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* The leeches are reaching for more - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/c1f04e2aa1094da5?hl=en
* Free live directory assistance - 4 messages, 3 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/3713d4bdfb3ce788?hl=en
* Ice maker and Murphy's law - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/d5ecd233e5ccc9be?hl=en
* Airport parking - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/a3ffd0586c7477dd?hl=en
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TOPIC: The leeches are reaching for more
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/c1f04e2aa1094da5?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, Aug 9 2008 9:02 pm
From: George Grapman
clams_casino wrote:
> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>
>>
>> The cost of phone calls has gone down by factors of tens, hundreds
>> even...
>>
>>
>>
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>
> My phone bill is higher today than it's ever been.
But are you making the same number of calls?
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TOPIC: Free live directory assistance
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/3713d4bdfb3ce788?hl=en
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== 1 of 4 ==
Date: Sat, Aug 9 2008 9:04 pm
From: George Grapman
800-411-SAVE
Yes, you listen to an ad but get a liver operator. Great especially on
your cell.
Note: May not work from all areas.
== 2 of 4 ==
Date: Sat, Aug 9 2008 10:16 pm
From: hchickpea@hotmail.com
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:04:54 -0700, George Grapman
<sfgeorge@paccbell.net> wrote:
> 800-411-SAVE
> Yes, you listen to an ad but get a liver operator. Great especially on
>your cell.
> Note: May not work from all areas.
A liver operator??? Should I try to vent my spleen?
== 3 of 4 ==
Date: Sat, Aug 9 2008 9:17 pm
From: George Grapman
hchickpea@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:04:54 -0700, George Grapman
> <sfgeorge@paccbell.net> wrote:
>
>> 800-411-SAVE
>> Yes, you listen to an ad but get a liver operator. Great especially on
>> your cell.
>> Note: May not work from all areas.
>
> A liver operator??? Should I try to vent my spleen?
>
You got me. As punishment for my typo I will remove Rod from my kill
file for one day.
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Sat, Aug 9 2008 9:21 pm
From: "Rod Speed"
George Grapman <sfgeorge@paccbell.net> wrote
> 800-411-SAVE
> Yes, you listen to an ad but get a liver operator.
Liver operators are illegal without a license, stupid.
> Great especially on your cell.
Wrong again, makes me retch in public and lowers the tone just a tad.
> Note: May not work from all areas.
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TOPIC: Ice maker and Murphy's law
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/d5ecd233e5ccc9be?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, Aug 9 2008 10:17 pm
From: hchickpea@hotmail.com
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:51:03 -0700 (PDT), Ron Peterson
<ron@shell.core.com> wrote:
>My S-I-L had her ice maker line break while out of town and the damage
>to the house is extensive. Her estimated cost after insurance will be
>about a $2400 deductible.
>
>The repair crew mentioned that 75% of their water damage repairs are
>for ice maker malfunctions.
Ice cube trays aren't that hard to fill. We never hooked up the
icemaker in our new refrigerator. Don't need it. YMMV.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, Aug 9 2008 9:18 pm
From: George Grapman
The corollary to Murphy's Law: "Murphy was an optimist".
>
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TOPIC: Airport parking
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/a3ffd0586c7477dd?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, Aug 9 2008 11:51 pm
From: don@manx.misty.com (Don Klipstein)
In article <E_Ymk.6581$np7.4197@flpi149.ffdc.sbc.com>, George Grapman wrote:
>
> There is no one size fits all for this. A taxi or shuttle may be
>cheaper but if you park your car on the street near your house you may
>need someone to move your car for street cleaning or tow away days.
> Check the yellow pages for discount coupons from private parking garages.
I have free off-street parking for my little-used (4,000 miles per year)
car at my apartment complex. (I commute by bike - which got even handier
this year now that gasoline is close to $4 per gallon!)
For one thing, I pay a reduced price for getting an exemption from
"emissions inspection" if I get my car inspected at a place that verifies
that I had no years driving that car 5000-plus miles since the most recent
time that the car passed actual testing while I had it registered to me.)
(Please consider also wear-and-tear on cars used for commuting, as in
mileage-related depreciation as well as repairs of blown water pumps,
alternators, starters and aged fuel filters and air filters and maybe
evaporation canisters and ignition wires as well as oil changes and wear
on tires.)
I notify the management at my apartment complex when I am about to spend
much time out-of-town - so far, not at times of years when it can snow
much my way. If they foresee need for my car to move when I will not be
around to move it, I will let them have the keys and a copy of the
insurance card.
When I fly out of town, what I prefer to do is take the local public
transit agency's way to the airport. However, for insane reason my
boyfriend prefers enough for me to take a taxi instead of public mass
transit to the airport to pay my taxi fare on the way there. He usually
drives to the airport personally to take me back home personally when I
get back into town! How sweet he is!!!
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
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