Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

You can buy something much less valuable, for a lot more money than it's worth, but it will not have the value of your present blanket. It probably won't have a satin border, either.

Quality is the first thing to go, when an economy collapses, as ours has. I wish I could find appliances that, instead of having stainless steel outsides, had cast iron insides, not the easily broken plastic innards that make planned obsolescence so obscene.