How has our poor economy affected you? What have you given up or will you give up...

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...to financially survive? Okay, I gave up buying lunch everyday. I bring leftovers or I go to the deli offering a salad for $3.50 instead of the place offering a $10.00 salad. Also giving up smoking helped financially and of course better for my health. I am more conscious with the utilites (leaving lights on etc.) my husband got a more fuel economy car.

I'm curious to hear what others are doing.
 
I'm staying in my apartment. I want a house so bad, my mom/sisters each have 2! I have NOTHING, but I'm the only one with kids. I've been raising them on my own for 8 years, in this 1 br apartment. I went house hunting, and the houses came down $40,000 since I looked, but I still can't even afford a one bedroom condo. I5-7 years ago I could've bought a small cape with this job.The economy just keeps poor people in lousy neighborhoods. I hate to say it, but it generalizes all of us, & separates the classes. BTW, didn't the US colonists leave England to avoid taxes? If I owned a property, taxes would take HALF my income, here in NJ. This is criminal!
 
Thankfully I've always been good with my money. I've always paid my credit cards to zero, so my only debt is my mortgage and a little left over of my school loans. If I can't pay cash for something, I can't buy it - that has kept me out of trouble and I feel fine when times get tough. I automatically save a few hundred from my paycheck every month and if I need some extra spending money, instead of dipping into savings, I try to babysit or sell something on ebay, or try to get other easy part time work.
 
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