Thrifting

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• Thrifting — refers to the act of shopping at a thrift store, flea market, garage sale, or a shop of a charitable organization, usually with the intent of finding interesting items at a cheap price. A larger philosophy permeates the act of thrifting which… …   Wikipedia

• thrifting — noun Shopping for cheap items, as for example at a garage sale or flea market …   Wiktionary

• Simple living — Mohandas Gandhi spinning yarn in 1942. Gandhi believed in a life of simplicity and self sufficiency. Simple living encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one s lifestyle. These may include reducing one s possessions or… …   Wikipedia

• Downshifting — is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it.”[1] It emphasizes finding an improved …   Wikipedia

• Agrarianism — has two common meanings. The first meaning refers to a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life… …   Wikipedia

• Veganism — Veganism …   Wikipedia

• Asceticism — Not to be confused with Aestheticism. Ascetic redirects here. It is not to be confused with Acetic. Asceticism (from the Greek: ἄσκησις, áskēsis, exercise or training ) describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of… …   Wikipedia

• Over-consumption — Energy consumption per capita per country in 2001 …   Wikipedia

• DIY ethic — The DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self sufficiency through completing tasks oneself as opposed to having others who are more experienced or able complete them for one s behalf. It promotes the idea that an ordinary person can learn to do more… …   Wikipedia

• English language idioms derived from baseball — B = * ballpark: in the ballpark, ballpark figure, and out of the ballpark mdash; Ballpark has been used to mean a broad area of approximation or similarity, or a range within which comparison is possible; this usage OED dates to 1960. Another… …   Wikipedia

• Ecological footprint — The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth s ecosystems. It is a standardized measure of demand for natural capital that may be contrasted with the planet s ecological capacity to regenerate.[1] It represents the amount of …   Wikipedia