I'm all set for "Not One Damn Dime Day."

[InvisibleTouch]

Wish I could be at the coronation protests tomorrow, but such is not the case, so I'm doing the next best thing. Tomorrow there will be no groceries, no gasoline, no post office trip, no spending of any kind. I'll even turn down the heat a bit. (shiver) I finished up most of my errands today; whatever else comes up, can wait until Friday. I may even return something that I've been meaning to take back to the store, and get my money back.

Furthermore, I'll be looking for ways to cut back on spending. Tomorrow is as good an impetus as any, to get started. Will switch to a cheaper ISP, transfer a balance on a credit card, and cancel some "free trial" services before I forget to do so by the deadline, and get charged for them. (Blasted AOL ... they keep talking me into one more "free month" when I try to cancel, in hopes that I'll forget to cancel by the end of the month. And given my bad habit of forgetting to pay bills and losing track of expenses, that's not such a far-fetched bet....)

How about everyone else? What are some of your ideas for not only not spending tomorrow, but actually reducing your ongoing expenses?

[politicat]

1. This sounds silly, but work on emptying the freezer, cabinets, pantry.

Buy nothing but perishables until everything's used up. I don't know about you, but for me, I'm a squirreller. I usually have a half dozen boxes of pasta and a several packages of meat/chicken/etc that were buy one, get one free in the freezer. (Yes, I know we should go vegetarian, but our local environment does not support it well, since we don't really have the water for cropping, and we buy local whenever we can. And I have to limit my soy intake, due to a thyroid condition.) Emptying the pantry by using it up is helping to not contribute. (Though when it comes to canned tomatoes....)

We're going to move our house. Yes, I admit it, we're technically trailer trash. DH and his ex bought a single wide in a panic move back in the mid 90s, after their apartment was condemned and they could not find a landlord that would let them have their three cats adn a dog. A decade later, the ex is gone, but the house won't sell. The nice thing about it (the only nice thing) is that we can move it, so we are. There's a park 4 miles from DH's office, on the bus line, and in town, instead of out in the sticks like we are now. Initial expenses will be high, but the long term savings, and the advantage of living in a very progressive, liberal city, are high. So even though, with our current income (several times what it was when DH and the ex bought this place) we don't fit in the neighborhood, not looking for a house is a good way of not spending. We're staying in this place, even if DH is really getting tired of it.

We consolidated the debt, save the mortgage, a year ago, so the only card we have left is mine from before we married, and it has a very small balance and limit intentionally. It's an emergency card, with enough balance to let me get the car fixed or get a hotel and a tow if something dreadful happens.

Pcat

[cally]

2. Could some of you post in support of this on other threads?

I'm getting attacked a ridiculed for supporting this boycott. I didn't want this today. I wanted DU to be a refuge, instead it was not.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2469367

[NMDemDist2]

3. done, not one damn dime today here in Phoenix n/t

[Glenda]

4. My not spending a dime yesterday saved me money...

I wanted to order a computer mouse yesterday, because mine is on the fritz. THen today I thought, "Oh, I have a spare mouse for Mac - that's USB and it should work on the PC." Which it did. Duh.

Sometimes I don't remember that I have spare parts or items, and don't need to spend money.

Sometimes I realize also that things normally used for one purpose, can be used for another also.

Glenda