A post submitted by CGI member Sonik_Cat.

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Go minimalist, and spend as little as possible. DO as little as possible. It also helps to refuse to breed. Don't drive unless absolutely necessary. NEVER LIVE BEYOND YOUR MEANS!

If everyone lived like that, what would the gubment do about it? No credit card, no telly, landline only, 33 year old car, work just hard enough to pay for life and have a little to set aside for keeping the car going, and we keep the overhead as low as we can. The only bills we have are internet/phone, PG&E, car insurance and Legal Shield. Well, I got annual car registration and other gubment extortion crap, but I manage to keep that as low as possible. We also no longer to to restaurants. Haven't been to one in years, and after what I cooked yesterday, one can see why. (It went up to 11.) Well, it also helps to live in the most cost effective flat in town, though if you're not one of those lucky 20, you're SOL. Our landlord is a saint.

Gods, how many times have I posted this message. People don't listen. Well, some do; though by necessity, not by choice. Those with more than 2 braincells, anyway. Some still don't get it.

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BUY GROCERIES VIA GET NOW, PAY LATER? WHAT DID YOU DO TO PUT YOURSELF IN THAT SITUATION?! YOU PUT YOURSELF IN A HOLE YOU WILL NEVER GET OUT OF.

Oh, yeah. There's always the default. Waiting for the u.s. to do that on its debt. Heh-heh-heh. Can't wait fer dat.

Morgan

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Truth! Chicks like to keep a men around. . .mainly to protect against other men. Well, that; and some do make good ATM machines. (MGTOW anyone?)

Nuclear family vs: DINKhood. DINKhood. Cook for 2, dishes for two, take turns, or each DIY. Same with laundry, and everything else. Abode gets way less messy. Only have to buy groceries for two, and your off work time is yours to do as you will. No driving sprogs around, no extra gratuitous expenses, no gratuitous obligations. Ah, what a nice, low stress dream. Then there's the alternative:

Five times as much housework, more overtime, higher expenses all around, good-bye to 8 hours sleep, good bye to more than 10 minutes a day of discretionary time on a good day, and woe if you find yourself unemployed with a gaggle of dependents that you can't host anymore. And what I find hilarious is that people in this category attack the DINKS. Why? Jealousy? 'SORRY I THREW MY LIFE AWAY, NOW I'M GONNA TAKE IT OUT ON THOSE WHO DIDN'T!'??????

STATUS! GOTTA HAVE STATUS! Gotta buy that house, gotta have a new car every year. Gotta have my Gucci bag and designer clothes that cost 16 times as much as more generic brands, even though I gotta average 70 hour workweeks to do it. IS IT WORTH IT? Are the opinions of the masses, which really don't give flyin' feck that important to you. Not to mention, these days you make yourself a target of the psychopathic and entitled have-nots. Maybe you should read 'A TALE OF TWO CITIES'. Is temporary stuff worth the misery in the fast lane you cause yourself, trying to keep up with your pointless life?

Finally. So you wanna be royalty or an aristocrat? Sure. You have nice digs and killer food every night. You also have an image to present. My the books I've read about them. Jeanne de Clisson, Anne Lister, and Olive MacLeod Temple got off easy (Depending on your priorites. But they did have personal freedom, eventually.), but when the royalty and lesser aristocracy isn't raping, hunting and eating sprog, they have to follow strict protocols. Personal freedom in so many respects is not allowed. Marriage is for alliances, not love. Self-censorship is nothing new, and it goes way beyond freedom of expression, which is temporarily on its way out right now. . .for anyone with anything to lose. And it was worse for the chicks than the sausage casings, though the sausage casings had different kinds of pressures.

There's way more than this, but hey! I've got a couple of shopping trips in a half hour, and a book to read. Unless there's a holiday (or a major set of car repairs. . .AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!), I generally read a book a week. It's sweet being able to spend 6-8 hours a day on some killer literature. . .which I get at our Dollar Tree, which gets a new shipment in every month. Kinda makes me glad no one wants to read anymore. I get all the good titles. Most of the books I manage to finish in 2 or 3 days, and I'm doing absolutely NOTHING for the world which I hold in utmost contempt during that time. Then when I can afford it, I ship a lot of them to a buddy down south, and others to a pair of artists up north who do art for art's sake that I kind of identify with. . .regarding what I used to be before becoming a complete has-been. Another one of my kicks in the face to the economy.

Oh yes. Before I fergit. . .NEENER-NEENER!!!!!!!!