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Diggs 25 ways to save and survive through the recession1)Throw a garage sale thanks to the great site www.garagesalestracker.com I wasable to get rid of a lot of the junk in the house that I no longer needed and I gotgreat exposure to the site and made plenty of money to pay my bills while stillsatisfying customers.2)Talk to people you never know what incite or inspirational advice they may haveor how they may be able to help you. The best connection might have been oneyou never met.3)Ask for a discount you never know. There is always hidden discounts for localsthat you may be able to tap into to save a few bucks every week, which in thelong run most certainly adds up.4)Act like a student I went to the aquarium and asked if there was a student discountand sure enough there was and I saved 4 dollars. Doesn’t sound like much but between all the student discounts I’ve asked for over the past five years in and outof being a student I have saved over 300 dollars so if I asked you to state yourself as a student for 300 dollars would you?5)Pick up loose change, I’m always called crazy when people see me picking upnickels and pennies off of the ground, but when I explain to them that if I always pick up the loose change that over the course of my life that will fully pay anecessary item such as a phone bill or car insurance for one year. So then I ask them if I asked you to pick up that change there and than you won’t have to payyour phone bill for a year would you?6)Pack a lunch when you go to work at the office. Thanks to LL. Beans convenientlunch box you can take lunch with you to work and keep it cool the whole waythere and still be stylish.7)Take the bus or public transportation once in awhile, if your in the bay area try511.org great for trip planning8)Even better take a walk or run, not only will you be more healthy you might havesaved that $70.00 a month gym fee if your motivated enough to get up early andtake that breathtaking run in your area.9)Do charity work to past time and karma certainly will come back around10)If you are 18-22 you can fly on discount airliner Air-Tran with no advanced purchase for only $79.00 each way while if I booked it that day it would have costme $245.00.11)Turn off the heat and try a plug in heater the savings will be great, at local Targetstores Honeywell makes a safe and convenient heater and fan that plugs right in toyour electric socket.12)Let people know your broke, I tried this at a place called “Whats up Dog” a popular hot dog place in the bay area and the owner ended up giving me and the person I was with free hot dogs and fries.13)Search through the classifieds I ended up attending a few other garage sales tofind some hidden treasures and sure enough I was able to bargain on a few itemswhich I sold soon thereafter for a nifty profit.14)Hedge your bets and put in the sweat equity because if you don’t try you never know what kind of opportunity you might miss out on.
 
15)In tough times people realize that they have to be entrepreneurial. When it countsmost you find a new way to get things done or to make money. Everybody has itinside of them some just need to be pushed to figure it out.16)Find new uses for waste. I think of the computer company that was founded by aused car salesman in the Chicago area CDW Corporation. The story is about anauto dealer's son who started used computer sales operation in his kitchen after his$3 3-line ad in the Chicago Tribune to sell old IBM generated high demand.Turned $300 profit on second sale. From there he founded Computer DiscountWarehouse in 1984; after quitting his job as a car salesman in 1982, creator Krasny was forced to sell his own computer for cash. Reportedly, so many peopleresponded to his sales ad listed in the Chicago Tribune that Krasny began buyingcomputers in order to resell them,17)Lighten up and relax sometimes being calm and not worrying is a viable solution.As opposed to overreacting being un rash and flipping out about a situation cansometimes lead to disastrous outcomes.18)Think 3D, by putting yourself in a situation where you look at things threedimensionally the possibilities of the world unseen and areas that have yet to betapped can be found. Creating new sources of revenue that were never thought to be possible before. Think of Back to The Future part III when Marty McFlyneeded to get out of 1885 and back to 1985 but the bridge wasn’t built yet, so theyhad to envision that in the future the bridge would be built and the Deloreanwould not be heading off of a ravine.19)Don’t try to reinvent the wheel but rather innovating the wheel is the key to thenext great discovery. Steve Jobs inventor of the iPod www.apple.com saw themp3 player as a valuable item but decided to innovate computer technology intothe device to store more songs in user friendly device and the rest is history.20)Go to the library rent books and learn, knowledge is power and borrowing booksfrom the library is a free lesson plan.21)COUNTDOWN ON TRAFFIC LIGHT, Maybe that vacation to see Aunt Gina inFlorida or Uncle Marc in Vegas might taste that much better if you postpone it for a year enjoy a staycation and double down a year later instead of doing it once ayear psychological studies show you will enjoy your vacation that much more if you put it off a year.22)Grocery shopping can save lots of money from splurging on your favorite meal atthe local hot spot, but an even larger savings can come in the form of cutting outcoupons from the local paper. An old friend of mines dad used to have so manycoupons that when he went to the grocery store it was as if they gave him moneyfor shopping because he was such a sharp grocer. It certainly helps along withother coupon sites as recently referenced in the New York Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/technology/internet/27coupon.html?_r=1&sc p=1&sq=in%20lean%20times&st=cse23)When all else fails ramen noodles prevail, possibly the best bang for the buck in a pinch try these.http://www.nissinfoods.com/24)There are a handful of other ways that I had come up with unfortunately othershave beat me to the punch with some of them and here are some links to those
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