Tick Tock
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A little bit, yeah. Thought it was my wifi connection at first.
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Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?
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JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I clicked.
MOXOMUMD
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Extremely!
trr1
Well-Known Member
October 11th
- National Sausage Pizza Day
- National Coming Out Day
- General Pulaski Memorial Day
- National Fossil Day – On Wednesday of Second Full Week in October
- National Emergency Nurse’s Day – Second Wednesday in October
- National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day – Second Wednesday in October
- National Stop Bullying Day – Second Wednesday in October
- National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day – Changes Annually (Tentative 2017 date)
But everyone loves me, so at least I have a good support system for when we get into an argument.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Sad.
Kind of hard to keep employees happy when full-timers are making less than $10/hour, and don't get a pay raise. Or when your part-time employees are making $7.25 with no pay raise.Sad.
MinnieM123
Premium Member
After four or five years of having a heated mattress pad, this year I switched to an electric blanket. Dual controlled, of course.
Okay Winter, I’m ready. (Not really, but you know what I mean.)
Holly seems to like it too.
You know I always chuckle over your aversion to cold, and your attempts to circumvent it. But this time I actually think you have a good idea -- because it makes Holly a happy little critter, all cuddly and warm in your electric blanket!
Goofyernmost
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If it makes you feel any better JC Penny, Macy's, Kohl's and Nordstrom have all been cutting back drastically. In fact, JC is as much on the edge as Sears was/is! Since the middle class is disappearing there is only room for very high end prestige stores and Walmart/Target.Sadly, this is probably true. The difference is, you guys have a dozen other department store chains - JC Penney, Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Kohl’s, Tar-jay, Nordstrom ....
While ones and twos of those stores are slowly drifting into Toronto, most regular city malls will now be totally without a large anchor department store.
When I first got married if Sears hadn't existed we wouldn't have had anything. Furniture, hardware, tools, appliances, shoes everything purchased with the handy dandy Sears Card (which I still have, but haven't used in 20 years). Even auto repair. I still purchase the occasional item from Sears, but not with that card anymore, it probably doesn't even work. There was a time that it was imperative to our survival to have a Sears available. Years ago when my business failed and I had to file for Bankruptcy, one could chose a few things things to exclude for the Bankruptcy action. I chose my mortgage on my house, GMAC that financed my cars and the Sears Card.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Well then, I am clearly “middle class”. I love Macy’s, Sears, and the BonTon; hate WalMart and TarJay; can’t afford Nordstrom and Lord & Taylor.
Goofyernmost
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That came with the big box love affair. I'm old, so I remember the early times when "downtown" was the hub of all activity. But that involved finding a parking space and walking all over the get to the store you wanted. Then, in response to that problem, strip malls became the thing. They were everywhere, free parking and every store that one could possibly want is right there in a straight line. (some stores even connected), which brought life to Malls. Free parking, all indoors, easy and convenient and all temperature controlled. Then they became a very expensive place. You paid for all the convenience because rents were high and merchants had to charge more to pay the bills. So, along came Big Box Stores which are just a downtown shopping district with a thyroid problem causing them to be huge. The problem is that they even have less choice the original downtown did, because they found that they could fill a 50 foot wall with one item and no one seemed to notice. I did, there was less to buy in those stores (variety wise) then in the small mom and pops. That's why I am so fond of saying that, as a society, we grow dumber and dumber by the minute.
The other phenomena that I have noticed is places like Home Depot. Before those big box stores ever existed, where did everyone get the home building needs? They got them from lumber yards and hardware stores. Smaller more efficient and friendlier. The part that amazes me are the numbers of people that are in those stores at any given time. There were never crowds like that in the old hardware stores. Did people just not buy things back then or is this some weird parallel universe thing.
Goofyernmost
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Who said you weren't! Not enough of you to go around though.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Sadly, there is plenty of me to go around right now. I blame DDP.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Everything old is new again. When I was 7 or 8, I used to ride a bike that looked an awful lot like this new one I just bought. Back then, all I wanted was a 10-speed. Now, I have a 10-speed, but all I really want is an old lady Cruiser.
Not pictured is the shiny white bell, which apparently is required by City Ordinance. Sadly, I couldn’t find exactly the right basket, so if you draw my name for Christmas this year ... hint, hint.
Not pictured is the shiny white bell, which apparently is required by City Ordinance. Sadly, I couldn’t find exactly the right basket, so if you draw my name for Christmas this year ... hint, hint.