Message boards and forums are choked full of vitriol aimed at the online bazaar of things both old and new.
One thing that is certain is that many people on Wall Street are very good at wrapping up old things with new paper and selling them to unknowing investors.
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Here are a few tips to shop your closet, make old things new again, and renew your excitement for getting dressed in the morning, once you have gotten past the fact that getting out of bed requires getting over the shock to the system when your feet hit the cold floor.
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Emptying your mind of the things you didn't want to remember and filling your mind up with new things before the old, unwanted things could find their way back in?
Inhabitat is always interested in finding innovative uses for old technology, and this week we saw artists and designers from around the world produce new things from old, unused or outmoded gadgets.
This can spark a willingness to adapt to changing circumstances, not always doing things the same old way and instead be willing to consider new options.
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One final point: what I do for a living at the moment is examine old deposits, old wastes, the new technologies of how we might extract things from them and the economics of our doing so.
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Managing older generations at work requires patience, the ability to listen carefully, and the knowledge that you must learn the old ways of doing things before you can apply your new ideas.
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Politicians have made us believe that buying new things is good - that we shouldn't be miserly and hang on to our old possessions, our old appliances and our old clothes, but that we should toss them out the second they get worn and buy new ones - to keep the economy going.
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