Posted on 02/05/2018 9:28:04 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
No they don’t have to. I’ve been what you would call “poor”. Never took a high interest loan. Ever.
First loan I ever took was when I had earned enough for long enough to get good terms.
I’ll correct your statement: A dumb person, out of money, chooses to take a high interest loan. High risk = high interest, as it should.
Dude, Dollar General is good for a quick run for milk, soda, chips, beer if they sell it. I wouldn’t shop there for anything else. The dairy products at a dollar general near me is good, up to day and the same prices as grocery stores.
I know! And when they bounce a check they get the OD fee which is $30 here and sometimes the place that received the check levy a charge because the bank charges them fees when they have a bad check.
So they could write a $5 check and end up owing $60 bucks.
Back in our really poor days we had a grocery store who cashed checks. They only made a deposit on Thursday, so you could write a check on Friday knowing you didn’t have enough in the bank and you had until Thursday to get itcovered.
Thank you!
You actually buy doggy-poop bags?
I just use old plastic grocery bags.
If I run out I grab another handful from the bag-recycle bin at the grocery store.
FWIW, most of the stuff at “Dollar” General isn’t a dollar. I look for a Dollar Tree first — every thing is indeed a dollar.
“Smart people shop...wouldn’t know a Wegman’s or Whole Foods.”
I do a good part of the family food shopping and I shop a lot at “Grocery Outlet Bargain Market” I save about 50% over Safeway on average. I’ve been doing this for probably 10 - 15 years so I know what prices are a good deal. I guess you could call me a cheapskate but Social Insecurity doesn’t pay a lot.
They have stores in stores in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Pennsylvania. And, no, I’m not involved with this business in any way except as a good customer.
I hope they mop their floors regularly.
I had to buy food for a several day trip for 30 plus people. Sam’s and Aldi for most of it. I found myself in PA on business and found a grocery outlet type store.
I ended up getting at least two meals for 30 people and a whole slew of snack stuff for under $50.
I don’t have to shop cheap. I choose to shop cheap.
Doggie poop bags?!? There’s a market for poop bags????? Just recycle the billion plastic bags that would normally go into your trash - bread bag, frozen peas, produce bag, etc. Every time I come in from the grocery store or Walmart, I sit down and separate the plastic bags with holes for the desk or bathroom trash cans and the ones without holes for the kitty litter.
I also re-use the square plastic cat treat and peanut containers (they’re the same container!) as kitchen canisters for flour, cornmeal, rice, beans, etc. They stack neatly and I can see what’s inside without having to open them.
In the old days, we had a bent can store. Most times the canned goods didn’t have a label but for a dime you could certain take your chances. After a while, you could guess what was inside by shaking.
We also had a store that would put out their older bread and not so pretty produce or soon to expire processed foods outside on a table to take for free. Of course, we can’t have that now and it all goes into the dumpster.
All the waste today is shameful.
As you were!
Good for you!
It’s crazy how many people buy the labels and pay double the cost of an off brand product while the chances are they both went down the same conveyor belt. The store I mentioned prints the amount you saved right under the price you paid. I have saved literally thousands of dollars over the years.
“There’s a market for poop bags?????”
I know. Sounds kinda silly, doesn’t it. I used to laugh at people that had those little dispensers attached to the leash. Now, I’m a believer.
Grocery bags are great for dog poop, but we just don’t bring enough into the house to handle our little Poop Meisters. The little guys poop minimum 2 times a day. At least one of them will poop twice, maybe 3 times in one outing.
At the Dollar Store, we discovered a little plastic poop bag dispenser that attaches to the dog leash handle. You just pull a bag out of the dispenser’s slot when it’s time to clean up. The dispenser was $1.00 (2 rolls of bags included). Additional 4-roll bags (80 bags) are $1.00. We buy 4 or 5 bags worth at a time for $4-5.00 (320-400 bags). The Dollar Store is right next to Petsmart where the same product is 3 or 4 TIMES the DS price! We wouldn’t be doing it this way if we had to purchase the poop bags at Petsmart. The DS price is reasonable for the convenience, and there’s always a bag with the dog leashes (as long as we remember to refill the dispenser when a roll is finished).
As for the cat...I saved a bunch of the 5 gallon plastic kitty litter pails and use one of those with a trash bag liner for the daily scooping of Her Majesty’s treasure. I scoop her leavings, drop it in the bagged pail, and then snap the top on the pail. I keep the scoop in the pail also. It’s pretty much odor free after the top’s snapped back in place. When the pail is full, I tie off the garbage bag, carry the pail outside, and dump the bag in the trash can. A new liner goes in the pail and we’re back in business.
Heh heh heh!
Part of the reason, anyway.....A lot of the reason. My experience as a loss prevention exec. has been 2% loss in theft, coupled with everything else= a store failing.
>>Grocery bags are great for dog poop, but we just don’t bring enough into the house to handle our little Poop Meisters. The little guys poop minimum 2 times a day. At least one of them will poop twice, maybe 3 times in one outing.<<
When the nonsense to which you allude first gained popularity I told all my relatives and friends that when otherwise sane men walk the streets with bags of dog poop in their hands it’s is a clear sign to me that western civilization is headed straight into the crapper.
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