Posted on 11/09/2009 1:56:12 PM PST by Chickensoup
So, are you doing anything different economically?
Are you cutting back?
Will Christmas and Thanksgiving be any different?
Are you spending, saving, paying down?
Yes, yes, yes and yes.
Bingo!
And no Christmas shopping this year at Costco after the put ALGORE on the cover of the NOVEMBER Costco Connection.
Paid it all off in the last 6 months. Believe me, it hurt.
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Same here. Christmas will be slimmer by a big bunch.
My debt is being payed down and my family has cut back to what we absolutely need. My extended family skipped buying everyone gifts last year and we just settled with elephant gifts and games. Probably do the same again this year.
Our older liberal kids are in for a rude awakening on Christmas morn!
I am only shopping for essentials for Christmas.
Making Almond crunch for gifts,
Gone Galt.
Atlas Shrugged ping!
“...Costco after the put ALGORE on the cover of the NOVEMBER Costco Connection.”
PLEASE tell me you’re joking.
In this house, we’ve canceled the holidays. All clothing purchases are happening at Goodwill. My once-a-week shopping at Walmart has dropped down to once-a-month. Typically, I spent $200 a week there, now we’ve gotten that down to less than $200 a month.
No more eating out or fast food. Every extra dime is going to our debt.
Traveling to my family and spending time with my family is the only Christmas gift I need and want.
Atlas Shrugged ping!
Yes,
My car just went over 100K and I hit 3 deer, instead of buying a new one I just fixed it up using junkyard parts.
I’ve held off buying a new digital camera (I love my Canon G2 so it’s easy) and a new GPS system.
The only thing I’ve been buying is Gold, Silver and Palladium
My focus is on paying down and getting everything fixed up for the hard times ahead. Christmas going to be 99% Jesus and 1% gifts this year (shoulda done that a long time ago).
No joke...
http://www.costco.com/Service/FeaturePage.aspx?ProductNo=11023465
I wrote them a nice little letter explaining that we will continue to buy necessities there but that our gifts and extras will be purchased elsewhere...
We have been stocking up on cheap food but will not have a consumer Christmas. No gifts this year at all. We are only buying what we have to and get extra money by recycling.
Cell phones will be going in January and then cable.
Pigeon for Thanksgiving, coal for Christmas.
And I dropped Consumer Reports after they had an article openly advocating government healthcare.
Me too — paying down and not buying anything new. I just spent $125 at Sam’s on groceries. I expect to make that last almost 3 weeks and I fed my husband and an employee lunch at home instead of taking them for fast food. No Christmas at all this year.
Me too — paying down and not buying anything new. I just spent $125 at Sam’s on groceries. I expect to make that last almost 3 weeks and I fed my husband and an employee lunch at home instead of taking them for fast food. No Christmas at all this year.
Me too — paying down and not buying anything new. I just spent $125 at Sam’s on groceries. I expect to make that last almost 3 weeks and I fed my husband and an employee lunch at home instead of taking them for fast food. No Christmas at all this year.
I’m still putting up my Christmas lights.
I am pushing to get all our major surgery done this year, before the democrats destroy my health insurance. But that’s not really about Christmas.
Me too — paying down and not buying anything new. I just spent $125 at Sam’s on groceries. I expect to make that last almost 3 weeks and I fed my husband and an employee lunch at home instead of taking them for fast food. No Christmas at all this year.
No debt but the mortgage. Christmas will be small this year.
I am about ready to tell congress and their puppetmaster debt brokers to take it all and shove it all up their collective communist @$$es.
Yes, yes, yes and yes
Same here nothing out there worth buying all China crap.
Christmas will be austere and more about the meaning.
and speaking of cc's, had a Chase card that I had for emergency use only and I got a letter last week that stated that Chase was closing the account because I wasn't using it. If you use the thing, they jack the rates up and if you don't use it, they cancel it.
I'm finished with them, pay them off and forget them
The leadership at Costco is extremely liberal, and proud of it.
Working like hell.
Paying off debt.
Saving like crazy.
Buying tangible essentials like crazy.
my family draws names for xmas. keeps the gift giving to a minimum. being there is the best part.
we always go nuts with the food, though!
Hell yeah, I’ve already moved to Galt’s Gulch. Paid off every last bit of debt, and when the sale of our house closes next week - can’t tell you how grateful I am that it actually sold - we will have absolutely $0 debt.
I got laid off and will not be returning to another six-figure high-tech job. I’m cashing out my 401k and will put it somewhere less liquid and less accessible for the .GOV to confiscate.
I’m a mere shadow of the consumer I once was, and that is not going to change. I’m not coming back.
The only way to stop this runaway government is to starve it, and that will require personal sacrifice.
Glamour Magazine has Me-chelle my belle on the cover. I didn’t even take it out of the plastic sleeve-just threw it in the trash.
I’m blessed, we have everything we need and it’s paid for. We’ve never been big spenders here at my house anyway, so no need for “cutting back”.
Me too. When the last of the VT photo gigs are done and accepted, I should be able to eliminate a credit card. Other than essentials, I am not doing much spending. Most of my relatives (that don’t care for gifts anymore) will get charitable donations in their names and they are cool with it. My wife is very easy to shop for and I am expecting a list any day now.
The same here.
Paid it all off in the last 6 months. Believe me, it hurt.
Don't you at least feel good about being out of debt? I've been out of debt since around 1973 and the feeling of being debt free was tremendously exhilirating for me.
In fact, buying a house back in the 80s and being in debt again was a bit of a downer for me.
ugh.
Am I shrugging? Oh h*ll yeah!!!!! Big time!!!
What, me worry?....
The dog might get a couple of new chew toys this Christmas but that’s IT! Nothing else for anyone, seriously. And no one will care, either.
No debt besides a mortgage, no eating out, no purchases from any government owned or subsidized businesses, or any business that seems to be falling in line with the Gorebot/Pelosi/Soros/Marx/Obama world.
I have reduced my hours to put me in the lowest tax bracket I can manage. I am stocked up on food, and all necessary gear is in good working order with spare parts.
This government and the people of this country that are supporting it are not getting anything from me that I can possibly avoid giving them. Not now, not ever again.
All I can think to myself is that if Bush was president with an unemployment rate at 10% like the annointed one, the news agencies would be doing nothing but talking about bread lines and the homeless.
RE: “And no Christmas shopping this year at Costco after they put ALGORE on the cover of the NOVEMBER Costco Connection.”
...and...
“I was disgusted when I got my copy—immediately tossed it in the bin without even cracking it open.”
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I KNEW there were good reasons I do not belong to Costco! Now I’ve found another one!
The lease is up on my business and I am seriously considering taking my inventory and warehousing it for the next several months up to a year.
I could use the downtime. My employees can draw unemployment or whatever, they aren’t all that great anyway.
I won’t contribute to the economy in the way I have been. No taxes, no rent, no payroll.
I own my own home and live frugally anyway. This economy has eaten away most of what I’ve built up since 2000.
I’ll go home, produce what I love and enjoy it. Who knows?
Re: “Glamour Magazine has Me-chelle my belle on the cover. I didn’t even take it out of the plastic sleeve-just threw it in the trash.”
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If you paid for that rag, time to cancel, demand a refund and tell them WHY!
Hubby hit a 6 point buck awhile back, we had his 1999 w/230K truck fixed ($500 deductible) through our insurance rather than replace it. Never had a bit of trouble with that truck other than replacing the fuel pump once, it still runs like new. I put a "cow catcher" on my 2005 truck when I got it just for that reason, we live in the country, so deer and cows in the road are common.
Christmas is going to be real slim this year, our savings were depleted and my CC debts piled up due to medical bills when hubby had an emergency triple bypass last year, now he's unemployed. I have our budget set so we can pay our normal bills without his salary, but it is really tight. We'll probably just buy for the 3 grandkids and the limit for them, usually $100/Ea. is going to be cut in half.
Definitely cutting back this year, same as we did last year. This coming spring, we’re enlarging our garden (again). Nearly all clothing comes from second hand stores, dinners out are a thing of the past, spending is very limited and only for things we really need. Frugal living serves us well.
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