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10 February 2009 | 19 replies
That's what you use to pay medical bills,when that comes up.4) Put everything else that's left after paying your mortgage, utilities, food and other essentials toward paying of that credit card.5) Once that's done, save up six months of living expenses.
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31 March 2012 | 44 replies
Food, water, ammo - that's the answer!
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31 July 2009 | 70 replies
Then, you tell them they get to buy their own clothes and food!!
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8 March 2010 | 6 replies
Third, I have a store of food and know basic garden growing and home canning techniques.
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2 April 2010 | 4 replies
Italian food at Don Peppe's, right near JFK.
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25 April 2012 | 46 replies
CPI is not including food and energy, two items that everyone has to pay, and it is a much larger part of poor people's budget and rich people.
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26 October 2010 | 6 replies
Some many bills due...low on food, car note two months behind, etc..that was extremely stressful, but having a patient and supportive wife...sometimes words truly can't explain how grateful someone is.
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27 November 2010 | 57 replies
I know at least as far back as Vietnam.
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16 February 2011 | 21 replies
I know many Realtors that will work for food!
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2 December 2011 | 27 replies
The catch 22 is that wages need to be higher, but higher wages means unaffordable products/food/services.