Comments on: Extreme cost-cutting http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:51:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: rocky http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/comment-page-1/#comment-12616 rocky Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:30:26 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/#comment-12616 thanks. i felt i was reading my own memories of youth. a month of rice and margarine sticks, and that wasn't the end of sparse times.....far from depressing..... it reminded me that life has always been good, no matter how i've had to stretch. there is so little we really need to live! just the basics are essential: air water food. shelter can be argued, but i've found that with little to no money as well. grins , raq thanks. i felt i was reading my own memories of youth. a month of rice and margarine sticks, and that wasn’t the end of sparse times…..far from depressing….. it reminded me that life has always been good, no matter how i’ve had to stretch. there is so little we really need to live! just the basics are essential: air water food. shelter can be argued, but i’ve found that with little to no money as well. grins , raq

]]> By: ND http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/comment-page-1/#comment-12612 ND Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:30:53 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/#comment-12612 Wow, those are extreme. Coulda used some of them when I was in college. Thanks! Wow, those are extreme. Coulda used some of them when I was in college. Thanks!

]]> By: mbhunter http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/comment-page-1/#comment-141 mbhunter Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:03:25 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/#comment-141 Thanks very much Blunt. This is a great post. Much better tips than I could have done. Thanks very much Blunt. This is a great post. Much better tips than I could have done.

]]> By: Kimber http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Kimber Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:42:20 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/#comment-139 Been at rock bottom before. Spent four months eating nothing but no name Cheez Whiz and bread (breakfast, lunch and dinner). The library is a wonderland for the poor. I could sit in AC comfort, read the free books, and use the free internet (great for job searches). Been at rock bottom before.
Spent four months eating nothing but no name Cheez Whiz and bread (breakfast, lunch and dinner).
The library is a wonderland for the poor.
I could sit in AC comfort, read the free books, and use the free internet (great for job searches).

]]> By: Liz http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Liz Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:47:40 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/extreme-cost-cutting/#comment-138 I have been extremely poor before-- Here a few other suggestions: Take the bus. Look into any public assistance you or your children may qualify for: Food stamps, WIC, health care, childcare subsidies, etc. Don't forgot the food bank-- If you have small children and can't afford the holidays--ask for your family to be "adopted"--the first few years I was divorced, that's how my kids had any gifts at all under the tree. If you are a woman, and need to further your education, look into Pell grants--go to the Women's center of your local community college--mine had a clothing allowance (to help you get back in the workforce) and childcare free while I went to college. I have been extremely poor before–

Here a few other suggestions:

Take the bus.
Look into any public assistance you or your children may qualify for:
Food stamps, WIC, health care, childcare subsidies, etc.

Don’t forgot the food bank–

If you have small children and can’t afford the holidays–ask for your family to be “adopted”–the first few years I was divorced, that’s how my kids had any gifts at all under the tree.

If you are a woman, and need to further your education, look into Pell grants–go to the Women’s center of your local community college–mine had a clothing allowance (to help you get back in the workforce) and childcare free while I went to college.

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