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God bless you! I know how you feel. I am disabled, but I have just started doing my shopping by bike. I cannot walk far enough to catch the bus. Isn't that bizarre? The bus stops so far away that none of us who live in an elderly and handicapped apt. complex can get to the bus. I do the shopping for 3 of my neighbors, but we have to wait for non~rainy and non~windy days. If we run out of stuff, we just run out or we share. I still drive everyone to the doctor, but they all use the same doctor so we have set it up so they all go on the same days. Ta Da! They pay me for gas. I don't know how long this will go on though, because my car is getting in bad shape, and I do not have the money to fix it or buy a new one. Shalom~Adoniah

Oh just wait, prices will get even higher as we drag on through this recession. Soon, even though "experts" wont say it, we will be in a full economic depression. This is the time to conserve the extra money you have and give up on luxuries. Vacations should be altered to more local locations, believe me they could use the business. Vehicle usage should be minimum, to and from work, and compile your shopping trips into one or two trips a week. Electricity should be conserved as much as possible, changing light bulbs, opening doors instead of turning on the AC at night. Water is easy, take no more then 10 minute showers and turn down the temp that will help with getting you out quicker and save on the electric. No more shopping just to shop, if you can't justify it as an immedate need you don't really need it and are just wasting money. The part of all of this that makes me laugh is that I'm 22 and I have enough common sence to understand how to cut back on things, how to reduce my spending and how to take advantage of local items rather then Walmart stuff. I was raised in a world where material items mattered greatly in one's life, anything I wanted I got. Adults twice my age can't cope with rising costing and here I am from a privelaged home with more money in my savings then them. Wow, the sad truth of america, material items rule the world.