pair of funky pewter ones for $15, and voila, my unfinished pine wardrobe suddenly has a touch of style. What a fun little splurge.
Today's frugal living tip from me is to buy new pulls for the drawers/doors of an old piece of furniture to give it a facelift. HLM and I spent a surprising amount of time today looking at drawer/cabinet pulls for our new kitchen stuff, and long after we got home from the hardware store I realized that I could get new knobs for my old stuff too. I went back, got a pair of funky pewter ones for $15, and voila, my unfinished pine wardrobe suddenly has a touch of style. What a fun little splurge.
