Has the economy affected you yet?

[demorgan]

Has the economy affected you yet?

[FlakeNoir]

Has the economy affected you yet?

Very much so, but we're hanging in there.

[Ri The Lousy Translator]

All the way down here in Argentina, my BF is increasing the list of unemployed starting next Monday (well, today is his last day at work as a matter of fact). So YES. Globalization, fellows...

[SKfan2006]

it's affected my dad to the point that he couldn't pay for his truck. now he has to use a borrowed one just to make shipments. not sure how my sisters doing since she lives in Cali.

[Draga]

I think Spain is bankrupted since long time ago. But what really affects me is that police is acting like headhunters towards immigrants (they always need someone to blame). I can stand being poor, but I can't stand being jailed.

[PatInTheHat]

What economy?
Just when you thought you couldn't get any broker than broke, you find out there's a such thing as brokerer!
Now if that aint a fifty cent word, then I surely don't know what is.
Now pay me!!!

[O'Hara]

Thankfully no, both since I'm only 18 and in college on a scholarship, and because my mother, who I live with, still has a healthy job in home health care, and we've finally got a good bit of debt paid off. However, I know the economy has hit my job. I wok for a vet, both large and small animal, and the number of people coming in with animals (especially horses), has slowed down. This summer was awful; you know, when diesel hit $4.00 a gallon? All the people that normally would have been in (our drive was usually packed with trailers), never came, and I was bored all summer with nothing to clean but cobwebs. Thankfully its picked up some, but there's still nowhere near the horses coming in like there were in Fall of '07.

[Spideyman]

Indeed. With a fixed income am finding myself dipping into savings, and cutting back wherever I can. Just thankful for all I do have in life.

[poisonbat]

Oh it has hit hard. My husband who used to work 55+ hours a week has been cut back to a 4 day week and 40 hours or less. I find myself searching the market for the best buys of the week. I used to have a food budget of about $120 a week, but now I am feeding 4 people for about $75. We have cut out name brands except when I have coupons for them. I have started walking to the store instead of driving my car when I only need a few things. No more renting movies on the weekend etc. Yeah, it really does hurt. Many of our luxuries have been put on the back burner and we are in survival mode.

[mojomofo]

Yep yep. We have cut back on all the non-essentials, and there is no such thing as a night out anymore. Our savings (hah!) were depleted a while back, so it is definitely a case of "if it's not on hand, do we need it?"