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04/16/2017 at 11:29 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 306: We Love Flea Markets and Craigslist #16662
This week I sold only 38 items compared to last week’s 57 sales. I think we had a double whammy with a holiday week the same week that taxes are due. Almost all of my sales have been low priced, but they do add up just the same. Looking forward to listening to the podcast!
04/14/2017 at 11:28 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16620I believe all of us living in American “hit the jackpot” when I see how high our standard of living is. Yes, there are other countries that are great, but some are literally hell on earth. Our average welfare/food stamp recipient lives much better than the average person in the rest of the world.
And I can’t argue with anyone who wishes to spend their money on “experiences” rather than “stuff”. When I was growing up vacations were a rare driving trip to visit relatives with maybe an overnight stay at the roadside motel along Route 66. Today’s kids have grown up used to frequent trips to resorts like Disney World, “class trips” to Europe, and being constantly shuttled from one expensive activity to another by doting soccer moms.
The way to tell whether you are spending too much on “stuff” is how well you take care of it. If you have so much stuff your home is becoming cluttered and dirty, you probably have too much. If you have more stuff than you can fit into your home so that you can’t even park the car in the garage or you are paying rent on a storage locker for the overflow, you definitely have too much.
04/12/2017 at 11:52 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16541I can’t wait to hear you and Ryanne harmonizing on “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” on a podcast. 😊
04/12/2017 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16540When my Mom died my brother and I were overwhelmed, being left with my Dad who had full blown Alzheimer’s. He wouldn’t move in with either of us and was combative. Sad for a dignified man who was a proud veteran of WWII and had met all the early astronauts shown in “The Right Stuff” when he worked at MacDonnell’s (now Boeing). We ended up admitting him to an Alzheimer’s unit and just giving away the whole house full of whatever neither of us wanted, which was most of it. We had to sell the house to pay for his care. Life is difficult, to quote the first paragraph of The Road Less Traveled.
04/12/2017 at 11:33 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16539Jay, that isn’t the way I remember the 60’s. No house until my parents bought a small bungalo with no air conditioning in 1964. We had one car. On stifling hot days my mom would drive my little brother and me to the airport and we would sit in the terminal and watch planes take off and land so we could enjoy the air conditioning. The only time we got new clothes was Christmas, birthdays and when school started each year. College was an impossibilty. I never even heard of student loans. If we didn’t have the cash we did without. Got my R.N. degree as an adult after my youngest child started elementary school. In high school I earned 50 cents an hour babysitting and ten dollars per article I wrote for the local paper. My first real job as a secretary paid $360 per month.
Here is the big difference between the “good old days” and now. Credit cards were rare to non-existent. You could run up debt at individual stores, even the grocery store, or on your car or mortgage. But you couldn’t use a swipe of plastic to buy anything.
As for college; most people didn’t go. But my high school education taught me more than today’s typical college graduate knows. That includes history, geography, civics, grammar, reading, etc. I am astounded at the ignorance of young college grads today. No wonder they can’t get a job.
04/10/2017 at 12:06 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16331Ryanne, it isn’t that we baby boomers were richer than your generation–we were also broke when we were young–we have just had more time to collect stuff. LOL
04/10/2017 at 12:02 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16330How the heck did you find them for $1 each? That’s so awesome, Liz. Good for you!!!
I want a ticket to the Tara Jacobsen Tour–so funny and true!
Remeber when that topic came up. I spent some time changing keywords without noticing any bump at all. Seems like we all came to the same conclusion and forgot about it. I won’t waste ky time on it agan unless there is some real discovery we didn’t find before.
04/05/2017 at 9:04 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #16088Thanks so much Mike. I was hoping to hear from you. I looked closer with a loup and realized it isn’t an actual photo–probably pre-photography era. What do you call those realistic looking black and white drawings they used in old newspapers? It looks like very realistic drawings made of the tiniest little lines. I’m so clueless. Probably Ryanne knows, too, with her art background. All I can think of is lithograph? But it looks so like a photo. The signature is large and gorgeous, and not a dot matrix but real writing, “Yours truly, Henry Wells”. It may be the front page out of a book–pretty large. I should figure out how to post a imgur thingy so you can see it.
04/05/2017 at 1:08 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #16038I jst took the advice I would give anyone else and Googled it. Will get back to you if I learn anything.
04/05/2017 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #16035I found something interesting while taking photos of my pile of antique photos. It looks like I have a signed photo of Henry Wells, the founder of Wells Fargo and American Express. Now I’m wondering how the heck I research the value on that. I see that someone has a scrap of paper with his signature on Ebay for $450 (which actually looks just like the beautiful signature on my photo), but that isn’t much to go on. Where does one find an historical ephemera appraiser?
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04/05/2017 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #16033Glad I could provide some mental stimulation for you all. There will always be the conflict between whether or not complete healthcare is a “right” vs opportunity and whether the government should be in the healthcare business vs personal responsibilty with charitable help for those incapable of being responsible. It is a complicated dilemma no doubt.
My point, however, was that not every sad story you read presents the whole story. I tend to want more information when I smell something fishy. But I’m from the Show Me State. 🙂
“BElieve only half of what you see, and none of what you hear.” ~ edgar Allen Poe
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04/04/2017 at 11:00 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #15924That’s so smart of you. I have a limit on thrifting too–once a week. List 5 days/week. That’s works well so far. I’m loving seeing the “piles” go away. They are a mental weight.
04/04/2017 at 9:08 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #15912If she couldn’t afford Cobra why didn’t she sign up for obamacare–did she prefer to pay the annual $2600 penalty for having no insurance? Why didn’t she sign ip for Medicaid? And if she chose not to do any of the above, what grounds did she have to sue anyone? I was in the insurance business for years as a nurse case manager. It isn’t hard to look up charge codes. It is, however, rediculous to demand a list of every single charge for each of the hundreds of items and services required for a surgery alone, along with trying to explain to a nonmedical person what each item/service actually means.
It sounds like typical lawyer greed-induced litigation to get a big settlement out of a hospital. And any hospital will negotiate discount prices for people who pay out of pocket–it costs the hospital so much less when people pay directly since gov’t standardized payments are hugely discounted. Sounds like more fake news to me–not that the NT Times has ever been guilty of that.
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