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@guysmom wrote:
You gave me a good chuckle! Thanks!!@jrj76 wrote:
All I've learned from this is that there are still people buying iceberg lettuce.... Why?
Anyhow, as to why, I can only speak for myself, but the cost does weigh into it. Plus, I usually only use it as a topper on burgers and such, so a head lasts a long time, and if I purchase one of the more expensive types of lettuce, and it goes bad, well....that's more money wasted than if half a head of iceberg goes bad. Any-hoo, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!
Just something to consider.
Buy your iceberg lettuce by weight not size. Larger, loosely grown heads look like you're getting more, but smaller, tightly grown heads have more lettuce on them. You can either judge by picking them up or use the scales in the produce department.
This might also work for other "head" type lettuce and even the packages of three romaine lettuces.
@LindaM wrote:
Speaking like the ppl who hoard all the toilet paper during the start of pandemic… always me me me first.
Me me me first is the only system that works.
Not really. Obviously.
@panama18 wrote:
@LindaM wrote:
Speaking like the ppl who hoard all the toilet paper during the start of pandemic… always me me me first.
Me me me first is the only system that works.
So you prefer Us us us first? Them them them maybe?
@LindaM wrote:
Not really. Obviously.
@panama18 wrote:
@LindaM wrote:
Speaking like the ppl who hoard all the toilet paper during the start of pandemic… always me me me first.
Me me me first is the only system that works.
@jrj76 wrote:
All I've learned from this is that there are still people buying iceberg lettuce.... Why?
I also can't believe anyone eats iceberg lettuce.
I drive a CRV. When I bought my new car in 2019, the cost to fill up was around $25. This morning, even with the per gallon price going down slightly in the past few days, the cost to fill was over $40. I hope people wake up by midterms.
Guilty!!@tstewart3 wrote:
I also can't believe anyone eats iceberg lettuce.
now you’re just being purposely obtuse.
@panama18 wrote:
So you prefer Us us us first? Them them them maybe?
@LindaM wrote:
Not really. Obviously.
@panama18 wrote:
@LindaM wrote:
Speaking like the ppl who hoard all the toilet paper during the start of pandemic… always me me me first.
Me me me first is the only system that works.
If you complain about high gas prices, either your car is too big or you are driving too much (or both). My little car is driven less than 5,000 miles a year. I realize some people do route shopping, but shouldn't you factor fuel costs into your route pay?
@FrugalCat wrote:
If you complain about high gas prices, either your car is too big or you are driving too much (or both). My little car is driven less than 5,000 miles a year. I realize some people do route shopping, but shouldn't you factor fuel costs into your route pay?
I figure my gas costs and driving time into shops far from home or on routes. I have to believe others do too. I would never take a shop where I'm driving 100 miles round trip with $15 worth of gas without considering the costs. Oh, and tolls also.
It just IS.
I have no reason to state an untruth here. I went to the store to get lettuce and bread (I happen to like lettuce on my sandwiches), and decided to get neither one. Lettuce was exactly $6.45.
The nearest Walmart is 45 miles away -- and gas there and back would be significantly more than $6.45.
I just did without.
It's what frugal people do.
Honest.
_
I have no reason to state an untruth here. I went to the store to get lettuce and bread (I happen to like lettuce on my sandwiches), and decided to get neither one. Lettuce was exactly $6.45.
The nearest Walmart is 45 miles away -- and gas there and back would be significantly more than $6.45.
I just did without.
It's what frugal people do.
Honest.
_
@HonnyBrown wrote:
How is a head of lettuce $6?
I have cut down on my mystery shopping due to the price of gas as well. Living in Southern California, in a pretty rural area, it just does not make sense unless I have errands to run or can make a decent route. Gas has gone down just a tiny bit in the last week. I fear the days of $2.45/gallon are over. BTW, I am moving to Idaho in May and have lived in California my whole life. I feel nothing but happiness.
I love iceberg lettuce. When I was a kid it was the only kind out there. My mom would cut the whole head into slices, one slice per plate, then sprinkle the slices with lemon juice or Italian dressing. Topping with fresh tomatoes from the garden made this a heavenly snack.
Lettuce is the absolutely easiest thing to grow. I have a couple of low planters that I keep a crop of leaf lettuce growing year-round. With a pair of scissors I just snip off what I need for a burger or sandwich, it grows back almost overnight. Organic and $1.50 for a pack of seeds that lasts a year.
Great idea, Kate, except my landlord won't let me have planters or any sort of garden.
Also, nothing better than home grown tomatoes....
Also, nothing better than home grown tomatoes....
As a practical matter, we can't have anything useful here. Either the wanted item will block egress or fail to thrive in the worst growing conditions-- where they are relegated due to the egress issue. I have empty planters that will need new homes and a heart that aches for real, live, green, growing things. I still have houseplants. This is good.
@ceasesmith wrote:
.... my landlord won't let me have planters or any sort of garden.
Bach is not noise, Madam. (Robert, in Two's Company)
5000 a year is below average, most people do about 1000 miles a month and its not always practical for people to get a smaller car - if you have a family and/or have to load a kid in a car seat, sometimes a slightly roomier car makes more sense. I think the biggest issue with the gas prices is that it starts to raise prices on everything else, and that's where a lot of people feel squeezed, and we've been conditioned to @#$%& about "gas prices" in this country, so that's what we hear the most.
Sometimes I ask for a bonus and sometimes I don't. I just got a $5 bonus on a shop that usually pays $10. I did not tell the scheduler why I was asking for a bonus.
I did a drive-by (not quite, but close) mortgage inspection with 4 photographs. I would probably have done it for the $10 offered since I was driving by anyway, but I asked for an extra $4.96 as an inducement to get me to do it. It was approved.
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