I'm Not Trendy

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Here is a segment from 60 Minutes.  It really just explains more of the same featured in my previous posts.  I feel it is pretty balanced, not making the banks look like terrorists, nor the short-sellers like snakes.  I find it interesting how the media, and therefor 'the whole world' sees our situation.  In a way it is inflammatory.  Since I don't have television, it seems amazing that my choices, made independently of news media, is trendy.
I am anything but trendy.  I wore/wear hand-me-downs and thrift-store clothing.  I sew.  I drink tea.  I like eggplant, pate', and liver.  I don't use a credit card.  I don't like ice cream.  I like square-toed shoes, and staying on dry land.  I'm shy.  If it is a trend, I either am a late to the party (facebook, cell phones, tattoos, running), or was doing it before it was trendy (recycling- really that's all on this list).
This week, as we say goodbye to this house that was our home, I don't feel trendy.  I don't think something that is hard, is likely to be trendy.
I know that paying a mortgage is hard, because it costs money and time, and sometimes too much money, and too much time.  We were faced with the hard choice of doing nothing and living with an unfortunate situation, or being very proactive, and facing the hard task of getting out of a unfortunate situation.  As I tape up boxes of our belongings, it doesn't feel like a trend that is newsworthy.  CBS can't express the tenderness I'm feeling.