[mitchntx]

Just curious how many have scaled back, scaled back considerably or outright had to park your car because of the economy?

And along with that, how many have done any of the above, not based on actual events, but fear of something happening that would make curtailing your "fix" inevitable?

For me, my regional race schedule hasn't changed, but the TnT days and out of region events have been scratched. And not because of being laid off or anything, just burying my coffee cans in the backyard in case I do.

If I didn't have a great group of sponsors and wasn't able to trade instructing for registration, then the story would probably be differnet.

[35th_Anniversary...]

I'm not exactly in the safest occupation anymore, at least oil creeped up closer to $40/barrel. At least I've got a couple of years in with the company and have a reputation for being a good performer. I don't think I need to be worried about losing my job, but even if I did I don't think it would be hard for me to get another job. The house is paid down to $18,308, so I don't have to worry about losing that. I did scale back a bit for this year.... I was going to go race at the local dirt circle track, but luckily there was a cooling off period before the car was bought and I decided that giving heroin to a pothead is probably not a good idea. (In other words I did not need to get addicted to a different / more expensive form of racing). If I keep behaving I should be 100% debt free by the end of March of next year (2010), or so I hope.

But hey if you need money, live with your mother who hasn't paid her mortgage in 10 months, get food stamps and disability for 3 of your kids just go to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and pop out 8 more parasites to suck up all the government cheese you can.