I cleaned out my closet today for the first time in at least a year. (I know…ew.) In the end, I had FIVE TRASH BAGS full of clothes, shoes, belts, purses, etc. that I plan to drop off at the Salvation Army tomorrow. I couldn’t believe it. Little Miss Live Simply is eating humble pie, and planning to practice what she preaches before climbing back on the soapbox.
How and when did I get all this stuff? I don’t remember planning to accumulate a bunch of crap that I never wear or use…it just kinda happened. Surplus, dude. It’s a trip. Which got me to thinking about supply-side economics. I know, I know…we’ve got some hardcore Reagan fanboys that hang around here, so I won’t get into my full-on “that sh*t just doesn’t work” monologue. But, man…if my closet is any indication (and I submit that it is), those of us with a surplus profoundly suck at letting it trickle down. And I am most definitely not buying clothes with my next tax cut.
Karen and Bobby 8:17 pm on 20 November 2005 Permalink
ugghh. We have been purging the kids clothes lately. We had a yard sale and sold some of them. I had 9 bins of clothes that I managed to condense into 1 of heirloom clothes and the rest are going to Tennessee Infant Parent Services because they give them away to kids that need them.
I am amazed by the amount of junk we accumulate and just seem to hang onto even though it is of no use to us anymore.
michael lee 8:29 pm on 20 November 2005 Permalink
I know of someone who needs them. How do I go about signing up for those baby clothes?
Morphea 8:47 am on 21 November 2005 Permalink
It’s true, Aly. Trickle down nuthin’. Everybody who’s got some are holding onto it with two grubby fists. Except us liberals…
aly hawkins 9:56 am on 21 November 2005 Permalink
Clearly, as evidenced by my FIVE BAGS of crap. I’m a paragon of trickling.
Morphea 11:02 am on 21 November 2005 Permalink
Hey, you’re doing it now. My parents are conservative – both sets of them, I might add – and you should SEE their basements!
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Just proves my point.
michael lee 11:10 am on 21 November 2005 Permalink
ummmm … I think “trickle-down economics” might not mean what you think it means.
Morphea 11:16 am on 21 November 2005 Permalink
Oho, dude, I KNEW you’d get up in here to correct me on what “trickle-down” meant! I KNEW IT! MWA-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa!
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Now that she has it in her trap she wonders what to do with it…
aly hawkins 11:35 am on 21 November 2005 Permalink
Girls, girls…you’re both pretty. And pack-ratting in basements could be interpreted as broadly within the realm of supply-side economics. I mean, if the whole point of supply-side is to create a surplus for those “higher up” within existing markets so that surplus spills over onto those “lower down”…well, a full basement indicates a surplus of something, and presumably that something (by virtue of the fact that it is sitting in a basement) is not trickling down on anyone. We’re talking broad interpretation here, people. More emblematic and less case study.
Morphea 11:53 am on 21 November 2005 Permalink
Michael, you know I was kidding, right?
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I don’t really know anything at all about conservative/liberal economics. Just mouthing off…