Take a light-hearted look at the recession. These points were posted as comments on a news website.
1. Visit friends around meal times. 5pm is a good time as it’s dinner time and dinner is the most expensive meal of the day. Everyone has at least 5 friends, so that’s five free meals a week.
2. Take your youngest child swimming everyday. Just pay for your child and then you get to use the shower for free. You can even bring some hand washing and do it there.
3. Use the toilets when in the local shopping mall, and bring home all that free toilet paper. Or pretend you’re a cleaner at the food court – lots of free food left on tables just waiting to be stashed in your back pack for lunches and snacks.
4. Set up a fake account on Trade Me, sell your imaginary goods to unsuspecting buyers then, when the cheques arrive, close the account and start again. [editor’s note: this is, of course, breaking the law and not advocated by management, if there is any chance you’ll get caught.]
5. Feed your kids and your self up on Pamol late Friday evening. If you use enough you should wake up about Sunday evening. Imagine all the electricity you save and food you don’t eat. If you wake up about 4pm Sunday you could be at your friends’ by five for dinner.
6. Go to your local department store to watch TV and use their furniture, saving wear and tear on your own goods.
7. Rather than heating your own home, go sit at A & E.
Then again, you might be interested in something a little more sensible.
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