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–><\/span><\/strong>While shopping for some gifts on a budget, my daughter came across incredible deals at a high-end store.\u00a0 She came home with two gorgeous messenger bags orginally priced at $75, marked down, and down again, then then unloaded for $10 each.
\n–><\/span><\/strong>Several regional auto dealers are offering a BOGO \u2013Buy One, Get One free.\u00a0 This is a sales strategy I\u2019m used to seeing for bread.\u00a0 Or frozen dinners.\u00a0 But on automobiles?!
\n–><\/span><\/strong>Using online discounters and sticking with local Innkeepers we priced out a weeklong tropical vacation near the equator for less than it would have cost us for a few days at Disney World.
\n–><\/span><\/strong>Mortgage rates are at an all-time low\u2026and banks are willing to refinance existing mortgages for a simple, flat fee versus high fees and a new round of unnecessary paperwork.
\n–><\/span><\/strong>I read the other day of a real estate agent in Florida who is filling chartered buses with future snow birds and taking them on tours of gated communities where the houses started at $250K a few years ago, sold for $150K last year, and are now being snatched up for $50K today by people looking for a second home \u2013 and who were prudent enough to stay out of the speculators\u2019 pricing wars.
\n–><\/span><\/strong>If you are remodeling, landscaping, or want any repair work done, contractors are available to come out and provide a bid on a same-day basis, and will tell you they can start the job in a few days, rather than in a few weeks\/months.
\n–><\/span><\/strong>Stocks and other investments that even the naysayers agree are solid, dependable brands that will rebound are selling for low single-digit multiples of their earnings per share.
\n–><\/span><\/strong>My wife\u2019s desktop computer died in the midst of the tax season\u00a0 & we had to replace it, fast. The new one has 3X the RAM, 5X the memory, all the bells and whistles\u2026 and cost only a few hundred bucks \u2013 less than the monitor alone would have cost just a couple years ago.
\nEverything is on sale.\u00a0 Everything.<\/strong>
\nOf course, if you have no cash flow, it does not matter.\u00a0 But if you are consumer with cash, this can be a very happy time for you.
\nI\u2019m just sayin\u2019\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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