Granny's gone and done it again

[BigBlueHen53]

Those were the days, my friend.

Yeah but wages were like $1.50/hr.

 

[ShrekDawg]

YEah but wages were lije $1.50/hr.

 

[microchick]

My dad used to work pumping gas back in the day. I can remember 'gas wars' in town where the gas would go below 19 cents a gallon. He would call home and tell mom to bring the car down quick and fill it up before the boss told him to raise the price back up again.

When I graduated from nursing college my starting pay was something like 7.45 an hour with second shift differential. Cashiers at the local grocer store were making over 10$ an hour. I was insulted.......

Here, I can pick up Amish eggs for 1.75 a dozen. When my girls are too old to lay I'll definitely buy from the local Amish women. No store eggs for me. Those things just taste nasty, even nastier since I found out how long they sit around in warehouses before being shipped out...

Well, it got up to 7 here today. Down to 2 right now but they say temps rising to 7 or 8 overnight. We shall see.

Tottering off to make tacos for DH for his dinner tonight and something bland, ground and unappetizing for me to eat.

 

[ValerieJ]

Yeah but wages were like $1.50/hr.

Yes, as a single mom I made $345/mo. I tried to get food stamps to help out and I made too much money for that. I would have to buy the food stamps for more money than I actually budgeted for food. Food was $11/wk, food stamps were $15, but you'd get $25 worth of food. But my budget was $11! I couldn't pay $15. Then she said, well, if you quit your job, you could get $365 in welfare and free food stamps of $25/week. You wouldn't have to buy gas or pay for babysitting, and you wouldn't even have to have a car.

That's how they would get people on the gravy train back in the early 70's in CA. I opted to keep my job and feed us on $11/week worth of groceries. With a job I had potential and upward mobility, with government assistance I would be stuck there indefinitely.

 

[lovesfarms]

One good thing about it being this cold... We actually think 20-30 is warm. If it never goes this low, we think 20-30 is cold! If the guessers are right, it will be warm on Saturday. Yaayy!!!

 

[microchick]

Yes, as a single mom I made $345/mo. I tried to get food stamps to help out and I made too much money for that. I would have to buy the food stamps for more money than I actually budgeted for food. Food was $11/wk, food stamps were $15, but you'd get $25 worth of food. But my budget was $11! I couldn't pay $15. Then she said, well, if you quit your job, you could get $365 in welfare and free food stamps of $25/week. You wouldn't have to buy gas or pay for babysitting, and you wouldn't even have to have a car.

That's how they would get people on the gravy train back in the early 70's in CA. I opted to keep my job and feed us on $11/week worth of groceries. With a job I had potential and upward mobility, with government assistance I would be stuck there indefinitely.

I salute you Valerie. Tough choice and totally unfair that they wouldn't offer you food stamps for your kids. In the mid west they have WIC women, infants and children which is a food assistance program for, well, women, infants and children.

The problem I witnessed with food stamps in IL was that a lot of people abused them. I often thought it was the reason many couldn't get them who really needed the assistance.

 

[troyer]

Is this true?

 

[troyer]

It seems the faster I go, the behinder I get.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Is this true?View attachment 4033588

Troyer, yes. I saw on tonight's CBS news that snowplows were deployed from Indiana (I think) to New Orleans to clean up several inches of snow, and they were showing white-out conditions there in LA. My DD shot me a pic of about half an inch to an inch where she lives near the coast of TX south of Houston, which got 4".

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It seems the faster I go, the behinder I get.View attachment 4033594

Ya gotta get here every night if you wanna keep up, Buddy!