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Bring Back Thrift

This falls under the category of "I wish I had known sooner". I just found out that January 17 to 24 was "National Thrift Week". Originally started in 1916 and sponsored by the YMCA, it fell out of favor and disappeared in 1966. The Templeton Foundation (think John Templeton of mutual fund fame) is trying to bring it back with a site called "Bring Back Thrift Week"  Not only are they trying to raise interest, they also have some very good policy proposals (i.e. matched savings accounts for the low income and children, a product safety commission for financial products, increased financial education...)

This looks like something that you'll want to check out. Visit their site and let me know what you think.

Keep on Stretching those Dollars!

Gary

Comments

 

Suzy Queue said:

Interesting.  I will go check it out.  Thanks for the information.

Suzy

January 23, 2009 7:38 PM
 

cheapChic said:

This sounds like the bank week kind of thing I like to look at the artical again but this should apply now its just to bad how greedy the banks get and not think of us little poeple...

cynthia

January 26, 2009 11:57 PM
 

Loba said:

First,  many thanks to those who have kindly welcomed me to this site. I don't know if this is where I should reply as I'm still working out this site.

As far as being frugal goes, I consider myself (as I assume you all do,too) to be very frugal. That's why we're here. I can't resist a good thrifty tip but I hope we don't have to go back to eating bread and dripping as my Mum did in the 1930's. Funnily enough, she loved it on her school lunches and remembers it fondly!

January 30, 2009 7:28 PM

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