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Lately everyone's been feeling the economy's squeeze on their pocketbooks. What's your penny-pinching strategy?
Posted by Jenna Scatena on July 10, 2008 - 6:32pm.
With gas at $4.50 a gallon, I'm saddling up my bike and embracing my newfound love of public transportation
20% (51 votes)
I'm guilty of opting for less pricey conventional foods instead of organic. I mean, it all tastes the same... Right?
10% (26 votes)
Buying produce is so 20th century. And expensive. With my own garden, I pick my veggies from the ground, not a bin.
16% (42 votes)
I said good-bye to my daily $5 latte and helloooo to home made coffee.
43% (112 votes)
Use the comment box below to tell us different ways you've been cutting back...
10% (27 votes)
Total votes: 258


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Lately everyone's been feeling the economy's squeeze on their po
by smruff on July 22, 2008 - 1:07pm
I think first more before I go out to do my errands - makings a circle trip instead of back-n-forth, etc.  Also am concentrating more on my grocery list and 'urging' my other half to do the same - trying to reduce # of trips to the store.  Another way - is paying more attention to my stops & starts, to try to increase gasoline mileage, which also helps to improve wear & tear on my car.
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Move closer to workplace and local everything!
by momtotwo on July 26, 2008 - 3:28pm
My husband took a different postition with the same company and we moved much closer to his work instead of an hour commute with lot of gas, we live 8 miles from his work and our locl commuity has options for almost everything we need! Of course we still own a house where we used to live that will hopefully sell soon, we really though it was a better option to live in an apartment closer than waste all that fuel, PLUS there is a co-op here and lots of stuff a way better community for eco-friendly choices! I think everyone should move closer to their work places and really think this will be the trend in coming years!

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