"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>> Jean B. wrote:
>>
>>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>> Jean B. wrote:
>>>>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>>> cybercat wrote:
>>>>>>> "Jean B." > wrote:
>>>>>>>> Egad! That is one place I have total self-control--as vs. shopping
>>>>>>>> for groceries when hungry, or shopping at an interesting ethnic
>>>>>>>> grocery store.
>>>>>>> Because you take no pleasure in wasting money and do not seek to
>>>>>>> impress with conspicuous consumption, perhaps. I buy beautiful and
>>>>>>> functional things all the time, at great prices, so that I can do
>>>>>>> other, worthwhile things with the money I did *not* waste. To
>>>>>>> knowingly waste money when there are so many people who are needy
>>>>>>> just turns my stomach. To then brag about it is just ****ing beyond
>>>>>>> sickening.
>>>>>> You're right, best they go out of business and then we'll have more
>>>>>> people out of work and hungry.
>>>>> Rival LnT is in bad shape.... Still... I am not going there to
>>>>> buy things I don't need.
>>>> I don't need much of anything, but I try to support the economy.
>>>> Spend my stimulus money here and there.
>>>>
>>>> nancy
>>> But presumably on things you actually need/can use. I agree re
>>> the stimulus money. I am spending that locally. I suppose one
>>> really should use it on a thing/things one wouldn't normally have
>>> bought.
>>
>>
>> I am spending my stimulus money for Christmas and winter birthday gifts
>> from
>> this place, a fine source for Iowa pork:
>>
>> http://www.amanameatshop.com
>>
>>
>> That way I not only help the economy but I will also help out a locally -
>> based Iowa business. Iowans had and are having a tough time because of
>> the
>> horrible floods earlier this summer. The least I can do is buy my hams
>> 'n
>> stuff from them, hopefully it will help their ecomony a tiny bit...
>>
>>
> That's the best of all worlds. I am spending locally too. My daughter
> will get her $300, and I told her she had to spend it in this country and
> not order things from elsewhere with it....
>
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You can spend locally and support the economy without wasting money. Someone
needs to tell this stupid bitch that this is just not cute. It's just not.