Robert's Ramblings

As a child I remember hearing the expression 'to tighten one's belt' when needing to save money, pay for unexpected expenses or to engage in some form of austerity measures.

This puzzled me for many years because elastic did a perfectly good job at keeping my pants up! Fortunately for me I never experienced the idea that austerity could lead to becoming thinner so again the saying simply made no sense.

Well there it is, a saying for austerity that most of us have never and probably will never know. 'Tighten your belt', we're doing it tough in hard economic times. Really?


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 188 - Austerity'. 1/10s f/8.0 ISO-100 100mm macro + strobe