Money Matters - Part 14

No prob if a couple of inches, but if 5 or 6 or more, it's a lot. Younger one is only 10.

Build those muscles!!!

And Dad should get off the couch insta of watching through he window :)

5-6" is nothing

My brothers kids did not shovel either or yard work - never could understand it - brother did it himself - i had my daughters help when they were growing up - i guess it is the new generation

All well and good, but it takes time to do that large an area. My wife needs to get out to go to work, especially on days she is at the hospital.

Oil delivery complete, I'm letting the tank settle before I crank up furnace. Owner of the company was out last month to repair furnace. Seems the previous company tech installed wrong nozzle and thus my fire box will need to be rebuilt come spring. I wonder how many newspapers I deliver each year to pay for switching out parts (even if wrong part!) on furnace and especially automobiles and then they still don't work right?

A good mechanic or repairman is worth their weight in gold and about as hard to find,

A shameless plea here to tip your newspaper carriers. So far, tips have covered 100 gals heating oil, two new car batteries and four tires, new ball joints and a muffler!

Card received from customer yesterday really touched me. It said

"Each day the newspaper appears, as if by magic,
But we know it isn't really magic --
it's your dedication
to all the customers on your route.
Thanks for the great job you do!"

Judy, the PaperGirl

From the UrbanSurvival site:



"We three kings of Central Banks are,

printing dough and spreading it far.

Profit-dreaming, always scheming,

Working late into the night..."

victor- salt well?? wonder how much snow can melt with 35$ worth of salt there. Why with so many out of work, is there not more labor around thus decreasing the cost of some things? supply/demand?

Our senior neighbor usually had his (very short) parking area already cleared while we were still sipping coffee and scratching our butts.

Yay for dedicated paper deliverers!!! My boys always appreciated the tips they got.

Consigned an old hooked rug. The buyers wanted it framed, so when the owner of the shop called me to ask if I would lower my price because they wanted to get it framed. I told her that we do framing. Anyway, we took the finished piece to the shop this afternoon and the owner was blown away by how great it looked!! She said the buyers will be VERY happy. So, we put two framed prints of Jeff's drawings in her shop. See if there is any interest. Word of mouth!!

Maybe you will get some more framing work out of it, too!

Hoping so, thanks

excellent, Jan!

Think tanks are saying that the local government could / should have gotten a lot more in licensing fees from the new casinos around here (MD, DC)
On the other hand, the casinos spent a whole lot of money in advertising before the vote. That money had to go to some businesses, and people working. In my mind , that's a good thing.
I still voted against the casinos and recently the new addition of table games.
No one had written a news piece discussing losses to businesses which had their customers lured away TO the fancy new places. Just like, no one ever wrote about how our biggest local mall became a dump after the good stores went to the even bigger newer mall ten minutes away (which now has a casino) . Location location...

Certain amount of money from new profits is required set aside for local benefit, offsetting the impact of development and traffic.. One proposal is a shuttle bus...from the airport to the casino... not that much use to local residents is it? and so it goes!

Geeze!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-21/delta-gets-22-000-applications-for-300-flight-attendant-jobs.html

Meanwhile our county still 'has to ' pay school staff more and more to keep good people, so they say

Nice bonuses. Taxpayers got billions in loss.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/workers-at-gm-ford-to-score-nice-bonuses-this-year-2012-12-21

those bonuses are not outragious - not like what the wall street crowd was/is getting.

Yes they are - they are LOSING taxpayer money bigtime. Though I was, and still am, against the Wall St. bailouts, ALL that $ has been paid back with interest. We lost billions on GM. Thousands of white collar workers lost their pensions and secured bondholders lost their $. It is a misnomer to even call it the GM or Chrysler bailout. It was a UAW bailout.

Depressing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-21/american-dream-fades-for-generation-y-professionals.html

thanks for the warning

GMA this morning said the average price to raise a kid is now at 235,000 from born to 17, the lower income 212,000. Welfare has to be reformed.

The new face of job security: http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/26/15907309-a-buyout-a-reorganization-and-the-new-face-of-job-security?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=2

What kind of bills do you get at Christmas time?

Answer: Jingle Bills!

If you line the entire world’s economists up – head-to-toe – and string them in a straight line, they still won’t reach a conclusion.

The inconsistencies in the wages are hard to take I expect.

haha coleup!

Jingle bills, jingle bils, .....

We got our statement for car insurance for the upcoming year, on Christmas eve. But Santa decided since our two young drivers have made it this far with no incidents, that we get a discount
YAY I DO beleive in Santa claus!!

:)

So after an encouraging Black Friday, holiday sales flopped. Lower than expected. Blamed on Sandy, the shooting and fiscal cliff. I think the main reason is continued 'reality check' regarding this crappy economy. Personal debt continues to be paid down. Too bad the idiots in DC can't do the same.

Not like it's real money...

"The Social Security program ran a $47.8 billion deficit in fiscal 2012 as the program brought in $725.429 billion in cash and paid $773.247 for benefits and overhead expenses, according to official data published by Social Security Administration."

Way to go, Sally's kids!!!

Dont spend money if you dont have it. Duh You can go off the finacial cliff, make people pay more taxes/ but it will come to an end. Quit spending.

GE executive retiring at 50, only getting paid until he is 60!

http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=20070798-8a86-41a8-8798-20414db90739

cripes

Yay Rudy
Read down to the mention of Giuliani
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perp_walk

Geeze! GE is one of the worst, yet are pet favorites. They paid NO taxes two years ago, keep shipping jobs overseas, yet their CEO heads up the admin's job council. What a disgrace.

So Congress, the VP and the judiciary just got a raise! Small, but they deserve a major CUT! NO raise until the budget is balanced, I say.

I sent an email to my Senators and Rep. saying I was okay with proposed cuts to SS, but ONLY IF they cut their own salaries and retirement benefits by the same amount.

Guess it didn't help...

@ Age 63 they should retire. Not be 89 years old & in a wheel chair, in the Senate. Good Grief.

Yes, I have always STRONGLY favored both term and AGE limits.