How to stay positive while living through a recession

According to Canadian Press our great country’s economy may not recover or crawl out of its current dismal state for two years.

“The Canadian economy has slowed to a crawl and isn’t expected to recover until 2010,” say The Canadian Press.

Oh, what to do?

Cry? Gnash our teeth? Save pennies for one monthly slice of Bondi’s pizza?

No way. Let’s stick together and get through this.


Save up for a whole pizza (Bondi’s is the best), cook up a batch of home brew (less than 50 cents per glass), sit around the kitchen table with a few friends and neighbours and talk about how to get through tough times.

Your little group will likely come up with ways to save $100 - $200 per month in 5 minutes and 101 ways to survive a recession in 2 hours.

Doing things as part of a group will also make it easier to say good-bye to TV cable, cell phones, street meat, fast food and so on ad nauseam.

Someone will say (surely), “I know how to make real oatmeal for breakfast at less than 15 cents per serving.”

“No way.”

“Way.”

Someone else will say, “I know how to brew my own coffee and tea and cook up my own lunch and supper.”

“Get out of town.”

“And we could borrow things from one another, like a lawnmower, rather than buy all the same items for each household.”

Really. People will survive and be better off than before the recession in many important ways.

I’ll make the home brew - though it might taste like Ollie’s feet.

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