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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfwerx View Post
    Haha. If I see people picking through my cans, I'm going to ask them where they sell plastics, 'cause that's all they're going to find.
    Ya the same happens to me and I kind of feel bad because they are going to make $0 from the plastics and glass in my recycle bin.



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    The economy is bad when the $163 per month stipend you received as a volunteer English teacher in South America is starting to sound like a decent sum of money.

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    The "introduce yourself" section on SMF has more traffic than any other section and blasts the forum with noob questions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oldbarnz View Post
    The "introduce yourself" section on SMF has more traffic than any other section and blasts the forum with noob questions.
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    You know it is bad when Goodwill and the Salvation Army have extended store hours for Holiday shopping.
    There may a million better places to live than Iowa, but none of them are home!

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    I buy and sell all types of scrap and escrap. I buy specialty and hard to sell escrap. I buy resale items. PM me or contact me at jghilino@hotmail.com
    I AM ACTIVELY BUYING ESCRAP OF ALL TYPES. BOARDS, RAM, CPUS AND MUCH MORE

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    Quote Originally Posted by NatBrnCO View Post
    Paying more $$ for electricity AFTER doing energy efficient upgrades.
    This actually happened to me c2 years ago after spending over $10,000 in efficiency up grades.
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    I can relate to that - there's a program NiMo offers to lower your utility bills. We switched over to it and it actually increased our utility bills so we switched back over to regular service.

    You know the economy's bad when New York pulls state police off their regular duties an tells them to go patrol a mall because the owner's scared of Syracuse's citizens.

    You know the economy's bad when everyone you know has an Obama phone.

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    You know the econemy's bad when a man takes another man's blocks - I took the wife out for dinner and was gone a half hour. Came home to find 8 cinder blocks missing from the front yard. I'm not talking about the small ones either.

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    you know the economy os bad when...

    your college professor from 6 years ago emails you looking for part-time work...

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    You know the economy's bad when you order a pizza, and find out that the delivery driver is far more educated than you, but is making less...
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    starbucks employees with masters degrees

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    when it's a buyers market and there are less buyers every week.

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    ...when Obama's still in office!
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    You know what they say: "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job. It's a depression when you lose yours. When Obama loses his, it's a recovery!"

    ChildhoodDream's post says it all. Prices should be good for buyers, but a lot of them can't make enough at it.

    I think you can tell a lot about how businesses are doing by the trucks that they run. Out here, they're not replacing them. I know of a few companies that are still running 30 year old trucks. You know the economy's bad when businesses keep the old stuff in service longer.

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    I work on semi trucks for a living and we sell a lot more use trucks then new. You know it's bad when you work on trucks older then you for most of your day. I am 24 years old. I feel bad when these guys spend more money on there trucks then what it is worth and only fix minor things.

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    The two women ahead of you in the grocery store buying prime cuts and lobster are talking about how great the economy is doing, then pay with EBT cards.... Then drive off in Caddy's


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    When the lines at the scrap yard get longer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by t00nces2 View Post
    The two women ahead of you in the grocery store buying prime cuts and lobster are talking about how great the economy is doing, then pay with EBT cards.... Then drive off in Caddy's

    Who do you think they voted for?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mthomasdev View Post
    Who do you think they voted for?
    Reagan, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Romney
    And they'll continue to vote for more corporate power

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