Blue25
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Give your $ to good people, not bad people.

Give your time to good people w/positive energy--not grifters and griefers.

We make these decisions thousands of times a day. When we choose local business over megacorps, we win. When we choose books over streaming series, we win. When we choose friends and family over social media griefers, we win. When we exercise and play instead of using drugs and gambling, we win.

We wield so much power and we don't even know it. We hold the keys to victory with our decisions.

Food and emergency supplies.

I definitely plan to be very frugal for the next few years for both practical and political reasons.

if we stop spending enough, inflation will come down. So don't stop living, but find ways to prosper. Learn new skill sets that contribute to your bottom line, from cooking and canning to DIY auto, home, and yard. Read. Tutor a young mind, you can guide a future. Learn a programming language. Take some online courses that are a bit techie, there's Linked-In Learning free in many public library websites, and some free and rigorous Google courses too. Play music, listen to your favorites, watch and read great liberal books and themes.

Most of all, know what makes you happy, and make time to appreciate that.

Thank you!

Honestly spending a lot less in general is already making me happy. Even outside the political context.

Just retired/quit my part time low wage retail service job. Husband retired last year. Lived frugally all our lives. I am not going to let this decent into fascism change my plans yet. As always, I will be watching where my money goes.

I see it a bit like terrorism. If I close down, they win. Am I scared of the future, yep, so get out and live freely and support the good people and businesses while I still can.

For me, it's mostly a convenient excuse to make better personal financial decisions that I've largely failed to do in the past...

I'm a retiree on SS and the inflation that has occurred the last three and a half years has diminished my purchasing power quite a bit.

and so my spending tends to be very low to begin with.

1.) Let the oligarchs be aware there is deep dissatisfaction and a purchase boycott is being slow walked.

2.) You never know what next stunt these Fascists are going to pull to finagle the funds for public programs so they can do the trillion dollar extensions of the tax breaks for the ultra-rich.

3.) It is a good policy to have some funds squirreled away when tough financial times could soon be coming your way. Rather than dispose of your disposable income - save for a rainy day - with possible hurricanes, tornados, monsoons, and/or tsunamis in the Fascist weather forecast. Who knows if they really plan to crash the economy, but an engineered crash so the rich can buy out the near bankruptcies at 0.04 cents on the dollar. Then live like kings off our losses and hardships. The final death knell of the Middle Class.

They appear to be going full two Santa Claus mode until Trump created a new Santa Clause, the external Revenue service. The three Santa Clauses. LOL.

I’ve seen quite a few economic cycles in my 70+ turns around the sun and one thing I’ve learned is that the bad ones come with Republicans at the wheel and they’re worse than you expect. I’m hoping the reserves I put away with such difficulty during my years of employment last despite the top 1%’s desire to take it away from me.

Checking prices on everything and making my pennies count

I'm paying down credit card debt and finding ways to cut expenses.

The engine oil in my car is the most costly there is 0-20. Cheapest oil change is $80, = tax. I am going to spend around $80 to buy ramps, oil filter wrench, mechanic's dolly and container to capture the waste oil so's it can be turned over to the town for recycling. I used to change my own oil but stopped when I got a teaching position.

I am now retired.

I will be debt free in three years or less. Mortgage was liquidated 10 years ago.

I suspect SS, Medicare and Medicaid will be substantially cut this year, and I might well be significantly spending more to help those affected by cuts.