We are in a paradigm shift in our household.
The ONLY new items we have bought in the last year is computer parts and guitar strings and tires for the SUV.
Clothes, Furniture, DVDs, CDs, shoes, etc. All bought 2nd hand. We've started bartering heavily for services with our flooring business and we are starting new CASH business ventures that require no employees. (E-scraping, swap shop, etc.)
Our customer base has changed buying habits those who do buy our goods and services are using cash AND they are stretching their dollars as far as they will go. We always ask if they have anything to trade that we can use.
We are now putting up signage in the flooring store listing items we need. Its starting to work very well. We still need cash to pay utilities and taxes and for most of our stock but even our suppliers are starting to do some barter.
Our main supplier for adhesives and tack strip etc. has been taking our extra Season tickets we have to the Browns games. I am getting sometimes 500% more than we paid for them in trade value. (which is a shock being the Browns suck stump water this year!)
So I’m the only one here getting a new rifle for Christmas? What Christmas would be complete without a new gun or a case of ammo?