My Declining Standard of Living

[mattkime]

>>I have few people in my circle of friends who keep pop in the house any more. Do you consider it a necessity?

how long have you lived in new york?

[Black Landlord]

mattkime wrote:
>>I have few people in my circle of friends who keep pop in the house any more. Do you consider it a necessity?

how long have you lived in new york?

I thought you guys say "soda" in NY and a "pop" is an ice cream bar?

[Gutenberg]

I always thought "pop" was a Midwest-Prairie States kind of thing.

I think that what went up when the fuel prices went to $4-something a gallon never came down. I have been buying frozen vegetables because the fresh are so expensive.

[Mac1337]

Gutenberg wrote:
I always thought "pop" was a Midwest-Prairie States kind of thing.

I think that what went up when the fuel prices went to $4-something a gallon never came down. I have been buying frozen vegetables because the fresh are so expensive.

Giant used to have three carts filled to the rim for price comparisons with other stores. They have kept the same price tag on them but they are now 1/3 empty!

[mattkime]

ah, i was thinking more along the lines of "i'm getting by pretty well because i don't need a car" and "my friends don't drink soda"

face it, you're a liberal elitist!

Black Landlord wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
>>I have few people in my circle of friends who keep pop in the house any more. Do you consider it a necessity?

how long have you lived in new york?

I thought you guys say "soda" in NY and a "pop" is an ice cream bar?

[Mac1337]

Black Landlord wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
Here is one way to save on groceries. Stay home! I can't remember how many times we couldn't name one thing we needed but walked out of grocery stores $50 lighter. Costco is another story. Once day I skipped buying coffee at the grocery store so I could save $3 at Costco. Walked out of Costco with $130 in the cart.

ps

I have been buying 2 liter soda for $1 for 25 years, mostly at ACME.

I have few people in my circle of friends who keep pop in the house any more. Do you consider it a necessity?
Well, yeah! What else do you drink with your food that you don't tire of? In eastern PA we say soda. In central and western PA it is pop.

[Black Landlord]

mattkime wrote:
ah, i was thinking more along the lines of "i'm getting by pretty well because i don't need a car" and "my friends don't drink soda"

face it, you're a liberal elitist!

[quote=Black Landlord]
[quote=mattkime]
>>I have few people in my circle of friends who keep pop in the house any more. Do you consider it a necessity?

how long have you lived in new york?

I thought you guys say "soda" in NY and a "pop" is an ice cream bar?
New urbanist. Pop probably doesn't make the cut at least in part because it's not necessary enough to justify the added weight in non-motorized transport.

[mattkime]

Aren't those the white people buying condos in harlem?

Black Landlord wrote: New urbanist.

[JoeH]

Black Landlord wrote:
[quote=JoeH]
Also a BJ's.

I think I know where all your money is going.
I wish it was that kind of BJ, not just the Warehouse. :mad2:

freeradical wrote:

You can always choose the store brand instead of the name brands. Why are Americans so adamant about buying name brand products?

Too late, already mostly getting the store brand when it is okay. But for instance the store brand of peanut butter starting coming in worse and worse in quality, so I ended up not buying it any longer. Final straw was a container I took home and opened to find 1/3 full of oil instead of peanut butter.

[DevoBill]

I know what your saying I could only buy four guns this year.