Take the money you’re saving by turning off your landline and your cable and buy stuff that’s actually worth swallowing. If the only reason you eat is to satiate hunger and the only reason you drink is to get shitfaced, okay, fine, stock up on ramen and MGD, but life is more than that.

The problem is that I can't get Internet service without it. #&$*(#%^ Legislators.

DSL sucks worse than cable.

13. And don’t kill the world with mercury and other problems that come with the new CFL light bulbs. Just turn off your lights when you leave the room and unplug your devices when you don’t need or use them.

21. Support the musicians and authors who create the content you want and don’t steal from them or the companies who help put their content out. If you like the cd’s you get from the library buy the files from amazon or apple. Buy the book and pass it to a friend or sell it at a local book store. (or back on amazon as a used book)

44. Don’t turn down your water heater too low though cause you want to keep the hot hot enough to kill germs when you need it. Think about buying a tankless water heater.

48. Turn on the air conditioner in the car all you want. Mythbusters proved you get less gas mileage by opening the windows compared to running the airconditioner. (Although it was really close. Your mileage may vary.)

Extra: Tell bloggers who post over written articles to shorten their content, learn to edit themselves and research topics better. Ignore the bloggers who write too much and put out content you disagree wtih. Don’t go to their sites. They are just wasting your electricity and time. This goes for the commenters to.

Instead, get a dry-loop DSL connection (that’s a DSL connection with no telephone service added on). It’s fast and you’re not paying for a phone line you don’t need (get a decent cell plan with lots of free minutes instead).

Then, select a few shows to get a season pass on iTunes (or alternately, watch ‘em on Hulu.com and network sites) or ahem “other means.”

Once I did that, I was way more selective about what I watched, watched less TV in general, and only paid for what I actually used. I also have Netflix but the great thing about Netflix is you can “suspend” your account if you’re too busy to use it.

You don’t lose your account – but you also do NOT pay for what you don’t use – and you don’t pay again until the designated restart time comes up.

doing this has saved me a fortune in endless fees and taxes, and I’m getting pretty much everything legally via iTunes, hulu and the networks. And I watch only good TV and movies and not just “whatever’s on cable.”

Of course it does demand having money in the first place and even before this crisis, many people never had any money of theirs anyway. Anyone who uses credit of any kind is in debt – house, car, credit card, store card… So get rid of the debts that are just nice-to-haves and focus on reducing the debts that you must have. You’ll be able to get more money in the pocket and while you’ll still be ‘in the red’, you’ll be on your way to zero debt and actual wealth. No matter which way you look at it, if the money that you owe someone else is more than you physically own, then you are in debt.

Reduce your debts and live within your means. This global crisis was brought about largely because of loans being sold to people who could not afford to repay them.

Of course it does demand having money in the first place and even before this crisis, many people never had any money of theirs anyway. Anyone who uses credit of any kind is in debt – house, car, credit card, store card… So get rid of the debts that are just nice-to-haves and focus on reducing the debts that you must have. You’ll be able to get more money in the pocket and while you’ll still be ‘in the red’, you’ll be on your way to zero debt and actual wealth. No matter which way you look at it, if the money that you owe someone else is more than you physically own, then you are in debt.

Reduce your debts and live within your means. This global crisis was brought about largely because of loans being sold to people who could not afford to repay them.