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How is the economy affecting YOU?
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 401714
7/19/2008 6:55 AM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
Those of you who are having trouble buying groceries may want to check out Angel Food Ministries.
I'm not affiliated with them, but my husband and I have been buying their food boxes since March of this year. For $30, you get a LOT of food. It's all been fresh, quality food. No dented cans, expired stuff, or anything like that. They also have "specials" you can buy, once you've bought the $30 box. The "specials" usually include a lot of meat (mostly steak and chicken), and usually run $16 - $20 each.
There are no forms to fill out, and you don't have to qualify or anything. You pay for the food in advance, then about 2 weeks later, you go pick it up. From what I've seen, the pick-up locations are usually churches, but you don't have to listen to a sermon or anything. You just pick it up, and leave. They do put a religious pamphlet in the box that you can read if you want, or you can discard it if you prefer. The next month's menu is on the back of the pamphlet, and also on their website. :-)
Their website has the pick-up locations and payment due dates, if you'd like to see if they're available where you live. You should bring a large box to carry the food home in. Many folks bring their laundry baskets! :-D (Hey, it works! he he)
Again, I'm not affiliated with them, but thought I'd mention it. Their food boxes have been helping us a LOT with our grocery bills.
In fact, our pick-up date is today. We'll be picking up our food box in just a few hours.  |
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383623
User ID: 383623
7/19/2008 6:58 AM
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 407944
7/19/2008 9:04 AM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
Plane tickets cost me more, that's about it. |
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ano
User ID: 470519
7/19/2008 9:29 AM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
well i not eating out much .and not buying new stuff.....i got alot of stuff already so i will not need antthing for yrs..i was already stockpiling clothing shoes essentials sheets pot pans coffee pots .etc in case of hard times..the arrived ..good thing i stocked up for hard times.. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 29307
7/19/2008 9:33 AM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
I don't do meds...for my high bp I used aged organic garlic...'bout 1/10 the price. It works and puts ME in charge of my own health.
I live about15 miles from nearest town. I absolutely don't go except for maybe once a week for animal feed.
Have a garden. Love it! Also fresh fruit from some ancient trees.
I quit eating white stuff...potatoes, rice, pasta, etc. I've lost 10 lbs. in 3 wks.
Just trying to tighten our belts and get out of debt as fast as we can.
I don't buy anything for house or clothing unless I get it at the thrift store.
Planning a yard sale to get rid of years of 'stuff' I don't need and others can use.
Try to maintain a good attitude. When it gets rought I think, "What would gramma have done?" In many ways I feel as tho I'm living in HER time, not mine. |
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on of Slaves
User ID: 470544
7/19/2008 10:18 AM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
Thing are really rough,When one has to eat store brand
potato chips.
What about the poor chumps who can't afford good whisky?
And has to drink cheap mexican brands like muscatel.
He is really hurting.
In ww-2 the Government had the bakerys remove the slicers.
so people would feel like they were helping the war effort.
Gasoline was limited to 4 gallons a week.
I am cutting down to a one ton truck,a saab, 2 motorcycles and a camper,
Will I survive ? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 366726
7/19/2008 10:52 AM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
In the housing construction market, Has been down this year, I am in sales and general contracting. The amazing thing is that two weeks ago, when things seem to be headed for the worst our business picked up by double. I still haven't figured it out, don't really care why, maybe I'll be able to feed my kids the rest of this year. Have already cut every possible cost such as cable, home internet, home phone, saavy grocery shopping, ect. Been extremely hard to make ends meet with fuel costs running me additonal $200 a month now. Hope things work out better the 2nd half of this year. I feel the worst may be past and that we will see an upswing prior to any huge collapse. For my children and the people of the world, I pray that things will get better for all. |
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SixEyedcheeseball 
Welcome
User ID: 470540
7/19/2008 10:55 AM
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Well now I just buy any toilet paper that comes in twelve. Don't matter to me soft Extra soft you know like that. Not my Regular toilet paper that is to good for me now.
Don't do this Naked. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 327843
7/19/2008 10:59 AM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
Since banks stopped all credit, for me as am commercial real estate all projects on hold- repairs have been delayed ect, leaving less work for many-
i am sure that is hurting the average joe, the trick is when the walking zombies, you know the one's who always seems to be yakking on a cell phone even while driving get slammed, these weak bunch will panic.
And once they awake from their delusion sending the entire system in a tailspin- system relys on these walking dead to consume more and more-
does not having to much baggage stand best chance to overcome what is coming than those with three kids disrespectful wife mountain of debt. In fact there toast and more easily to surrender to the system to feed their silly selfs and kids-
hola |
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Michelle
User ID: 462249
7/19/2008 11:02 AM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
I don't eat out as much. I live in NYC, so a night out, good food and wine for one person used to cost about $100. I used to do that every weekend. Those days are gone! But at least I got to enjoy them while they lasted...
And today I just spent $8.99 on a 1 quart bottle of Knudsen's 100% black cherry juice. WTH is up with that?!!! I didn't even notice the price when I put it into my cart. If I had, I never would've bought it. That's outrageous. Welcome to NYC and that wonderful thing called inflation...
OMG Michelle $8.99 for Knudsen's juice???? I love their cherry juice. Last time I checked it was either 5.99 or at the most 6.99 at my grocery store (I'm in Ohio).
BTW - I'll tell you what, a cool night out in Cleveland also would run about $100.00! lol So NYC sounds like a bargain to me. I'm embarrassed to say that I've never been there.
h Quoting: hardboiledheretic
yeah, $8.99, but it was the cranberry juice. I had it mixed up. Their black cherry juice was $4.69. Maybe I should walk back over there today and ask about it. That doesn't sound right to me, unless there's some cranberry crop shortage going on.
Gotta visit NYC just for the food alone! Amazing food. It's an eatin' town. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 350460
7/19/2008 12:06 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
Well...I live in Oz. I have a tiny KA2. I coudnt fit more than $35 in her a year ago but now $50 just about fills her.
I buy homebrand everything now and it is just as expensive as normal was a couple of years ago. How can you pull back further from homebrand?
The Centrelink pension hasnt risen, my ex decided to go awol and not pay child support ever again. The tax office keep chasing me to pay tax but Ive been on benefits for 5 years, so I dont understand why they keep asking. He's been working for 20 years but they dont chase him to even lodge a tax return from back then....even though they have evidence he's working. Maybe I should be so stubborn. It hasnt effected him afterall.
Energy/gas/telephone want us to pay monthly now, instead of quarterly....which makes my monthly fees look less but they are so much higher if you add them up. Even though I rarely use the phone, make my kids and myself wear a dressing gown unless it gets so cold that we cant feel our noses...or use the cooling NOT...until we start getting delusional. Seems to cost the same as it did a few years ago (like 2 years ago) when we could use as much as we wished.
State of Emergency funds are still on...from 1999
[link to www.revenuesa.sa.gov.au]
even though we havent had a situation since 1983 or a minor 2004. These places are in outback areas or hills...not city dwelling areas so why the hell do we have to pay anything anyway? We wont gain anything!
The economy is not the problem....stupid taxes for nothing, paying council rates on properties we could afford when we were working and could afford our homes ARE.
What happens if we all downsize...our cars and homes? Everyone of us that dont have a job that is so substantial that money no longer matters? Bigger wedgie or everyone over 55 and under 20 or IQ lower than 135 might as well go hang themselves? Its not good. |
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Skipper1975
User ID: 448826
7/19/2008 12:09 PM | |
mercury2
User ID: 324991
7/19/2008 12:14 PM
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I stopped paying credit cards (2) worth just over $10,000 combined. That was 3 years ago now.
I recieved letter after letter from collection agency after collection agency.
All saying that if I didn't pay that they MIGHT or MAY proceed with legal action. IT NEVER HAPPENED !!
Unsecured debt ( which credit cards are) is a risk that the companies take. As far as I or several friends have found, legal action is only a threat and never acted on.
Its been over 14 months since I've heard from them.
Personal loans from banks are the same. As long as no collateral is tied up to the money, don't pay it back
AT worst all they do is black list you from obtaining anymore credit for 5-7 yrs.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 470354
They tend to step it up just before the statute of limitations expires. They'll get a judgement against you and they can use that to levy your bank account or garnish your wages. But, so far so good, I've done it before too, and what I said above is just my experience. Only one of the two cards I owed on did that. The other one never did. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 366726
7/19/2008 12:15 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
Nesara is a complete scam, it doesn't exist in the form that the website states. Please don't fall for that crap, you are better off waiting for the tooth fairy. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 450929
7/19/2008 12:34 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 470595
7/19/2008 12:39 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
The truly poor in urban US are not affected by this economy. These poor are already so low on the totum pole, that nothing has changed for them.
Old, seedy hotels house a lot of them. I don't know where the very cheap rent money comes from. Hallways are dark dungeons where children play. Be very careful coming and going in these halls. Common laundry with equipment is available, but often not working, and/or not being used for lack of coins. I cannot tell you that the children attend school. I do not know.
There are almost no cars in the parking lots. The people don't own cars. They walk to and from Marta stops, if they have the fare. Some will skip the coin meter and try not to get caught.
There are almost no personal possessions. Sex and other services are traded for needs. Many don't "qualify" for food stamps (EBT) and they eat free at missions and in church basements.
Some live under bridges and around train tracks. You can see them from the MARTA train on the way to the airport. Just look. There are quite a few near the OMNI Center in downtown.
There are a surprising number of young people living like this, teens and 20s. Some do manual labor as day workers for temp services. Likely, minimal skills keep them out of the regular job market.
If they see you with food, they will ask for something to eat. Give it to them! They wouldn't ask if they weren't hungry.
Don't give what they haven't ask for, in an attempt to make a personal difference. They don't need to be encumbered. They are living in a social system that has its own rules and "givers" often create unwanted burdens for the recipient.
Banks can crash and it won't make one whit's difference t these poorest of the poor in the United States. |
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Jomama
User ID: 446229
7/19/2008 12:43 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
The "me" sort of mentality is part of this problem. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 462030
When personal survival is at stake, what else should you
expect, Sparky?
to herd or not to herd
[link to djomama.blogspot.com] |
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User ID: 470445
7/19/2008 1:08 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
How soon will this be Americas heritage?
Zimbabwe releases $100 billion note
ZIMBABWE, grappling with record 2.2 million per cent inflation, has introduced a new 100-billion-dollar bank note in a bid to tackle rampant cash shortages. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 322321
7/19/2008 2:31 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
its killing me : now i have to work !!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 452223
7/19/2008 2:57 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
Nesara is a complete scam, it doesn't exist in the form that the website states. Please don't fall for that crap, you are better off waiting for the tooth fairy. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 366726
Tell me how you know this.
not to believe is still a belief |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 459934
7/19/2008 3:44 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
Those of you who are having trouble buying groceries may want to check out Angel Food Ministries.
I bookmarked it. Don't plan on going just yet but with all the doom talk... ya never know. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 459934
7/19/2008 3:47 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
well i not eating out much .and not buying new stuff.....i got alot of stuff already so i will not need antthing for yrs..i was already stockpiling clothing shoes essentials sheets pot pans coffee pots .etc in case of hard times..the arrived ..good thing i stocked up for hard times.. Quoting: ano 470519
By stocking piling for hard times you were inviting the hard times, along with millions of others. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430606
7/19/2008 5:43 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
1 house, 2 families. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 383623
7/19/2008 5:44 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
DD and I took DH out for his birthday dinner just now. We went to Bugaboo Creek, the restaurant with the talking moose well there was no one in there but us for the longest while before a couple came in. This is a fairly large restaurant and the last time I was there a few years back it was full of customers and noisy, etc.I asked the waiter where all the ppl were. He told me hardly anybody shows up anymore and the last few weeks have been disastrous.
Anybody who can tell me here that everything is fine, they just need to look around outside their house (if they are lucky enough to be doing well there) and see what is happening to businesses.
All we have left for jobs in this state is food, retail and health care and there are a few hotels about. We lost all the manufacturing jobs years ago so there was not much left to lose this time around.
I guess what I am trying to say is, when the economy becomes so bad that ppl can't afford to eat out, even a birthday dinner, we are scratching the bottom of the barrel. I say that because if there is no business for the restaurants and they have to close a large part of this states only remaining jobs will vanish just like the factory jobs did.
Bugaboo Creek is a pretty decent restaurant, they have steaks on the menu and this is why we took DH there. We don't bother with gifts and cards, we just get a nice meal out. And we ordered from the lunch menu not the expensive dinner menu.
I am waiting until things get so bad that they have to shut down the cheap fast food places (well cheap is a relative word) and then we will be all done.
For the folks who live overseas and think we are just whining here in the US every country's economy is relative as well. Maybe in India the ppl are very poor on the streets etc but the guy up the thread didn't mention the very rich ones there who have servants to take care of them and live in as much luxury as the rich ones in this country do.
In every country there are the poor and the rich, it has always been this way. But in the States we used to have a middle class, which meant a person had a decent job, a house and could afford to put their kids thru school to better themselves. These ppl were the ones who paid their bills, paid taxes on everything they had and kept the economy going.
The rich have everything and have tax shelters so they are all right. We have always had the poor and indigent and disabled same as every other country but the middle class gave enough to help and paid the taxes that kept the government programs going.
The middle class doesn't exist anymore, it's down where the poor are now because the good jobs that kept the middle class going are GONE.
The rich don't give a fuck, THEY'RE all right.
So now we are rich, and poor.
This is what we in the US are trying to say. The poorest of the poor have no government programs to turn to any longer. The middle class that used to donate to the poor, collect can goods and other things, and donate thru their churches and organisations now need those items for themselves.
So more and more ppl are ending up in tent cities around this country, mostly in the south where it doesn't get too cold. Homeless up here in the north fight for the heating grates in the city to keep warm. This year there will be even more ppl and no shelters, no soup kitchens and nothing in the food pantry.
I consider myself one of those who are one paycheck from the curb. All it takes is loss of job or to end up in the hospital with no health insurance, and you are all done. The landlord throws you out on the street with any worldly goods you may have. You steak a grocery cart to push them around in and guard it with your life because there is always someone else who will take them from you if you don't watch out.
I've written enough. Couls write a lot more, but don't want to bore anyone anybody anymore |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 470433
7/19/2008 6:01 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
economy is affecting me in that i have silver and usually no cash....just all silver |
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dookie stain
User ID: 317540
7/19/2008 6:18 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
I'm waiting for the end of 1st quarter 09 to make some big decisions....if thing are looking bad, I'm buying a rural retreat instead of investment property...I'm set for food, guns, gold, etc....just deciding whether to stay & play in my city home or load and go to the country...I have 5 acres and a small hunting cabin now....thinking of a multi family compound type arrangement.... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 470705
7/19/2008 6:29 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
i'm fucking broke, sitting waiting on my checks like a welfare mom w/ 7 kids and a bad yeast infection....fuking tyrants....
...not to mention i'm pissed beyond all....
all it would take now is someone in my place with a lower intelligence and all hell would break loose...
....fukking tyrants! i hope your kids get killed....death to the tyrants YA!
!DEATH TO THE TYRANTS! !YA! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 470705
7/19/2008 6:31 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
i'm fucking broke, sitting waiting on my checks like a welfare mom w/ 7 kids and a bad yeast infection....fuking tyrants....
...not to mention i'm pissed beyond all....
all it would take now is someone in my place with a lower intelligence and all hell would break loose...
....fukking tyrants! i hope your kids get killed....death to the tyrants YA!
!DEATH TO THE TYRANTS! !YA! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 470705
i feel like a peasant shouting death to the tyrants...so middle ages....
..fuk it!
DEATH TO THE TYRANTS!!!! !YA! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 461397
7/19/2008 11:30 PM | | Re: How is the economy affecting YOU? | Quote |
well i not eating out much .and not buying new stuff.....i got alot of stuff already so i will not need antthing for yrs..i was already stockpiling clothing shoes essentials sheets pot pans coffee pots .etc in case of hard times..the arrived ..good thing i stocked up for hard times..
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By stocking piling for hard times you were inviting the hard times, along with millions of others. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 459934
How so? At least he sounds like he will be neighborly and brew some coffee for guests. Unlike some wierdos here whose first and foremost "essentials" are their cache of weapons, as they itch to blow away people -- now that's what I would call "inviting hard times", if you know what I mean. |
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383623
User ID: 383623
7/19/2008 11:58 PM
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coffee :gulp: i cant face teotwawki without coffee, they'll have to start the DOOM without me : 
Highway to Hell |
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