at the end of the money....
5 things:
1. The CoinStar kiosks are full. Can't get your pennies counted. Boo.
2. ...unless you are willing to set foot in Walmart, which some of us pore old folks are NOT.
3. Beware of signing into one of those "manage your money.com" sites to update your data. You will be charged a fee at your bank. Grr.
4. Aunty Acid* sez..."I am going to retire and live on my savings. What I'll do the the second week,
I have no idea."
5. Aunty Acid* also shares her personal advice: "Life is short...Smile while you still have teeth."
* Copyright Ged Backland. available through (cough) Facebook.
Canada is phasing out the penny. If an item (plus tax of course) costs $1.98, we pay $2.00. If it costs $1.97 we pay $1.95. No pennies to deal with. It all evens out in the end. But this is only for cash sales. Credit cards we pay the exact cost.
ReplyDeleteI have the worst summer cold EVER! don't get too close to this message.
it's very good to have a cold once in a while. I tend to avoid the coughers and sneezers on the bus & the metro. good for Canada for phasing out the cents..Used to be here, bus riders could dump all their change into the fare box, pennies and all. i think that should be restored!!.
DeleteSwitzerland and Scandinavia have been rounding payments like this for decades now.
ReplyDeleteCanada just lepton the bandwagon ;-)
[Excuse the Judean pun, it mite have happened sooner ;-) ]
think of the dough those countries save by not having to coin coppers!
DeleteI don't seek out Wal-Mart, but sometimes I can't avoid shopping there. Most big box stores have really bad labor practices, and Wal-Mart adds to the offence by donating to politically reactionary causes. My only comfort is that they make little or no money off of us.
ReplyDeleteI hear you. there is nothing walmart has that i can't get elsewhere, though. guns, maybe. and I don't want those. sold my last gun in 1989 or so--a lovely
Deletesingle-gauge shotgun, which was my dad's last gift to me. I got something like $200 for it, which I needed more than something to go hunting with. :)
crikey....it was a 20-gauge, single-barrel shotgun. sigh. haven't thought of that nomenclature for a long time!!
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