gas prices and general misery in the world just depresses me, worse than my job LOL

• POLL: How do you handle stress when you're having a bad day transcribing? - EmmaMT
  • I have a hugfest with my dogs. Works every time! nm - Lifer
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  • a couple of things - KB
  • I go for a run on my treadmill to a really upbeat CD. - Avid Runner
  • take my lunch break and take a dip in the pool - very relaxing, but hard to get out sometimes...nm
  • Me, too, but it's the dark chocolate. I get up and do something else, have a few bites, and then - back to it, reluctantly. :( nm
  • I get a pikc-me-up drink from Starbucks or - Dunkins...drinkable junk food you could say!
    • oops that should say "pick" me up.. obviously! - nm :-)
  • I turn on the news and realize that I am safe and blessed. - And then I gratefully go back to work.
    • Exactly what I do - but we are only temporarily. - blessed - we never know in today's world
  • I listen to my favorite music. - nm
    • I look at traffic reports... - mt
      • gas prices and general misery in the world just depresses me, worse than my job LOL - nm

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I feel better knowing it's not just me.  This whole year so far has been the pits!  But...I do have faith that things will turn around and get better...

..but gas here is $2.73 (cheap stuff) 

Home prices have gone through the roof here.  We sold our home last year for 250, and we bought it 2 yrs prior for 170.  In our area, homes sell before they even make it to the MLS listings. 

I am an IC and have no problem finding work.  I have actually turned away 2 offices last week.

Oh, health insurance, may not want to hear this one--we pay 200. per week for a family of four.

I live in the Tampa area.

Best of luck,

Sunny!

This got buried on the second page, but I pointed out that Bounty paper towels are more at Walmart than my local grocer.  Someone replied back saying that overall the grocery store is more.  Nope.  This is my reply:

The paper towel price increase is not a momentary thing.  I started comparing prices a few years ago between Walmart and the grocery store.  I used to buy food at the grocery store and everything else at Walmart.  Until Walmart got to be just as expensive or MORE expensive in some cases than the grocery store.  It is NOT just paper towels.  Same with Era detergent.  Same with a multitude of other products.  Walmart has gotten GREEDY.

Now I clip coupons for the paper goods, cleaners and what not and the grocery store doubles any coupons 50 cents or less (I don't use them if they don't double).  So with the prices being less than Walmart to begin with, plus using coupons, I come out WAY ahead.  So I don't even make a Walmart trip at all anymore.  Might as well just buy everything at the grocery store.  It's closer, more convenient, and CHEAPER.

I'll want to use my A/C in my car plus do a little extra driving in the summertime.

Right now it's costing me about $44 to $46 to fill my tank up.  It HURTS! 

Thinking about buying  a bicycle to get around town on!  lol

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are priced to sale and firm.  I've seen people price something that was worth close to $100 for $4.00 and someone who knew it was a good value still wanted to haggle over the price.   I don't have yard sales anymore.  I give it all to Goodwill and take a tax write-off because it is a lot of work.

I would put an ad in your local paper, put up brightly colored, readable signs on the main streets in your area.  Lots of times people put up a sign that is 8 x 11 or smaller and you just can't read them if you are passing them  as you drive down the street, or they don't secure them properly and the fold in half. 

Having a sale for 2 days, Friday and Saturday, is extra work, but may get more people.  I've found if you have tools (even if just a hammer or screwdriver) and list them you get lots of people who otherwise may not come, though you'll have old guys tell you these "stories" in order to get you to lower your prices, but they are just going to resale them. 

We've got bicycles and a scooter to ride whenever possible.  We're already saving money on gasoline by working at home or close to home, compared with our former 25 mile round trips each to get to work and back.  We're thinking about selling our truck to get an economy car.  We canceled cable and got a Netflix membership so we don't have to drive to the video store any more.

I've been freezing and canning fruits and vegetables from the garden.  We're going to stock up on meat by buying a side of beef locally.  I buy extra whenever there's a good sale at the store.  I shop at the day old bakery, dollar store, and hit the loss leaders at the grocery stores that are all within walking/riding distance from the house.

I can't think of anything else but would love to hear more ideas.

An employer cannot set a specific schedule for an IC. This link addresses the issue here :

http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/1179.html

An excerpt fron the site above notes :

"According to the IRS, workers are employees if they must comply with the employer's instructions about their work, receive training or direction from the employer, provide services that integrate into the employer's business, render their services personally (can't subcontract), have a continuing working relationship with the employer, must follow set hours of work, work full-time for the employer..."

 As is noted in the site linked above , the consequences for the employer are quite severe if the IRS determines that the company actually was treating you as an employee rather than an IC.