No matter what types of groceries we buy, I've notice that our grocery bill has gone up about 1/3 this year. We typically go to the grocery store every two weeks. Our typical bill was between $180.00 - $200.00. Now the typical bill is $300.00.
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I cant afford to eat anymore : Grocery Store Horror stories :)
by SnakesInTheTower infirst... i am in no immediate danger of starving damn groceries are getting expensive .
as an example... i love breyer's all natural ice cream... .
first...the story of the incredible shrinking ice cream box.... for years and year the box was one half gallon (us)...2 full quarts...then somewhere a couple years back, it shrunk to 1.75 quarts...but in the same size box..... today, i was at the grocery, and seen the stuff was on sale..... hmmmmm...something fishy.... yep... it is now 1.5 quarts.... and i carefully compared the 1.75 box in my freezer with my new 1.5 box.
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George Carlin Has Just Died
by chrisjoel inomg..sad sad sad...just heard on radio ...here in canada.......great comedian and anti religious kinda guy...always brought a smile to my face..... http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/06/23/george-carlin-dead/.
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George Carlin was one of my heros. I was watching some of his stuff on YouTube yesterday morning. I didn't hear about his death until this morning. I miss him already.
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Are single-never-married heterosexual males approaching their forties...
by DanTheMan in...losers?
discuss.
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I can't speak for the rest of the world, but here in America, there are more and more men who get well into their 30s, 40s, 50s, etc. who are divorced or never married to begin with. Why? Men are afraid. They aren't afraid of marriage; they are afraid of divorce. They are afraid of getting screwed when their wife wants to dissolve the marriage to go out and "find themselves". For the majority of men, marriage equates to divorce, unhappiness and financial ruin. When they asked the late, great writer and comentator Lewis Grizzard if he was ever going to get married again he said "No, I'll just find a woman I don't like and buy her a house!"
More and more men every year make the calculated decision to not get married so as to not expose themselves to the threat of unhappiness and financial ruin. Does that mean that those men don't want to get married? No, it just means that if 50% of marriages end in divorce, a toss of a coin decides if you're going to get screwed. The lonliness of not being married isn't as bad as the stress, pain and financial issues that are a result of divorce.
Say what you will; those are the reasons why and everybody knows it. Every time some woman files for divorce and says to some 1-800-LAWYER type-person "I'm going to take him for all he's got", somebody is listening. The message is clear; if you get married, there is a very good chance that a woman will be sitting in a shifty divorce attorney's office uttering those very words in reference to you!
Yes, I'm married. Yes, I love my wife. Yes, I trust her. I'm not sour on women, or at least I'm not sour on MY woman. But, it's interesting, even my wife has cautioned her brother about getting married and she has told him all of the things I've just said here. I think it speaks very poorly of our culture that marriage is not taken seriously and that people jump into and out of marriage so quickly. When you get married, you swear an oath before God and the government that you will be by that person's side no matter what. It is a contract not to be breached except by death. Yet, so many people break that contract. That speaks poorly to the integrity of at least one person in that relationship. I think that divorce should be handled differently by the courts. Perjury is a felony. If you swear an oath before the court and enter into a contract and you don't live up to that contract, doesn't that amount to lying to the court?? I think that people who file for divorce for no apparent reason (i.e. "incompatibility" or "I don't feel fulfilled") should have some sort of legal penalty assesed to them. Additionally, they should be barred from ever entering into another marriage contract. Barring infidelity, physical or emotional abuse, there should be no reason to breach the marriage contract without impunity. I think that if this were the case, people would carefully consider the prospect of marriage and carefully examine the person that they are considering entering the marriage contract with.
Nobody buys a house without researching EVERYTHING about that house. Why? Because it is the single largest financial investment a person will ever make in their entire life. I think there should be at least that much care and examination given to what will be the greatest emotional investment you will ever make for life.
So, I've rambled on again for a few paragraphs.
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Do you exercise or isn't that your thing.
by LouBelle infor the last 5 and 1/2 weeks i have been at the gym mostly twice a day except saturdays - i only have one training session.
each of my sessions is at least an hour long but can go for two hours.
i do various cardio in the evenings and do strength training in the morning.
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I've always been fat. Notice that I didn't say "big" or "overweight". If I were skinny, I'd still be "big", just not fat! When I was younger I used to work out and my job was physically demanding, but I was still fat. I even set a county record for the leg press and squats when I was in high school. I've never been able to lose the weight. Granted, when I was more physically active, I felt better and I had more stamina. When time permits, I still do a couple of miles on the treadmill at the gym or go hiking with the wife-type-unit on the weekends, but that's about it. Now most of my exercise consists of yardwork twice a week and general crap I clean, paint, repair, etc. around the house. I wish I had more time to take better care of myself. I'm up at 5:30 AM and I get home from work no earlier than 6:00 PM. Between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM, I'm usually engaged in some household task like cooking, cleaning, child-rearing, etc. I'm in bed by 10:00 PM so I can get up and do it all over again. If I can find a way to exercise in my sleep, I'd really be on to something!
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More CRAP from CHINA
by Nathan Natas inhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004479249_valve16.html.
chinese-made automobile tire valve stems are failing due to manufacturing defect.
as many as 70,000,000 may have been sold to the us.
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I try not to buy foriegn made stuff, when possilbe. But, most of the time, it's impossible to do so! My all-American Dodge Ram truck? Most, if not all of it was manufactured in Mexico and Canada. My Levis?? Made in Bangladesh or some damned place. The T-Shirt I'm wearing says Nike, but it's made in Taiwan. My shoes are New Balance, which I know were made in the US. I'm not even gonna guess where my socks and underwear where made! You can't buy a TV or a DVD player made in the US. You can't even buy groceries that were made here anymore! All of the fruits and vegetables are comming from Mexico or South America. That's why every summer we have another scare about some terrible disease emanating from imported produce. This year, Mexican tomatos are spreading salmonella. A couple of years ago, it was spinach spreading E. Coli. The year before that, it was green onions spreading whatever-the-hell it was spreading. I knew my parents where lying when they told me vegetables were good for me! Last year, it was contaminated wheat from China. Just why in the hell are we importing food from China, especially wheat??? Hellllooooo???? WTF?
As I type this on my Japanese-manufactured laptop, I just can't help but wonder just what in the hell we make here in America anymore. I know that even here where I work, we manufacture a product, but many of the parts we used come from other countries and not because of cost, it's because nobody in the USA makes the stuff we need anymore! We HAVE to buy crap from other places.
I think I'll just go home and commit suicide by eating a tube of contaminated, poisonous Chinese toothpaste.
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$10 gas
by JimmyPage inmy father-in-law heard from someone who has connections with the higher-ups that the society thinks gas will be $10 a gallon in january.
i'm "bookmarking" that statement on my calendar.
if january comes around and gas isn't $10 i'm going to remind him of "what the society said".
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The government can do little to nothing to reduce the price of oil, because the price of oil is determined by a middle-eastern terrorist organization by the name of OPEC. But the government can reduce the price of gasoline. They can eliminate federal gasoline taxes. That would take about 50 cents off of each gallon.
Oh, they can also let the oil companies drill for oil in the US, both on land and offshore, but that isn't an immedate fix because it will take time to drill for that oil. But that would kick OPEC in the balls. Maybe they'd play nice again if we told them that they can keep all their oil because we've got plenty of our own. Or, maybe they'd just sell it all to China. Either way, the price of oil isn't going to go down unless China and India decides that they don't need any more of it!
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I got shunned at Wal-Mart
by loosie inthis is actually hilarious to me.
i am not df'd or da'd.
i just haven't gone for 3 years.. this woman (sister) works at my daughters school.
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Personally, I wish everyone at Wal-Mart would shun me. I wish they would all just clear the aisle when they see me comming. Think how great a shopping experience that would be? Sadly, I know this will never happen to me. If it did, I would start shopping at Wal-Mart. I really hate Wal-Mart. It drives me nuts. I avoid it if at all possible.
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What is the one thing you will never give up no matter how hard times get?
by snarf inwith the talk of everyone trying to cut back and reevaluate their necessities due to the rising cost of products from gas to food, what is the one thing that will never go in your life...a "luxury"item that has wound itself so deeply in your soul you would be incomplete without it?.
my item is a daily frapuccino, those little devils are so delish that i can't even think of going a day without.
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There is one thing I promised myself that I would never give up when I was in my teens, and that one thing is air conditioning. I was 21 before I ever lived in a house with AC. I had a car without AC as well. In Georgia, that sucks! I am very spoiled now. Every vehicle I own must have AC cold enough to freeze meat and even though it is over 90 degrees outside, my house is 70 degrees right now. I will not have my house warmer than 72. Ever. I don't care how much the electric bill is.
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HOW to make a Woman Happy...
by zeroday inhow to make a woman happy.
it's not difficult to make a woman happy.
a man only needs to be:.
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That list is why there are so many divorces.
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Single? Do You Cook for Yourself?
by compound complex indear friends,.
as i cook away, preparing a hearty breakfast before the robust walkabout that awaits me, i recall an earlier conversation with a married friend whose wife prepares him beautiful meals.
if you're a single person, it's typical to throw something together hastily and eat it on the run.
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I cooked for myself when I was single, which was no biggie. When I was a single dad with a little one wandering around, cooking was more of a challenge. Now that I'm married, I still do a lot of the cooking. The trick to cooking when single or as a single parent is to prepare ahead. When you shop, buy everything you need for the week. Buy stuff you're actually going to make into a meal; just don't buy a bunch of unrelated items just because they're on sale. I would typically cook a couple of meals on Sunday and then store them in the fridge. That way I would have them ready if I couldn't cook. Preparing sauces, soups and stews in advance and freezing them is a good idea. I still do this with home-made marinara sauce. I make about a gallon at a time and freeze it in quart containers.
My best advice to single people who want to cook something edible is to buy the Betty Crocker Big Red Cookbook. Forget all about Emeril and Rachael Ray.... First of all, the food just plain sucks. Second, if you're going to cook any of the crap in their books, you'll need an unlimited expense account, a passport and a sherpa to locate all of the exotic ingredients required to churn out a trendy meal that even your dog won't eat. The Big Red Cookbook allows you to cook good food that normal people want to eat using normal readily available ingredients. My Big Red Cookbook looks like it's been to hell and back because I've used it so much. My wife has purchased many of the trendy popular cookbooks only to give up on them and default to the ol' reliable Betty Crocker book.