What's In My Closet? Glass-Half-Full Edition

• Hey Richie: See what you can find in there that might be worth a buck or two. Look hard; you're a good example for the rest of us. Scrounging in the closet, or the attic, the basement, or the back 40--might be just what's needed for many enterprising Americans to get through the trying times ahead. It's likely--with GM going down, and Citicorp in the red, multi-trillion dollar deficits, rising unemployment, etc--that we'll all be gathering forgotten resources on the home front. That's old-fashioned entrepeneurship--making the best with what you've got--consolidating resources. Then a weekend venture at the local flea market may prove profitable. Maybe, if your were alert, you saved the newspapers from last September and October. They might have historic value, like granpa's closet clippings of New York Times from Black Friday in 1929. We are entering a new era of American history. It <i><b> is</b></i> time to take inventory in the closet and the attic; it <i><b> is</b></i> time to make the best of what you've got, and make do with less. And it is time to bring friends and family together and seek out the greatest treasure of all--love. Carey Rowland, author of <a href="http://www.careyrowland.com">Glass half-Full</a>

• while all horrible tragedies, besides number 1, none of them had the long-lasting, far-reaching impact of today's economy. hopefully, this "story" will have a better ending, at least.

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