Sunday, March 15, 2015

Digest for misc.consumers.frugal-living@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 3 topics

ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Mar 15 06:26PM -0700

On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 12:50:16 PM UTC-5, KenK wrote:
> saw on the store shelf I tried.
 
> Any suggestions?
 
> TIA
 
There is a trick to putting the foam cylindrical type into your ears. Roll one foam earplug between thumb and forefinger with a bit of pressure until it is compressed and _quite_ skinny. When you've gotten it to its skinny state lightly pull the top of your ear, this slightly opens the ear canal, and place the skinny plug into your ear. Give it about 5 minutes and the earplug will return to its normal size and fill the ear canal.
 
Repeat all steps for your other ear.
wilma6116@gmail.com: Mar 15 05:17PM -0700

On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 9:25:28 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote:
> >> food for New Englanders.
 
> Are you sure you meant NINETEEN61? I don't think lobster has been cheap
> food during my lifetime.
 
 
 
When I was a kid the family would take a car trip to New England for lobster. If my old man took a station wagon full of kids for lobster, it was cheap. Though I was reading in the late 1800's lobster was fed to prisoners until they rioted, and it was also used as fertilizer.
> >> in the winter was a such a delicacy they were given as gifts for
> >> Christmas.
 
> OK, you're definitely not talking about 1961.
 
Here:
 
Back in 1965, a typical turkey raised to be Thanksgiving dinner weighed about 18 pounds. Thanks to poultry industry practices, the turkey of today weighs 57 percent more -- a comparatively gargantuan 28.2 pounds. Think about it this way: If a baby grew as fast as a modern day turkey does, at 18 weeks of age he'd weigh a mind boggling 1,500 pounds.
 
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/sorry-no-super-sized-incredible-hulk-turkeys-this-year-says-butterball.html#ixzz3UVFIgqGB
Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Mar 15 12:38PM -0500

Among the last holdouts for copper landline service, I resisted
several years of Verizon's attempts to bamboozle, bs, and coerce
conversion to fiber opic phone service. Finally reached diminishing
returns when the regular "dialtone-free weekend" extended into weekdays
for three consecutive months. Jumped ship to a low-priced Verizon
Wireless reseller and now using a "free" half-smart Android phone.
As recent events confirm, Verizon's landline services, including
video distribution, receive short shrift and are a diminishing quantity
because grossly overpriced wireless "plans" is where the gold is.
Now I'm off to "root" this little Chinese turdball and dispose of
more crapware than I ever thought possible....
--
Derald
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