The change thing seems legit I've seen signs at Chick-Fil-A and my son works at a restaurant chain. . . they've been buying my wife's hoarded change recently.
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The change thing seems legit I've seen signs at Chick-Fil-A and my son works at a restaurant chain. . . they've been buying my wife's hoarded change recently.
Getting high on cough syrup to escape reality is not the answer......Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
Ramen, the poor man?s MRE, will keep for years, and only need hot water to prepare it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Holger Danske
Tons of ramen available at the commissary or the Asia-Pacific Mart at Platte and Wooten. Of course, the Asia-Pacific Mart tends to be a little more expensive but it's also better grade ramen/ramyun/mein/udon/etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Holger Danske
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Originally Posted by TRnCO
How old were these?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gman
Ours is going on 2 years and still seems OK. Repair guy I talked to before buying said the new compressor redesign wasn't seeing the same failure rate the old one did. Same guy said pass on Samsung as they can't get parts.
I don't usually get them, but got a 5 year extra warranty from HD when we bought the fridge. Then LG extended the compressor warranty (parts only?) to 10 years. DW has been repaired twice now. Faulty (redesigned) door latch/sensor, and failed water tube to upper deck. Range repaired once for a broken (plastic) oven knob shaft.
Our 20 year old Kenmore/Whirlpool is still doing duty as the beer fridge.
Only way to stop coughing. The albuterol and tessalon perles helped too. You don't get high off of tussin.Quote:
Originally Posted by SideShow Bob
1 to 2 year older prepaid phones.
Difficult to find.
Our fridge was coming up on 6 years, and yes it had the "Linear" compressor that the owner of Mr. Appliance described as being "nothing more than good as a boat anchor." The newer compressor isn't the same compressor as it's a known issue for LG. We had to buy a new PCB/power control board also and apparently this new system runs on a variable speed control and ramps up and down, instead of OFF or ON. Time will tell if it lasts any longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
One of my wife's close girl friends also had her LG fridge quit at about the same time ours did, also with the Linear compressor. Weird thing is she got warranty service completed in less then 2 weeks, where we couldn't even get an "authorization letter" from LG so that Mr. Appliance could order the parts.
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Originally Posted by Gman
You guys are no better. "I saw some signs.. must be true." Did you take the time to talk with someone about it? Ask the manager maybe? I have where ever I can and no one seems to have an answer beyond "that is what we were told, but we still have plenty of change".Quote:
Originally Posted by kidicarus13
That may be the first real example of a coin shortage I have heard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramsker
Having the mint shut down for awhile is the only reason that connects to a coin shortage. The excuse that people have been staying home is reducing the transfer of change doesn't click for me. Maybe someone else can help me understand this. If the majority of people were to suddenly reduce their purchases, pay mostly be credit to avoid handling diseased money, … this should result in coins languishing from non-use, essentially a reduction in the coin requests for businesses, as no one was using them. Not a shortage.
I couldn't care less if this is an actual or contrived shortage, just get me my roast beef sandwich and throw some Arby's sauce in the bag please.Quote:
Originally Posted by clodhopper
I should empty out a few junk drawers, I could solve this coin shortage.
^ how about we all do just that and start a new thread with the tally for how much we collectively put back into circulation when deposited at the bank?
I'm sure I have more than 100 dollars in coins at home... albeit we try to take a large container of them to the bank every year or two for counting/deposit... it's still likely pushing $150 if I had to guestimate.
Everyone knows the coin shortage was a made up thing to save us all from the Covid. It?s way safer handing credit cards back and forth than cash.
I save mine in a plastic Folgers coffee container. At half full with an average mix of coins I usually wind up with somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $75. There's always more there than what I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sawin
Sam's on 470 & Quebec did have canned green beans.
But was also completely wiped (no pun intended . . . or IS there??) clean of TP and paper towels. There were stacks of them on Saturday.
Vitamin C was missing for a while at a couple places I frequent. Same for Loperamide HCI. The Vitamin C is still spotty. Co Q10 is similar. The Loperamide HCI is back but only in 25 count bubble packs at a correspondingly higher price, the 100 count bottles have been unavailable for months.
We have probably 500+ packets of liquid albuterol. The stuff that goes in a nebulizer. Each one is maybe 5 doses.Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
I think the sign was talking about the inhalers. I'm sure my cough was getting worse due to fire smoke. I'm on my fourth inhaler this year. I never had a cough like this until COVID-19 infection. I can't imagine having asthma and COVID-19.Quote:
Originally Posted by izzy
The liquid ones are the same stuff just meant for ease of use so you can give it to kids. He used it a bunch when it got really smokey.
My wife and I went to Kaiser for the Extra Strength Flu Vaccine.
None at Southwest. No one knew where there might be some doses.
When we asked at Reception, the Pharmacy, and the Nurse's Station, no one knew if they would be getting any more or when.
Went to Ken Caryl and got two of the few they had left.
They had a small cooler and when she looked in it, she just shook her head and said that was the last of it.
There were still regular vaccine shots left.
Normally, I am in your camp. However, with all the govt intrusion/orders lately, I have gotten more sensitive to the contrived social engineering that is being pushed on us.Quote:
Originally Posted by kidicarus13
Same goes with coinstars.
The signs on Walmart coinstar had those coin shortage signs.
Mine was about 4 years old.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
It is what it is. If you don't like the information we shared, you get a full refund for what you paid for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by clodhopper
In other words, you'll get nothing and like it, mister.
We turned in $195.23 in coins from our change jar before the move. Didn't know about the shortage that may or may not be real at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sawin
Guy at the bank friday had who knows how many rolls of coins he was handing in for paper. I heard her count out 16 - $100 bills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gman
Out here i ask if they would like change. Everyone just looks and says. No we're good, thanks.
Fry's( Kings in CO) tried telling me , last month, or was it the month b4? Anyway .
Sorry, exact change , as they could not give any coins back. I asked for a gift card and the cashier got the deer in the headlights look. OR i could buy something else and owe you. How's that sound?
The mints were running at reduced capacity in spring and early summer but ramped back up around July.
The Gov specifically said they were allocating coin distribution. A fancy word for rationing what they sent out to banks.
https://www.frbservices.org/news/com...ventories.html
Nacho Cheese and Chili at the C stores. I miss chili cheese dogs.
I missed this thread when it happened but wanted to comment on the coin shortage. I went to my credit union and asked them what the deal was. Mostly because I had heard that some banks were paying for change. They basically said that since they don't really deal with business accounts, it hasn't effected them, but big banks like Wells Fargo had issues. I know, not very helpful info. For all the times I heard about a coin shortage, I never once heard anything, or saw any articles asking people to dig through their drawers and couches to find coins to turn in to banks to help out. That's what I thought was the most odd. Seems like a pretty simple thing that the public could do to help, but it wasn't even asked.
I do believe there is some level of a shortage.
That said, there is a profit incentive for things like drive-throughs to tell people there is a shortage, and they can't give change. For 90% of drivers, the drive through just increased their profit margin by an average of around 5-10%. That's a ton. I know one drive through has even been sued over this. At any rate, even when the "shortage" ends, I look for some unscrupulous owners to keep saying it hasn't.
I don't see how they could be increasing their profit margins, as it costs money to process credit cards, and I bet more people would pay with a card than abandon their change.
I find it hard to believe, without seeing evidence, that the cost of a merchant transaction offsets the cost to handle cash/coins.Quote:
Originally Posted by FoxtArt
Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious.
People who pay with cash at grocery stores and other business with cash. I always ask , excuse me but i believe you forgot to give me change back. There are some people for who it's not even on their radar. With the amount of seniors in this area. I believe some of that is guilting them in to "doing their part" since they were kids during the depression.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
As well as, in the war, or part of "The War Effort" From early 40's till the cease fire in SEA.
Are you implying that some drive throughs claim they can't give change for cash transactions and the customer has to just absorb the difference and NOT get change back? I'd simply say "cancel my order" and drive off if that was the case. Who knows, maybe lots of people wouldn't drive off and not care about a few coins. I'm one of those wierdos that likes to have some change in my pocket or in my truck and pay exact change cash anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by FoxtArt
I don't get to town much, but the only real signs of a "shortage" I've seen was when I drove to Des Moines a few months ago. Most Nebraska convenience stores had signs out, some with "exact change only". Crossed into Iowa and no signs. Other than that, we haven't seen it at all up here in Gilpin, in Las Vegas, Idaho, or Washington Sate. Giant nothing-burger IMHO.
Maybe that's where I got lost because I would never imagine having to pay in cash and not get change. Sorry, but if you don't accept cash, then you can pay 3% to Visa and take my card. If you piss me off and you take Amex, then it will cost you 5%.Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
There was at least one drive through that was retaining change and got sued for it. But I haven't paid in cash at a drive through in a long time. Still, I suspect most people paying with cash aren't going to immediately switch to a card, but certainly some would.
Now, a rounding policy would be brilliant (under 49 cents, we keep, over 50 cents, we round up to the next dollar in change for you) but every good-ol-penny skimping accountant-wanna bees would get their panties in a twist every time they fell under 49 cents, meaning anything like that will forever be impossible.
There's just so much bigger issues in life than for me to get torq'ed over pocket change.
I don't really understand the push to get rid of cash from the perspective of businesses, especially small ones.
I just can't imagine it would be so much easier to operate the business that it would outweigh the card processing fees. I also can't imagine that most businesses don't enjoy the freedom of accounting that working with cash provides.
OR just getting paid in, CASH. Think about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Went to a couple Costco stores just to get enough canned veggies to put on my shelves. One store only had canned peas and was empty in the other slots, then the other had the corn and green beans I wanted, but no peas. I usually get those 3 in bulk there to rotate on my shelves and fill in with single cans, frozen or fresh other vegetables in my meals. If SHTF, I want more than MRE's and freeze dried food even if it's just me.