Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Digest for misc.consumers.frugal-living@googlegroups.com - 8 updates in 4 topics

Shoe-Chucker 2 <georgewk10@yahoo.com>: Feb 11 09:20AM -0800

In article <m7kslh$h3q$1@dont-email.me>,
> friend it happened to. I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to gouge
> the blob out and re-balance the tire, but still...
 
> Basic AAA is pretty cheap.
 
Some of these cans have a warning that the patching goop can be
explosive and you're supposed to tell any repair guy , you used it.
If you do use the stuff, use it before the "bead" gets broken and I jack
up the tire a bit to help it inflate.
Good luck, it's better than nothing.
Keep that spare inflated, U might need it.
--
Karma ; what a concept!
itsjoannotjoann@gmail.com: Feb 10 10:16PM -0800

On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 10:55:32 AM UTC-6, CanopyCo wrote:
> No, proud that even without them I do still manage to stay below $200 a month with healthy food.
> Part of that decision to not use coupons was due to the fact that 99% of the coupons that I see is for name brand idioms and prepared food that I don't use due to both cost as well as making my own food being healthier.
 
> I recall a video that I seen once where a fat lady was managing to not spend any money at all on her food by chancing coupons.
 
Not sure how the fat lady and her grocery cart got into this discussion. You're talking about one stupid shopper. Not everybody who uses coupons are fat and buy junk food. Plenty of people who use and DO NOT use coupons buy mounds of junk food.
> Feb 7, the first thing you ever posted to me.
> Your very first typed line.
> You're not as smart as you seem to think you are. Coupons CAN save you money and keep you under $200 per month.
 
Yes, I said that and I stand by what I said.
 
> In your opinion you were complimenting my intelligence or trying to say that not using coupons is smart?
 
You could be smarter with your grocery shopping by judiciously using coupons. For some reason many men think using coupons is beneath them and don't want to be bothered with them.
 
> And then there is the fact that you insulted me on every fact that I posted as if they were all idiot nonsense.
 
If you took my comments as an insult then that is your problem. Maybe you DO think your comments are nonsense, you'll have to deal with that yourself.
 
> And that just pointed out how stupid you really are, considering that every fact that I posted was a fact and my method did work to keep my expense down below $200 a month for healthy food.
 
But posted several items you'd read/seen but cited no sites to back up your claims.
 
> > > Possibly I could do all my shopping 50 miles away and get one in the city to start doing that, but that won't work either if saving money is my end goal.
> > > When they do send you coupons, do they send you 50 of them so that you can improve the use of the sales like I talked about?
 
I told you they will send me coupons that I can use multiple times while at the store.
 
> Yes, to improve my quality of life while also improving my ability to live frugally I moved out into the country.
 
That's your decision.
 
> I burn wood for heat, something that many cities will not allow.
 
Wood burning for heat is allowed here.
 
> I also have livestock and a garden to produce my own food.
 
Why go to the store at all except for the staples. Butcher your own livestock and freeze it. Learn to can and/or freeze your own vegetables. Now you're really talking about saving some cash!
 
> And my land was both really good farm land and cheep to buy.
> Something that is nearly impossible to do real close to any large town, let alone city.
 
Put that land to good use and put out a large garden you can harvest and preserve the fruits and labors thereof.
 
> Your coupons are quite different then Oklahoma coupons are.
> Ours state right on them that it is for one item only.
> I'd have to have 20 coupons for 20 items here.
 
Ok.
 
> > > Do they send you coupons for itoms that they then put on sale?
 
> But does the store send you coupons that are good while there sale is on?
 
Yes.
> Dr Pepper ran a sale on it for $1 a bottle.
> The stores had no say so on when then the sale started or ended.
> And Dr Pepper didn't put out any coupons that I know of that were still good when they started that sale.
 
Dr Pepper and the other soft drinks are on sale quite often here. One week it may be Coke and it's products and the next week it's Pepsi and their products. 2 liters, cans, 16 ounce bottles, etc.
 
> I use a smaller chest type freezer so that it takes far less electricity and presently it is full, as is the freezer on my refrigerator.
> The stuff in the freezer is still in its freezable store packaging and is reduced to the jars when I bring it into the refrigerator.
 
I have a 14 c.f. upright freezer that is simply bulging with food. And thankful to have it and the food.
 
> My mom is big on the coupon racket.
> She has a room full of boxes of stuff that she will never use, and much of it is stuff that she doesn't even know how to use.
> All because she had a coupon on it.
 
That's a silly reason to shop because there is a coupon for an item and an item the person doesn't need or will even use.
 
> > > Because the printer and ink take up the savings on the few coupons that would apply to my food buying.
 
Psst! If you ever buy a printer get your cartridges from eBay. Yes, they most likely be expired ink cartridges but they work like brand new expen$ive one$ you'll find in office supply stores.
> In fact, I have never seen a coupon page that offered that.
> Every coupon page that I have ever seen said print the coupon.
> No other option.
 
If they have a website and you have one of their 'loyalty cards' you have to log in and create an account and then download the coupons to their card. When you buy the item it is automatically deducted from your receipt.
 
> BTW
> How does downloading the coupon to your Safeway card let you buy soup that is on sale at Bobs Grocery?
 
No Safeway store here; I think they are all west of the Mississippi River.
 
> Bob's doesn't even have a card but they are running a sale, and Safeway is higher with the coupon then Bobs is without it.
> How does this let me use a coupon on Bob's sale items?
 
Got Bob's and buy the soap there, as long as it's not a long way out of your way to shop there. You will negate any savings if you're running all over the countryside looking for bargains.
 
> And I notice that you have went back to insulting when you get shown that you method won't work here.
 
See my comment above if you think I've been insulting, the one where I said you'll have to deal with that on your own.
 
> BTW
> Where do you live?
> I'm in Oklahoma, about half way between Tulsa and Oklahoma City so that I can use both for medical treatment.
 
I'm in Tennessee, the middle part.
 
> I use ground chicken or turkey for the ground meat jobs and have far less fat to deal with.
 
I normally use the 96% lean with 4% fat hamburger.
 
> > My meat is packaged in Styrofoam trays and wrapped in plastic. Yours isn't???? And once it's home it's repackaged into FoodSaver bags. Clean, clean, clean!
 
> Yes, wrapped just like that.
> One layer of cellophane, often punctured by the time it was marked down and clearly looking different then the fresh meat.
 
Hmmmmmm, I've never come across any 'punctured' cellophane on the meats I buy.
> The marked down meat is just this side of spoiled.
> That is why they marked it down.
> Ask the butcher.
 
No, it's not. Do you think when you go to a restaurant and they see you pull into the parking lot they are just then butchering that animal you hope to consume??
 
> You have shown me that there are no knowledgeable women.
 
You've shown me there only clueless men who think their way and ONLY their way is how anything should be done. That only they are blessed with brain cells and reasoning power. I hate to burst your little bubble, but you are wrong.
 
> I use marked down meat when I find it cheap enough, but I use it fast instead of freezing it.
 
Freezing stops any further deterioration of the meat. If it didn't you wouldn't be buying in bulk and freezing it yourself.
 
> I try to get already frozen meat for the storage.
 
Whatever.
 
> > Cite your sources.
 
> Google the following line.
 
CITE YOUR SOURCES IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPOUT NONSENSE. I'M NOT GOING TO GO LOOKING FOR SOME 'ARTICLE' YOU SAY EXISTS.
 
> How long can meat set in the refrigerator before it goes bad.
> Read any of them to find out that the meat cannot set in that meat refrigerator more than a couple of days before it starts going south.
 
You've never eaten aged beef, I see.
 
> Then why do you think it was changing color and marked down?
 
The marked down meat I buy is not changing color. That must be a habit peculiar to Oklahoma grocery stores.
 
> Still looking for that knowledgeable woman.
> :-D
 
You're talking to one but you are so in love with your own voice you can hear or read anything else.
> > > > > > *Snip*
 
> > > I'm starting to see why this group is dead.
> > > The only poster chastises anyone that posts a idea while not showing anything that works better.
 
I showed you an example of something that works better than glass jars but you are too narrow minded to even see anything other than your way.
 
I'm done with you ace. I can see it's your way or no way.
trader4@optonline.net: Feb 11 05:04AM -0800


> I'm done with you ace. I can see it's your way or no way.
 
Let's recap as to who started this, shall we? Canopy posted this:
 
" I never use coupons, and I easily stay under $200 a month for one person and often two people."
 
At which point your retort questioned Canopy's intelligence:
 
"You're not as smart as you seem to think you are. Coupons CAN save you money and keep you under $200 per month. "
 
So, I'd say it's you who has the intolerant position. All Canopy said
is that the weekly non-coupon specials work for him and that he can stay
under $200 a week using that alone. He didn't say coupons can't also
save you money? So, what exactly is your problem?
 
I rely on the weekly non-coupon sales for the bulk of my purchases too.
It works and like the article says, I find it far more effective than coupons.
For example, my local supermarket will frequently have Progresso Soups
that are regularly $2.79 on sale for $1, with the only limit being 4
per variety. And they have Ben and Jerry's on sale for $2.50 instead of
$5 about every couple weeks. There are a *lot* of specials like that
and I find them better than the typical coupon for $.50 or $1 off one
item, or worse off if you buy two or three of the item. Do I still
use coupons occasionally? Sure, if one happens to come my way. If
you happen to have one, it can sweeten the deal on one of the already
on sale items. But
like Canopy, I don't find them to be the easiest, best way to save a
lot of money and it's not worth my time and money to buy the Sunday
papers just to go looking for the occasional couple that I might use.
The coupons I do use are the ones I don't have to go looking for, ie
the ones that print out at the cash register.
In the pyramid of how to save money, using the technique that the
article talks about should be at the core. After that, sure coupons
can save you money too. But the fact some of us don't focus heavily on
coupons, get most of our savings the way the article outlines, doesn't
make us dumb.
CanopyCo <Junk74020@aol.com>: Feb 11 06:23AM -0800

On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 10:55:32 AM UTC-6, CanopyCo wrote:
> > > Just your more expensive way.
 
> > > I'm starting to see why this group is dead.
> > > The only poster chastises anyone that posts a idea while not showing anything that works better.
 
Well Joann, I notice that you snipped all the math while pretending that it didn't exist, as well as many other places where you were shown to be a worthless cunt.
I reposted it here, so it doesn't get past you.
 
You are the peace of trash that killed this group.
CanopyCo <Junk74020@aol.com>: Feb 11 06:46AM -0800

> can save you money too. But the fact some of us don't focus heavily on
> coupons, get most of our savings the way the article outlines, doesn't
> make us dumb.
 
Thank you.
 
I see that you use nearly identical methods as I do regarding buying food.
 
How do you store your food?
I use freezer jars for fresh vegetables and meat that has been portioned down to use sized portions.
Usually I freeze the entire package the way I got if from the store, and only jar it after I take one out to use it.
That way I can refreeze what I didn't use before it completely thaws and it can set in that jar for months with no ill effects.
 
I originally used plastic bags until I found the freezer jars and started using them.
With using plastic bags costing between $0.25 to $2.40 a lb to store parted up meat I wasn't saving myself anything.
The jars run $1.33 each and are reusable for years, as long as you wash them as soon as you empty them to prevent the lid from rusting, and don't break them.
 
I noticed that Joann thought that the jars are a really bad idea, but never stated exactly why she had that opinion.
I don't consider plastic bags a bad idea, just that you have to be careful or the cost of the bag will take away your savings on the purchase.
 
I was about to abandon this group until I see your post.
Thanks again for stating your opinion.
utteru2015@gmail.com: Feb 10 11:06PM -0800

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itsjoannotjoann@gmail.com: Feb 11 02:09AM -0800


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