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To: Mike Johnston who wrote (66579)	7/21/2006 10:17:36 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Switch from steak to ground beef, Done - used to on tuesdays mcdonalds would sell hamburgers for 49 cents I think - go buy 20 and freeze enough to last all week - beats chasing a cow down in the pasture eh? I had to give up those 20 - 40 dollar steaks a long time ago. I had to give up my freezer too - too much electricity - but publix and the local farmers market/deli isn't far. cook some pasta at home instead of eating out, If my doctor didn't say watch the sodium I would be eating ramen noodles like my mexican neighbor. stay in roadside motels instead of beach resorts, Even they are too expensive - I sleep in the van or if the weather isn't too bad on the sleeping bag on the ground. The bad thing with vans - sometimes you like that AC so much you forget to turn off the engine and those lethal gases build up inside your ride. use your bike to run errands and your personal inflation rate will go way down. I ride my recumbent a lot - getting too hot in the days though - I live cheaply and even maximizing the hedonics I am telling you my bills in fla are up 15% so far this year EASILY - I feel for the people that haven't switched the ramen noodles out for steak dinners - their inflation must be up 50-60% - there was an article recently about there not being enough mexicans to pick the oranges in florida because they are all working building houses and the fruit is rotting on the vine - thankfully for me I have been riding up to a couple deserted orange groves and getting free oranges. When the mexicans lose thier jobs though I am probably gonna have to stop that hedonic adjustment.