15 August 2008
Talkback: frugalism is the new black
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Anna Warwick
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How are you coping with the hike in the price of your groceries, your daily cup of coffee, petrol and bills?
Are you eating more mince, doing creative things with beans, shopping at op shops, camping instead of taking that overseas trip?
Of course for some people, frugality is a way of life; single pensioners make ends meet on $270 a week. But for others, years of economic good times have meant that frugality is an alien concept.
We explore generational differences in attitudes to spending and saving and find out about 'the joyless consumer'.
Guests
Bernard Salt
KPMG demographer
Anna Warwick
Blogger and young frugal
Peter Richardson
Journalist for 63 years, blogger with the Sunshine Coast Daily and proud older frugal
Cath Armstrong
Founder of Cheapskates
Peter Martin
Canberra-based Economics Correspondent for the Melbourne Age newspaper
Further Information
Peter Richardson's blog 'And another thing'
Publications
Title: Debt free, Cashed up and Laughing
Author: Cath Armstrong
Publisher: ABC Books
Title: The Big Shift
Author: Bernard Salt
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Presenter
Richard Aedy
Producer
Amanda Armstrong
Story Researcher and Producer
Amanda Armstrong
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