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Originally Posted by cashchik  My sweetie was laid off the first of Oct and finding work in our area is really difficult right now. A small plant is opening and had 80 employment opportunities, they had 3000+ applications. So he has started doing some selling on eBay and at the local swapmeet. Also taking care of the honeydo list. He is getting quite good at bartering skills for skills. There was some guy up on our garage roof the other day replacing the turbine and I asked what it was costing and SO said a portrait session. Good deal if you ask me.
As far as how it's affecting us, I may be way off base here but I think this is a wakeup call that we kind of needed. We are going back to our "old school" ways to save money and still have fun. We are really thinking through any purchases and recycling things for new purposes.
We took a road trip the other day for a mini vacation. We were able to get an inexpensive lakeside motel that takes pets and we packed the cooler and picnic basket and had a blast.
I'm am starting to like "simpler" things.
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I totally agree with you that this is a wake up call for everyone. I think it is time to go back to the old school ways and cut back. I think this is bringing people closer