Ladies and gentlemen!
Let’s talk about something unusual. So you give me a few of your minutes.
Look around you, and take in everything you see. Ignore the salient ones. They have had a lot of attention already.
This is what I call the ordinary drive. Learning to appreciate the common things for their value in contrast to posh ones.

To most of you, it doesn’t seem very interesting and lively. Am sure you agree on this well as I disagree with you.
Why? That may be the question on your minds.
The answer is somehow simple, your eyes and mine at times have been raised to recognize the unfamiliar, the new, posh, captivating, bright and strange things. While we ignore and sometimes trash the old and common things.

Yet when the financial conditions make us to rethink our objectives. We come to realize the ordinary things have got some splendor attached to them that we were blind to before.
Here now, we going to focus on the rug in your doorstep but if you see it not, it is fine, seek something else that is not new in your surrounding.
Observing closely, I come to realize that this or that was as a result of careful management of resources. You did not need it badly and you used not more than enough to acquire it.
Which is very good for those on small budgets or feeling the effect of the credit crunch.
Its’ presence does increase your love for it in one way or the other. Forget about people saying that “familiarity breeds contempt’’.
That maybe jealousy over what they don’t have which makes them treat what they have with contempt. Since they can not get rid of it for its usefulness yet they can’t possess what they desperately want.
If all of us were to love these ordinary stuffs. Then we would be more equal in appearance, reducing the status gap which at times isolates us. Not that I hate rich folks and want them reduced to rags.

Just imagine when a tycoon like Sudhir or any other can realize the benefit and pleasure of sleeping in a grass thatched hut and on a mat. Cool during the day and night.
No need for a fan or air conditioners or a horde of servants to maintain it.
This could surely bring about a lot of equality.

Buying a pair of jeans. Do wear it out until it fades.
Once old, wear it with ease, it a faded jean and its stylish.
The time when faded had come on our market, people looked for them feverishly. Those who had their old and faded jeans, at times moldy resurrected them with pride.

When you go shopping in the supermarket, mall, market or shop.
Have a list in mind of what you really need to avoid impulsive buying. Should the money remain over after the purchases, think thrice before making any additional purchases.

Instead of buying a designer suit. Buy material and pay a tailor for his services. Its’ reasonable, logical, not impulsive and above all cheap. Wherever you pass you will be known to have worn a suit.
Bravo ordinary drive!

By akatuhweraanne on Tuesday 12th January '10 at 12:03 PM
Derrick thanks for the article,Surely most Africans buy expensive clothes aprt from we Campuser girls. am on the side of Bafudde am telling you these stylish shoes and tops make us very smart and when some one meets you he /she starts wondering where you bought these smart clothes and if Africans can think like campaser girls am telling you we can be the smatest pple in the whole world and we can stablise our econmy bcoz wheb we put on these cheap ones even busness men wll keep on buying them.

By ssenkotof on Monday 23rd November '09 at 1:57 PM
Did he went bazooka

By jawzzz on Friday 20th November '09 at 4:24 PM
very boring ,dont u know evry mistake in art is design?

By joshuamu on Saturday 10th October '09 at 6:29 PM
You know bazungu dont care. u can find one putting on atorn T-shirt but check his account in the bank he has 30000 us dollars un-used it is Africans who are even poor who wants to look expensive and smart bse they cant miss both.

By bafudde on Wednesday 23rd September '09 at 2:32 PM
so promising article Derrick.always ordinary things looks more stylish and thats why we campusers cant spend money buying expensive things more so ladies who storm Nakivubo in the evening 2 buy stylish shoes of 1500shs plus tops of 800. to ma surprise all such ladies are campusers.I was wondering why campusers,but i realized finally that ordinary things makes them unique & styled up.

By lordy on Wednesday 2nd September '09 at 5:40 PM
yeah men, simplicity has its appeal, no wonder it caught up with that muzungu.
Thanks for your support.

By jeromewakasa on Sunday 30th August '09 at 10:05 AM
Okay,I may parallel with you in regard to the splendor in simplcity, more so during financial bites, but what about our dear Mps who bag more than 20m p/m but appear with torn socks for sessions, to the alarm of mama spe;or is it just our undieing love for man holes,in our socks, underpants, not to mention roads and our public pay rolls.

By buyosss on Friday 28th August '09 at 1:46 PM
a similar article comes to mind. It spoke of a rich muzeeyi UK millionaire who whilst on safari to Masai land fell in love with the simple Masai lifestyle immensely. At the time of writing he had gone off to the UK to sell off all his assets and return to live among them as a muzungu masai.

By aswizen on Monday 24th August '09 at 2:27 PM
man thnx 4 the article and fopr the design inthe foto