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Godsgirl83 said:
Nope, no crock pot. Actually it's stuff from the craft store :) they didn't have this in stock the day after Thanksgiving and I couldn't let the nearly half off price pass me by on stuff that almost NEVER goes on sale and is excluded from coupons....... so I went home and did something I almost never do... ordered it online.
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I shop local.............sure does away with all the hassle of OnLine............ I know sometimes Local does not have what people want, but I have never found an On Line Service that actually delivers good service. Unless you pay an extravagant fee first........... IMO that is their way of ripping the American people off.
 
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My internet went out for about 15-20 minutes :unsure:

I feel lost trying to do a guy panel :oops:

Am I to put cars and guns on it instead of flowers and butterflies? :unsure::LOL::geek::devilish:
 
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p_rehbein said:
I shop local.............sure does away with all the hassle of OnLine............ I know sometimes Local does not have what people want, but I have never found an On Line Service that actually delivers good service. Unless you pay an extravagant fee first........... IMO that is their way of ripping the American people off.
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The fess people pay for these luxeries is sickening.

I wonder if I'm the only one who has watched over the past few years as these services became "normal" and wondered what kind of set up it was leading up to.........

or looks at it now and wonders with all this social distancing and limitless contact stuff if these past few years getting people to think it's "normal" to shop online and pick up curbside wasn't just some set up to get people conditioned to doing so............

personally, I like picking my own fresh produce.
Oh the horror stories I've heard from other moms who have found the luxery of using such services only to end up with wrong items, items missing or nasty bruised produce. Personally, I think they spent more time and energy fixing the wrongs than if they would have just gone to the store themselves........ oh wait! The kids would have to go along! How did generations before us do it?
 
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Godsgirl83 said:
The fess people pay for these luxeries is sickening.

I wonder if I'm the only one who has watched over the past few years as these services became "normal" and wondered what kind of set up it was leading up to.........

or looks at it now and wonders with all this social distancing and limitless contact stuff if these past few years getting people to think it's "normal" to shop online and pick up curbside wasn't just some set up to get people conditioned to doing so............

personally, I like picking my own fresh produce.
Oh the horror stories I've heard from other moms who have found the luxery of using such services only to end up with wrong items, items missing or nasty bruised produce. Personally, I think they spent more time and energy fixing the wrongs than if they would have just gone to the store themselves........ oh wait! The kids would have to go along! How did generations before us do it?
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I'll pay ur fee, anytime... must admit I like Amazon... that company is the major future of everything! ☺️
got a very good job career opportunity from them, praying about it, anyone and everyone who is reading this can pray for me, thank you
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Godsgirl83 said:
The fess people pay for these luxuries is sickening.

I wonder if I'm the only one who has watched over the past few years as these services became "normal" and wondered what kind of set up it was leading up to.........

or looks at it now and wonders with all this social distancing and limitless contact stuff if these past few years getting people to think it's "normal" to shop online and pick up curbside wasn't just some set up to get people conditioned to doing so............

personally, I like picking my own fresh produce.
Oh the horror stories I've heard from other moms who have found the luxury of using such services only to end up with wrong items, items missing or nasty bruised produce. Personally, I think they spent more time and energy fixing the wrongs than if they would have just gone to the store themselves........ oh wait! The kids would have to go along! How did generations before us do it?
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My daughter orders groceries for me online and has them delivered to me... she does not want me going out any more than I absolutely have to, and I want to keep her happy, so... sometimes they will say an item is not available, will this substitution do? So I will get like 16 boxes of Kleenex instead of four, but they only charge her for four! Or they say, we have none of this cheese, then it is put in twice, both at no charge! How on earth can they stay in business this way? I must say my daughter is a savvy, avid online shopper. She keeps her eyes out for sales and capitalizes on pricing mistakes to the point where she gets multiple cases of high end quality pet food for the price of one tin! They have two dogs and three cats and probably at least a a year's worth of food for the animals LOL. She finds deals like, order a hundred dollar's worth online and get 40 % off, 10% further discount if picked up in person, then she will apply a gift card where she is saving a further 20-25%, and to top it all off, buys mostly sale items, so it is almost like they are paying her to take the goods off their hands LOLOLOLOLOLOL
 
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My daughter orders groceries for me online and has them delivered to me... she does not want me going out any more than I absolutely have to, and I want to keep her happy, so... sometimes they will say an item is not available, will this substitution do? So I will get like 16 boxes of Kleenex instead of four, but they only charge her for four! Or they say, we have none of this cheese, then it is put in twice, both at no charge! How on earth can they stay in business this way? I must say my daughter is a savvy, avid online shopper. She keeps her eyes out for sales and capitalizes on pricing mistakes to the point where she gets multiple cases of high end quality pet food for the price of one tin! They have two dogs and three cats and probably at least a a year's worth of food for the animals LOL. She finds deals like, order a hundred dollar's worth online and get 40 % off, 10% further discount if picked up in person, then she will apply a gift card where she is saving a further 20-25%, and to top it all off, buys mostly sale items, so it is almost like they are paying her to take the goods off their hands LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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that is good to hear.
dunno if I put this thought out there (I had written, deleated, edited, deleated again my thoughts above so many times that now I cannot recall just what was posted)

I understand there is a need for some people to have services like that available, and I am glad they are able to have such.
My personal eye roll comes whne someone is legit able to go to the store themselves and do the shopping themselves but chooses not to because they just don't want to, or the kids get fussy and I get distracted and forget something and have to go again (how did generations before us EVER do it?) and these are things I usually hear from other moms who have someone nearby (Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins) to babysit once in a while.
 
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Godsgirl83 said:
that is good to hear.
dunno if I put this thought out there (I had written, deleated, edited, deleated again my thoughts above so many times that now I cannot recall just what was posted)

I understand there is a need for some people to have services like that available, and I am glad they are able to have such.
My personal eye roll comes whne someone is legit able to go to the store themselves and do the shopping themselves but chooses not to because they just don't want to, or the kids get fussy and I get distracted and forget something and have to go again (how did generations before us EVER do it?) and these are things I usually hear from other moms who have someone nearby (Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins) to babysit once in a while.
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I do know what you mean... it has become the wars of comfort and convenience. My parents had and raised eleven children, and I would like to say they would not have used such services if they were available back then, except things like milk and bread were home delivered regularly. We would go through maybe 20 loaves of bread a week, mostly white, because only the adults would eat the whole wheat. My mother never learned to drive, but she always did the grocery shopping because she was the one who knew what was needed, and the driver, whoever it was, would be the helper. My dad, aside from working full time swing shifts, was also an entrepreneur: we would go to farmer's markets and sell produce, mostly apples and potatoes and honey and maple syrup, but other things as well and especially peaches in the summer... so we always had produce for the table from that. My mother also pickled and jammed and canned all sorts of things (we had a real earthen-floored fruit cellar in the basement), and we baked our own goodies, pies, cakes, and cookies. I was an expert fudge maker LOL. As a teen, I would come home from working at the farmer's market after school and make fudge every Friday night. None of us eleven kids know how our mother did it. LOL. Only one of my siblings who had children had more than two (she had four) and her house was a mad house all the time while they were growing up, ha. I totally failed at being a mother and am so blessed to have the daughter I do who cares for me despite my many failings in that regard.

I just polished off the last of my spaghetti. Of course, when you make that amount, it all gets eaten
in one go because you have so many mouths to feed, but me? It's mine, all mine he hee heeeeee :D
 
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Magenta said:
I do know what you mean... it has become the wars of comfort and convenience. My parents had and raised eleven children, and I would like to say they would not have used such services if they were available back then, except things like milk and bread were home delivered regularly. We would go through maybe 20 loaves of bread a week, mostly white, because only the adults would eat the whole wheat. My mother never learned to drive, but she always did the grocery shopping because she was the one who knew what was needed, and the driver, whoever it was, would be the helper. My dad, aside from working full time swing shifts, was also an entrepreneur: we would go to farmer's markets and sell produce, mostly apples and potatoes and honey and maple syrup, but other things as well and especially peaches in the summer... so we always had produce for the table from that. My mother also pickled and jammed and canned all sorts of things (we had a real earthen-floored fruit cellar in the basement), and we baked our own goodies, pies, cakes, and cookies. I was an expert fudge maker LOL. As a teen, I would come home from working at the farmer's market after school and make fudge every Friday night. None of us eleven kids know how our mother did it. LOL. Only one of my siblings who had children had more than two (she had four) and her house was a mad house all the time while they were growing up, ha. I totally failed at being a mother and am so blessed to have the daughter I do who cares for me despite my many failings in that regard.

I just polished off the last of my spaghetti. Of course, when you make that amount, it all gets eaten
in one go because you have so many mouths to feed, but me? It's mine, all mine he hee heeeeee :D
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I always enjoy hearing stories like this about "the good ol' days"............
 
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Godsgirl83 said:
I always enjoy hearing stories like this about "the good ol' days"............
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We always ate all our meals together also. When my dad was working nights, our noon meal was a full-on dinner, and the evening meal a lighter supper. If he was home for the evening meal, our noon meal was a light lunch, and the evening meal a full-on dinner. We went to a near-by school and would walk home at noon, and then back to school for the rest of the afternoon, right into and through high school. We would often visit relatives on a Sunday afternoon after church, and stay for dinner. Can you imagine having a dozen people showing up for dinner? It was not always pre-planned/announced, either, and people would likewise drop in on us on a Sunday afternoon and stay for dinner. My mother would just pull an extra roast out of the deep freeze and cook more veggies and potatoes :D I have been talking quite a bit of late to my twin brother, who has done extensive research into our family tree, giving him lots of stories to share aside from what he remembers. According to him, one time we had over twenty people drop in for Sunday dinner. That would have been multiple families, since none of our relatives rivaled ours' in size LOL. We yearly hosted about thirty or so people for Christmas dinner, so more than forty people for a sit-down meal, and possibly also at Thanksgiving and Easter. Huge turkey with all the fixings, mashed, gravy, cranberry sauce, multiple veggie dishes, and the to-die-for dressing, plus multiple home made pie choices and cakes for dessert. For a time we regularly drove about an hour every Sunday afternoon to visit my mother's only sister and her family, who lived on a rural farm north of us. My mother had three brothers as well, and my dad was from a family of twelve children, so we had lots of aunts and uncles and cousins :)
 
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‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭29:11‬
‭"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
 
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Magenta said:
We always ate all our meals together also. When my dad was working nights, our noon meal was a full-on dinner, and the evening meal a lighter supper. If he was home for the evening meal, our noon meal was a light lunch, and the evening meal a full-on dinner. We went to a near-by school and would walk home at noon, and then back to school for the rest of the afternoon, right into and through high school. We would often visit relatives on a Sunday afternoon after church, and stay for dinner. Can you imagine having a dozen people showing up for dinner? It was not always pre-planned/announced, either, and people would likewise drop in on us on a Sunday afternoon and stay for dinner. My mother would just pull an extra roast out of the deep freeze and cook more veggies and potatoes :D I have been talking quite a bit of late to my twin brother, who has done extensive research into our family tree, giving him lots of stories to share aside from what he remembers. According to him, one time we had over twenty people drop in for Sunday dinner. That would have been multiple families, since none of our relatives rivaled ours' in size LOL. We yearly hosted about thirty or so people for Christmas dinner, so more than forty people for a sit-down meal, and possibly also at Thanksgiving and Easter. Huge turkey with all the fixings, mashed, gravy, cranberry sauce, multiple veggie dishes, and the to-die-for dressing, plus multiple home made pie choices and cakes for dessert. For a time we regularly drove about an hour every Sunday afternoon to visit my mother's only sister and her family, who lived on a rural farm north of us. My mother had three brothers as well, and my dad was from a family of twelve children, so we had lots of aunts and uncles and cousins :)
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Ummm, we are cousin's... such a long read... i'm tired now 💙
 
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oh snagppage!!!

that's how you could wake me up... with Bibical Truths😊🤗😊
 
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Good night friends. Wherever you are, may your morning and evening be restful and embraced in clarity and peace that surpasses understanding, like a tranquil mountain mist... may all your worries fade away now
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Talk to y'all later,
 
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