Granny's gone and done it again

[BigBlueHen53]

Been making chicken soup the last couple days. Some Bug got DH and there's not much better then hot chicken broth. He's been drinking Thera Flu. That has Tylenol and Benadryl in it. It is helping and then I don't have to crush Tylenol.

Oof, farms, hope he feels better soon!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I had six cockerels in my refrigerators. Gave away two tonight, one to SIL and the other to my neighbor, along with some eggs. I already have plenty chickens in the freezer and the eggs are taking up space in the fridge. I just don't know enough people to build up a customer base for sales. As an egg business I'm an utter failure, lol.

 

[Nomadicus]

I had six cockerels in my refrigerators. Gave away two tonight, one to SIL and the other to my neighbor, along with some eggs. I already have plenty chickens in the freezer and the eggs are taking up space in the fridge. I just don't know enough people to build up a customer base for sales. As an egg business I'm an utter failure, lol.

It's impossible to compete with big national businesses that can make a huge profit on just a few cents a bird or dozen eggs. The sad thing is it takes those businesses to feed the masses. It's in the math and math is cold calculating without feelings. Just facts.

 

[microchick]

I had six cockerels in my refrigerators. Gave away two tonight, one to SIL and the other to my neighbor, along with some eggs. I already have plenty chickens in the freezer and the eggs are taking up space in the fridge. I just don't know enough people to build up a customer base for sales. As an egg business I'm an utter failure, lol.

Somebody asked me once if I was selling my eggs and I told them no, every other Amish farm has a sign up saying Farm Eggs For Sale. They only ask 1.75 for them and less than that you may as well give them away which is what I do. We have fantastic ladies that run the local post office and another is our mail carrier who is just a gem of a lady so I save up eggs till I have 6 dozen and set them by the mail box for pick up when they deliver the mail.

The rest of them get hard boiled, crushed up and fed back to the birds for extra protein like now when they are molting.

Speaking of outlandish prices getting more outlandish. Saw a video on X today of a young man who was checking his Walmart orders and found a grocery order for a months worth of groceries two years ago that was 140 odd dollars. Out of curiosity, he hit the reorder this order button and clicked on it. Same groceries, two years later, 441 dollars. He was shaking he was so amazed and stunned.

Frankly, I find it frightening.

 

[Nomadicus]

Somebody asked me once if I was selling my eggs and I told them no, every other Amish farm has a sign up saying Farm Eggs For Sale. They only ask 1.75 for them and less than that you may as well give them away which is what I do. We have fantastic ladies that run the local post office and another is our mail carrier who is just a gem of a lady so I save up eggs till I have 6 dozen and set them by the mail box for pick up when they deliver the mail.

The rest of them get hard boiled, crushed up and fed back to the birds for extra protein like now when they are molting.

Speaking of outlandish prices getting more outlandish. Saw a video on X today of a young man who was checking his Walmart orders and found a grocery order for a months worth of groceries two years ago that was 140 odd dollars. Out of curiosity, he hit the reorder this order button and clicked on it. Same groceries, two years later, 441 dollars. He was shaking he was so amazed and stunned.

Frankly, I find it frightening.

Yes it is very sobering if not frightening.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good peeps of Granny Land I must bid you goodnight once again while I can find my pillow under my own power. See you in the funny papers.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Wow. But how do today's wages compare to two years ago? When I got married in '71, my DH was earning about $2.50/ hr in the construction trades. When my son graduated hs and went to work as a laborer on a construction crew, they paid him $18.50/ hr. That was in ... about 1993. Today it's about $24/ hr.

 

[Nomadicus]

Wow. But how do today's wages compare to two years ago? When I got married in '71, my DH was earning about $2.50/ hr in the construction trades. When my son graduated hs and went to work as a laborer on a construction crew, they paid him $18.50/ hr. That was in ... about 1993. Today it's about $24/ hr.

And that is why a box shaped 3/2 new to build house was recently quoted at 360,000 for a local friend of mine. A plain out box home. N0 basement or garage even. No crystal chandeliers.

 

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