The List...

Jan. 1st, 2009 10:30 am
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The List - What's In and Out for 2009. (washingtonpost.com):
The dancing in the streets is getting old already, so here's where the dread takes over. (Dear wonderboy speechwriter: We could really use a "fear itself" about now.) Vacation homes are on the chopping block; the stores are closing; no one's ordering appetizers or desserts. Even the universe has slowed its expansion, scientists theorize, meaning everything really is connected to retail. You start clipping coupons and offering prayers to Saint Suze Orman. Flat is the new up, conspicuousness is the new sin. Nobody wants front-row seats anymore, because it's safer to be part of the crowd. Luxury customers are asking for plain paper bags.

Times are tighter than Michael Phelps's delts, which are out. Our daughters flee to the comfort of vampires. (Eternal life? Alabaster skin? In!) You start to feel good about how a prolonged recession could get rid of the things you most loathe (destination weddings, "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew"), but then hope against hope that the things you rely on will make it through the darkness (Madhouse Munchies potato chips, Nordstrom, Netflix).

The first stage to consumer grief is denial.

The second stage is making a List...

Date: 2009-01-01 10:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eiredrake.livejournal.com
Eh... I was born poor and spent most of my life poor. I've eaten the gov'mint cheese before. I'm not overly concerned by this recession. I do get pissed off at the inequity and idiocy of it all. But I'll survive and so will my family. Given the prevalence of spoiled rotten assholes these days, a recession might be just the slap upside the head that is needed so that I never have to see another "My Sweet Sixteen" brat go into hysterics about how she's only getting a BMW rather than a Porche and how her father couldn't get the latest half coked up starlet to show up and sing for her.

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