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To: Slagle who wrote (62468)	4/22/2005 3:37:51 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 74559

"Carpet is, or at least used to be real price sensitive in that the retail buyer will tend to go for the cheaper goods if the price of carpet rises." I had friends work at GCO in valdosta ga, my indian friend was a corian countertop man and did cabinets too, now did you just read the recent article posted about the 600 dollar pairs of jeans the WOMEN will buy - will my countertop friend said he loved homes and garden magazine - women would stop giving thier husbands sex until they had a house like that - so they would rip up perfectly fine granite countertops to have the latest FASHION - corian - he said this can't last - but the oldest profession in the world - hooking for money - may push the men to the limit of breaking - for when the wife holds back the nooky - what is poor sucker desperate man to do but go into hock as much as he can so she gets the finest carpet, 600 dollar jeans and overpriced cabinets and corian countertops - I see new houses going up everywhere here in new port richey - even in crack districts - the new buyers don't know this beautiful new home they are buying is in the middle weekly crack shootouts - tis crazy slagle!!