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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 455021" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I started paring down a few years ago in anticipation of retirement and really don't miss any of the things I cut out. I started looking at my bill for my landline phone and there were things on there that I never used or didn't need anymore, all things that were costing me extra every month so I got rid of them. I have only a little prepaid Trac phone cell that I use when I need it - $20 every three months and my minutes just keep piling up because I never use them! I can't get any television programming at all without the satellite but I dropped to a different package and now my bill is about $40 a month less. I was paying for all the movie channels that I never watched anyway. I stopped buying a newspaper everyday because I can access it on the internet and I get most of my news from the TV anyway. I don't buy magazines anymore either because I tend to stack them up and never read them. I'm very limited in what I can do here because this is such a small town. It's hard to comparison shop when there's only one grocery store in town and I wouldn't save much if I drove 20 miles to another store. I'm doing a lot more shopping online now. I avoid shopping in the bigger stores because I know darned good and well I will come out with $80-$100 worth of 'stuff' that I didn't really need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 455021, member: 1883"] I started paring down a few years ago in anticipation of retirement and really don't miss any of the things I cut out. I started looking at my bill for my landline phone and there were things on there that I never used or didn't need anymore, all things that were costing me extra every month so I got rid of them. I have only a little prepaid Trac phone cell that I use when I need it - $20 every three months and my minutes just keep piling up because I never use them! I can't get any television programming at all without the satellite but I dropped to a different package and now my bill is about $40 a month less. I was paying for all the movie channels that I never watched anyway. I stopped buying a newspaper everyday because I can access it on the internet and I get most of my news from the TV anyway. I don't buy magazines anymore either because I tend to stack them up and never read them. I'm very limited in what I can do here because this is such a small town. It's hard to comparison shop when there's only one grocery store in town and I wouldn't save much if I drove 20 miles to another store. I'm doing a lot more shopping online now. I avoid shopping in the bigger stores because I know darned good and well I will come out with $80-$100 worth of 'stuff' that I didn't really need. [/QUOTE]
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