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Loading... In Cheap We Trust (2009)by Lauren Weber
Weber's research on the topic of thrift is exhaustive. I found the book exhausting- I was drowning in dry details. Can one slog through a dry book? If so, that's what I did here. The introduction was funny, where she talked about her cheap upbringing. I would really like to read a memoir from her. (  ) satyridae | Apr 5, 2013 |  Good history of frugality and spending money (  ) markfontecchio | Mar 9, 2011 | Good history of frugality and spending money ( ) markfontecchio | Mar 9, 2011 | Good history of frugality and spending money ( ) markfontecchio | Mar 9, 2011 | I don’t know why cheap is in allcaps. Weber gives a general tour of the reputation of cheapness throughout American history, including its interactions with racial stereotypes and sometimes with gender. She has interesting tidbits about how pillars of industry decided that spending (or very occasionally saving) was the way to make the American economy work, but there’s very little here unless you want to hear her ending account of walking among the freegans for a bit. Conclusion: freegans don’t like how dumpster diving has become the key publicized feature of the movement, which is more comprehensively anticapitalist. ( )1  rivkat | Dec 27, 2010 |
 There’s a lot to like about the book. Weber presents an engaging, if slightly overextended, history of America’s complicated relationship with spending. [Weber] works hard not to moralize (humor is always the best antidote to preachiness) and introduces some fantastic characters along the way, for example, Hetty Green, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's greatest miser."
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