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To: Scotswife
We traded in our Fords for Toyotas already.
We’ve cut down on driving - but even that isn’t helping us now.
I’m doing grocery shopping at Aldi’s and Sam’s (buying bulk).

I am not a green thumb, but we recently bought a book on square foot gardening and will give that a try this summer.

Our next step is to figure out the best alternative to our oil fuled furnace - which is only 7 yrs. old.

Are you interested in the essentials and basics of life and being able to live well and as a family and with God on these? This is the big question because we have been a consumerist society and at our worst we have an obsession with frivolous items that give transitory happiness that end up in the landfill next year. The bad economy is forcing many to move way from the $100 items that will soon will be in the landfill to the necessities. We have cut back greatly on junk food and eat more dried beans (not canned)

106 posted on 05/23/2008 3:06:53 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

I am pretty confident our indulgence in luxury items are pretty low.
We are raising 7 children, so spreading one paycheck among so many people has forced us to concentrate on necessities -not luxuries.
We never buy new cars. We bought a modest home and remodeled it.
We only have junk food in the house when there is a party -a sleepover.

Occasionally we may splurge, but a “splurge” item in our minds usually doesn’t qualify as “splurging” to some of our wealthier friends (sports equipment, dinner at a nice restaurant, etc...)


108 posted on 05/23/2008 3:41:30 PM PDT by Scotswife
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