Scaling Back
Posted on | October 8, 2008 at 7:11 am | 9 Comments
The current financial crisis has hit everyone pretty hard in the wallet, or will soon. It has caused me to attempt to save money in many different ways:
- Only donating to charities that pay dividends.
- Having maid clean house once a week instead of once a day.
- Only listening to the left channel of stereo recordings in order to conserve electricity.
- Growing my own celery and cilantro.
- Re-using facial tissue and toilet paper.
- Driving the Ferrari to work only once per week.
- Canceled my subscription to the Adult Blu-ray Disc Of The Month Club.
- If it’s brown, flush it down. If it’s yellow, let it mellow.
- Switching from Fat Tire to Old Milwaukee; Trading in my Carbon Credits for Barley Bucks.
- No longer using dishwasher, since the dust bowl conditions outside can be used to sandblast the dishes clean.
- Only buying Powerball tickets when the jackpot is over $30 million.
- Paying bills every other month instead of every month.
- Selling my beloved John Tesh and Yanni CD collections on eBay.
- Putting off that kidney transplant until 2010.
- Switching to the iPhone data plan that only allows 10 text messages/100 web page loads per month for $1/month, rather than the existing 200/unlimited plan for $20/month.
- Voting for Ron Paul in the Presidential election.
- Goodbye Crunchwrap Supreme, Hello Bean Burrito!
- Selling my sister’s kids for medical experiments, since I have no kids of my own.
- Set up a line of credit with “Bruno” in the alley.
- Got rid of my DSL and went back to dialup Internet access.
- Got rid of my DSL and went back to dialup Internet access.
- Got rid of my DSL and went back to dialup Internet access.
- Got rid of my DSL and went back to dialup Internet access.
- Damn, hasn’t this thing posted yet?
What steps are you taking to weather the global economic storm?
Latre.
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9 Responses to “Scaling Back”
October 8th, 2008 @ 8:38 am
What are you doing growing cilantro?! Using it for compost? Devising a means to wipe it off the face of the earth? or is it for N? If so, then that’s sweet.
- Your former CS lab partner (a long, long time ago).
October 8th, 2008 @ 9:21 am
Cilantro is the best herb ever! So tasty and so versatile!
October 8th, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Cancelling the battle royale I’d planned between my helper monkeys and my harmer monkeys.
October 8th, 2008 @ 9:18 pm
When you sold the John Tesh and Yanni CDs, you kept Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute, right?!
October 8th, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
Financial crisis? That’s more of a northern-hemisphere thing… The U.S. president may speak some Spanish, but the PM here speaks Mandarin; I think we’re OK for awhile.
But as for cost-cutting tips, I’ve always preferred to focus on earning and let the spending take care of itself. I’ve been hearing for years now that real estate is THE hot investment, so I reckon it’s about time I dipped a toe into the market and nabbed myself some of the free loot!
October 9th, 2008 @ 10:07 am
Financial crisis? That’s more of a northern-hemisphere thing…
So the Australian central bank did not cut its interest rate like the rest of the world? The stock market indices over there are doing just fine?
October 9th, 2008 @ 11:49 am
you should never save money on porn
October 9th, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
> The stock market indices over there are doing just fine?
There’s a bit of a hiccup, but Aus did not have the whole pyramid-scheme mortgage derivative bubble going on here. Just a smallish real estate boom (caused mainly by a contact high from the USA’s hysteria, I think) which has left – for example – my wife’s flat still comfortably over double its value of 10 years ago.
Of course, things will get far worse – for almost everyone – before they get better, but my point was Australia’s economy has been more tied to Asia’s than the West lately. I mean, you keep hearing how much coal China is burning? Guess who’s selling it to ‘em? (after all we can’t burn it HERE, it’s bloody filthy stuff…)
October 9th, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
:So the Australian central bank did not cut its interest rate like the rest of the world?:
It cut it’s interest rate after 7 consecutive hikes in the last X years. We have a new govt and a steadier hand at the tiller… we have had one .5% interest rate cut and just last week, another whole percent cut. Our govt did NOT hand out $$ stimulus cheques and we pay more for petrol. We’re doin ok, thanks!
And if you do another list post, I WILL raise your taxes!
iFahey xxxx