goodwill stores, garage sales, coupons, bike riding for fun instaed of movies, buying bikes at garage sales for 10-20$ selling for 20-40 on craigslist, getting a roommate, having a garage sale, contacting credit card comps to see if they will lower the rate or you will transfer to another card. overall frugal living
Yes, Goodwill! I’m there so often, the employees nudge each other and wink when I come in. I also have no TV or cable (there’s nothing on anyway.)
It is sad when I go to the nearby Meadowlands Flea Market (outside Giants Stadium here in NJ) and see all of the adult toys of yesteryear for sale for pennies on the dollar; gym equipment, skis/ski-boards, computers/electronics, expensive car parts, etc. It is like walking through a time machine, but only five years into the past. My personal index of how the economy is performing is noting the number of bicentennial quarters and wheat pennies I receive in my change, and it is still very high. That measure tells me more than anything the “media” could - the American workers’ lots have not improved over the past 3 years. I even heard Indians working in a convenience store mocking the idea that Detroit was attracting tech jobs; they had come here for tech jobs, and lost them to other Indians working in India.