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The grandparents will tell you many cunning ways of saving, sharing, making, reusing, and finding a cunning quid. They had to - but we can do it for fun. And scruples. The Really Really Free Market!
'There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everybody's greed', Mahatma Gandhi - Shoalhaven.net 'Spurning new unnecessary stuff for a year may seem to belong to science fiction or ancient history, but the largely unwritten history of the Australian people , is truely rough an' tumble. Below our TV generated collective surface we're known throughout the world for the colonial strengths of courage, resourcefulness and sense of sport, so I reckon a lot of us are very well prepared to accept the challenges of the Compact.
So how are the Aussies handling making Buy Nothing Day into a Buy Nothing Year? BND Cairns
Brindle Style's VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY feature generates.. hits and mail from all over the world. .The Mighty Buy Nothing Day - Compact began in San Francisco
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Maiia: Lol- I'm feeling a bit avant-garde -NOT! - In NZ my Nanny used to say "It's made round to go round - but it's made flat for stacking." an' my Dad - "If in life you wish to be free, never a borrower or lender be." Course I'd to take it that to the extreme. - So when I heard a group of local people were joining the Compact I figured it would be a piece of piss. (Aussie for- no effort)
CHARLES PURCELL- SMH Nature Just an't Buy It Anymore -The Australian
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Most of that kitchen stuff is available from Life-line and Salvos etc- being such a transient population But I failed on wooden spoon. - lol. Possesed I was -just had to have the plash bamboo jobbie I'm hoping will last for years to come.