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Miss Cheapist: November 2007
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Consuming with a conscience. Monday, November 26, 2007. Sweet, Sweet Fantasy (with apologies to M. Carey). The popular fantasy of an apartment in Harlem overlooking Central Park). Several years ago, Miss Cheapist. Tried therapy as a way to navigate different transitions that she faced. At the time, i. T was productive, primarily because she realized how little she really understood about herself. With fatigue, she sighed, “I’m just so overwhelmed with everyone else’s fantasies! Who can even afford them?
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Miss Cheapist: April 2008
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Consuming with a conscience. Tuesday, April 22, 2008. The Formula for Good Fortune. Just a few months in and tragic events have revealed that the Year of the Rat has been most unlucky. Miss Cheapist finds herself reeling from deaths of two significant figures in her life, trying to make sense of seemingly unpredictable cycles of fate. Shortly after the Lunar New Year, Miss Cheapist held a small dumpling party and then set off to a vacation in Akumal, Mexico. You see, in spite of her complaints about expe...
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Miss Cheapist: October 2007
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Consuming with a conscience. Thursday, October 18, 2007. Down with Downward Mobility. Moreover, was she isolating herself from others with the claim that “money didn’t matter,” and that she couldn’t do a job “just for the money? After a quick survey, she identified three distinct groups of peers:. 1) those enjoying life without analysis, primarily with inherited wealth and expensive hobbies. 2) Those who pulled themselves up from their bootstraps, claiming they “earned” it all themselves; and,. Initially...
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Miss Cheapist: May 2007
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Consuming with a conscience. Tuesday, May 29, 2007. Miss Cheapist tests the suburban waters of a condominum pool). This past weekend Miss Cheapist spent time in an inner-ring suburb of Washington DC, and contemplated the question: Are the suburbs truly soul-deadening? The York Street F-train station, the soothing rumblings of the D/B train over the Manhattan Bridge, charming cobblestone streets that eat up kitten heels, and riverside city and state parks hostile to biking, fishing or people of color!
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Miss Cheapist: November 2008
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Consuming with a conscience. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Inheritance of the Lost. First of all, Miss Cheapist is so happy that Obama was elected the 44. President of the United States. She will take a tremendous risk and say that her faith in democracy is restored, and she looks to the future reconnected with her own past idealism. The news of his victory also marked the end of her two- month long period of writer’s block, and she was finally able to finish this post. More often than not, it is shrouded ...
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Miss Cheapist: June 2007
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Consuming with a conscience. Friday, June 29, 2007. Cheap, Not Slutty. Miss Cheapist wears shirt (14.99 from Strawberry Jam), shorts ($14.99 from H&M), and metallic sandals (39.99 sale Ken Cole Reaction). Cristie (above) always finds dresses and separates at discount stores and vintage shops, and manages to pull everything together into unique ensembles. The dress above was purchased at Rainbow. On DeLancey Street for $16.99. In total, her wood accessories cost $10.00, from the same store. In order to ma...
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Miss Cheapist: February 2009
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Consuming with a conscience. Monday, February 9, 2009. Expectations of the Expecting. Blog post written on January 20, the day before Miss Cheapist went into labor…) . For months Miss Cheapist has been preoccupied with matters of lesser literary significance. . But as they taught in high school, it’s important to “write from the heart,” so, she will ‘fess up and find a launching point from the truth. . Readers, Miss Cheapist is actually married, ( now call her Ms. Cheapist. And expecting a baby.
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Miss Cheapist: July 2008
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Consuming with a conscience. Monday, July 28, 2008. Miss Cheapist and even cheaper sister. Sister Cheapist taking the ocean breezes of Venice Beach, CA. Miss Cheapist received the news in May that her sister, A., planned to move to Lost Angeles after the summer to pursue a degree in architecture, abandoning her lucrative job as a software consultant for something more artistic. Who could resist its still developing cultural landscape, coastal modernism, and the chance to sight celebrities? Sister, cousin...
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Miss Cheapist: Inheritance of the Lost
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Consuming with a conscience. Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Inheritance of the Lost. First of all, Miss Cheapist is so happy that Obama was elected the 44. President of the United States. She will take a tremendous risk and say that her faith in democracy is restored, and she looks to the future reconnected with her own past idealism. The news of his victory also marked the end of her two- month long period of writer’s block, and she was finally able to finish this post. More often than not, it is shrouded ...
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Miss Cheapist: June 2008
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Consuming with a conscience. Monday, June 23, 2008. Secrets: Miss Cheapist will never tell. Remember when friendships were defined by our ability to divulge everything? The fact that they attended college in the era defined by “political-correctness” made his frankness all the more courageous. Posted by Miss Cheapist. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Secrets: Miss Cheapist will never tell. For Miss Cheapist, being cheap is part of her career, rooted in cultural heritage, and remains a family tradition. Sh...
