With rising Gas/Food prices, how are you saving??
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Topic: With rising Gas/Food prices, how are you saving??
Posted By: Drew
Subject: With rising Gas/Food prices, how are you saving??
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 03:39
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1. I have cut my cell phone bill to the lowest plan. 2. I have reduced my Netflix payment. 3. I have reduced my cable bill. 4. I eat out MUCH less than I used to. How about you guys? Any ideas to further save some dough?  ------------- |
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Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 03:51
| I'm ok, that 5000 gallon tank I buried in my backyard many years ago that I filled with gas is coming in handy now. Next thing on the list is to buy all the organic beans I can find and store em in a cool dark place. |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 03:54
| i ate my car |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 04:17
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Energy saving light bulbs throughout the house. No uneccessary journeys in the car, and I've stopped running my PC, my stereo and my TV simultaneously. It was a bad habit of mine to be playing music, while chatting on PA, while watching TV with the sound off. Who says men cant multitask.. ?
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 04:26
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No unneccessary lighting, no gadgets on standby, only neccessary car journeys, no new PC or console games, no eating out, cheap shopping whilst sticking to my list without impulse buying, and worst of all: REDUCED MUSIC CD PURCHASES.
Life's a bitch!
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Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 04:32
Those so called 'energy saving' bulbs are BS. They don't last as long as they say they do, they cost more and they contain mercury which is a health hazard. Another in the long list of scams that we humans must endure. Remember to watch your carbon footprint folks
 , another scam as well. "Oh, foolish man, what can you not be made to believe?"
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Blacksword wrote:Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 04:40
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I don't pay the bills in my household, since I live with my parents. But things I do anyway, include urinating in the back garden  to save water instead of having to flush the toilet, things like just making sure I turn things off at the powerpoint, walking/cycling to places whenever I can possibly do so (which isn't much nowdays, as I'm not so social anymore, but still walk to the library to read perhaps once or twice a week), playing my electric guitar unplugged occasionally, not having anymore than 10 minute long showers.When I'm home alone, on the computer, I make sure the only electrical things that are on are the computer, the ceiling light in the computer room and just make sure everything else in the house is switched off. When buying groceries, it's good to buy nationally made and owned food and various since it usually taste about the same as the bigger brand stuff, and it's cheaper anyway. ------------- 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 04:43
In my house, the problem with the normal lightbulbs is that I find them not bright enough, and with the exception of two energy saving bulbs that blew, all the other ones that came new in my house when my house was built in 1999 are still working, so I would say nearly 10 years of lighting is not bad longevity. -------------
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 05:10
The mercury story was a bit of a concern, but I have found that they do pay for themselves. I have two ES bulbs in my house, which I put in in November 99, and they're still going. Since installing them throughout the house, my Dircet Debit payments have been adjusted slightly in my favour and may be adjusted further, once my meter is read again. I wouldn't be too sure and GW theory being a scam. I'm prepared to believe that it may be exagerated in some quaters, but why would the vast majority of scientists sign up to it, without considering other theories, or whether indeed, GW is happening at all? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 07:35
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Every time I go to fill up I hold up my hands. Count myself lucky that I have a short drive in to work. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 07:40
Whe we moved into our current house in 1991, there was an energy saving bulb in the one of the rooms - it's still there & still fine; apart from three switched by dimmers, all the other bulbs in our house are ES (I believe you can get dimmer suitable ES bulbs now as well  ).
I unplug everything from the mains when not in use now, rather than leaving all on standby (I've noticed a distinct drop in the monthly bills, too), make a point never to waste/throw away food & just generally act like a skinflint
This thread tackles similar issues, but from a different standpoint as: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=48862 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=48862 Nice to see these issues getting a good airing 
You sound like some neighbours we used to have  ------------- 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 08:51
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Saving? Nope, I'm actually spending more now than I used to (but its all on CD's).
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 10:37
No dating 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 10:49
| Fuel prices haven't gone high enough yet for me to adjust my lifestyle - but my family doesn't really do any extraneous driving, anyway, only the essentials - commute, trips to the grocery store, etc. And if anyone starts to suggest I should ride a bike to get groceries or something like that...you can just save your breath. Not gonna happen. |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 12:23
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I stopped eating and switched over to photosynthesis.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 12:25
I tried that once - I got just sunstroke & peckish  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 12:34
This may be one of the funniest things I have ever read ------------- |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 12:50
 ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 15:25
Damn! I didn't know that helped save money.... And yet I'm no millionaire... there's a paradox here....
 No, really... I... go out less. I'm not that much of a gas user really. I can't not go to class or to work... other than that, I limit my going outs.... ------------- 
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 15:49
 I would actually choose that option myself to save money, but sadly, that wasn't an expense for me to begin with.
I've been selling kidneys for money...not my own kidneys of course. Shhhh...don't tell anyone.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 16:50
 Doc.... Dr. Mengele? Woa, I didn't know you were still alive...where are you hiding these days? (sorry, I probably shouldn't make light of that)
Teo: school and work really do eat up a lot of gas, I try not to drive too much other than that...but y'know how it is - shouldn't feel guilty about things you can't fix. I like to tell people that I don't date much because I'm saving money...sometimes I wish that was the only reason
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 16:58
If I tell you where I'm hiding, I'm afraid I'd have to kill you.
I've been around, on and off. When the mood strikes me, I pop in. Hmmmm...I've said that to girls before regarding...errrrr...nevermind...forget I said that. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 22:22
You have a way with words my friend
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Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 19:45
On a similar theme, I installed a USB port in my bellybutton and now scan pictures of food into my stomach. |
Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: July 04 2008 at 03:21
<> Well, there are just as many so called 'experts' who also claim 'Global
Warming' to be a fraud as well. If your pay check depends on you towing the
party line, you tow the party line. It is as simple as that. My big concern is that they are teaching it
in the schools as fact when in fact it is only a theory. I work in the hotel business and I can tell you that the energy bulbs take longer to fully brighten and they don't like being enclosed all that much because of heat issues. Forget about using them in dimmer circuits as they won't work. In some cases they do last longer but when I consider the hotel and what we spend on bulbs and hydro I can tell you it's not that big of a saving if at all. I would take an incandescent bulb any day over the mini fluorescent bulbs. I am not one to believe all that the so called experts tell me. I don't trust government at all plus most of these recommendations all come from the United Nations. Ask yourself who votes the people in at the UN. No, they are all appointed. Question everything and that should be obvious to anyone paying attention in this day and age. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 04 2008 at 03:52
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If we alter our lifestyles, then the terrorists win.
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