Money Matters

If you’re not reading “Femme Economics” at Queercents.com, you should be.

Morea Malatt writes about offsetting the cost of a feminine appearance, and about negotating feminist values within the tools of femininity. In a recent post, she offers  up three reasons to have your shoes repaired instead of throwing them away:

1. The environment. Less shoes in the landfills.
2. Support your local economy instead of buying a replacement pair made who knows where.
3. It’s less expensive than a new pair.

Sounds good to me! Rather than purchasing expensive eye creams, she recommends getting plenty of sleep, drinking tons of water (which we should all be doing, regardless!), keeping your eyes moisturized, wearing big sunglasses and learning to love yourself. This may sound like heresy, but she has even gone so far as to suggest that butches are actually the high maintenance ones! Imagine that!

• So, at least for my household, I am barely, but technically, the lower-maintenance gender-performer when it comes to the economics of looking good. When it comes to butch-femme, looks can be deceiving. I don’t actually know any low-maintenence butches.

I’ve only recently discovered her column, but I’ll be pleased to read on for more tips on frugal femininity and environment friendly beauty.

Other posts by missavarice

• Femme in the Kitchen #2: Sugar - August 31st, 2010
• My Femme Role Models - August 22nd, 2010
• Femme Community: Scattered - July 21st, 2010
• Femme in the Kitchen #1 - July 7th, 2010
• I Was Femme All Along - June 21st, 2010

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