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Buy Nothing
Topic Started: Sep 8 2006, 08:06 AM (220 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
The Challenge:

Can you go 1 week without purchasing anything?
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Jane D'Oh
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Nope, no way, not a hope. Pity Mr D'Oh! :biggrin:
Pfft.
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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
Probably. If I could get my sh!t together beforehand, and plan. And if I had a slightly bigger fridge. (teenager in the house)
Milk would be the only real problem.
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DivaDeb
HOLY CARP!!!
done it many times
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ny1911
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Do you just mean to stop cash flow (out)? I think I can do that, but I'd still be unsing up things I've already purchased (food, gas, etc) or accruing debt on things I haven't paid for yet (utilities, etc). I could easily avoid going out and buying something though.
So live your life and live it well.
There's not much left of me to tell.
I just got back up each time I fell.
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Jolly
Sep 8 2006, 08:06 AM
The Challenge:

Can you go 1 week without purchasing anything?

I can tell you right now, that's a total impossibility. My tank lasts me five days before I have to fill it back up. And yes, I've looked into bus rides, car pools, etc. Short of putting an ad in the paper, I have to drive to work.

So nope, I'm out. Other than that I'd be fine, though.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Hobie
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No way....

My expenses right now are enormous. I just sold my condo and bought a house. Money is flying out of my pockets at a rate that I have never seen before!!!

My hand hurts from signing my name over and over.

Maybe once I settle in I would be able to stop spending for a week with some prior planning.

Back in the day...as a ski bum with no cares....I could easily go a week without spending $$. Of course if one is out in the wilderness for weeks or on a river trip somewhere, there are no places to actually spend the money!




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Radu
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Jolly
Sep 8 2006, 07:06 PM
The Challenge:

Can you go 1 week without purchasing anything?

Well, during July, everything was closed because of the Katyoushinkas...so I saved a lot of money ! Now , at least twice a week I go to the mall and buy a lot of unnecessary things from Office Depot and Tower Records. Just spending !
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Dewey
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HOLY CARP!!!
DivaDeb
Sep 8 2006, 08:31 AM
done it many times

Ditto; voluntarily and otherwise.
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

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Friday
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Nope.

We go to the market everyday.
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JBryan
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My wife would quite literally explode.
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Bernard
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I'm pretty sure I could do it. About 10 years ago the company I work at was really struggling for survival. There was one stretch where we didn't get a paycheck for 5 weeks straight! I surprised myself and somehow managed to make things stretch.
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apple
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absolutely...

the kiddies would miss milk, that's all.
it behooves me to behold
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