Sunday, October 27, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
TRADER JOES CLOTH CARRY BAGS MADE IN THE USA
Lowell Massachusetts has historically been the scene of the textile industry in the United States. For less than $5.00 we bought a cloth Trader Joes bag, well designed in beiges and power blues and browns, with a proud MADE IN THE USA label, noting Lowell. WE WERE SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS.
In the past we have bought at least a dozen bags for about a dollar a piece to carry our groceries out of stores. Almost all of them were made in China. Of all the bags we bough that were not cloth, the Trader Joe's bags are the ones that lasted.
We don't see the end of plastic bags, just the end of free plastic bags. We still need them for picking up doggie do do, and many other things.
We do our best to recycle and reuse things, to pick up our garbage and take it home with us when we go to the beach or visit the mountains, because we don't want to contribute to the Sea of Plastic, or allow our streets to be filled with litter.
In the past we have bought at least a dozen bags for about a dollar a piece to carry our groceries out of stores. Almost all of them were made in China. Of all the bags we bough that were not cloth, the Trader Joe's bags are the ones that lasted.
We don't see the end of plastic bags, just the end of free plastic bags. We still need them for picking up doggie do do, and many other things.
We do our best to recycle and reuse things, to pick up our garbage and take it home with us when we go to the beach or visit the mountains, because we don't want to contribute to the Sea of Plastic, or allow our streets to be filled with litter.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
THE NEW $100 BILL BEGINS CIRCULATION TODAY : INSPECT THE NEW FEATURES HERE!
NEW MONEY GOV - THE NEW $100 BILL Bell in the Inkwell. New 3d thread... Here's the new Benjamin ... It is the policy of the United States that no matter when currency was manufactured it remains legal currency.
Little story... A man walking his dog down our street several months ago thought he was rich when he found a roll of $20 bills laying on the ground. He showed the money to another dog walker, someone with a business, who quickly ID'd the money as counterfeit. It was handed over to the local police. Our government is always trying to be one step ahead of those who circulate fake bills. Purchases made with fake bills equals theft, stolen merchandise, though it's sure not funny when you're the dupe a fake bill was passed to and the one who gets caught trying to use it!
Little story... A man walking his dog down our street several months ago thought he was rich when he found a roll of $20 bills laying on the ground. He showed the money to another dog walker, someone with a business, who quickly ID'd the money as counterfeit. It was handed over to the local police. Our government is always trying to be one step ahead of those who circulate fake bills. Purchases made with fake bills equals theft, stolen merchandise, though it's sure not funny when you're the dupe a fake bill was passed to and the one who gets caught trying to use it!
Monday, October 7, 2013
HOMELESS MAN WHO RETURNED $40,000 REWARDED : GOAL $250,000, HOUSING, JOB TRAINING
CS MONITOR : HONESTLY EARNS HOMELESS MAN $104,000 AND COUNTING
EXCERPT: Glen James said it was the right thing to do and now that selfless act is paying dividends. Big dividends.
He's being rewarded because another man, a 27-year-old marketing firm employee from Virginia, Ethan Whittington, heard about him and set up a website for the homeless man at an online fund-raising site called GoFundMe. Whittington enjoys helping and said James is "inspiring."
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