{"id":1204,"date":"2009-09-03T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/keep-your-economy-out-of-my-underwear.html"},"modified":"2009-09-03T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:47:00","slug":"keep-your-economy-out-of-my-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/keep-your-economy-out-of-my-underwear.html","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Economy Out of My Underwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Greenspan started this a couple years back by noting on NPR that monitoring the sale of men&#8217;s underwear was a reasonable indicator of the economy.  Apparently, in normal economic times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/30\/AR2009083002761.html?hpid=topnews\">the average man buys 3.4 pair of new underwear each year<\/a>.  The claim is that when times are tough, guys will try to milk a few extra miles out of an old pair.  The reasoning being that since no one sees them, they can let them achieve a higher state of rot before turning them into shop rags.<\/p>\n<p>News flash.  Real men do not buy underwear on a periodic basis, good economy or not.  There are only two cases where you buy new BVDs.  One is when the old ones fail to emerge intact from a wash cycle.  But for some of us, this is a high bar.  I once saw my father staple a pair of his shorts back together and put them on.  That sort of lesson sticks with a boy.  If fact, most men will go &#8220;commando&#8221; for a day or so at the end of the wash week before buying new shorts becomes any sort of a priority.  The other acceptable case is when some well meaning woman in your life &#8220;disappears&#8221; the offending undies, in which case she is morally obligated to replace them next time she cruises through Target.  So technically, this doesn&#8217;t count as a man buying underwear. <\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re watching my underwear buying habits, the economy has been in the tank for 40 plus years.  And&#8230; not to put too fine a point on it, but&#8230; you really need to consider a new hobby.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Greenspan started this a couple years back by noting on NPR that monitoring the sale of men&#8217;s underwear was<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/keep-your-economy-out-of-my-underwear.html\" title=\"Read Keep Your Economy Out of My Underwear\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}