economy changing your plans?

[stangstevers]

It's almost absurd to buy parts now, even used parts are rising lol

So I went from a nice interior plan with new carpet, new leather seat upholstery, etc... To used black parts and 98GT seats. May even paint my console as it's the last black part I need to save a few pennies. So my plans changed...

It's like a 40% tax + HST....

[WTF]

I eat lots of fruit

and the price of fruit right now is making my eyes bug out.....$11.49 for 5 fucking honey crisp apples

I normally didn't look or care about the price of fruit

I'm looking now

[Jack Raccoon!]

Timmy, we were in Alaska in August. 5 gala apples were $16. U.S.




My wife went through this in the 90's when the $ was like 65 cents. She didn't want to go south because of the $$$. I asked her if she wanted to be warm for a couple of weeks or shovel and shiver? We went south lol. There are plenty of ways to save on vacation. Gas is still far cheaper. Eat breakfast/a couple dinner's in your condo...

Mexico in 3 weeks. Peso vs. CAD is stable
Lake Lure, NC in June. Love it there. Nothing will keep me away.
River Cruise in August. Prices where in CAD and a better value then U.S. pricing.

I'm 54 soon. Just hanging out waiting for the big one. I'm tired of this hell hole city. And I want to die $1 in debt. CAD won't hold be back...

[CON VERT]

I eat lots of fruit

and the price of fruit right now is making my eyes bug out.....$11.49 for 5 fucking honey crisp apples

I normally didn't look or care about the price of fruit

I'm looking now

We drive out to a place in Wicklow, ON ,Knights Apples, it's a whole sale place where they do grading and storage & buy bushels of apples , C grade, as my dog eats them, nothing wrong with them , they are just not perfect for the grocery store , 99 % of them are irregular skins etc, just not perfectly round, depending on the apple type , 1/2 bushel of Courtland are $10 -12 , full bushel of Mac's are $22 , even the "A" perfect ones are $35 for a full bushel, & they keep perfect in my garage ! & the quality is much better than grocery store one that have been shipped from god only know where and banged around ! it just a nice cruise about an hour outside of Ajax !

[WTF]

We drive out to a place in Wicklow, ON ,Knights Apples, it's a whole sale place where they do grading and storage & buy bushels of apples , C grade, as my dog eats them, nothing wrong with them , they are just not perfect for the grocery store , 99 % of them are irregular skins etc, just not perfectly round, depending on the apple type , 1/2 bushel of Courtland are $10 -12 , full bushel of Mac's are $22 , even the "A" perfect ones are $35 for a full bushel, & they keep perfect in my garage ! & the quality is much better than grocery store one that have been shipped from god only know where and banged around ! it just a nice cruise about an hour outside of Ajax !

for the tank of gas I save....plus the time involved....not happening

and I'm completely OCD about flawed fruit...takes me forever to pick em out....I won't buy a huge thing that's already packaged

managed to avoid the stupidly priced Honey Crisps over the weekend....so while the price was more than I usually pay...it's wasn't that far off

[RedSN]

I'm completely OCD about flawed fruit...

I'm having difficulty believing this.

[WTF]

I'm having difficulty believing this.

can't tell if that's sarcasm

but.... I'm not buying any fruit with bruises, nicks, pecks or gashes....and they're put on the conveyor belt at the end so they don't get other bags put on top of them in the cart

you hand me an apple with a bruise on it...I ain't eating it

[92redragtop]

We drive out to a place in Wicklow, ON ,Knights Apples, it's a whole sale place where they do grading and storage & buy bushels of apples , C grade, as my dog eats them, nothing wrong with them , they are just not perfect for the grocery store , 99 % of them are irregular skins etc, just not perfectly round, depending on the apple type , 1/2 bushel of Courtland are $10 -12 , full bushel of Mac's are $22 , even the "A" perfect ones are $35 for a full bushel, & they keep perfect in my garage ! & the quality is much better than grocery store one that have been shipped from god only know where and banged around ! it just a nice cruise about an hour outside of Ajax !

Back in November we were talking to a B&B owner in the Niagara region and they were complaining about all the good fruit that gets rejected and ends up going to the dump/landfill by the truckload (even though they're perfectly fine) - with their help we're trying to get something going where it can get re-directed to groups in Caledon that can use it as part of their services/community effort to feed people who need help, etc., or donate it to local groups that can use it in fundraising efforts. Wifey has sourced a couple commercial fridges/freezers and kitchens in Caledon (NFP based) to use for this.

[stangstevers]

$11.50 for 5 apples? Where do you shop?

[WTF]

$11.50 for 5 apples? Where do you shop?

it was at Metro last weekend

had 3 other bags (pears and other apples) that seemed a bit high....like $6.50 for 5 instead of $4.50 for 5.....then she rang up these Honey Crisp apples at $11.49 and I was floored

our low $$ is kicking the shit out of the price of fruits and veg

when an apple costs as much as a beer...we got problems