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multigraincracker

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4. It did teach me how to live cheaply.

Reply to Magoo48 (Reply #3)

Mon May 16, 2022, 07:51 AM

May 2022

50 years later I'm still good. at finding free and dirt cheap stuff. I waste less too.
Later, while still young and got a steady job, I got into trouble with a credit card. After digging out of that, I said never again and never went into debt again. Haven't had a car payment after 1982.

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