Get yourself out of debt. Use your money on YOU. During the last great depression, those who had no debt were fine. Those who had debt lost everything.
You don't need to buy any more junk. Pay off your debts, or you'll always be captive to your debtor.
Hear, hear! Cancel cable, movies, Limbaugh's 24/7, Beck's 'Blaze TV'...bring that money home wherever you can. No more for charity...I'm taking care of my own...