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Participant[quote=moneymaker]. . . On the way home stopped at Walmart for the salad and for half as much salad it was almost $1 more than Costco used to charge when they carried it. . .[/quote]I just got a Von’s Just4U offer this morning on 13 oz Taylor Farms Salad Kits for $2.17 (serves 2-3). I get similar offers all the time. Also, Ralph’s has had BIG heads of iceberg, green leaf, red leaf and romaine lettuce for 99 cents for at least 4 months now. Very fresh. And Vons/Ralph’s alternate 99-cent lb Roma tomatoes and 1.20 to 1.49 lb tomatoes on the vine.
Since you like salads, try putting these stores’ weekly ads on your e-mail list, moneymaker.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chasing-heroinHard to watch. I would rather not watch the personal stories. . . [/quote]Yes, it was VERY hard to me to watch the (formerly) beautiful 20-year old girl shoot herself up in her neck. She must have eventually nicked her carotid artery because she ended up in intensive care with a deadly heart and lung infection. Her dad had been wringing his hands and feeling powerless because she wasn’t arrested and allowed to get clean in jail due to the “LEAD” experiment going on in the streets at the time. I really felt for him. But she got clean in the hospital and her social worker found her transitional housing where she managed to stay clean. She then moved back in with her dad when her worker signed her up to a methadone clinic. He ended up driving her there every day and that’s where the show ends. We don’t know how (or if) she fared after that.
ParticipantThe Frontline special was almost two hours last night but I missed the first 15 mins. Most of the show was about heroin addiction in the pacific northwest. But the first example in it was a surburban housewife who got addicted to the Vicodin her doctor prescribed for her. Her addiction spun out of control, fast, but she was able to hide it from her kids for about two years and semi-function … until she couldn’t anymore. She ended up getting arrested for prescription forgery and trying to pick up someone else’s prescription at Walgreen’s, who called the police. She was in and out of “drug court” from there, got clean and then fell into meth addiction with a new partner (after leaving her spouse and kids). She ended up having to do time and wasn’t the same physically or mentally after her release.
Her life before Vicodin was solidly “middle class,” even perhaps “upper middle-class.”
The most shocking parts of the show to me was the sheer beauty of the Seattle and Bremerton areas (I’ve never been there) and the sheer numbers of addicts on their streets. Does anyone know why are there so many hard-core addicts in the State of WA?
scaredy, did you see this Frontline special last night on KPBS? If not, you should watch it online. The Piggs would love to hear your “expert” comments … especially on Seattle’s “LEAD experiment.”
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]BG, let me give you an example of a dumb boomer.
My realtor (not really my realtor because I’m not loyal to a buyer’s agent. I prefer to contact listing agent directly) doesn’t know how to convert a picture to pdf. I had to do it for him so he can print it. Dumb.Some processes should be streamlined and simplified with technology.[/quote]FIH, I’ve had pdf conversion software (for 10 years) as well as Mac to PC software and vice versa (20 years) and even photo-conversion software (15 years) for longer than millenials have even realized they existed. I keep regular hours in my very well-equipped home office and get a LOT done everyday.
People like skerzz are “professionals” so they don’t have to compete for jobs with the “problem children” and so don’t have a clue about being rejected in favor of them. I do not have a college degree but possess an ABA-approved paralegal certificate from USD in Business litigation. Our classes were “500-level” classes and I have 33 years experience in the field. The goth chick with the iphone appendage that I described here (or the applicant with the white shirt with black bra peeking out from it) IS my competition today for jobs …. especially if she/he speaks fluent Spanish! (I just borrowed some Rosetta Stone SW and will endeavor to brush up as I have taken ten years worth of Spanish classes, lol.) The bottom line is that employers want young employees. They don’t care what they have to go through with them day-to-day but they want young and I accepted that fact ten years ago.
I’m actually not bitter. I am better off as an “independent contractor.” I’m just really happy that my kids received and are pursuing viable college degrees in fields that are in demand :=)
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=bearishgurl][quote=scaredyclassic]Cal state is awesome[/quote]scaredy, did you kid accept his recent admission offer to Humboldt State?[/quote]
No he got in to sdsu and cal poly Pomona. Still waiting on San Luis obispo, and my first choice, the coast guard academy. I like cal poly Pomona… Location wise it works for me…[/quote]scaredy, that’s a lot to choose from! Congrats to your son! I think if I were him, I would wait for the outcome of my app preference for Cal Poly SLO before deciding. Your son must have had very good “credentials.” Either that, or you didn’t file a FAFSA (or both). (Not filing a FAFSA greatly helps a “B” student to get accepted into CSU as a freshman, IMO.)
Let us know what he decides.
Participant[quote=skerzz][quote=bearishgurl]
skerzz, I have been aware that millenials will “vote with their feet” if they can’t have the type of schedule they want from their employer. But what I have had a hard time understanding is why there has been so much age discrimination in hiring in the past ten years plus when boomers typically come in on time and leave on time, know how to dress and groom themselves for business, express themselves in a businesslike fashion on paper, in person and on the phone and don’t sit around texting all day. It’s mind boggling to me that employers would prefer the “prima-donna problem children” with black sparkle nail polish (who may be slightly pregnant but not telling anyone about it) and have an iphone for an appendage when they could have a very hardworking boomer with 30-40 years of experience and ready to work from day one with no training :=0[/quote]
It’s in a business entity’s best interest to hire employees that deliver the greatest ROI. Considering this, perhaps you’re perception of how great the boomer workforce is and/or how terrible the millennial “prima-donna problem children” are is flawed? I’ve spared a list of common boomer stereotypes that may help explain hiring preferences from my response so you’ll have something to google (a commonly used internet search engine provider) the remainder of the day. :)[/quote]Wow, skerzz, it sounds like you have issues with boomers at your workplace. Are the presence of boomers at your workplace currently blocking a promotion for you and you would rather they just “go away?”
Your response indicates to me that you are in favor of the ongoing overt age discrimination that has been in full force in the private sector for at least 10 years. I hope you never find yourself “looking for work” in middle age :=0
February 24, 2016 at 11:20 AM in reply to: How will unfunded “pensions” affect the local economy? #794841ParticipantGen X and Y’ers would do well to focus on their own financial situations (present and future) and not worry so much about the “boomer” generation becoming a “liability” to them. All their angst over us poor boomers is for naught.
February 24, 2016 at 11:09 AM in reply to: How will unfunded “pensions” affect the local economy? #794838ParticipantPeople who are retired don’t need to live in the “manner they were accustomed to” in the height of their careers. Their expenses are much less by then and almost everyone I know who is 65 or older has a paid off house. Example: most “retirees” around me use one tank of gas per month (max), like I do (unless I’m on a road trip). I don’t understand what all the discussion akin to “boomers are going to be living on the street,” is about. Nothing could be further from the truth. Retirees are not big “consumers,” especially in SD County. Most of them don’t travel much because they don’t feel they need to and never even traveled much when they were working. Their families are here and this is the best place in the country to live.
None of them are going anywhere except to relative’s homes to visit, the grocery store, church, the Lion’s club, their volunteer gig at the library/hospital and out to putter in their gardens.
Financially, this group can outlast all of us and will likely die in their homes, at which time their “heirs” will swoop in and clean the place out and rent it or occupy it. Very few of these homes will ever hit the market.
All this “hoopla” about boomers (esp CA boomers who have greatly benefited from Prop 13 and its progeny) becoming destitute and dependent on public aid is a crock of sh!t. It’s never going to happen.
ParticipantI know a lot of the Vons in SD County are gone now but Vons Just4U is wa-a-a-ay cheaper than Costco for a household of 1-3 people. You have to keep adding things (electronically) to your list every week, and actually start to buy some of them before your Just4U selection gets larger and larger as time goes on. The Just4U prices are dirt cheap and I’m a longtime master at bargain grocery shopping and couponer (which aren’t so plentiful anymore).
Also the AMEX Blue Cash Preferred is the best AMEX card out there.
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/blue-cash-preferred
I’ve only had it for 18 months (closed my Gold Card Acct and opened it) and already got back ~$300 last year (statement credit). It pays 6% back on standalone grocery store purchases and 3% back on standalone gas station purchases. This does NOT include “big box” stores or their gas stations but includes Safeway gas (northern Cal and OOS) and Fry’s gas (Kroger in AZ).
When you combine the Vons Just4U (deep) discounts and pay with the Amex Blue Cash Preferred, your savings are even better than the prices at military commissaries (which I DO visit 2-3 times per year when my youngest kid is present and able to get me in)!
ParticipantThere’s a show on mainstream opioid addiction right now on KPBS. It’s very interesting.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]Cal state is awesome[/quote]scaredy, did you kid accept his recent admission offer to Humboldt State?
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=The-Shoveler]”home-based daycare”
I know one that was doing it for 600 a month for toddlers.But it was not in San Diego.[/quote]
That’s day care in someone’s messy house?[/quote]brian, once again … never having been a parent yourself, you have no idea what licensed home daycare providers have to go through day to day and month to month. They can be checked by their licensing entity at any time with no notice and actually are. It’s just as bad (or worse) than dealing the Covered CA :=0
Participant[quote=yamashi1][quote=bearishgurl]Public universities in CA don’t even care what extracurricular activities your kid did in HS! My kids were BUSY in HS with a rigorous schedule of performing in HS’s all over the state for YEARS and the CSU mentor (application portal for the CSU Admissions Board) gave them no credit whatsoever for it[/quote]From my experience I have found this to be false. Not sure what CSU schools require for admission, but when I was applying to numerous undergraduate schools this was a large part of the admission criteria. In addition, many essays required me to use material from my extracurricular activities to display my leadership abilities etc; and when interviewed I was always asked these questions.[/quote]yamashi, the CSU hasn’t required or even wanted an essay from an applicant in at least ten years. I don’t believe the UC requires essays for admission, either. (Any Pigg please correct me if I’m wrong about this.)
And neither system uses the writing portion of the SAT to factor into an applicant’s composite SAT score. If they did, the SAT scores of those many thousands of “deep-pocketed” foreign applicants (who “look good” on paper but often have little command of the English language in real life) would fall …. hard …. thus, the UC/CSU wouldn’t be able to admit as many full-freight-paying freshmen who have the financial ability to “stick it out” for the long haul. I’m sure they feel they need to admit as many foreign applicants as possible to keep their “budgets balanced.”
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]Daycare,
Probably why most grown kids keep close to their parents.
I know more than a few boomers who take care of their grandkids.[/quote]Yes, there are a few of those around me. Some actually helped their kids buy a nearby house (preferably on the same block as they live on). Or purchased it outright for them.
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