Thift Nation

This week's Time Magazine devotes its attention on a topic that is the subject of this blog: thrift and frugality. Its central theme is that Americans are reacting to the great recession of 2008 with "big changes in attitudes and spending habits, but they're not giving up hope." Here's what you can expect to read and ponder over:

• The lead article, The Great Recession: America Becomes a Thrift Nation discusses how Americans are rediscovering the virtue of frugality as a means of coping with the economic downturn.


• Thrift Nation profiles 17 individuals/families and how they are coping with the economic downturn.


• American Thrift: A Time Poll discusses the results of 1,000 Americans who were polled about "how they're feeling, where they're scrimping and what they see in the road ahead."