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You go to raleighwood to watch a movie that has been in theatres for months just to get a discount.
ONLY to discover that Raleighwood is the most fun, comfortable theatre with the best food in the area. Mom and Dad can suffer through a horrible kid movie with a sandwich and a glass of wine for less that it woulkd have cost and the regular theatres. I LOVE this place
Raleighwood doesn't only have little kid movies though. If you ever want it as a date night, they have good movies too. Wife and I saw The Sixth Sense there with a great dinner.
When you go to Lowe's or Home Depot and do a dumpster dive into the 'free' bin of Christmas trees branches left over when they trim up a tree someone bought. You bring them home and staple them to a 2x4 to form a Christmas tree! You place the 2x4 made tree into a bucket filled with Red Clay from your backyard because you can't get a tree stand! Yes my friends at that exact point when your done and you back off to look at your creation you think to yourself....man we are in a recession!
When you go to Lowe's or Home Depot and do a dumpster dive into the 'free' bin of Christmas trees branches left over when they trim up a tree someone bought. You bring them home and staple them to a 2x4 to form a Christmas tree! You place the 2x4 made tree into a bucket filled with Red Clay from your backyard because you can't get a tree stand! Yes my friends at that exact point when your done and you back off to look at your creation you think to yourself....man we are in a recession!
okay, when you really start looking through val-pak or the money mailer coupons and realize that even the merchants have cut-back sending coupons! This money mailer is so tiny this go-around...LOL Happy Friday!
okay, when you really start looking through val-pak or the money mailer coupons and realize that even the merchants have cut-back sending coupons! This money mailer is so tiny this go-around...LOL Happy Friday!
Also when you take your dog for a walk around the neighborhood on garbage day and round up all the coupon mailers, val-paks, sale circulars to bring home and roll them up into paper logs so you can burn them in your fireplace for heat. You can't even afford to use the coupons which means you actually have to spend money to save money.
As you sit back and watch the paper burn you say, dog-on it man we are in a recession!
...as your dog sits quietly at yor feet and looks up at you with the ever loving look and thinks to itself, the day you slipped me the O'Roy brand biscuit over the Milkbone....I knew we were in a recession!
1. Realize that buying Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is and has always been a complete waste.
2. Start buying my clothes at Walmart instead of Target.
3. Get my nails cut neatly at home. Who needs a nail paint?
4. Attempt to do a Martian wax myself at home.
5. Search the papers every day for coupons for classes on written English improment.
6. Move from Cary to Morrisville to save gas.
7. Feign illness on days I'm supposed to participate in potlucks at work. (why do I have to spend the money on aliens, UFOs and strangers?)
8. Go from shopping at Whole Foods to Harris Teeter to Lowes to Food Lion to giving my exclusive grocery business to the dollar store. (Well, actually that would be terrible. Dollar shoppe doesn't have all the required fresh food items)
9. Refuse to date you because you don't live within what I consider my radius for a nice ride.
10. Stop going to church to save gas (No way! I can always carpool with my friend).
I will never implement any of these ideas...
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Originally Posted by Jenny_B
I'll know the recession is affecting me when I:
1. Decide that buying Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in bulk is a luxury rather than a need.
2. Start buying my clothes at Target to save money instead of at my favorite consignment shop.
3. Get my nails done once every three weeks instead of two.
4. Attempt to do a Brazillian wax myself at home.
5. Search the papers every day for coupons for The Angus Barn.
6. Move from Clayton to Cary to save gas.
7. Feign illness on days I'm supposed to participate in potlucks at work. (why do I have to spend the money to make a dish that feeds 10??)
8. Go from shopping at Whole Foods to Harris Teeter to Lowes to Food Lion to giving my exclusive grocery business to the dollar store.
9. Refuse to date you because you don't live within what I consider my drivable radius.
10. Stop going to church to avoid tithing (I jest! I jest! I don't go to church...)
I have implemented a couple of these ideas... I won't tell you which, except to say, "Oh, the pain! The pain!"
When your credit card company raises the interest rate due to the "extraordinary circumstances of the economy".
FYI I called them an negotiated my rate down below what it was before the increase. What bull to think they could raise it just because they can and I wouldnt complain
1. When you wait until 10 PM to eat a burger at MoeJoe's because the price goes down!
2. When you actually think about which $5 menu items you order at Hi5 to maximize the value of your money. In other words, you skip the carbs in favor of the protein.
3. When you eat the special of the day at the Cameron Village McDonald's instead of what you really want.
4. When you actually think about running more than one errand at a time so that you use your gas more efficiently.
5. When you sell your coveted basketball tickets because you can get a lot of money for them.
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