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To: miss marmelstein
*** Now I have 12 years of 100 watts stored in my garage for no good reason! Grrrr....I hate government! ***

All is not lost for you. There is a bright side [pun intended ;-)]. With all the bulbs you now have you've beat inflation. Even with 100 watt bulbs staying on the shelves you know that prices will still keep going up on them. But not for you.

It's like the 'Forever Stamps' the Post Office started selling when they were $0.37 each, I bought 300 of them. With the minimal amount of mailing I do -- not even one a month now -- they should last me 'forever' also. Heck, I don't even know what a 1st Class Stamp costs today, nor do I care as I'm set.

So just look at it from a cost savings stand point :-)

40 posted on 12/16/2011 5:59:42 AM PST by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: Condor51

Thank you for that bit of cheering-up. I was beginning to feel like a real dupe (or dope?) for buying those damn bulbs. At least they will go to use - unlike most of my “forever” stamps!


45 posted on 12/16/2011 6:04:17 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Still heartless after all these years...)
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To: Condor51
Heck, I don't even know what a 1st Class Stamp costs today, nor do I care as I'm set.

Until the U.S.P.S. goes out of business and Fedex won't accept your stamps.

51 posted on 12/16/2011 6:10:53 AM PST by Graybeard58 (No Obama, No Romney, No Paul, No Huntsman. We can do better than that!)
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To: Condor51

Those 100 watt bulbs would look great as string of Christmas lights on the outside of a house. ;-)


59 posted on 12/16/2011 6:19:33 AM PST by almost done by half
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To: Condor51

A 1st Class stamp is 44 cents now, as are all current “forever” stamps. But they are going up again in February. So, every time I go to the P.O., I buy a couple hundred more stamps.

I have to hurry up and use up last year’s Christmas stamps (the angel with the lute), because they were NOT “forever”. My husband was hospsitalized last Christmas, and I never got the cards out.


89 posted on 12/16/2011 7:40:38 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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