User talk:Smschipper

Rasquache: Is the term often associated with the low class, the subaltern, and the poor. It means to "be ghetto." Rasquache came from Chicano roots and has negative connotation; however many,if not most, posses rasquache tendencies. To posses a rasquache tendency, one tends to be frugal in some way or another. To be rasquache one can rewash plastic silver, tin foil, or ziplock baggies. Other forms of rasquache are not limited too, but can also be the following: patching up jeans so that new ones don't have to be purchased, finding ways to reuse things that no longer work, or making old items new again. Rasquache can even be a form of art or expression where people plant flowers in toilet bowls, thus using them as planter boxes. In essence, rasquache is the act of using something more than once, using something in a new fashion that was not originally intended for it's new use, or creating something new from a product that never had that intention.