unMNployed

I am beginning to come up with a few buckle down ideas… just trying to prepare myself for the surely inevitable…

Idea number one, you ask?  Well, the biggest expense I have other than housing is my car.  SO, I think I will say goodbye to it.  If I NEED to drive a billion miles to anywhere, I can always rent a car.  Need a car in town?  Borrow one.  Most everything I need is within a four or five block radius… This could save me up to $450 a month (with gas costs, repair costs, insurance costs, registration costs, AND the car payment)… the only downside is that I would need to limit myself to jobs within a reasonable bus distance… which shouldn’t be too hard — since I won’t have to make quite as much as before…

Idea number two?  This is the hard one.  I love having a blackberry — instant email, etc… that little gizmo will be axed by next week — and I will get a new plan (with VERY few minutes, but unlimited texts — as is my predilection lately these last few years).

Two simple things could end up saving me $500 a month…

This’ll take a little bit of figuring out…