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Skriven 2007-11-05 16:16:04 av Carol Shenkenberger (1:261/1466.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: Home Again The 71104
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 -=> Quoting Glen Jamieson to Carol Shenkenberger <=-

 GJ> With Charlotte, I guess that motivation is the secret for her success.
 
 CS> That and she likes the teacher, a japan sized mexican lady.

 GJ> That helps a lot, too.

It definately does! Shes all fired up to not disappoint the teacher.  She's
been
doing about 45mins a day all weekend long to 'catch up'.  This in addition to 
her homework.

 CS> truck.   Huge unit, can hold 1/2 a cow easy. Once I saw it, I recalled
 CS> what a MONSTER it 
 CS> really is.  7'9" long, 3ft wide, 3.5ft deep.  Its really restraunt
 CS> stuff or something you see at a full fledged farm.
 
 GJ> Or perhaps in a hospital morgue!

Hehe you could fit several people in there, yes.  I'd say 6 at 160lbs each
easy.
 
 CS> 'Donate' means at cost of parts.  They found a label and as we's
 CS> gotten it used
 CS> we hadnt realized it was as old as it was.  Top of the line stuff in
 CS> 1954.  All
 CS> it needed was a compressor replaced and it was easy to get at due to
 CS> design. 

 GJ> If that freezer was in otherwise good condition it would be very
 GJ> useful for an organisation like that, although it would be expensive to
 GJ> run. 

Yes.  They run a soup kitchen and were trying to find something.  This isnt a
small scale operation.  They also hold donated food for distribution.  Turns
out they'd had the word out at several places locally for such a unit and are
very very happy.  I believe the parts were not but 30$ and the labor and all
was free.  We let our name be passed on to them and got a nice thank you call
from the Paster.  After chatting, they are going to collect used candle wax 
for us and we will return free hurricane (typhoon) candles in pillar form once
we get our stuff settled.  They pass them out to the folks who need them and
can't afford store prices.  Seems others do that too but they always have more
wax than the candlemakers can keep up with.  Heck, I can only make 2 pillars
at a time too due to molds on hand and i dont exactly do it every day.

 GJ> How do you save on food costs?  By bulk buying large cuts of meat,
 
 CS> Combination but we dont get whole sides of lamb or anything like that.
 CS> Its  still a family of 3 here.  We do get larger cuts, trim them down
 CS> to what we  need and freeze it in parts.  We also can get 'value family
 CS> packs' (10 lbs or more of whatever) and have room to store it.
 
 CS> We dont normally get much pre-frozen food, but some things are sold
 CS> that way such as little snacky frozen things but they go on
 CS> 'loss-leader' sales so we get them then and stock lots.  Kinda like
 CS> your meatpies, we get things a bit like that.  Our fav Chicken Burritos
 CS> for example are about 33-40cents each but go on 'loss-leader sales' for
 CS> 10 to a dollar now and again. With an extra freezer, you can get 30 at
 CS> that price.        
 CS> Chicken goes on loss-leader sale for 39-49cents and we can get (and
 CS> store) 6 months worth vice paying the more normal .89-1.19lb price.  We
 CS> can also have  lots of room to store a bird carcass and when enough are
 CS> gathered, make our own stock so we don't have to buy it at .75cents a
 CS> can (and get all their extra CS> sodium they add to the cans).

 GJ> I can see how you would save lots that way.  Unfortunately our
 GJ> s/markets don't do that below-cost selling of "loss-leaders", but only
 GJ> weekly specials; and I am sure they still make money on those.

Ah, then you may not make much savings even with a small one.  I didnt get much
'loss leader' in Sasebo but the prices fluctuated so wildly that it saved money
as we'd get things when they were just cheaper.  We'd stock up when beef hit a 
mere 3.99lb (same cuts here, now 1.19$-1.79$).
 
 GJ> I do freeze stuff I get in bulk, such as the dog's bones and dried
 GJ> prawns, and occasional left-overs, but not much else.


Not worth it then in your case <grin>.

             xxcarol

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