What will YOU sacrifice?

[badger]

Economic times are tough and the answer is no longer credit card debt and mortgages to get what you want immediately.

So... in the wake of such a crisis, what will YOU be sacificing for the good of the country and your economic future?

Me:
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Yes, I am no longer looking forward to scalping Sooner tickets or the latest video games. I'm just not sure what will happen in the future and I have to think about that. How bout you?

[8timechamps]

I pledge to sacrifice a small animal to aid in this economic crunch.

[sooner_born_1960]

Community college is good enough for the kids.

[badger]

Community college is good enough for the kids.

Tee hee... my parents helped pay for my college and my brother's (although it was mostly through grandma's inheritance), but I wonder if we will ever be able to afford future kid's.

Here's another sacrifice:
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I have been eating at home a lot more and out a lot less :(

[KC//CRIMSON]

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[JohnnyMack]

I have been eating at home a lot more and out a lot less :(

My wife and I were helped by the fact that once our second kid arrived, going out became a pain in the *** anyways, but we've made a conscious effort to really try and eat in almost all the time. Looking back at our bank statements we were spending too much going out and you can tell a difference by cutting that stuff out.

[Taxman71]

I will start shopping at WalMart instead of Target.

[85Sooner]

I will contribute by ceasing to give money to pan handlers on the street corners.

[KC//CRIMSON]

I will start shopping at WalMart instead of Target.


That's hardcore.

[The Maestro]

Eating at home is a big priority...hardly go anywhere on the weekend unless need to. Saves gas money for the commute.

Also, move over Jack Daniels...meet George Dickel!

[C&CDean]

There's a financial crisis? Where?

[Taxman71]

I will fill-up with ethanol-laced gasoline at 711 instead of 100% gasoline at Conoco.

Also, I will switch from Grey Goose to Absolut.

[SicEmBaylor]

Sacrifice?

[BillyBall]

Moving from buying my meth to making my own.

[JohnnyMack]

I don't mean to say that I'm sacrificing because I think there is an economic crisis, just that it happens to coincide with us eating in more because of the kids.

[olevetonahill]

Less Natty More OVJ :cool:

[SicEmBaylor]

Less Natty More OVJ :cool:

When Natty Light starts breaking anyone's budget, the country is definitely ******! :D

[olevetonahill]

When Natty Light starts breaking anyone's budget, the country is definitely ******! :D

When you Buy as Much as I do It can break a poor man :D

[IB4OU2]

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[SicEmBaylor]

When you Buy as Much as I do It can break a poor man :D

Touche

[C&CDean]

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You can replace it with the cheap **** like Smilin' Bob uses.

[Mixer!]

...Smilin' Steve?


;)

[IB4OU2]

You can replace it with the cheap **** like Smilin' Bob uses.

Brilliant! Dean! :D

[proud gonzo]

Sacrifice? **** that, I'm a grad student.

[Stoop Dawg]

There's a financial crisis? Where?

Turns out mason jars aren't such a bad investment vehicle after all, eh?

[olevetonahill]

Turns out mason jars aren't such a bad investment vehicle after all, eh?

Mason Jars = OVJ .:cool:

[C&CDean]

Turns out mason jars aren't such a bad investment vehicle after all, eh?

Yeah, not bad at all. I can always put my hands on my cash, and I know some yokel ain't gonna lose it all for me up at the investment house and then jump off a building. Plus, you can can up veggies and fruit and fish and meat in em', drink OVJ out of them, and stash your cash in em'. Momma put up a ****pot of quarts of tomatoes, okra, beets, tomato juice, peaches, peppers, relish, and other stuff the past couple weekends. If the bottom completely falls out, we can live for years off the place, and as long as paper money is worth something, I'm good. When it becomes worthless, I can use it to start fires in the stove - with the several lifetimes of wood I have cut/split/stacked out by the barn.

And people call me a stupid hillbilly. Meh.

[OU4LIFE]

And people call me a stupid hillbilly. Meh.

well, to be fair, that's not ALL they call you...

[OUDoc]

You need to spend more, not less, to help the economy.
Why does badger hate America?

[C&CDean]

well, to be fair, that's not ALL they call you...

Yeah, sometimes it's "your highness, your majesty, bossman, sir, Mr. Dean, and when I ask who's your daddy? they always say only you Big Daddy."

[Scott D]

I'm going to sell Wisconsin to Poland to pay for my expenses during this crisis.

[goodonya]

Regretfully, we will no longer venture outside the 45-mile rigs & reefs in the Gulf to fish. We will consign ourselves to fishing mediocrity eschewing fine tuna & the big billfish. We will make do with dorado, kings, grouper and the other pedestrian species. I'm bummed.

[OU-HSV]

Less Natty More OVJ :cool:

Now that's just a damn thrifty move :D

[proud gonzo]

If all my money disappears, I'm just gonna go live with Dean.

[C&CDean]

If all my money disappears, I'm just gonna go live with Dean.

As tiny as you are, we prolly won't even notice.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

yeah but when her brother shows up....

[sooneron]

I'm putting the jet on ebay.

[OU4LIFE]

buy it now price?

[OUDoc]

$3.50

[Frozen Sooner]

I will cut back on awesome.

I will only be greatly awesome instead of majorly awesome until the conclusion of this troubled time for America.

I plan to donate my excess awesome to the awesome-deficient: people who bug me about raffles in grocery stores, pollsters who can't get the name of the candidates for State House correct (this actually happened to me yesterday-they asked me if I planned on voting for a guy who had been replaced on the ballot), and people who like Rush.

[sooneron]

Yes, buy it now $2,120,000- I plan to sell it at a big loss like someone else.

[pergdaddy]

I'm sacrificing by not buying Iron Man on Tuesday.

I'm sacrificing by not using my credit cards anymore.

I'm sacrificing by not voting for either semi-retarded parties in the presidential election.

But most importantly, I'm sacrificing by no longer taking life lessons from Chuck Norris. This is a two pronged approach as I will now save the money from paying for the lessons, but I will also lose more weight from constantly running from his roundhouse kicks.

[Lott's Bandana]

Sailboat = more
Fishing boat = less

(hell, I don't eat 'em anyway so I'm not losing out on food costs.)

[Taxman71]

I'm gonna start playing quarter slots instead of dollar slots. That way, I can play four times as long.

[pergdaddy]

I think the American people should sacrifice their time one day and unite to exercise our demons and start a revolution. Maybe not Al Gore's idea of civilized disobedience, but something.

[Frozen Sooner]

'Cause truly, if there's anything we can do without, it's fat demons cluttering up the place.

[badger]

I meant for this to be a fun thread, but eventually, I imagine the gov't is going to enforce mandatory cutbacks a la oil shortage or war rationing= 10 gallon purchase limit

[King Crimson]

did i miss Al Gore inventing Civil Disobedience, too?

[sooneron]

You ever notice that the biggest pussies are the ones with the anarchy logos on their shirts? Their like skinny as a rail.

It's like, yeah, you'll do REAL well fending for yourself.

[Mixer!]

Wiry guys can be tough to beat because they're all thin & wiry.

[pergdaddy]

Damn it Mike, now you see. YOu see what I'm talking about.

:)

Yes, Gore wants Civil Disobedience. The Gores of Anarchy will reign supreme.

Is it possible to be semi-fat and wiry?

[King Crimson]

anarchy (or even anarchy posers) and civil disobedience are not the same thing. civil disobedience recognizes punishments and prefers to accept those punishments for the articulation of a symbolic gesture. as defined by H.D. Thoreau. I can't speak to AL's version.

anarchy is the (alleged) transgression in the idea of a lawless society.

edit: btw, i'm just typing stuff on Friday afternoon...not trying to **** on anyone.

[pergdaddy]

Wow,

I know the difference. Just making a joke.

[King Crimson]

Wow,

I know the difference. Just making a joke.

i know, sorry. see i got caught in my edit.

[pergdaddy]

No problem King. I didn't mean to be to defensive either.

I still got the Joker's speech in my head from the Dark Knight:

Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon's got plans. You know, they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So, when I say that you and your girlfriend was nothing personal, you know that I'm telling the truth.

It's the schemers that put you where you are. You were a schemer, you had plans, and uh, look where that got you. I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell the press that like a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all, part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!

Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.

[pergdaddy]

That's why the anarchy thing is still fresh and why I said it. Was just having a little fun with it.

Back to the original point, what will you sacrifice? Well, I've sacrificed alot, my bills get paid, but not a lot of extra money at the end of the paycheck. However, as I know that rich people mostly have earned their money, I fail to see the true sacrifices being given by anybody other than the working class and the poor.

From a Linkin Park song: When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
I think that's a phrase that can be used for more than actual war, like this new finance bill.

[OUthunder]

I'll quit playing the Pro V1 and start playing the Pro V1x.

[badger]

I am still bringing lunch to work, despite all urges to join co-workers for lunch excursions. I am also eating at home virtually every day. I finally cracked last night when I made a Taco Bell run.

[yermom]

From a Linkin Park song: When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
I think that's a phrase that can be used for more than actual war, like this new finance bill.


Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor


i think i'll stick with Sabbath :D

[Frozen Sooner]

Also from a Linkin Park song:

"When I come back like Jordan wearing the 4-5
It ain't play games with you."

Well, technically a Jay-Z/Linkin Park mashup.

[pergdaddy]

Not bad yermom. Don't listen to a lot of Sabbath, but I liked that.

[OklahomaRed]

Smaller vacations, community college for the kids (if things actually start going belly up), and less eating out. If things go really bad then head up to the inlaw's farm and hunker down with the rest of the rednecks. :D

[8timechamps]

I guess I'll only go with two online porn subscriptions.

[OUHOMER]

The wife just suggested I give up my season tickets...............:mad: :mad:
So i may have to give up the wife :D :D :D