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Economic shocks are not fun, but to lighten the mood I figured to share a weird but hilarious subculture: vrekken. A "vrek" is the dutch word for somebody that
by fleddr 4y ago
Economic shocks are not fun, but to lighten the mood I figured to share a weird but hilarious subculture: vrekken.
A "vrek" is the dutch word for somebody that is extraordinarily frugal in unhealthy ways. The vrekken culture embraces this as a quality and then escalates it to Olympic standards. Not even out of necessity, instead as an avenue for creativity.
Here's one such vrekken news paper of the "Saver of the Fatherland":
https://www.vrekkenpagina.nl/ https://www.vrekkenpagina.nl/
I'm unsure if there's international versions of this culture?
- somebodynew 4y agoIn America there are subcultures devoted to couponing (hunting for discount promotions) and churning (opening many credit card or bank accounts to collect "new account bonuses").
- indecisive_user 4y agoThere was a TV show on the TLC channel that covered people like this in the US. Called Extreme Cheapskates https://youtu.be/D8Yerg78m7M https://youtu.be/D8Yerg78m7M
- mrleinad 4y agoSounds like my father in law: voluntarily chooses not to turn up the heat in winter to avoid spending, even when he could pay the bill multiple times and still have plenty left from his retirement monthly paycheck.