Sadly all too often when you see people like this you find they both stop to buy coffee daily, have HUGE phone bills by having to have a phone that costs as much as a running car, are signed up for every streaming service, and on and on.
Yup. It's smart to start learning to do jobs yourself. No one wants to do hard labor anymore.Good luck finding anyone to do anything. Trying to find a house painter for another client right now, nobody will show up for any price. Guy wanted $2,700 to re mortar my chimney cap. Half a days work.
I'll do it myself, materials are under $100
I know older people that moved in with their kids because they couldn't afford to live on their own.
My phone bill went up $5 a month, paying $40 for a dam flip phone I rarely use.
Right before Christmas it seems a lot of U-Hauls are out there filling up on wreath stuff and whatnot.
Almost 40......I miss living at home, rent free.
My parents live in a nice house on a river, I suggested my nephew buy it and give them a life estate, free everything until they die. They did so, two of three siblings bubblegumed and moaned, they are all retired. I am still working, and parents called me first to drive them on a beach vacation in a couple of weeks.
When the kids moved we got rid of the land line, for LONG time we have both just used pre paid cell. Cost for each line is less than $30 a month. Last time I bought a couple phones they were a couple hundred each. The phones seem smarter than me as they are capable of more than I have ever learned to do with them. Not quite sure what the phones that cost 5 or more times as much do different. I am sure some probably do have use for the very high end phones but, suspect many people just buy one because its "cool" and don't really have any use for whatever the very high price phones do.My phone bill went up $5 a month, paying $40 for a day flip phone I rarely use.
Pot has been around forever.
Wife and I had a nice place for couple decades that we rented. Guy who owned it gave us a hell of a break on the rent because I fixed everything. Only time I ever sent him a bill was a couple of larger things like when the hot water tank died. I only charged him just what I paid for the new stuff. The deal worked out great for both of us. He just collected rent never had to hire anyone to keep up the place. We got a sweetheart deal on the rent. So everyone was happy.
It's been a while since I was making a living off what I could find in the woods. I still pick a hat full of Chantrelles when I find them and Elderberries when the wife wants to make syrup. And starting tomorrow Grouse become targets of opportunities for my Buckmark. There must be some money to be made still, my last 6 years of working was for the Coos Bay District of the BLM and once the rains came the woods would be chock a block full of Mushroom pickers.
I guess my being old I see the world different.
Both now being legal in most of the US we are again going through the "tax problem" that alcohol also had. There were some VERY heated battles over the tax on alcohol long ago. From what I have read its now doing the same with pot only not normally ending up with as much firefight. States that made pot legal tend to tax it so heavy that people will grow and sell illegally. So of course the states that made it legal and want that tax revenue are really pissed off. History is just repeating itself again.
Moonshine has a long and varied history in the USA. Some of the founding fathers made their own booze as it was a common practice in that time.
No local buys that I know of. I seen over 100$ for makitachi......the state has ruined everything, you need a permit to get a permit
Years ago there was 20,000 mushroom pickers in a camp near Davis lake junction. You had to have a permit and they gave you a map for your area. Guys wore guns to keeps thieves from stealing off their claim.
