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Uh oh…times is tough

May 23, 2017November 10, 2008 by shay subscriber

Despite the fact that Obama won the election, the economy still sucks and probably will for a really long time. Today brought the news that Circuit City is filing for bankruptcy protection and that DHL is laying off thousands of folks. Last month the economy shed a crazy number of jobs, just in my local …

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Categories Current Events, Money Tags hard economic times, layaway, simple living 7 Comments

Living an organic life on a kool-aid budget

May 23, 2017October 30, 2008 by shay subscriber

I had planned to skip posting today since its been a flurry of activity with both the spousal unit and I on deadlines. Plus I am still trying to get caught up on client work since I basically lost two weeks of work this month between me and mini-me being sick, plus I start the new gig …

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Categories Money, Random babble Tags low-income folks, organic food 7 Comments

Credit crisis is real ya’ll

May 23, 2017October 14, 2008 by shay subscriber

So a while back I wrote about our beat up car we got and how we need  to get rid of it. Only problem is since we are suffering from a smidge of constipation in our cash flow, it means I don’t have enough shekels on hand to buy a car in cash nor do I …

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Categories Money Tags buying used car, credit crisis, used car 4 Comments
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