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Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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MinnieM123 said:
Hubs had other things he needed to do today, because the stores are all closed tomorrow, for the 4th holiday.

I had fun up in Rockport and enjoyed strolling around the shops, etc. One of my favorite things up there is looking at the sea glass jewelry they make--it's very unique.

The ocean and all the boats out there looked great on such a bright, sunny day--practically no clouds at all in the sky. Oh, and they had BENCHES all over the place--people were sitting in them, enjoying their day. chatting, drinking coffee, eating ice cream, etc. (Ahem! Disney!!! :cautious: )

The only thing I didn't like was that they raised the lobster roll prices to almost $20--summer holiday tourist gouging. :mad: Now, It wouldn't have been so bad, BUT heck--they're RIGHT NEXT to Gloucester--one of the East Coast's chief fishing areas. (Oh, remember the movie, The Perfect Storm. with Mark Wahlberg--well, the Andrea Gail fishing trawler was out of Gloucester.) So, literally 5 minutes down the road, is all the fish you could possibly need--it's not like they flew it across country! :banghead: My own supermarket makes delicious, fresh, lobster rolls for $6.99, and our local (family friendly, sit-down) restaurant charges about $10. So, instead, for lunch, I went to a little hole in the wall and got a hot dog, chips, and a soda for about $4.00. :hungry:
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HAH, we got exactly the same problem. PVR is a heavy touristic based town. And the they import ALL fish from outside areas and price gouge extremely.

Just mere 100Km away, there is a big fishery town. Where prawns are sold for mere cents a piece.
These are packaged, frozen, sent to a packaging company in Monterrey, Guadalajara or Mexico city, then resent back to my town (PVR) at a 1600% markup price (nearly 10 pesos per prawn compared to 50 cents on the source)

All the money is being funneled by crooked agents and distribution mega companies.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Welcome back @ajrwdwgirl . :) Can't wait to read about your trip. :)I am so far behind on this thread now. Will have lots of ketchup to do.

Had a community yard sale this weekend. I am so not equipped for these things.
Lady: " How much do you want for this?" (It was a kids skort.) I said $1(It was Gymboree.) She said, "I will give you $1 for both." (2 skorts). This was me. In my head I was thinking, "Are you kidding me? :banghead::banghead::banghead: It is Gymboree and in great shape". But what I said was "Sure, no problem." In the end I realized that I really didn't want to take the stuff home.

Today is also my 18th wedding anniversary! :):):)
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happy anniversary:joyfull::joyfull::joyfull::joyfull:
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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MinnieM123 said:
Hubs had other things he needed to do today, because the stores are all closed tomorrow, for the 4th holiday.

I had fun up in Rockport and enjoyed strolling around the shops, etc. One of my favorite things up there is looking at the sea glass jewelry they make--it's very unique.

The ocean and all the boats out there looked great on such a bright, sunny day--practically no clouds at all in the sky. Oh, and they had BENCHES all over the place--people were sitting in them, enjoying their day. chatting, drinking coffee, eating ice cream, etc. (Ahem! Disney!!! :cautious: )

The only thing I didn't like was that they raised the lobster roll prices to almost $20--summer holiday tourist gouging. :mad: Now, It wouldn't have been so bad, BUT heck--they're RIGHT NEXT to Gloucester--one of the East Coast's chief fishing areas. (Oh, remember the movie, The Perfect Storm. with Mark Wahlberg--well, the Andrea Gail fishing trawler was out of Gloucester.) So, literally 5 minutes down the road, is all the fish you could possibly need--it's not like they flew it across country! :banghead: My own supermarket makes delicious, fresh, lobster rolls for $6.99, and our local (family friendly, sit-down) restaurant charges about $10. So, instead, for lunch, I went to a little hole in the wall and got a hot dog, chips, and a soda for about $4.00. :hungry:
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I seriously thought about driving over to my favorite state park today but it's closed:mad::mad::mad: I was going to drop the boy's at my MIL's and get them back Wednesday morning. Stupid decision to close during the busiest period. Nuff said
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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DisneyBound2017 said:
We just donate everything now because even when we priced super low everyone needed to haggle. Less stress this way and our stuff goes to someone in need.
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That's what we do, too. There's a doctor here who goes to an orphanage in Romania a couple of times a year to do checkups on the kids and he brings a truck load of donations...clothes, toys, etc. So we have given most of the kids' things to them. And I have a friend from Sri Lanka whose friend back home works at a home for children with severe handicaps. She said they are always running out of clothes because most of them need to change clothes several times a day...they can't really feed themselves or care for themselves, so their clothes get soiled and they need to be changed. So I've given some of the older things that aren't in the best shape to my friend when she goes home and she delivers it. It gets it out of my kids' closets, I don't have to store it, and they really need it. Everybody wins.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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ajrwdwgirl said:
My neighbor across the street, the one shooting off fireworks last night, is now blasting his heavy metal music. He is playing it in his house and I can hear it clearly across the street. To make a fuss or not.....I will probably go with not because I dislike confrontations and my dog barks at them a lot and they don't complain. Still....:mad:
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I know how fireworks is with the Neighbors.

Some Neighbor has been shooting off Fireworks at night for the last week at least. One year, pieces of a firework landed in yard:mad:. Thankfully, a fire didn't happen.
 
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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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MinnieM123 said:
Hubs had other things he needed to do today, because the stores are all closed tomorrow, for the 4th holiday.

I had fun up in Rockport and enjoyed strolling around the shops, etc. One of my favorite things up there is looking at the sea glass jewelry they make--it's very unique.

The ocean and all the boats out there looked great on such a bright, sunny day--practically no clouds at all in the sky. Oh, and they had BENCHES all over the place--people were sitting in them, enjoying their day. chatting, drinking coffee, eating ice cream, etc. (Ahem! Disney!!! :cautious: )

The only thing I didn't like was that they raised the lobster roll prices to almost $20--summer holiday tourist gouging. :mad: Now, It wouldn't have been so bad, BUT heck--they're RIGHT NEXT to Gloucester--one of the East Coast's chief fishing areas. (Oh, remember the movie, The Perfect Storm. with Mark Wahlberg--well, the Andrea Gail fishing trawler was out of Gloucester.) So, literally 5 minutes down the road, is all the fish you could possibly need--it's not like they flew it across country! :banghead: My own supermarket makes delicious, fresh, lobster rolls for $6.99, and our local (family friendly, sit-down) restaurant charges about $10. So, instead, for lunch, I went to a little hole in the wall and got a hot dog, chips, and a soda for about $4.00. :hungry:
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Sounds like a nice day, especially the part about the benches. Too bad about the lobster roll price but personally I would have liked the hot dog better.
But I do not care for lobster.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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MinnieM123 said:
@ajrwdwgirl , before I forget, I read yesterday that the 4th of July concert and fireworks from the Boston Esplanade will be telecast in full (not the truncated version like years ago) starting at 8:00 PM (Eastern) on Bloomberg TV.

Not sure how Bloomberg got this, but they're going to telecast the entire concert, including the full version of the 1812 Overture (complete with the Army howitzers and church bells from Beacon Hill). They're also going to stream it on computers/tablets. Just thought I'd pass that along. Out in your area of the country, I don't know what time they'll broadcast it, but just passing this along.
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Cool, I don't know if we get that channel hubby is checking now. He found it and set the DVR to record the Pops special. Thanks so much for letting me know!
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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MinnieM123 said:
First of all, Happy Anniversary!!! :happy: And I wish you and your hubs many more.

I did a yard sale once--back when my parents passed away and we had to clear out the house so it could be sold. The advice I got from a neighbor was to put a fair (low/medium) price, but not to GIVE it away. If you're going to all the trouble of getting things organized, priced, etc., you might as well get some money out of it. We certainly did bargain with people and that was fine, but we also stuck to our guns on a few items--and we got what we asked for. We pulled in close to $900 that day.
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figmentfan423 said:
happy anniversary:joyfull::joyfull::joyfull::joyfull:
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Thanks for the anniversary wishes!
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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wdwfan4ver said:
I know how fireworks is with the Neighbors.

Some Neighbor has been shooting off Fireworks at night for the last week at least. One year, pieces of the a firework landed in yard:mad:. Thankfully, a fire didn't happen.
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We had pieces in our yard one year. I gathered them up in the morning when the dog and I went for a walk and put them on their yard in a little pile.
 

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