That could be some poor soul’s retirement grease.
Annualized inflation: >>100%.
Cardboard and other paper goods went for about 1 cent a pound two years ago. Now it costs 6 cents.
Annualized inflation rate: 145%
Official inflation rate: 2%. Inflation is "contained."
Finders keepers?
This reminds me of a different era.
Maybe 20 years ago, my Grandmother was in a nursing home after she broke her hip. Granddaddy was in better shape and still lived in their rural home.
One of their Daughters came by and cleaned up the kitchen. She found an old cast iron frying pan full of old grease. She poured it out and scrubbed the pan. She then refilled it with new oil.
A few days later, Daddy was visiting and Granddaddy complained that Aunt Mary must be selling cooking oil as she took his.
NYC is a little slow. They’ve been stealing the stuff around here for years. In fact a gang tried to break into my home this morning to abscond with my bacon drippings. After a brief but fierce gunfight the attackers withdrew.
YEARS ago, some appliance dealer in NYC had a trade-in sale - no matter how useless the item was, he’d take it. It was wildly successful, but the downside was that he was stuck with all these broken washers, refrigerators and stoves.
He put them out on the curb for the sanitation department to pick up, but they wouldn’t touch it - he’d have to contract for their removal, which would cost him some big bucks.
Getting a flash of inspiration, he put a “SALE! $10!” tag on each one and left them out overnight. By morning they were all gone.
I used to know some people who lived in Manhattan, and they told me that they had the dirt stolen out of a planter (the planter itself couldn’t be stolen as it was actually the top of a low concrete wall).
It costs a lot less than $4.00 a gallon to turn that old cooking oil into diesel fuel.
Just look for slippery criminals.
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