Name one thing you buy regularly, that you can do without

Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:17 PM
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Name one thing you buy regularly, that you can do without

Don't want to introduce a bias here, so I will withhold my opinion.

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mainegreen

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:21 PM
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1. Ground beef.

I buy local, organic, grass fed ground beef, but still, I could probably do without it.

(We're buying a house so that's the best I could come up with in the extraneous spending category)

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:31 PM
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4. Do you have cable TV?

Magazine subscriptions?

Pay for text messaging?

Netflix?

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mainegreen

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:35 PM
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8. Just internet. Need that for work though.

Nothing else really. Hell, my wife even makes clothes from scratch now.

We've gone cheap.

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:37 PM
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10. Good for you!

:applause:

The Internets I can understand; that's how I makes my living too!

:hi:

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mcctatas

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:24 PM
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2. Diet Red Bull....

oh wait, you said CAN do without, hmmmmmmm, expensive hair products possibly or the Sunday New York Times.

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:29 PM
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3. There you go!

Diet Red Bull? Let's not go overboard here...

:rofl:

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mcctatas

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:31 PM
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5. Well in my defense...

I can read the Times online and ya know, my hair can handle Herbal Essences every once and a while :P

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:33 PM
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6. My hair (what's left) can handle Irish Spring n/t

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CreekDog

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:35 PM
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7. Turtlensue asked me to post this for her:

Rush albums. :D

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:38 PM
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11. I didn't know Rush Limbaugh did albums!

:wow:

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CreekDog

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:49 PM
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18. Actually, it's worse than that!

:wow:

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:57 PM
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28. Okay, I'll bite

please, tell me more...

:popcorn:

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CreekDog

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:00 PM
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30. here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band)

i like posting at in the evening, she doesn't catch this stuff until the next day! :think:

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:05 PM
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31. I'm telling! (but not till tomorrow)

Maybe...

:evilgrin:

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:33 PM
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36. AHA! CAUGHT RED HANDED CREEKPUPPY!!!

GRRRRRR.....You are lucky LynneSin and DuStrange isn't around....btw, I've noticed that you like to use this smilie--:think:

I guess its cause coming up with your "witticisms" (and I use the term loosely) is hard work for you...PFFFFT....

Oh and Smokie has an opinion on your post:

two paws down....

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:51 PM
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43. I was going to turn him in, I swear!

:scared:

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CreekDog

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Wed Jan-07-09 10:56 PM
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58. thats'a cute kitty

what were we talking about again? :shrug:

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trof

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:36 PM
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9. soda/seltzer

I drink Scotch.
I prefer it mixed with club soda or seltzer.
Either one.
Seltzer is 'better for you', I guess because it has no sodium.
But I decide i can do without it.
So I cut my Scotch with plain old tap water now.
Soda ran about 50 cents a bottle.
I can do without it.
Next I'm working on the cigarettes.
BIG savings there.

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:39 PM
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13. Scotch, rocks good

Nail coughings bad.

Work on that...

:hi:

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trof

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:49 PM
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19. Rocks = DTS*

*Drunk Too Soon
I'm a slurper, not a sipper.

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:55 PM
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27. Add tap water as necessary

I totally understand!

:hi:

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bigwillq

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:38 PM
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12. Take-out food (nt)

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:41 PM
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14. What flavor? Chinese, Italian?

Good idea, though, take out food is extremely expensive.

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bigwillq

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:42 PM
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15. We order all kinds

at work.

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:47 PM
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17. Ah well, then,

Edited on Wed Jan-07-09 07:48 PM by Xipe Totec

It's a business expense (of sorts).

There is a need to socialize at work, and lunch is a primary means. I totally understand.

Although I bring my lunch to work with me, most days, I still go out with the group for lunch. I walk with them, they get their lunch, we come back, I heat my lunch, and we eat together.

When they eat out, I eat out. My lunch can wait in the fridge for another day.

:hi:

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bigwillq

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:50 PM
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22. It's not a business expense.

We all eat at our desks. Ordering food is pretty much a daily ritual. We got to a point where Sunday was Chinese day, Monday was Italian, and so on.

My co-workers are cool. We all get along.

I bring food sometimes.

:hi:

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:51 PM
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23. You don't have to be so candid with the IRS...

:evilgrin:

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bigwillq

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:54 PM
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26. Maybe I should look into that!

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:58 PM
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29. If you talked business during lunch,

it's a business lunch.

If the company didn't pick up the tab, it's a business expense...

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bigwillq

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:06 PM
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32. It's dinner.

I work second shift. It would be counted as a business expense.

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:14 PM
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34. Oh definitely!

I've had some wonderful business dinners myself...

Swordfish & cranberry r�moulade, asparagus, and baby redskin potatoes.

On the Spindeltop, downtown Houston...

:evilgrin:

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LoZoccolo

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:46 PM
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16. Only read this message if you really want to know.

http://www.charmin.com/en_us/pages/prod_fresh.shtml

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:50 PM
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21. Well, there's a question whether TP is cheaper,

or washing your hand is cheaper.

If you work, you can always hold it until you get to the office, then use their TP, rather than buy your own...

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LoZoccolo

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:52 PM
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24. This is more of a question of flushable wet wipes vs. roll of traditional dry TP for me.

I don't think I've bought an actual roll of dry toilet paper in over five years.

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LeftyMom

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:50 PM
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20. "Hairspray" said one rather embarrased Romanian woman.

:rofl:

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 07:53 PM
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25. Talk about having a bug up-your-ass,

or something....

:rofl:

I swear, I don't know how that hair spray can got up there...

:rofl:

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leftyclimber

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:09 PM
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33. Pre-sliced mushrooms.

I really could take the time to slice them myself. I'm just lazy.

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:18 PM
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35. Could even grow your own...

http://www.mushroomadventures.com/

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leftyclimber

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:35 PM
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38. I had a shiitake log for a while.

I'm living in a teeny-tiny apartment right now. Not sure where I could put it.

When I figure it out, though, I think I'm going to find another shiitake log.

Mmmmm......

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:53 PM
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44. No closets?

That's where we keep our champignons.

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leftyclimber

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Wed Jan-07-09 10:52 PM
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56. None that aren't chock-full.

I'm in 580 square feet with an SO, 2 cats, and my stepson's things (he's here every other weekend), so there's about 800 sf worth of stuff in here.

We've been debating getting a slightly larger place. If we do that I'll definitely start growing mushrooms again. Yum.

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LisaM

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:34 PM
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37. Cheez-Its. n/t

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:50 PM
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42. I get mine from the company kichenette

It doesn't count, unless you're paying...

:evilgrin:

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Deja Q

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:40 PM
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39. Neckties (aka 'corporate condoms')

I've over 80.

I need to put up some pics one day...

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:49 PM
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40. Over 80 neckties?!

That's excessive!

:evilgrin:

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ogneopasno

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:50 PM
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41. Fizzy water.

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Inchworm

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:55 PM
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45. Cigarettes

:puke:

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Xipe Totec

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Wed Jan-07-09 09:04 PM
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49. That's a good one!

It would help if you just added up how much you spend for cigs in a year.

I thought they were expensive when I was paying 25 cents a pack. but now, they're what $5 a pack?

A quarter per cigarette?

Something to think about...

:hi:

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kayakjohnny

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:56 PM
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46. Rocket mortars. I keep thinking I'll need them one day, and now they're just taking up space.

And frankly, I think they might be a bit of a safety hazard.

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DarkTirade

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:56 PM
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47. ... not a whole lot, actually.

I've always lived pretty close to the wire.

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Celeborn Skywalker

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Wed Jan-07-09 08:58 PM
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48. Cell,

Edited on Wed Jan-07-09 09:00 PM by jaredh

sattelite, alcohol, sodas. i could also buy less gasoline and walk more.

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kayakjohnny

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Wed Jan-07-09 09:11 PM
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52. Damn, that's an honest answer. I should be more like you.

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LisaM

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Thu Jan-08-09 12:59 PM
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63. I get a pay as you go phone (AT&T - GoPhone) and I love it

I use it whenever I want, and probably spend between $250 and $350 a year tops. Of course, I don't want to use it very often. I also don't want the big bill of a spending plan.

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PassingFair

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Wed Jan-07-09 09:06 PM
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50. Starbucks.

:hide:

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NMDemDist2

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Wed Jan-07-09 09:10 PM
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51. lint rollers

Edited on Wed Jan-07-09 09:11 PM by AZDemDist6

I swear! I got one for hubby's car and I've have totally hijacked it. My three dogs do horrible things to my dark uniform pants.

I bought two more today. Somebody help me. Please.

edit to add pic

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applegrove

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Wed Jan-07-09 09:29 PM
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53. Pizza.

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femmocrat

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Wed Jan-07-09 10:46 PM
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54. Lunch.

I could pack it and save money, but I'm too lazy.

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Kali

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Wed Jan-07-09 10:49 PM
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55. edible food?

guess we could cut out more meat, flavorings, and such - eat more rice and beans although we eat a fair amount already.

I know! Frigging newspapers! They drive me crazy and pile up so fast - AND its all on line anyway. Plus all the news is here on DU first anyway. Oh well, I'm not the one who buys them so it probably ain't gonna stop very soon.

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Chan790

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Wed Jan-07-09 10:54 PM
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57. ...

Edited on Wed Jan-07-09 10:57 PM by Chan790

Misread the question.

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crispini

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Wed Jan-07-09 11:02 PM
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59. Booze, I guess.

But I'm not sure I want to, haha!

No cable, no netflix, no cigs, kicked the Amazon habit. About my only regular purchases are food, Internet and phone. I can't give up the cell, though. I'd give up the Internet first, they have free wifi at the library.

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Kat45

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Thu Jan-08-09 01:29 AM
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60. Half-price candy after holidays.

I can't resist it.

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suninvited

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Thu Jan-08-09 01:38 AM
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61. One thing?

How about a list.

a Monster a day
my blackberry
lottery tickets
Absolute
CD's, lots of them
cigarettes
dog treats ($7.00 a bag, Carvers) I could buy cheaper, and he would probably be just as happy
Direct TV

probably more, but that is all I can come up with right now.

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Hardrada

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Thu Jan-08-09 01:44 AM
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62. Mango juice.

MANGO! MANGO!

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