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Good for you! Hope we can hang on until 2010. Hopefully there will be some lefty congress critters we can send home.

Yeah, I'm no stranger to scarcity so it isn't too much of an issue with me. My "newest computer" was made in 1999. I have a TV here in this room, a portable Sony from 1964. Oh, another suggestion, check out thrift stores like St. Vincent Du Pauls and so on. Dollar Tree is good for some stuff as well as Family Dollar. I'm not a fan of Wal*Mart but worse comes to worst, well, they are there. I believe in buying American but with OBummer in there, well, sometimes we do need some hurt before we can heal.

I'm a gamer as well, but only have the first Playstation, I'd love a PS2 or a Wii but will only buy those used or reconditioned. There are ways to live well while being frugal. If you do need to make a major purchase because you really need it, go ahead, but for pleasure, either do without although there could be other ways to have your cake and eat it too with minimal expense.

I guess being between jobs until now and also being raised by a single parent via divorce, I guess that's taught me a lot.

I also try to fix things, I need to look at the DVD player in my combo, if I can fix that fine, but if not, I just might buy a cheap DVD player to get by since I do have a DVD collection, my buddy went "dumpster diving" when the local Blockbuster closed. They threw out thousands and thousands of DVD and he scarfed them up. He gave me hundreds of them. I even "dumpster dived" myself, got me a CD player from 1984 for a stereo system, a GE high end model of it's time. I just need a small belt or rubber band to fix the tray mechanism and I'm ready to go. Sometimes I scour yard sales and trash day too.