What would you say is the one thing that bugs you most about our Cheap culture? For me, it’s the disposable nature of stuff and thus the waste of resources and accumulation […]

The farming section of the book was another eye-opening and fascinating section for me. The idea that food is going to waste in some places while people are starving in others is […]

I’ve failed to extract quotes for the book bits I’m going to talk about today. I may get some things wrong. So be it. You’ve been warned. Henry Ford wanted to retain […]

Here it is mid-January, and we haven’t named a book for February. I’m going out on a limb and naming Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, as our February book. I haven’t read […]

I mentioned in the last post that WalMart was selling DMC floss at retail prices below the wholesale price Indie shops and designers had to pay. As a chain store, WalMart has […]

I am struck by the following claims: Generally speaking, consumers don’t know what things cost, and we all tend to believe we’re paying too much. We associate price with profit, not realizing […]