Economy

I like your advice.

I'm personally not a big consumer of non-essentials, so doing without luxuries has been a way of life for a long time. I either buy long-lasting things, or I make things last long.

I think the stage is being set for bringing back at least some of the manufacturing, but it's going to take a while. Take care of what you have, folks, just in case the day comes when you can't easily and/or affordably replace it.

The other thing I frequently counsel is looking at the broader effects of purchases, which ties in with today's quote, too. Is that non-essential purchase contributing to the problems we're all talking/complaining about? Exploited labor? Environmental degradation? Climate change? I'm not saying we have to go back to living like Cro-Magnons, but maybe if we were just a little more conscientious in our consumption it would have a beneficial effect. Just MHO, of course.