Chevy ང flex fuel - love it! Big saving on price now, used to buy Olds.
Posted By: gemini on 2008-11-17
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Ford Flex?
Anyone have one or know anything about one? We are in the market for an 8-seater and we are investigating both minivan and crossover options. TIA.
14 year olds
 Boy I feel your pain. I have 14 year old twin girls. They do well in school, but boy are they smart mouths sometimes:)
My husband says it is because of fuel prices...sm
The stores have to pay so much to have the food delivered because it costs the trucks so much in fuel. My husband drives an 18 wheeler and you would not believe what it costs to deliver those loads. He doesn't haul food. But the fuel price for what he hauls is insane. It cost about $6000 just in fuel to haul some chemicals in a tanker to Montana from Mississippi. That is not counting what the owner of the truck has to pay the driver for taking the load up there. So you can kind of get an idea now why the food is going up like it is.
Who is on the $10 bill? According to two seven year olds, it's President...(sm)
George Clooney!! Ha!! My daughter said it the other day, and tonight I heard her friend say the same thing. They sat in the back seat of the car arguing with my 10-year-old that they were absolutely sure. My son, also slightly misinformed said, "George Clooney is a comedian" to which my daughter's friend replied, "No, a comedian is someone who works with animals." These really are pretty smart kids most of the time - but I got a huge kick out of their "facts" tonight! HA!
Oh good. We do try to be as conservative as possible when it comes to fuel economy.
Not just for environmental impact, but it is financially essential these days. Thankfully, our rig runs on gasoline instead of diesel, but we are still keeping an eye on cost and may have to consider at least a semi-permanent location. Before we started this adventure, we agreed when fuel and site rental costs more than a house payment monthly, we would might just blindfold ourselves, pick a page in the atlas, and toss a dart to pick our new hometown. Unfortunately, that may happen.
Well, I had to send my twin 3-year-olds to a school.
They are there all day long and I work all day. Paying for the daycare and making more money is about equal to when I worked at home with them in my way, only I am more sane for it and they are learning great social skills. I would really consider changing your hours and putting them in school/daycare/learning center, even if just for a few hours a day. It does help.
Like I said, I feel for you. I have twin 3-year-olds, and I swear they seem worse than when they were 2! LOL!
Is it just me or does the fuel surcharge for speeders sound like another way to raise taxes? nm
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Chevy
Thanks Tristen! Ya know I am embarrassed to say, but before my first pitbull Choppa I was one of those skeptical that bought into the media displaying them as bad dogs cuz u hear so much, but I fell in love with Choppa the minute I saw him & he REALLY opened my eyes up to the breed. I am thankful for him coming into my life. And I know if it hadn't been for me falling in love with the breed then I hate to say, but I wouldn't have stopped and tried to get Chevy. These dogs have opened my eyes to so many things. I mean, it is amazing to me that they can love again with all their heart after what all they go through. This is a remarkable breed & I thank God for having them in my life every single day!
Chevy
I enjoyed reading about Chevy, thanks for all you have done for him, you are wonderful parents, he is so lucky you stopped for him, people like you give me hope for the animals.
We have a Chevy HHR and a Jeep sm
The HHR is the first "new" car we have had, and it was a year old when we bought it. DH also had a Chevy C-10 pickup truck that he sold a couple of months ago because it needed a transmission. The Jeep was my mom's that she sold to us when she moved a couple of years ago. We have mostly had GM products. The only foreign car we ever had was a 1985 Mercedes 300 SEL that turned into a money pit. We ended up selling it a year after we bought it and barely got back what we paid. It was a nice car for about 2 months but unless I can afford to buy new with a warranty, which will most likely be never, I wouldn't buy another one. My dad drives Toyotas now, which is so funny because he is the one who got me into liking classic cars like Mustangs, Impalas, Firebirds, etc.
saving self
In saving yourself, you WILL be helping them by setting an example and showing the both of them how a strong woman survives.
They may never, ever realize what they are doing to you and you may be in for rough waters ahead as you try to extricte youself from this because living like this has become the norm among the 3 of you.
The nature of this beast is that you never see it coming, you always think you are doing the "right thing" until it gets to the point where you feel you can't take it anymore and then you wonder where in the world you went wrong. Then you're hit with another guilt trip.
Once you can get free and find a therapist to explain to you how THEY think this greatly helps you deal with undeserved feelings of guilt which is a fast track to depression. If you're dealing with true mental illness in them, get a pro to explain to you how their illness works in them and how it affects you in YOUR particular circumstances and then work on ways of dealing with it once you understand better what is going on. Your anger and frustration and everything else that is eating away at you will be directed toward the illness and the drugs, etc. and not them. You acquire a balanced perspective and the guilt and depression begin to subside as strength returns as you begin to see things as they truly are.
Check out those books. They will bring you much comfort and help give you courage and direction. But please seek help for yourself. You are entrenched in this more than you realize. A pro can help you out quicker than the books by focusing on YOU. I recommend both.
I am saving some now so we have - sm
a cushion for emergencies. After all the bills are paid each month we have about $500 if my calculations is correct. I don't want to rely on that, want more if necessary. Just saving $50 a week and set aside $1000 from selling back 2 weeks on my DHs vacation pay. Have an $400 propane bill coming due around Dec. 26, and then $500 in car insurance in Feb., and just had to pay about $500 for personal property tax...due today. But I will have that $3K paid off I hope by March. I make about $800 every 2 weeks and only need $800 a month for my cc payments right now--so will use the other $800 to pay off the rest of his cards. My hardship plans are only for a year, guess I will have to renegotiate then if I don't go the debt settlement route, but it will take me like 10 years to pay it all off otherwise. Totally sucks, but I made the mess, need to clean it up. Mine was caused by too much spending, family death, family serious illness, loss of job due to taking care of family member, private school payments, just too much going out and not enough coming in. Luckily we have lots saved in 401K, but only borrowed enough to pay off his cards (shy about $2K on what we borrowed); I am to fix my mess which is $10k worse than his. But all is going okay, and my DH came thru like a trooper surprising me, he is still mad and totally lost it last week on me one night but kids intervened, and no they don't know anything, though he does make little remarks in front of them though I have told him not to. If they figure it out I will explain the evils of credit cards, we do tell them that anyway, but they will know first hand how quickly it can get away from you. We will be okay, though cash poor for five years. I am working on getting a job outside the home and am on the second step of a job now that is $28K a year from 8-4:30; so I can still do some MT--which I would do and use that money for gas and childcare. I'd miss the freedom I have now but would make about $800 more a month if I get this job and still do about $600 a month with MT, which would more than cover the gas and childcare since I only need it for about 90 mins after school. We will see how it goes.
My 1986 Chevy Nova....
Cars you have to actually drive yourself.
Keyboards
Coal-powered electric plants
Anything that runs on gasoline
Push mowers--come on, they should be able to make something like the Roomba, only for grass that doesn't cost more than my paycheck.
People who think I am a Satan worshipper because I decorate my yard for Halloween.
Saving photos to CD
Does anyone know how to save digital photos (in My Pictures) to a CD? Do you need to download a program for that or is it possible just with what I've got in my computer? I need to get them off of my computer and saved. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
well he's a musician and says he's saving up for
he has bought 2 different pieces of music equipment this year. He angrily offered to pay the electric bill from his savings, even wrote a check but I couldn't take it.
Quite honestly I have never been in love with him, he loves me oldest son very much so it's hard to just tell him to leave because his own dad has never met him and barely pays child support. SO and i have a son together so it's a complicted situation. I really just wish he would hurry up and go on the road so at least I would have a chance to see how I feel without him. He also works for his mother and stays over at her house a few nights out of the week. She is in her 60s and alone and she needs a lot of help. So, by the time he gets home here he is tired from working and helping her so he just wants to veg out all the time. I guess from his POV i don't have anything else to do but clean since i'm here all the time but my god I like to have time to do things too. I have dreamed of the day I tell him to leave but I can't bear to break my children's hearts. We have an on again/off again relationship and have been back together for 2-1/2 years now and I figure it's just pointless to break it off again. But i can't bring it to myself to marry him because of all of the above. Suze Orman said it best: Love is easy. Finding somebody you LIKE is the hard part.
meant to say you would be saving other - sm
women if you testify, ignore the "not". Not reading what I typed obviously.
My DH drives a Chevy Malibu Maxx...
I have a 2005 Buick LeSabre and we also have an older Ford Explorer that DH kept to use for hauling "stuff".....
I've never had anything but an American made car........... LOL, I'm not exactly a car salesperson's dream customer........ I keep my cars forever......
1972 Plymouth Duster
1984 Buick Skyhawk
1996 Buick Century
2005 Buick Skyhawk..........
only 4 cars in over 30 years......
93 Buick LeSabre and 93 Chevy Silverado
The truck mileage sucks, only 12 mpg. Hubby wanted to buy a Toyota this year but with his work being so slow, he's stuck with the Chevy. He's had nothing but problems with it.
My last car was a ྙ Olds Delta 98 LS. 30 mpg. It turned out to be a flood car, but we got 5 years use. The flood didn't reach the engine. The engine was like brand new, only 45,000 miles when we bought it in 2003. I miss it. It went to the car graveyard after we took the engine out to put in the Buick above.
We always pay cash for our cars, so really don't ever buy brand new. Got the Buick for nothing because it had a blown engine and I found 3 cents in it to boot. Now that's a deal. LOL
We owned a Datsun Maxima back in the 80s, but it was a diesel and I didn't like it. Gave me backache, and the only other foreign car we owned was a ྄ Opel. That was a good car and comfortable to drive.
We always bought American.
I hear you on the saving water, etc. sm
We also had the low water toilets in our last place, upgraded one of them to a better model because the plumbers said the standard ones were terrible and we were going to hate them, but it still had problems and not cheap!!. We're always conscious about running water around here for washing dishes, brushing teeth, etc. and would like to buy a different washer but can't afford right now, tryin' to do our part, ya know... I don't know about your low water toilets but ours were a joke, had to flush sometimes 3 or 4 times to get #2 to go down, had to have plungers beside each, which our guests had to use also. We wondered where the water-saving feature came in if you had to flush multiple times to get it to work. Was really embarrassing for us and people who stayed when they had to tell us they plugged the toilet up or couldn't get it to go down, but don't know what the solution is, maybe a different diet?? Lol, and quiz everyone who stays with you about their bowel habits and proceed with caution when using our facilities... We don't live there anymore, but maybe someone here has some suggestions on this... Don't mean to hijack your post, but am interested if someone has suggestions on brands.
Of course be mad. Tell him start saving HIS money,
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I totally agree, my Chevy Suburban has 213,000 miles on it - sm
and going strong. Though they are a lot cheaper used now, friends got theirs for about $14K, we paid $26K, ours was 2 years old when we bought it in 1999, their's was about 5 years old in 2005. Granted we could save some on gas, and my DH is constantly trying to get me to get a new car to save money on gas. But I see little point in spending $30K so I can save $50 a month on gas. I plan on running my Suburban into the ground and then picking up a smaller used SUV or a wagon of some sort (Honda, Toyota). But I still have 2-3 years before that happens with any luck.
One 2006 german VW and one 2008 chevy truck. nm
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Do you guys have any money saving tips?
BF and I want to buy a house.
Post your money saving tips
Times are tough, gas prices through the roof, food costs climbing... what are you doing to compensate? I'm lucky to live in a walkable community. I'm glad that I can work at home and not have to use so much gas, but I do use my car for errands. Since I am able to walk to the grocery store, doctor's offices, post office and friends' homes that's what I'm doing these days. Last week I used my car only once.
That's just the first big step (pun intended). How about everyone else? What are you doing (or forced to do) with rising prices?
Burn Notice, Army Wives, Closer, Saving Grace
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I could never put a price on that.
and the price is going up! nm
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Not sure of price
I got mine years ago but my son just bought one and I think he might have spent around $100. Still worth the price since it wouldn't take Direct TV long to eat up $100.
price of
Hedge funds setting the price of oil worries me a lot more.
Price tags
Did they have the items priced with tags? I hate it when I go to a sale and no prices on items. I have had a few sales and always price items. It helps, but there are still the hagglers which drives me nuts. If you can afford a quarter, you can probably afford fifty cents. LOL.
Don't know what price range
you're looking at, but my husband is a vet, not in private practice anymore, and people used to give him gift certificates to Omaha Steaks, which he loved, and sometimes gave them himself to clients. I think sometimes they run specials on their website and could maybe get something for under 50 or 40. Another thing he really liked when in private practice, but he was large animal kind of out in the boonies, was Schwann's (sp). He said he used to keep a refrigerator with food and treats from Schwann's in case he couldn't leave and his people had to stay over to help.
If the descrepancy in price was not there....
they would have to. So long as MTs anywhere are willing to work for 3 to 4 cpl, quality will always be sacrificed. There are US companies that will take the cheapest MTs they can get, without worrying about quality, and those MTs don't make the corrections either. As long as anyone can offer the service at such drastically reduced prices, end users will sacrifice quality for price when cost is to the driving factor.
Look at generic foods. Most people by foods based on taste first, price second. Generic foods have had to increase their taste (quality) to be able to compete. The savings they gain are in lack of advertising, which they pass on to the consumer, which is how they undercut prices on the shelf. In the MT world, the cost was low enough that the end consumer was willing to sacrifice quality. Now, the US provider is having to compete with that cost profile, ergo the downturn in our ability to make $$. They are willing to sacrifice sentence structure, etc, so long as certain items are met to take the lower cost. So long as the lower cost drives an industry where the end consumer is willing to sacrifice quality, cost will always be the driving factor. Therefore, if the offshore (and low-paying US)MTSOs would increase their price, quality would become the primary difference, and MOST substandard MTs in all countries would simply find nobody willing to use their services, which would only benefit the industry regardless of the individual's geographic location.
Umm... what's that got to do with the price of eggs?
That was a pretty off-subject, incoherent rant.
Have you seen the price of Spam? sm
I don't think it is economical, especially given what is in it. I also remember when you got ham in a funny shaped can and whole chickens too.
as the to reference to Spamolot, which is now a Broadway musical...
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day. Then something about on Tuedays I go to town in mummy's panties and a bra!
I love Monty Python.
Yep. OIl companies don't like the price low.
They cut production to get the prices up again. If we're not _____ by the oil nations, we're ____ by the American oil companies. G-R-E-E-D is the name of the game in the last few years.
Government tells us to cut our driving. Well, I hate to tell them but between a pickup and a car, we drove a total of 5,838 miles last year, and most of that mileage was 100 miles a day for DH to go to work. I get to the store once a month anymore, 2 mile round trip. The only thing I can cut down on is to walk to the store and back. Been there done that, but I'm no spring chicken and carrying 5 bags or more, well....you'd see a bag every 100 feet. 
usually it's half price
But most places you sneak food rather than pay :)
Just cuz of the price doesn't always mean it is
the best product. I have watched many segments on talk shows that prove the same ingredients are in expensive products as well as inexpensive products, and some of these products don't work at all. I'm not saying there aren't some really good products out there, but Suave does just as good a job on my hair as anything else on the market.
I'll add mine so someone can get 3 for the price of 1! ...nm
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Any VW owners know price of a radiator & fan? (sm)
My car broke down this afternoon! I heard a loud noise like I had run over something, pulled over and saw all the coolant and water pouring from my radiator. The fan broke and a blade went into the radiator. I pulled inrto the nearest repair shop (lucky for me one was really close) and they gave me an estimate of $1200!!!! My husband had it towed to a mechanic he uses, but I am curious since my car is a VW how much should it cost to get this fixed??
One can't put a price tag on what Christmas really means but...sm
if we didn't set limits/budgets in our household then we'd end up spending a cazillion bucks on the season. Having limits set helps keeps us on track of not getting carried away buying gifts yet lets us purchase gifts for people to Celebrate the season.... just as the wise men took gifts when Jesus was born to celebrate his birth. Setting limits gives everyone who is buying in our family line parameters for what kind of gifts they need to look at. Fortunately no one in our family line needs anything per se but that doesn't mean you shouldn't give them a gift. We do buy gifts in addition for foster kids and that comes from a different section of our family budget.
To try lamb without the high price,
you might buy the blade chops. The cuts of lamb I've had have been very rich and high in fat, and I highly recommend putting at least rosemary on it. It will smell like something a chef would make.
what price range...I see they are very expensive
I need a great shampooer.
What is the weather, What is the price, size, etc. sm
I am freezing up here. Would love to be able to buy and not rent.
I got you beat on the price you paid
I will not tell you what year I bought my home but it was 15,500. Yep, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath and stayed for a long time. Sold about a year or so ago for 165,000. I had added on over the years and had 2 baths and 3 bedrooms when sold plus other updates. Pretty good profit, huh?
It is supposed to triple in price s/m
in Michigan. Our local store informed us that as of April 1st, our $18 bag that we get will triple and is now taking orders for people to stock up (apparently you can freeze it). I personally do not smoke, but my DH does. He rolls as well and I'm just a person that stakes out the prices, LOL. He said that he wants to preorder several bags and plans on slowly quitting. He has tried the patches, gum, medication, etc, but I think in the long run, pricing will be what does it! Yeah for me!
Geez. I've never seen that price.
We have a produce store right down the street. They sell dairy, meats, breads, snacks, canned good, but the produce is what I go for.
Bananas are usually 3 lb. for $1, red peppers in the winter are 2 for $1, green 3 and sometimes 4 for $1, packaged radishes 3 bags for $1, lemons and limes 6 for $1, apples are $1 a basket, and globe tomatoes are 2 pints for $1. Fresh white mushrooms are 99 cents a pound and portabellos are $1.99 a pound (expensive in my eyes but fresh). cukes 4 for $1. They have fresh zuchini, egglant, yellow squash, yellow and orange peppers, asparagus, fresh herbs, you name it. Oh, they did up the price on lettuce and celery. They used to be 2 for $1 and now they're $1 a piece. They sell potatoes loose or by the basket, usually no more than $1.50. A 50 pound bag of red or white potatoes last week was $11.95.
They also sell bread at 2 loaves for $1.75. It used to be 2 loaves for $1.25.
I love this store but if I don't get there as soon as they open, I can't get in. It gets packed and there's not a parking spot to be found. Gee, wonder why?
Are you kidding?? That's a GREAT price. I'm going to Target. (sm)
Oh, the hot tub scene was great! I first thought it was blood, though, and I thought she got her period. Maybe the color on my TV is off?
you need to buy the brush to put it on, total price for the first time is $28
you can apply it in two different ways, one way in which you let your moisturizer dry and the put it on and another is use a bit of moisturizer to get that "dewy" look. Also you should always start off with less (at least with our brand) because it is layerable for a fuller-coverage. Also there are 6 different shades to choose from so you should be able to find a perfect match.
Asking you experts - where to buy "wireless" headphones, best price???
This is for a Christmas gift for my husband. He loves boxing and I hate it, so I would rather read in peace, Thanks for your help. Don't want "used." So I guess it's actually my gift to myself, I guess!
NetMed has a price calculator on their website...15 cpl..
called apples to oranges. Shows how they calculate how they charge clients and how they pay per line.
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