I simply buy what’s a good value.
I don’t need the latest and greatest to enjoy life.
“don’t need the latest and greatest to enjoy life.”
That’s un-American!/sarc
Same here. I dont get why you need the latest Iphone model when they scam you for the next in 6 months.
Bump.
Me too.
Lot quicker to get your shopping and errands completed when you don’t have any extra money. Only two stops now - grocery store and gas for the car.
Hasn’t changed much for the last two years and we have survived just fine.
You reach an age when you have most of the things you want in life, the only things left are taking trips. IF you have the income to do so. To many rely on just SS and didn’t put much or any money away for old age. Cost of living has increased, and spending on unnecessary items goes down. I am seeing people who never used a coupon in their lives using them and trying to figure out what product it applies to. Looking for more bargains for every day items, not just the Black Friday junk.
Roof over head, meds, food come first before any thing else. Those grocery store sales flyers are now the most looked at. And price matched if they can be. Gas points given for buying groceries is another. Kroger’s gives them, and they are twice the points on the weekend thru July 31, or they put gift cards at 4 times the gas points on sale. That is when we get eat out cards or Lowe’s for home improvement stuff. I shop Amazon with them because they are double the gas points, then get 1% cash back from Discover. Pay the bill in total at the end of the month.
Hubby just filled the Equinox for $.99 a gallon coming back home from Niagara Falls from visiting his 90 yr old brother who had a 40 yr old horse trample him and broke his hip. He won’t fly as he sets off all the bells and whistles because of metal in knee and shoulder. 2 nights in a reasonable motel, the rest spent at his brother’s visiting relations between the hospital visits. Also cheaper to drive than to fly even with the 2 motel stays.
“I don’t need the latest and greatest to enjoy life.”
A man is as rich as the number of things he does NOT NEED....Let alone WANT !