i try not to listen
Posted on 05/15/2011 5:13:18 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
i try not to listen
We were in East Berlin before the wall came down.
Their “housewares” were cheap junk that wouldn’t pass for toys here.
Window displays were filled with one item to give the illusion of plenty...so many cans of palm hearts or something else equally useful.
As I see empty shelves, sloppy stocking, long shelves filled with one item...to give that illusion... and the decreasing variety, and etc. It brings East Berlin to mind, and it gives me the creeps.
I am not blaming Walmart for poor business practise. They are a good indicator of the health of our economy.
Un freakin' real.
I've been googling a bit and I get the impression that California keeps our liquid milk artificially high and strives to keep out other states milk.
That would raise California prices and lower other states prices because they have one less market for their milk, is that correct?
The brown laying hens are selling well on craigslist.Whoever invented craigslist is genious. As local papers are charging an arm and a leg to post jobs; so craigslist is THE paper.
I could live on peppers and onions, and before Obama is through with us,I just may have too.
Never tried blackberries but blueberries freeze very well.
Brown egg laying hens I meant. Sorry typo I typed too fast.
Oh, the depression hit me all right.
Lost that nice paying job. The one that could afford the wife’s car payments. The one that could afford a weekly date night. The employer provided health insurance long gone.
I paid over $2k in doctor bills last month for myself out of a rapidly diminishing savings.
I feel damned lucky I found another job. Paying me just barely over half what the other was. NO BENNIES. Longer commute.
We don’t go out. WE DON’T DO ANYTHING.
Except go grocery shopping once a week.
We have to make that count.
Thats how it started. it appears by looking at current milk prices that they have been behind the curve for about a year. Dont know why but i did notice back on 4-4 they allowed a slight price increase but nothing since. Heck I dont live in Cali. just one of those crazy things that a person learns about thru research. someday I will need to delete a few files out of my head of useless stuff else the harddrive fill up.
Bread thrift stores. Day old bread is as good.
I llove blueberries but blackberries are heaven to me.
Has anyone noticed the price of a candy bar? $1~now that is highway robbery!
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On the contrary, you can still buy quite a nice candy bar for $0.10, a single dime.
Of course there is a catch - it has to be a silver dime like they were still minting back in the 60’s. They are worth over $2 these days. It is The Fed and it’s endless expansion of the money supply and the resulting debasing of our currency that is the root cause of that dreaded $1 candy bar.
Sad. Your story mirrors MANY. I am truly saddened that this has hit where you live. The crappiest thing is employers are lying and saying misconduct so people can’t get unemployment money we fricking paid into. Health Ins. is so sad. It is a joke if you have it and sad when you don’t.
I Despise Obama. FUBO!
Well, Helicopter Ben Bernanke says inflation is “transitory,” and we shouldn’t worry about it. Obviously, he doesn’t eat or drive.
So far it seems that California milk is gamed to be MORE expensive to the consumer, that was funny about the scanned receipt though wasn’t it.
Can you freeze blackberries too?
Yes
The Dollar General is the only place to afford candy bars.OR Ben Franklin’s where they haven’t closed.
By next month mulberries and raseberries will be out. I get my full of them when they are fresh. Hard to image they would freeze.
My mom and grandmother use to can but I never got the knack for it. With these times I better learn how to.
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