Yes, yes, yes and yes.
Bingo!
And no Christmas shopping this year at Costco after the put ALGORE on the cover of the NOVEMBER Costco Connection.
Paid it all off in the last 6 months. Believe me, it hurt.
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Same here. Christmas will be slimmer by a big bunch.
My debt is being payed down and my family has cut back to what we absolutely need. My extended family skipped buying everyone gifts last year and we just settled with elephant gifts and games. Probably do the same again this year.
Our older liberal kids are in for a rude awakening on Christmas morn!
Gone Galt.
Atlas Shrugged ping!
In this house, we’ve canceled the holidays. All clothing purchases are happening at Goodwill. My once-a-week shopping at Walmart has dropped down to once-a-month. Typically, I spent $200 a week there, now we’ve gotten that down to less than $200 a month.
No more eating out or fast food. Every extra dime is going to our debt.
Yes,
My car just went over 100K and I hit 3 deer, instead of buying a new one I just fixed it up using junkyard parts.
I’ve held off buying a new digital camera (I love my Canon G2 so it’s easy) and a new GPS system.
The only thing I’ve been buying is Gold, Silver and Palladium
My focus is on paying down and getting everything fixed up for the hard times ahead. Christmas going to be 99% Jesus and 1% gifts this year (shoulda done that a long time ago).
We have been stocking up on cheap food but will not have a consumer Christmas. No gifts this year at all. We are only buying what we have to and get extra money by recycling.
Cell phones will be going in January and then cable.
Pigeon for Thanksgiving, coal for Christmas.
I’m still putting up my Christmas lights.
I am pushing to get all our major surgery done this year, before the democrats destroy my health insurance. But that’s not really about Christmas.
No debt but the mortgage. Christmas will be small this year.
I am about ready to tell congress and their puppetmaster debt brokers to take it all and shove it all up their collective communist @$$es.
Christmas will be austere and more about the meaning.
and speaking of cc's, had a Chase card that I had for emergency use only and I got a letter last week that stated that Chase was closing the account because I wasn't using it. If you use the thing, they jack the rates up and if you don't use it, they cancel it.
I'm finished with them, pay them off and forget them
Working like hell.
Paying off debt.
Saving like crazy.
Buying tangible essentials like crazy.
my family draws names for xmas. keeps the gift giving to a minimum. being there is the best part.
we always go nuts with the food, though!
Hell yeah, I’ve already moved to Galt’s Gulch. Paid off every last bit of debt, and when the sale of our house closes next week - can’t tell you how grateful I am that it actually sold - we will have absolutely $0 debt.
I got laid off and will not be returning to another six-figure high-tech job. I’m cashing out my 401k and will put it somewhere less liquid and less accessible for the .GOV to confiscate.
I’m a mere shadow of the consumer I once was, and that is not going to change. I’m not coming back.
The only way to stop this runaway government is to starve it, and that will require personal sacrifice.