And this may not be as reliable an indicator, but Jewel and CVS stopped spitting out and mailing those 10 and 20% coupons I was so into earlier this year. At first I thought maybe they were doing poorly and couldn't afford to give away so much. But now I'm thinking maybe it means they're in good shape and don't need the incentives to lure people into the stores. Or maybe they just stopped giving them to me because I went and used them all the time.
There was a guy on The Daily Show the other night. They ran about a dozen clips of him in the months and years leading up to last fall warning of a collapse in the credit markets. He called it when nobody else saw it. And now he's warning that all the stimulus money and bailout money the government's pumping out is going to send the economy back off the cliff and spur a round of hyperinflation the likes of which we've never seen that will wipe out retirement savings and make our wages meaningless.
So that concerns me as I sit here figuring and re-figuring my projected income for the year (so far, amazingly, so good) and continue to look for ways large and small to save (example: getting my hair cut every five weeks instead of every four weeks = $117.50 a year). Are things truly on the rebound or is this all just a blip?
Then I read this in the NYT. In spite of the recession, smartphone sales are actually up 25% this year. And it makes me feel a little better about finally breaking and getting myself the new souped-up iPhone 3GS coming out next week.
Yup, enough is enough. I can no longer go without Internet everywhere. And if, with this phone, I finally, finally get decent reception in my home, I will help finance it by going off the grid, and giving up the land line. SCIENCE!
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