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OC375

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10. Quit Buying

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:11 AM

Thursday

Beyond groceries and bills, we just quit. We stopped replacing things that break that we don’t need - extra TVs, fashionable clothes, electronics… There’s less juice with each progressively more expensive squeeze.

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