Sorry, spent all mine at Wal-Mart yesterday on the new Star Wars stuff.

No hot cocoa sampler boxes?

I have a Guinness towel so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

SWEET-- can finally finish my collection...

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I just used my Guinness towel to wipe puke off of my 16-month-old son's face.

I just gave my 16-month-old son a hot cocoa sampler, then he puked on my Guinness towel.


/what is this money you speak of?

I'm so broke I'm eating 16-month-olds.

I lure them with the hot coco sampler.

And finish with a nice Guinness.

/can't give this farking house away

Elvis needs boats!
Elvis needs boats!
Elvis Elvis Elvis Elvis needs boats!

I'm still waiting on my Guinness towel. I keep buying pints in hopes they'll reward me with that magical piece of cloth - ye olde beer gods have not seen fit to do so though.

I might switch to Boddingtons.

I have a Honda Metropolitan with only 500 miles on it; I will putting it up for sale next week.

They get about 105 MPG and are rock solid reliable. Anyone with a driver's license can operate it in most states.

You can't get them in too many places right now if at all.




It is a seller's market for these.

What are the rest of us supposed to do but sell our stuff.

Good time to stock up on lava lamps

Buying a nice 2 bedroom house in a decent neighborhood for under $60,000. (basement, 2-car garage, front and back yard, currently being cleaned up by seller.)
House across the street sold for over 120,000.

/really getting a kick

usrid0: I have a Guinness towel so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

Came in here to say that...

and I just spent mine on a 42" plasma and surround sound system.

I feel bad for the old people. No sooner do they run out of stories about the Great Depression, we give them another one.

That being said, old ladies tend to know amazing recipes using only canned, leftover or cheaper-than-dirt food, money-saving strategies and fun things one can do for free or a purely nominal charge. With my Grandma's advice, I may never need to sell my stuff to meet the bills. She's got over 60 years of saving on me, but her entertainment expenses are still less than mine.

(But only because that senior ticket at the Warner is a buck less than my student one!)

SpiderQueenDemon: I feel bad for the old people. No sooner do they run out of stories about the Great Depression, we give them another one.

No kidding. I may actually have to drop the data plan from my cell phone. Oh well, at least I'll have stories to tell my grand kids...

brewssuds

That was farking funny, but in all truth I may have to drop my data plan from my tero!!

psicop: brewssuds

That was farking funny, but in all truth I may have to drop my data plan from my tero!!

I'm seeing a screenplay here... wait for it...

"The Grapes of Wrath II - Electric Boogaloo!"

/have your people call my people

SpiderQueenDemon: I feel bad for the old people. No sooner do they run out of stories about the Great Depression, we give them another one.

I genuinely hope you're kidding. If you're not, you really are just completely out of touch. What we're going through is barely even a recession, nevermind a depression. If you're serious, you have just no idea what a real depression is...

That move came after shutting off the telephone land line, going to basic cable and other cost-saving measures.


Basic cable, the horror!

Buying my house right now from my landlord who is having to short-sale in order to avoid foreclosure. Friend just picked up a nice shotgun worth $1500 for only $500 because the guy's daughter is getting married and he needed the cash flow. Vacation cabins, cars, boats and other "luxury" extras are all bargains right now for those of us with the cash.


/damn it feels good to be a gangsta

It's a sellers market for homes god damnit.

example:
A home purchased in 1999 for 140k peaked in "value" in 2006 at roughly 400k. It is now "valued" at 295k but could easily be sold for 200k for a 42% gain in only 9 years. Pretty good for real estate

oh and if you purchases between 2003-2007, you screwed up and that's too bad

It's kind of bad news for those that like old cars. I know a recycler that is crushing old Mustangs, Chevelles, MGs, Ghias, and other classics as fast as the owners can sell them for $150 scrap metal. He offered to sell me whatever I wanted at cost, but I have no place to store anything while I strip them for parts.

Restorers are going to hate this period in the future.

annoyed_grunt: SpiderQueenDemon: I feel bad for the old people. No sooner do they run out of stories about the Great Depression, we give them another one.

I genuinely hope you're kidding. If you're not, you really are just completely out of touch. What we're going through is barely even a recession, nevermind a depression. If you're serious, you have just no idea what a real depression is...

Give it a few months.

Unknown_Poltroon:

Give it a few months.

I suggest you read up a little bit on the Great Depression...and how it came about. People in the 20s weren't saying "give it a few months...it's going to get much worse..."

Millions of people are about to lose their homes, the banking system is essentially insolvent, and all indications are that the powers that be are genuinely worried right now.

We're in the outer bands of the worst economic storm since the great depression. Quibbling about whether specific technical triggers for the use of the word "recession" are going off entirely misses the larger trend.

annoyed_grunt: What we're going through is barely even a recession, nevermind a depression.

There is a good chance that "what we're going through" has barely even started. We are at the beginning of a credit contraction that is probably irreversible. It will take years to play out. We'll all have some stories for our grandchildren.

Marshall Banana: "Millions of people are about to lose their homes, the banking system is essentially insolvent, and all indications are that the powers that be are genuinely worried right now."

Millions of *stupid* people are about to lose their homes.

I have news for you: Stupid people always end up farked, one way or another. This is nothing new.

For people with money, isn't it always a buyer's market?

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

/seems relevant.

Kendrick:
I have news for you: Stupid people always end up farked, one way or another. This is nothing new.

Thanks so much for your "news"! You know what I have for you? Actual news!

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You mean that Beanies are not worth 200 bucks and 40 year old clunker cars with drum brakes, huge engines and vinyl bench seats are not worth a hundred grr?

Next you'll try and convince me that I should have kept that Elmo I gave my niece for Xmas years ago as an investment vehicle instead of watching that kid drag that toy everywhere for the better part of a year...

Fn boomers, something for nothing is in their blood...

Where's my damn Guinness towel?

That reminds me that I never got my GlenLivet coasters.

I wish everyone the best during these uncertain times. Cheers!

annoyed_grunt: I genuinely hope you're kidding. If you're not, you really are just completely out of touch. What we're going through is barely even a recession, nevermind a depression. If you're serious, you have just no idea what a real depression is...

Yeah, if this was a real depression we'd see bank runs.

/wait, what?

shower_in_my_socks - Friend just picked up a nice shotgun worth $1500 for only $500 because the guy's daughter is getting married and he needed the cash flow.



But doesn't he need the shotgun for the wedding?

/I keed, I keed

dangit, stray bold tag. sorry, didn't mean to shout.

shower_in_my_socks: Friend just picked up a nice shotgun worth $1500 for only $500 because the guy's daughter is getting married and he needed the cash flow.

Shouldn't he be out *buying* a shotgun if his daughter needs to get married?