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smalladam
New Member
Hungary
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 Posted - May 15 2009 : 12:10:35 PM
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hello,
I'm a journalist from Hungary, where the voluntary simplicity is not widely known. We have a newspaper, Magazine of Conscious Consumers (in hungarian: Tudatos Vásárlók Lapja http://tudatosvasarlo.hu/magazin), and I actually write an article there on voluntary simplicity, and I need some voluntary simplifier who share some facts of their everyday practices. It won't be so deep just a few word long answers via email, with a first name, or nickname, 'cause I want to put some examples to my article like "Nick spares monthly 34% of his salary as he lives as a voluntary simplifier, and eats his home gardened vegetables" or something like this.
I just need some e-mail addresses to send my questions. Can somebody help me?
Thanks,
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juliapenguin
Associate Member
United Kingdom
165 Posts |
Posted - May 17 2009 : 10:44:26 AM
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| I'm happy to help - I've emailed you my address. |
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CathyA
Advanced Member
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Posted - May 17 2009 : 12:48:45 PM
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| I'm just curious Adam, Is there really a problem with this in Hungary? I'm thinking most people probably know all about simplicity, and we could learn alot from them. Just curious. |
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juliapenguin
Associate Member
United Kingdom
165 Posts |
Posted - May 17 2009 : 2:39:13 PM
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Hi Cathy
I'm NO expert on Hungary at all, but a very close friend of mine is from Slovakia (and still lives there). She feels that all the ex-Communist countries have embraced consumerism very wholeheartedly! She herself is crazy about new clothes and feels really short of cash all the time, when by my standards she's very comfortably off. Maybe it's like if you've been on a too-strict diet - when you come off it you go crazy...
I know something about East Germany (I teach German), and I know that reunification did not bring the material benefits so many hoped it would. Some people in the East felt they'd gone from being poor but quite contented on the whole (as long as they weren't political dissidents, in which case life was terrible), to being poor and frustrated that you CAN travel to Disneyland now but you can't afford it, and envious of those who could afford it. Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that life was great under Communism - just that Consumerism isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I'm not speaking for Adam, of course, or claiming to know anything much about Hungary. I had a very interesting holiday in Communist Budapest once - and couldn't believe how little there was to buy or eat! I had piles of cash (I was working in Austria and the exchange rate was in my favour) but nothing to spend it on. |
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tussiemussies
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - May 18 2009 : 10:53:37 AM
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Be happy to help but think I'd like to understand what their conditions are really like so I don't suggest something that is really out of the question like coupons or buying in bulk with coupons and store sales.
Thanks!
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HappyHiker
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Posted - May 18 2009 : 2:29:23 PM
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If I can help, I'll be glad to...my grandmother came from Pest...
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"In separateness," said the Buddha, "lies the world's greatest misery." |
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juliapenguin
Associate Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - May 20 2009 : 09:24:07 AM
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| I answered a lot of questions for him, but his article was due in on the Monday just gone so I'm not sure he'll be back! |
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need a little help from Hungary
