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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bearcub who wrote (5947)	6/8/1999 6:02:00 PM
From: William Peavey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Re: Canning jars I learned a respect for thrift stores from Ole49r in her writings on gold recovery. As a result I am addicted to checking them out every two or three weeks or so. Because I relocated to an area of moderately affluent (read "non-threatening") retirees mixed with salt of the earth types, the 5 thrift/resale stores in my area offer a great mix of items. I confess that I swallowed a little pride when I first walked into a Salvation Army thrift store, back in Santa Barbara, California but found silver plated Paul Revere bowls and sterling silver ash trays for between $.50 and $1.50. Some wear, but so what? Usually, the volunteers who staff these enterprises are not antique dealers in their other lives. So I continued to go back. Here, I find excellent Brooks Bros shirts cleaned, pressed and possessing light starch for $2.00 Tweed jackets, nice slacks. . . silk ties for .25 . . .the hospital thrift stores have the classier stuff, from a clothing standpoint. I have purchased a down jacket, Eddie Bauer, for $7.00, and nicely worn Levi's for $2.00 that would be perfect for gardening, but they are almost 3" shorter than the little hand lettered tag had indicated. That taught me a lesson, but not an expensive one. If the temps stay up in the 80's, I'll cut the legs off and make shorts. They tend to clear out the really warm clothing in late spring, and it is that area that might interest millennium preppers, but I expect it will be back in late August. My point is, I have accumulated quite a bit of warm clothing for extended family, and all sorts of other useful odds and ends. The pricing puts garage sales to shame, and you feel like you are on a parallel planet somewhere, or had just traversed a time warp! Like maximum post crash price deflation. And it's fun. At the Habitat for Humanity resale store I bought about 60 canning jars. They had been sitting in people's barns, and looked pretty scuzzy, but that just made them cheaper, and they cleaned up fine. I just had to buy new lids and bands. We are going to try that cake in a jar, too. One of my employees had given me a refrigerator magnet which read, "Retirement: twice as much time, half as much money." I now have the time to be frugal. Bill Peavey

To: bearcub who wrote (5947)	6/8/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

bearcub, It's "cake in a jar" recipes. I just received the recipe book. They look really good. I'm stocking up on more wide-mouth pint-sized jars. Remind me next month on the Personal Preparation & Contingency thread ... and I'll post some recipes. I don't have much time these days. Lots of outside work to do. Snow peas are popping out all over. Every day I'm picking strawberries. Discovered last week that I have 6 cherry trees and cherries are starting to turn red. Been picking each one that's ripe. By next week I'll need a basket to do the picking. [Am getting a great tan!] Been doing a lot of additional landscaping. My sister and the kids come up to visit next month. Gonna have my 6-yr old niece help with the baking. Cheryl P.S. Sure wish you had that "personal message" option.