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Originally Posted by skysidhe
gawd,,,100 dollars on gas??
and your phone is cheap!
and you clean your house alot too!
I find you funny and agreeable Marichinko. I hope saying that dosn't get me hated, or shunned. I don't like to belonging to clicks and groups if it excludes others esp. on a message board so I don't mind saying so too much.:p
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My keyboard shorted out in the middle of this, so I couldn't reply. I guess it was some electrical thingie, cuz when I finally got mad and gave it a sharp wrap on the desk, it began to work for now. A kind friend is also sending me a spare she has.
$100 IN GAS:
I live in a very small town that does not have a pharmacy, it has an expensive Mom and Pop grocery that charges twice what a regular grocery store does. My doctor is 19 miles away in one of the next towns. My specialists are 27 miles away in Durango. If I need hospital testing I have to go to Cortez, 16 miles. I also go their for groceries and thrift shop excursions. I try to do all my errands at once, but you know how that goes.
Two trips to doctor = 76 miles
Five or 6 trips to Cortez = 192 miles
four trips to Durango = 216 miles
Total: 484 miles @ $3.20/gal (its finally going down), my car gets maybe 20 miles to the gallon = 77.44, and then there's always some stupid trip to social services or the commodities place that brings my mileage higher. I'd say my gas estimate is pretty reasonable.
AND YOUR PHONE IS CHEAP
Glad to hear it, I'm stil paying off my installment fees on time, so its more like $35 or so at the moment, but it should go down to around $22 or $23 some day. That's plain phone service, no voice mail, no caller ID, no call waiting, no long distance or any other of those frills.
AND YOU CLEAN YOUR HOUSE A LOT, TOO
The HA makes surprise visits and expects the apartments to be spotless. I buy generic, $2.99 laundry soap, 1.99 fabric softener, $1.29 dish soap, $4.00 vacumn cleaner bags, those cheap garbage bags that rip and still cost $4.00/box. I buy 99 cent ajax type cleanser for the sinks. I buy generic pine sol for the floors -$3.00. Comes to about 18.26/month. Sorry I lied. I understand all about the economies of scale, but I can't afford to stock up on $20.00 boxes of Tide, etc.