by JH 12 Replies latest jw friends
PS - oh yeah, we use dialup networking, and don't have cable tv. We pay $100 for 50 DVD rentals at our local video store. I buy 2nd hand and have become a very good garage-sale/thrift store shopper.
any and all cuts one can make to one's lifestyle allows for the occasional luxuries - in our case, vacations.
Depends where you live. Here in the city, giving up the car would be no problem at all. I rarely use it now, but it's paid for, so I'll keep it for awhile longer. That could be more difficult where you live, JH, I don't know about public transit there.
Next easy thing would be cable TV. Barely watch it now, especially in the summer.
Yeah... I too, have had to cut back a bit...
I used to get coffee every morning at a local coffee shop. That got a tad pricey... over 2.50 per day. I quit my coffee - cold-turkey one day a few months ago, when I did not have enough money to make it to payday. *twitch* *twitch* I'm okay... really, I am.
I also do not have cable TV - although my boss is pressuring me to get it - and then get DSL - for work. I think he is trying to get me a higher-speed connection to the Internet - for work-purposes... and he might be able to get work to pay for it.
I drive a VW New-Beetle that gets 45-plus mpg - diesel-engine. (Someday, I am hoping to once again make my own fuel for it - bio-diesel - at quite a cost savings over the cost of fuel at the pump... I.E. 1/2 or so)
I do not have a cell phone... oh wait. I _do_ have a cell phone... but, it's a 'pay-as-you-go' type of phone... TracPhone... and seems to be working out okay.
When I take my girlfriend out to dinner - we both share a plate of food - and take home what we don't eat - if there is any left-overs.
I try to catch rain-water... when it rains... for the plants I have outside. They all like the rainwater, better than the city water, and grow better when I use the rain water on them.
Regards,
Jim TX
