Gas prices, oil prices, electrical cost are killing me. Medical cost, insurance cost, are killing me. I think this is true for everyone, everywhere, but as an American I have learned long ago that come summer I am gonna be boating, and I travel to the lake about 170 miles each weekend, in a truck no less. But come Nov to April I do not travel, I am saving my pennies for Gas for the boat. Its called priorties, you spend for what you want, coarse my wife would rather go on a trip than a boat ride. (that's mixed up priorities)
I try to do something that I wish the city, state and nation would try to do, live within a budget, fix a budget and stay within it.