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Wordsmoker Anthropology: What Are You Not Buying Now?

By VirusWithShoes
Published: February 18, 2009

Personally, I’m selling every electronic media player I’ve bought over the past ten years and trying to work a pencil into a Micro SD card so I can dump the contents onto a succession of C90 tapes that will run at a variable speed through the “tape deck” I’m hooking up to my listening horn amplified and powered by the alternating current of terror and all-pervading sense of doom.

Any other cost-saving tips in these tough times? Neo-hobo it up in the comments.

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VirusWithShoes posted the following on February 18, 2009 at 11:30 pm.
Also – that’s the best image in the world at the moment.

I’m going to use it like a Frenchman uses garlic.
VirusWithShoes posted the following on February 18, 2009 at 11:30 pm.
It flashes on and off too. Fucking great.
VirusWithShoes posted the following on February 18, 2009 at 11:31 pm.
I think I should go to bed now. It’s been a long day.
Binky's Dream posted the following on February 18, 2009 at 11:52 pm.
Well apparently I won’t be buying any cocaine, since that seemed to go out with the 80’s.
Curly Q Tips posted the following on February 19, 2009 at 3:59 am.
Binky, you can try what my late husband and I did when he was undergoing chemo. Rather than wait for his next Onco appt to get Marinol, we headed down to the local high school, a certain hot bed of drug dealing in our small Florida town.

Cockroaches hang around the inside of your toaster longer than those kids did that parking lot, once we asked if they would sell us a joint. Do undercover cops drive minivans?
forwardmotion posted the following on February 19, 2009 at 7:31 am.
I’m going to try visualization exercises of large, satisfying meals to cut down on the food bill.
BC posted the following on February 19, 2009 at 9:54 am.
I’ve come to realize that washing is for sissies and tea-sippers.
BC posted the following on February 19, 2009 at 10:01 am.
So I’m going to save on soap, I mean. And tea.
Senor Wences posted the following on February 19, 2009 at 11:45 am.
I seem to have decided to quit paying bills. It frees up income for beer and cigarettes.

The other day my cable was turned off, and I just sorta shrugged, and didn’t call them right away to make a payment as one usually does when one learns “No TV? Aieeeeee!”

The following evening, I’m on a bus, heading to a bar to meet some pals and spend some of that Law & Order re-run cash I was saving, and I get a call from Time Warner. The guy was practically begging me to make a payment, offering to waive all their nickel and dime late fees and whatnot.

So you know it’s bad when Time Warner is all, “For the love of god, throw us a bone!”
BC posted the following on February 19, 2009 at 12:45 pm.
You know, on a more serious note, I don’t believe I’ve bought a newspaper in 2009. I am part of the problem.
korainhell posted the following on February 19, 2009 at 4:34 pm.
My situation remains unchanged. I don’t have the same amount of money as I did before the crisis. I also don’t have the same job as before the crisis.
PikaDar posted the following on February 19, 2009 at 11:45 pm.
No-buy more or less as usual. Only feel-good products when necessary. And underwear. Bras are now optional.