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So you're saying Aldi is going to charge a service charge to use a credit card to make purchases, and they are going to take that $.03 off the price? Who is making out on that setup?

These costs are already buried in their retail pricing. Bet you if a merchant chooses to charge this service fee they are not going to re adjust their pricing. Not gonna happen. Plus most retailers who I sold credit card processing to were paying under $.03 per transaction.

An extraordinarily handsome man decided he had the responsibility to marry the perfect woman so they could produce beautiful children beyond compare. With that as his mission he began to search for the perfect woman. Shortly thereafter he met a redneck who had three stunning, gorgeous daughters that positively took his breath away. So he explained his mission to the redneck and asked for permission to marry one of them. The redneck simply replied, " They're lookin' to get married, so you came to the right place. Look 'em over and pick the one you want." The man dated the first daughter. The next day the redneck asked for the man's opinion. "Well," said the man, "she's just a weeeeee bit, not that you can hardly notice ... Pigeon-toed." The redneck nodded and suggested the man date one of the other girls; so the man went out with the second daughter. The next day, the redneck again asked how things went. "Well, "the man replied, "she's just a weeeee bit, not that you can hardly tell,...... Cross-eyed." The redneck nodded and suggested he date the third girl to see if things might be better. So he did. The next morning the man rushed in exclaiming, "She's perfect, just perfect. She's the one I want to marry." So they were wed right away. Months later the baby was born. When the man visited the nursery he was horrified: the baby was the ugliest, most pathetic human you can imagine. He rushed to his father-in-law and asked how such a thing could happen considering the beauty of the parents. "Well," explained the redneck, "she was just a weeeee bit, not that you could hardly tell ...... pregnant when you met her."

Every chance any retailer gets to charge more $, they usually end up doing so. It kills me when banks want you to pay for electronic transactions, or billing companies want to also charge a 'service charge' for an 'instant payment transaction'. No human labor involved, no wait time for their money, yet they have this opportunity to charge a customer for the 'convenience'.....so they do. What the heck is it going to be like in 50 or 100 yrs from now?

"It could soon cost you more to shop with a credit card at some stores. As of this Sunday, Jan. 27, merchants who accept credit cards issued by Visa and MasterCard will be allowed to add a service charge to the purchase price....." http://www.nbcnews.com/business/attention-shoppers-another-credit-card-fee-here-1C8086499?ocid=msnhp&pos=2 as if most retailers don't make enough off us as it is.....

Yep NLRB- http://www.nlrb.gov/who-we-are/regional-offices http://www.nlrb.gov/

Great suggestion. Speaker wires too. I have also run a couple of 2 inch PVC sch 40 pipe from the basement up to the attic on 2 stories too. Nice chases for running wires at some later date.

Whatever you do yourself is going to save yourself money. Just like working on your bike.

I guess I expressed my opinion on why not. Pay a contractor to do that and it will cost more, guaranteed. But whatever, you do it your way.

Last week, we took some friends to a new restaurant, 'Steve's Place,' and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I observed that he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter came back to serve our soup I inquired, 'Why the spoon?' 'Well, 'he explained, 'the restaurant's owner hired Andersen Consulting to revamp all of our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.' As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he replaced it with his spare.. 'I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.' I was impressed. I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly. Looking around, I saw that all of the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So, before he walked off, I asked the waiter, 'Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?' 'Oh, certainly!' Then he lowered his voice. 'Not everyone is so observant. That consulting firm I mentioned also learned that we can save time in the restroom. By tying this string to the tip of our you-know-what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39%. I asked quietly, 'After you get it out, how do you put it back?' 'Well,' he whispered, 'I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon.'

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LOL, plugs every 6 ft.....every 12 ft is more than sufficient. I did a rewire for a guy once who wanted plugs every 6 ft and man did that look way too busy and crappy. After the wall board went up he told me he wished he had just gone the distances dictated by the code, every 12'. In large rooms I would consider floor plugs depending on the layout. In your kitchen I would also run a separate 20A circuit on each side of the sink making each box a 2 gang box ( 2 duplex recepticles) along the countertops, a dedicated 20A circuit for the fridge, and a dedicated 20A circuit run to a plug flush mounted inside of the upper cabinet above the stove for one of those over the stove microwaves.

Exactly!

I used to work with a small company building houses. Imho, hiring a GC is not necessary but I am looking at it thru the eyes of someone experienced at this sort of thing. It might be best to hire one if you feel totally lost meeting building codes and keeping the subs (sub contractors) all working in coordination. I for sure would go with a basement. Make sure everything is insulated above code requirements. If you are located north of I-70 I would go Geo-thermal with my heating and maybe even 2x6 outer walls. I would build a 'safe room' within. Utilize as much low voltage lighting as possible. Also I would go with a hard wired automatic generator system. Whatever fuel source you use for this and the heating system will be determined by what is prevalent in the area where you are building. If you go with a GC to oversee the build, do some checking for those that are into 'green' builds. There are some really trick techniques anymore, much more enhanced that when I was building back in the 80's. Best of luck!

Pulling it might not be tough, but then you have to stop it.

This is what I was wondering.

I heard them mention raising the basketball ticket prices. Not surprised. Since moving here in '08 I've heard of tickets prices going up more than once. I guess they have to pay for Gee, Meyers and Motta's salaries. Motta just got a raise so I heard.

Sounds like a good way to spend a day but $30 for tckts plus gas to drive to Cleveland and back, which is about 5-6 hrs rd trip, I just don't have any money freed up. Saving for our summer bike trip, saving every penny....gonna be a long dry spell between now and Aug....

snow covered and slippery....

LMAO....the bacon was too tempting, I almost bought your barrel.....lol

24" rifled, chambered for 2 3/4" or 3" shells. I used it for one season so there were a few boxes of shells run through it. Virtually new, fit my 500 AB 12 ga. I'd take $100 for it.

Welcome! What part of KY you from? I have kin all over the state....

Bet we would have lots of business.....!

Jeez, when is it ever going to end?

Lonnnggggg winter season