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Nickelless
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 Posted - 01/28/2009 : 06:11:05
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When I called my mother Tuesday afternoon, she happened to be in the drive-thru at McDonald's. She told me she'd heard that we were going to get snow, so she was getting four fish sandwiches so she'd have something to eat if she couldn't get out. Here it is now, going on 48 hours later, and it's been snowing for I'd guess 18 hours straight, the heaviest snow this area has gotten at one time in several years--I'd guess we're ending up with 10 inches of snow over two days--and I'm betting my mom's fish sandwiches are just about gone, if they aren't already history. Meanwhile I'm in my apartment with enough food for three people for about nine months (or one person for 27 months, or my half brother for 54 months). And if it's not a snowstorm, who knows what else will cause people to make a panicked rush to the store to get the last of whatever's left?
Print this page out and give it to people who don't think they need to prepare. The least we can do is warn them, to help save them from misery and worse down the road.
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Edited by - Nickelless on 01/28/2009 06:15:03 |
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NotABigDeal
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Posted - 01/28/2009 : 06:40:22
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Of all things, McDonald's fish sandwiches? Especially reheated ones. Maybe you need one of those rare son-mother talks. I hope everything is alright with her and she has more than those sandwiches. Yuck....
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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caridad
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USA
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 23:15:58
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| nickelless how is your mother doing now? |
ARE YOU READY? ARE YOU SELF SUFFICIENT? ARE YOU GREEN???? |
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Nickelless
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Posted - 03/12/2009 : 23:50:24
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Thanks for asking, Caridad, but it's going from bad to worse on a lot of fronts with my mother. She's wasting hundreds of dollars a week from "easy money" she's getting from short-term disability, which quite frankly I'm surprised she's still getting five months after her last cancer surgery and more than two months since she finished radiation and was released by her oncologist to go back to work but has been milking minor aches and pains for everything she can get and continuing to go to big-city specialists when she could go to the same doctors here--I wouldn't drive 150 miles round-trip to see an ENT for an upper-respiratory infection, but she is, finally driving herself when nobody else would drive her anymore because it wasted our entire day when she wanted to go shopping after her appointments but the rest of us had to get back home and get back to work. I wouldn't normally air out relatives' dirty laundry here, but since only two people on here have met me in person, even fewer would know who my mother is, and her spending habits and the way she's flaunting all of the easy cash she has, basically flipping off a lot of other family members by the way she's been showing off her new "toys," has been a major source of tension in the family, and it's getting worse. She's bought all kinds of crap she doesn't need, sits around the house all day doing stuff online because she hasn't been forced economically to go back to work but she essentially has no food in the house and is just sitting on a pile of FRNs, from what she's told me and other family members, basically ticking off a lot of people who are having to work their butts off to survive right now. I've been trying to drop increasingly less subtle hints on things she really needs to do before the money runs out--having more than two days worth of food in the house would be good--but she's not listening. I've come to the resolution that I'll help my mother with food if it comes to that point, but anything beyond that is a no-go, especially cash, especially while she's flushing so much money down the drain and showing no inclination toward stopping.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 03/13/2009 : 06:14:49
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Originally posted by Nickelless
Thanks for asking, Caridad, but it's going from bad to worse on a lot of fronts with my mother. She's wasting hundreds of dollars a week from "easy money" she's getting from short-term disability, which quite frankly I'm surprised she's still getting five months after her last cancer surgery and more than two months since she finished radiation and was released by her oncologist to go back to work but has been milking minor aches and pains for everything she can get and continuing to go to big-city specialists when she could go to the same doctors here--I wouldn't drive 150 miles round-trip to see an ENT for an upper-respiratory infection, but she is, finally driving herself when nobody else would drive her anymore because it wasted our entire day when she wanted to go shopping after her appointments but the rest of us had to get back home and get back to work. I wouldn't normally air out relatives' dirty laundry here, but since only two people on here have met me in person, even fewer would know who my mother is, and her spending habits and the way she's flaunting all of the easy cash she has, basically flipping off a lot of other family members by the way she's been showing off her new "toys," has been a major source of tension in the family, and it's getting worse. She's bought all kinds of crap she doesn't need, sits around the house all day doing stuff online because she hasn't been forced economically to go back to work but she essentially has no food in the house and is just sitting on a pile of FRNs, from what she's told me and other family members, basically ticking off a lot of people who are having to work their butts off to survive right now. I've been trying to drop increasingly less subtle hints on things she really needs to do before the money runs out--having more than two days worth of food in the house would be good--but she's not listening. I've come to the resolution that I'll help my mother with food if it comes to that point, but anything beyond that is a no-go, especially cash, especially while she's flushing so much money down the drain and showing no inclination toward stopping.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Wow, awful full plate for you. I wish you the best.
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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