Poverty: The New Rustic Vacation for the Boojie (Bourgeoisie)

Image credit:  kozyndan “Roughing It”, 2005  Since the Hipsters on Foodstamps article, I’ve been a huge fan of the Pinched series at Salon.com  Having been occupied by my normal life through most of this past spring and summer, I had the time to catch up with the reading.  The writing, while very well done, and the authors, who all seem like incredibly nice and humble people, seemed to depict a very romanticized notion of economic

Flashback: Potted meat is a real thing

  Photo source: Wikipedia Flashback is a feature of RecessionFRESH.com which talks about our experiences of poverty and explores our emotional connection to money.  If you would like to submit for this feature, please email us at RecessionFRESH@gmail.com . While there are tons of  humorous accounts of people’s experiences with potted meat, many of them trigger my own childhood traumas and my understanding of poverty. Isn’t that pate, you ask?  No, it