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| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Jan 04 05:57PM -0800 On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 4:10:01 PM UTC-6, The Real Bev wrote: > It's easier and cheaper to shop for bras at Ross' than either Walmart or > Kohl's. I've never been in a Ross store although there are some here. But Kohl's is as expensive as a high end department store. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 04 06:32PM -0800 On 01/04/2019 05:57 PM, ItsJoan NotJoann wrote: >> Kohl's. > I've never been in a Ross store although there are some here. But Kohl's is > as expensive as a high end department store. Name-brand markdowns, remaindere, etc. I like shopping there, and I hate shopping. -- Cheers, Bev It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in. |
| Beaver_Fever@live.com: Jan 04 07:21PM -0800 On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 6:32:13 PM UTC-8, The Real Bev wrote: > -- > Cheers, Bev > It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in. The one here sucks. Mainly because they had an upstairs and downstairs checkout by the mens clohting and stopped using the downstairs one. More than once I hauled stuff upstairs only to find like 20 people in line and just dump the clothes I found. |
| Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net>: Jan 05 12:35AM -0500 On Thu, 3 Jan 2019, Bob F wrote: >> quadrupled in size the last ten years? >> Lemme guess, people just throw them away now instead of washing? > Maybe somebody wants something other than old fashioned white briefs? It was 35 years ago that I stopped buying those. FOr a while I was able to get different colors, and more modern looking "style". But it's been a long time since I've seen red. I had to switch brands a few times in those 3.5 decades, they switching to a difrent style. I can't even get the brand I kept with for a long time. Other than color, I did do okay for a while. Every December I could count on some 2for1 sales, so I'd buy underwear for the year. Luckily I have a bit stockpiled, never yet used. But now I have to find something I like. I don't like clothes to change, certainly not the staples. Plus, here in Canada, we lost one decent chain, they deciding to shut down and sell the leases to Target, that was moving in. SO we had a few years of that chain declining, the quality seemed to go down and the sales a lot less frequent, then a significant time between the closing of that chain and the opening of Target in Canada, and then after a year, Target declares they are losing too much money, and will shut down. I hadn't even found the shoe department at the nearest Target. They closed I think in early 2015. Some of the store locations have been reused, but no similar chain. So four years later, I'm still trying to figure out where I should buy clothes, and I'm running out. The chain derived from the Hudson's Bay Company used to be okay, but they've gone more upscale, and cut back on what they sell. So I never got around to using my fifty dollar gift card for that store last year (my uncle seems to have decided one of those each Christmas is okay, though I keep wondering if it's because my great, great, great grandfather worked for the company for a while in the fur trade). They don't even have as good sales anymore. So there's always Walmart, which has never been that appealing and Winners and Marshalls that are recent imports from the US, and I've never been in either, though they are in the shopping mall nearby. Michael |
| Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net>: Jan 05 12:42AM -0500 >> -- >> "There is a fine line between participation and mockery" - Wally > I lost 40 pounds last year but faced with the daunting task of buying new clothes I am wondering if I should just eat it all back on. You should have just kept the old clothes until you fit them again. I finally got rid of some cold winter clothes in December, things that I'd still wear but seem to be tighter than I remember. It wasn't so much to get rid of the old, but to give some still nice things to a homeless shelter. It includeda very expensive parka I got in 1995, for five dollars at a garage sale. It's a well known local brand, it was the warmest parka I ever had. ANd it fit just right. I bought an internal 2400baud modem there (which I turned into an external modem) ahen saw the parka, which I thought would be junk because of the five dollar price, but once I touched it, they urged me to try it on, and it fit fine, and I saw it was this well known brand. It was a great story to tell people, a grate bargain. Oddly, it had faded when I got it, and it seemed like someone had spilled battery acid on it, because there were some small hole in various places, but I patched them up and was happy with it and still debated whether I should give it up in December. There was a story about the homeless shelter a few days later, they moved the day after I left the stuff there, and the direct was in their new laundry room and hanging in back I could recognize two of my parkas. Michael |
| Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com>: Jan 05 10:30AM -0500 ItsJoan NotJoann wrote: > the frou-frou department stores > charge. Bras, Wrangler blue jeans, sweatpants, T shirts, > too. Both men and women's apparel. I don't live near *anything.* For anything other than basics, I either have to order online or travel a couple of hours to the Big City. I can't say I've ever noticed a Vanity Fair outlet in my travels. And I only wear cotton anyway. Hanes for Her has been my go-to brand. I like Jockey too, but their prices are much higher. Thanks for the suggestion though. Nyssa, who has to plan ahead with her shopping and errands |
| Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com>: Jan 05 10:46AM -0500 ItsJoan NotJoann wrote: > I've never been in a Ross store although there are some > here. But Kohl's is as expensive as a high end department > store. I've never been in a Ross, but I checked out Kohl's in two different locations and it's not for me. Yes, higher prices, but with the ambiance of a K-Mart. No thank you! Nyssa, who misses the days when there were good quality *locally and regionally owned* department store chains from which to choose |
| Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com>: Jan 05 10:55AM -0500 Michael Black wrote: > imports from the US, and I've never been in either, though > they are in the shopping mall nearby. > Michael Let me guess. Was the store Zeller's? If so, I agree that it was a nice option back in the day and I included it in my shopping plans whenever north of the border. I've still got a few pairs of socks I bought at the one in Calgary years ago. It seems as though there is a major split in the types of stores these days: either they are WM-like discounters with cheap, poorly made products or high-end department stores with over-priced often poorly made products with not much in between. The middle-class is shrinking and the middle-class department stores have shrunk or disappeared along with it. Nyssa, who abhors Macy's and Kohl's and lives too far away from anything else to make the trip worthwhile |
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Jan 05 03:51PM -0800 > Is it my imagination or have the underwear racks at the store like quadrupled in size the last ten years? > Lemme guess, people just throw them away now instead of washing? https://news.google.com/search?q=best%20underwear&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen |
| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Jan 05 04:09PM -0800 On Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 9:30:51 AM UTC-6, Nyssa wrote: > I don't live near *anything.* For anything other than basics, > I either have to order online or travel a couple of hours to > the Big City. EEEEEK! > travels. And I only wear cotton anyway. Hanes for Her has > been my go-to brand. I like Jockey too, but their prices > are much higher. Have you ever ordered from the Hanes site? If you haven't and decide to give them a shot, look around the internet to see if they are offering and online coupons. > Thanks for the suggestion though. You're welcome! > Nyssa, who has to plan ahead with her shopping and errands Thankfully, all I have to plan is what day to head to whatever store. |
| Beaver_Fever@live.com: Jan 05 04:27PM -0800 > > Is it my imagination or have the underwear racks at the store like quadrupled in size the last ten years? > > Lemme guess, people just throw them away now instead of washing? > https://news.google.com/search?q=best%20underwear&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen This reminds me when I was 15 and living with grandma and all I had was the Sears catalog. |
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Jan 05 02:38PM -0800 > One I had was awesome but the hose broke and I couldn't find a replacement. > Got another one off Amazon, a small Fuller, it sucks. Not good pickup power and it overheats too fast. > What should I get? Best canister vacuums: https://viewtoptenbest.com/10-canister-vacuums/ |
| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Jan 04 05:55PM -0800 > Affected by gov't shutdown? What type of taxes are you referring to? |
| Beaver_Fever@live.com: Jan 04 07:20PM -0800 > Affected by gov't shutdown? I have to find someone new to do my taxes and do an amended return for 2017. Having panic attacks over it for some reason. |
| ItsJoan NotJoann <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Jan 04 07:24PM -0800 > I have to find someone new to do my taxes and do an amended return for 2017. Having panic attacks over it for some reason. C.P.A. |
| Beaver_Fever@live.com: Jan 04 08:05PM -0800 On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 7:24:48 PM UTC-8, ItsJoan NotJoann wrote: > On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 9:20:24 PM UTC-6, Beaver...@live.com wrote: > > I have to find someone new to do my taxes and do an amended return for 2017. Having panic attacks over it for some reason. > C.P.A. That's who did it the last few years. I wish the original owners of the company I worked for never sold, I think I would be happier making around minimum wage there than then all the stress of the 24/7 hustle even if I am making ten times more. |
| Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net>: Jan 05 12:44AM -0500 >> Affected by gov't shutdown? > I have to find someone new to do my taxes and do an amended return for > 2017. Having panic attacks over it for some reason. Isn't tax time all of 3 months away? I can't imagine this shutdown lasting that long. Michael |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 04 11:24PM -0800 >> Affected by gov't shutdown? > I have to find someone new to do my taxes and do an amended return > for 2017. Having panic attacks over it for some reason. Is your tax life too complex to use TurboTax or the HRBlock thing? Both work fine. One year I persuaded my mom, who always used a CPA, to use one of the programs. The only difference was that the CPA put some foreign income in a different place, but the bottom lines were the same. -- Cheers, Bev The volume of a pizza of thickness 'a' and radius 'z' is given by pi*z*z*a |
| Beaver_Fever@live.com: Jan 05 12:47AM -0800 On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 11:24:47 PM UTC-8, The Real Bev wrote: > Cheers, Bev > The volume of a pizza of thickness 'a' and radius 'z' > is given by pi*z*z*a I don't know. |
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