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I’m cancelling Christmas...not one dime this year.

I know the feeling, at least I'll scale back, do my shopping at St. Vincent Du Pauls and other thrift stores. I might buy a cheapo DVD player unless I can fix the one I have. In fact, I'm an electronics nut and I like to fix things, I might rearrange my room and put my stereo, 1970's vintage, into it. I dumpster dive from time to time and found a perfectly good CD player made by GE. It is a high end unit from 1984. The only thing it needs is a belt to open and close the tray which I can replace or use a gumband.

Sorry, I'm rambling, but there are frugal ways to enjoy the holiday. I even cobbled a TV together in my room form an old Commodore 1702 monitor with a digital TV tuner box hooked into it. Instant TV.

Car needs work as well so my buddy and I will tackle it. With OBummer as Current Occupant, we will need to learn as many skills as we can. Maybe if and when I get on where my buddy works at, an auto parts store, it might be a good place to work, with the OBummer economy, people will need parts to keep their old heaps running like in Cuba.