Sterling silver bracelet: $21.99
Cost to engrave (2 words/17 letters): $35!!!
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Sterling silver bracelet: $21.99
Cost to engrave (2 words/17 letters): $35!!!
Outback and Carabba's restaurants have both raised their prices, and are emphasizing cheaper stuff as their sides. Prices for some of the items at Carabba's went up about 8% and Outback about 10% or more.
I work in a large office building. Half of the units are empty right now. But that's not the scary thing...the units that are in use have very few people working in them. Big big offices with room for dozens if not hundreds of people, and some of them have like 5 people working at a time. There is a gigantic restaurant next door, it probably seats close to 1000 people (no joke, it's that big, I work in a big city)... the place it totally empty during lunchtime. It's kind of surreal.
dys
RE-flating the Fiat ...
My mother is 81 now, just went into a nursing home, I am her POA...
She had received some unemployment compensation benefits in 2007, and apparently never activated or used the debit card they gave her (probably forgot about it or thought it was junk mail).
Now the state she is in, is trolling through their old UC cards and figuring out who did not actually lay hands on the cash... and they are tracking people down via letter and basically asking them to take it - if they have bank info they will direct deposit it ASAP.
Interesting quote: "NOTE: If you have changed banks or closed your bank account since you last received benefits and owe money to the bank, if you do not contact us to suspend your direct deposit information, the payment may be kept by the bank."
Last month a bucket of 20 wings from the deli: $7.49
This month: $10
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Compared prices of Albertson's (conveniently across the street) and the Wal-Mart a few miles away. Albertson's is at least 30%-40% higher item-for-item. Adding insult to injury is Albertson's SELF CHECKOUT and never enough clerks available:
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Makes no sense...pay more and bag your own groceries.
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I went on a trip into some of the most rural and undeveloped area left in the lower 48 this week...
Everything is for sale...everything....property, both residential & commercial - also - farms, businesses and homesteads. I was really surprised at how much was on the market.
Businesses boarded - houses in the middle of nowhere vacated, burned and shuttered.
Land - all over the place and cheap. Still at 2 - 3 ounces per acre though - I'll be waiting another 6 months -1 year.
Thanks for the report. Waiting here too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rebel Yarr
At local WholeFoods, grilled chicken went from 7.88 to 9.99.
A local sushi place, all you can eat for 10.99 kind of thing, was previously packed, with a waiting line outside, esp. at the end of the week. Went yesterday, no line and plenty of seats. Not just at the bar but also tables which were impossible to get.
Local builder :
Unfortunately in my mind, they just tagged themselves as the "Kia" of home builders:
"Only $99 moves you in!"
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