|
|
|||||||
| Home Base A starting point, and place for threads don't seem to belong anywhere else |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|
06-06-2011, 12:22 PM
|
#1 |
|
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
|
How Are You Doing It?
Making ends meet, that is.
I know we are a diverse group of people with equally diverse incomes and outgoes...but surely most of us are feeling the butt-f*ck in the mouth that is the current grocery/gas/mortgage/various sundries squeeze. How are you and your family making ends meet? Are you doing things differently than, say, two years ago? How do you downgrade a lifestyle?
__________________
In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 12:29 PM
|
#2 |
|
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 13,002
|
I'm not.
 I'm thinking of selling a kidney. |
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 12:35 PM
|
#3 |
|
Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 10,346
|
I'm thinking of buying Infi's kidney. It's what's for dinner.
__________________
 "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce
|
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 01:27 PM
|
#4 | |
|
Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
Posts: 7,016
|
Quote:
__________________
Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of 
|
|
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 12:36 PM
|
#5 |
|
Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas
Posts: 2,957
|
Selling crack, anyone interested?
__________________
Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien |
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 07:43 PM
|
#6 | |||
|
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
Posts: 12,861
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl. Last edited by ZenGum; 06-06-2011 at 07:44 PM. Reason: Sweetheart, sweetheat, much the same... |
|||
|
|
|
|
06-07-2011, 12:16 AM
|
#7 | |
|
I'm still a jerk
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Little Mexico
Posts: 1,817
|
Quote:
__________________
"Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering. |
|
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 12:37 PM
|
#8 |
|
barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 23,401
|
Cutting everywhere and anywhere. Adjusting the thermostat. Planning purchases in advance, not buying many frivolous items. . . . Fixing things instead of replacing when available. Simply doing without in many cases. . . .
__________________
"like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt |
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 12:58 PM
|
#9 |
|
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
I work. We spend less than I make.
My wife has been a stay at home mom for about a decade. She's going back to work in the Fall. About 25 hours a week. Perfect job, a permanent substitute teacher at my son's elementary school. She'll float around from classroom to classroom, wherever they need her. And be home around the same time as the kids get back from school. We had been doing the belt tightening for so long, there wasn't anything left to tighten. |
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 01:03 PM
|
#10 |
|
Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 10,346
|
Dipping into savings
__________________
"I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce
|
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 01:07 PM
|
#11 |
|
LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 7,661
|
beer in cans instead of bottles
__________________
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner |
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 01:18 PM
|
#12 | |
|
Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 13,002
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 08:49 PM
|
#13 | ||
|
I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
Posts: 30,852
|
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart |
||
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 10:24 PM
|
#14 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Not here
Posts: 2,655
|
Trying to find work that I can do to supplement my SSDI which is pathetic or get off it completely. There's a program which will pay for me to go back to school for retraining, but I honestly don't know if I can make the grades.
I want to move to Durango which has all sorts of part time jobs I could probably manage, but I need to come up with moving costs first. Meanwhile, I do without cable TV, buy my clothes at thrift shops, make do with second hand furniture, do my laundry for free at the motel, etc. |
|
|
|
|
06-06-2011, 01:25 PM
|
#15 |
|
Only looks like a disaster tourist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: above 7,000 feet
Posts: 7,208
|
All of you belt tighteners are crippling the economy. Spend, spend! Take out a loan from Guido, if you have to.
|
|
|
|
|
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
