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An interesting article for you all :)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/17/angela-merkel-austerity-swabian-housewives

Looks like the MSE spirit is alive and well in Germany!
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  • Love it!!! would love to live inthat town - they would give such good advice and you would feel terrible in something 'new'!!!

    I want to be them!
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  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    Do you think people living in any rural community are more frugal than those living in cities where perhaps there's a more of a keeping -up-with-the-jones culture
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  • Popperwell
    Popperwell Posts: 5,088 Forumite
    edited 17 September 2012 at 1:57PM
    Yes very interesting...

    I'm sure that every town could have some kind of scheme where neighbours share more with each other...especially in these difficult times by perhaps sharing food with a neighbour or ordering food in bulk at low prices and sharing it if you could get the premises as there are plenty of sites on the internet that sell food etc...lower than the shops do.

    It is a little like a food bank I suppose except the food is not being donated but it is at a more affordable price.

    And if every town had one or even a few, it saves on the cost of travelling to out of the way supermarkets by car/bus or taxi's wich may help people who do not have their own transport.

    Its is still too expensive for me being single(and also being on a low income due to illness and needing state help)but if you could buy in bulk and allow it to be sold to indviduals, it could work. I guess it just needs someone to set the idea away...

    There's nothing wrong with cooking fresh and fro scratch and many well known brands are overpriced and many of the lower own brand foods are as good but if suc a scheme could be started you could buy the better known brands at similar prices to the cheaper variety.
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  • cbrown372
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    kettlenic wrote: »
    Love it!!! would love to live inthat town - they would give such good advice and you would feel terrible in something 'new'!!!

    I want to be them!

    I can think of nothing worse than sitting in your house under cover of darkness wearing your fur coat and admiring your diamonds in secret :D

    I live in a rural location and yes we share when we need to be it water with frozen pipes or electricity when the power is off or food when someone can't get to the shops.
    Its not that we have more patience as we grow older, its just that we're too tired to care about all the pointless drama ;)
  • wanchai_2
    wanchai_2 Posts: 2,955 Forumite
    SailorSam wrote: »
    Do you think people living in any rural community are more frugal than those living in cities where perhaps there's a more of a keeping -up-with-the-jones culture

    I come from the country and now live in the city and I can confidently say - yes!
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  • lostinrates
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    wanchai wrote: »
    I come from the country and now live in the city and I can confidently say - yes!

    I disagree actually. It might not be over the same sort of things, but there is a bit of 'being inspired by others lifestyle' in the sticks too these days. Even more so in many cases really.
  • PasturesNew
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    It's just Amish, without the poor wardrobe and horse.
  • pigpen
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    They value quality, which means a wardrobe has to be solid wood, so it
    lasts a lifetime. The same applies to clothes.
    Wooden clothes? interesting! :p

    My grandparents were the same.. maybe they are stuck in pre-war Britain? Very quaint but not at all right for everyone.
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  • Hmm swabien All fur coat and no knickers as my dear old Mum used to say
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