Daily Newz/costume dramas et al.

Watched The Other Boleyn Girl  flick last night on pay-per-view - It was an extravagence, but I adore costume dramas & there really wasn't anything to watch otherwise - I lOOKED. I want to see The Duchess, another chick flick costume drama.  We had a FREE screening, which we missed, because we both had a bug.  Now I think I will just have to wait until it hits cable one way or the other.  I just can't see spending $20 to see a movie if within a year I can see in on cable! 

I also don't know why anyone BUYS these things on CD.  I have a few - but only gifts and ones I have for professional purposes because I am IN IT. My brother and his family buy/get scads.  But when do they watch them?? Beats me.

Some youngsters seem to memorize movies.  That's why a lot of new flicks seem so derivitive - they are! I recognize bits and pieces from old movies I seem to recognize and find myself saying, Oh, that's where they got THAT.

I like diversity in my entertainment.  New things to look at all the time. Old flicks on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) are great because of the clothes and the melodrama and the escapism! It's been Kay Francis month on TCM which is lovely, because I haven't seen THOSE.  So I have declared those nights movie nights and just stayed glued to the set.

Relatively cheap entertainment.  But it does keep one at home.  Everything else seems to cost $ - even just the gas....

So I do my computer stuff, part biz and part pleasure and part freebie hunting and part keeping up with the frugal folks. I do get creative when feeling broke.  No clothes shopping for a while - not even thrift stores! I will just dive into my admittedly extensive wardrobe and find something THERE.

They say that education and entertainment thrive in a depression - they did in the last GREAT one.  So perhaps my husband and I, being in those 2 fields will be OK.  So far, so good - but we have to clean up some stuff...Little by Little.  And I am better at frugality than my husband, altho I have been training him on bargains.  He just can't seem to get it in his head that if you don't have the $, you can't GET IT, the poor dear... I am more used to that.

I lived from hand to mouth for so many years before I got married - so I am very used to that lifestyle.  I suppose that's a good thing, because making the adjustments in these difficult financial times is not so hard or alien to me.  I have almost always scrounged!  (without openly admitting it, of course.)

Now it seems I can boast of recycling and being green and of deciding to live the frugal life style.  How things have changed.  I do hope that via the blog and the book I am writing that I can help those who are not as experienced in this as I am find out how to live nicely on next to nothing.  What do you say? How is this hitting you all out there?

P.S . Got more of my free magazines in the mail yesterday.

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The Great Costume Drama Escape!

When things get tough, the tough chicks watch those period movies with those great clothes.,,

I have been frugal for a lot of years too. Before people just probably thought I was cheap. (Yes, there is a difference.) Now people are actually digging the fact I know where to find the bargains. I started a blog and people have been receptive to it.

Finally appreciation and acknowledgement for something I am good at - even from my hubby!

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Yes, it's sort of ironic, isn't it? Now I can boast of my pennypinching! I tried to write a book before in the 80's - talk about wrong timing! But now we are relatively OK - I still scrounge a bit, tho!

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