Change I can believe in: "I’m just not seeking happiness from material things anymore"

if this is where things are headed, i say woo-hoo... it's about goddam time...

“I think this economy was a good way to cure my compulsive shopping habit,” Maxine Frankel, 59, a high school teacher from Skokie, Ill., said as she longingly stroked a diaphanous black shawl at a shop in the nearby Chicago suburb of Glenview. “It’s kind of funny, but I feel much more satisfied with the things money can’t buy, like the well-being of my family. I’m just not seeking happiness from material things anymore.”

To many, the adjustment feels less like a temporary, emergency response than a permanent recalibration, one they view in terms of ethics rather than expediency.

“It’s kind of like we all went overboard,” said Sacha Taylor, a fixture on the charity circuit in [Atlanta], 33. “And we’re trying to get back to where we should have been.”

i can't tell you how long i've been waiting to see things like this in print...

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