5/08/2008

Gasoline and money. Mine: Without really trying I have cut back on my driving and believe it or not, my monthly fuel costs are actually down. Before this "crush" I was spending between $35 and $38 per fill; now it costs me nearly $50. BUT I used to fill up once a week and now I fill up once every ten days. What have I done? Well I don't go to the beach to work out, I don't go ten miles or more to go to the movies, and I rarely buy food more than twice per week or go to other stores til I actually need more than one thing. I assume lots of people are doing the same thing without trying. Some of you have to drive fifty or more miles to and from work and cannot do anything about costs associated with those trips, but you might save $10 per week by changing your shopping habits, something that puts absolutely no strain on your day to day routines.

Other things: instead of leaving home to buy your drugs, make your drug dealer deliver. Tell your hooker to use the fucking bus. Ask yourselves if you really need your wives. Buy triple portions at MacDonald's and freeze what you don't eat. I'm sure you can be creative......

Then there is this problem from the ever popular Recession Test. One of a ton of very funny observations, linked from Barry Ritholtz:


Days before the housing bubble bursts, you short the ABX subprime index and, when the ensuing mortgage crisis causes millions of families to lose their homes to foreclosure, you realize a $550 million profit.

Since, for you, this is the opposite of a problem, find the opposite of an answer.

Lots and lots of what may be called graveyard humor at the link.

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