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Skriven 2015-12-31 11:29:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: Re: eel  was: Chambord
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-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 12-30-15  18:18 <=-

 >  >  RH> if anyone empties them.  Or what else gets tossed in there.  
 >  > I wouldn't use the parking lot donation bins... I keep getting calls
 >  > from the local Big Brothers/Big Sisters and from the Viet Vets...
 >  > probably the AmVets, too...  and there's also the SA and VOA locally... 
 >  RH> I'd go with something like the latter; Big Brothers/Big Sisters has an
 >  RH> agreement with Savers.  That's a for-profit. 
 > I might be more likely to give it to the Vietnam Vets anyway, as my
 > friend Caroline's sons were members of that group, so there's a "family"
 > connection to them...  I know where their shop is, too...  :)
 > 
 RH> I wish we had one of those. A lot of my local donations go to the
 RH> local university hospital's thrift.  They help folks pay for medical
 RH> treatment insurance doesn't cover.
 
That's a good thing to support, too...  :)

 >  >  RH> and stirred in the milk.  Mixed the cake mix into that and baked in
a
 >  >  RH> 350F oven.  Results? Sweet sticky goo.  
 >  > Was it tasty anyway...?  (G)  I don't think it needed the milk...  ;)
 >  RH> It made it easier to stir/mix. Tastes good, if overly sweet.  
 > Hmmm... I might not have nuked the chips and mallows... just stirred
 > them into the cake mix... maybe then they wouldn't have turned it into
 > goo, even with the milk...?

 RH> The marshmallows would have melted, but the rest wouldn't have.  

So it wouldn't have been goo...  or was that what you were after, after
all...?  :)
 
 >  > putting the price on each individual item and just went with the shelf
 >  > tags and barcodes...  Pretty sure it only applies to apparent
 >  > overcharges...  ;)
 >  RH> No one complains about undercharges.  I've ended up with my share of
 >  RH> freebies that way.
 > We've pointed out omissions on restaurant tabs before... often just get
 > told to not worry about it...  :)   An undercharge at the grocery
 > usually we just figure was an unadvertised special... ;)

 RH> Or a clip to card coupon, or don't you have those? 

Not sure what you mean by that...  Shoppers Club card discounts we do
have, those I'm expecting to come off at the register...

 RH> The other week I got meat close to free.  Ground turkey was $5.29 for
 RH> a pound package, and someone on staff put $5 meat markdown coupons on
 RH> a lot of the packages.  I didn't get greedy, but did tell others to go
 RH> get it.  The store rather obviously wanted it gone.

I guess so...!   :)   29 cents isn't bad at all for a pound of meat,
even if it is ground turkey....  ;)   Probably had what they figured was
an overrun of them, and didn't want to have them go bad on them....

ttyl        neb

... I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now

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