Comments on: What have you had to give up?

By: Vmrck

Vmrck — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:55:25 +0000

yek-
i can relate, I may be facing giving up my independence too, it is not a pleasant thought. I’ve cut out cable, get free RX’s when I can, swallowed all my pride-got help with electric bill and applied for food stamps for the FIRST time in my life.! considering taking on a roommate (ugh)but when the savings are at zero, the credit cards are maxed out…..whaddya do? I wish you and everyone of us the best..

By: yek

yek — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:49:26 +0000

I identify with “gave up my pride” ~ I asked my sister if I could move in with her & her hub. So here I am. I gave up my independence, and yes, I miss the hell out of it!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:14:27 +0000

We have given up our weekly movie night! It’s now more like once a month. We also hardly ever eat out - and we enjoyed that - as we are seniors and felt it left us more freedom to do that more often, and not having to schlep the kids around - in and out of the car, etc. We are preparing a good amount of space in our lower level of our large home (walk out with private entrance/yard, bath, etc) for a renter. I’m researching that now. Hope to have it ready April 1st. Also, I use coupons now again the way I did when the kids were little. We also watch for ads and hit the stores on discount days, also discount days at the pharmacy. We shop smarter - not nearly as many little extras. Soon we’ll be on a fixed income and God only knows what the Medicare health benefits will be - or Social Security - both of which will likely see a “hit” soon. So, changing our lifestyle - even more - to reduce our need for expenditures on non-needed items, is another way. We don’t forsee going back to the “old ways” even with an upturn in the economy, when t hat does take place. We live in a metro area in an area of the country where unemployment rate has been close to 10% for many years and now is more than 11%, so being more frugal is going to have to be the focus.

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Fatburningfurnace review — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:25:49 +0000

Thank you for sharing this life crisis, for my case i would have to give up my car and my vocations.

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payday advances — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:11:32 +0000

It would be hard to have someone you do not even know move in as a tenant or even a roomate. You just can’t go trusting anyone anymore.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:40:29 +0000

I had to give up me living the good life and move in with my parents…womp womp. I blogged about it. Check it out if you want to know how it feels to be a recent graduate who has never had the chance to lose a job because I have never been given a paying job. http://nataliepr.wordpress.com/

By: Hellokitty

Hellokitty — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:30:14 +0000

Sometimes we may not know ourselves well, so give up some thing will renew our mind, it may not a bad thing.

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Buy UGG Boots — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:10:40 +0000

I’m all about the library now. We very rarely go out to the movies or buy books anymore, but we borrow from the library. A lot of libraries are even lending video games now, so that’s something new to get my mind off of things, and saves a lot of money. If my fiance loses his finance job, we may very well need to move in with family, and give up a bit of freedom. But we’re trying to hang in there a bit longer.