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And, You too Lucile……….
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Good morning Col. Ken!
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Thanks, Colonel! “The sun is shining, Oh, happy day…!”
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Good morning dear, Lucille!!!! I hope your day is a beautiful one!
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Thanks muchly, sand! So far, so good!
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😊
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Hi everyone! After a busy week including a lovely day at the dentist and dmv, I got kiddo to the ent. He has to have surgery. Just adenoids not tonsils. I think he got lucky bc ent does his own surgery. MD is a Navy trained Dr. and seemed trustworthy. Surgery not scheduled yet but a lot of his symptoms are adenoid related.
I havent seen the rally or read a lot the past couple days. Time goes so fast. Putting on a happy face for Sunday!
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Great photo!
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I hope your little guy feels so much better after the surgery!
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Man, that dog has some big feet!
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My paternal grandfather had a vehicle like this. Wish I had a way to post the photos I have of him filling up the gas tank at a station in the 1950s. His Model A had a red body with white canvas cab top. He used it in his painting contracting business. Dad nearly had a heart attack when Grandpa sold the truck to a kid in 1968 for $100.00.
1928 Model A open-cab (roadster) pickup – Ford Model A 76A Open Cab
Photo By Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
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Heartattack………..
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Oh, wow. 😯
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Very pretty truck!
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model A gas tank was right over your feet in the front…filler at the windshield….looked like a disaster in the making to explode.
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My old Chevy early-60s stepside, shortbed pickup had the gas tank inside the cab on the wall right behind the front seat and my old VW Bug (AKA “Nazi Footlocker) had it in front, right in your lap. Then again we were without the shepherding of the Nanny State then.
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also before Bada Book, Bada Boom
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A phrasec we can still do without.
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And I say that with reservations.
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When my parents met after WWII my father had a 1929 model T (I think). Production of personal cars after the war had not gotten up to meet demand, & it was difficult to buy a new car. People who could fix any vehicle which had been up on blocks during the war (because most people couldn’t get gasoline) got those going.
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I have a picture of my grandfather proudly standing next to his sometime-in-the-20s brand new car. First in his family to ever own a car, (legal) immigrant and all, standing there just glowing.
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No s#*t! 😯
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The swamp is full of nepotism. Is it because they all go to each other’s parties? Or they say, ” I need a person who can (fill in the blank), how about (…’s brother, sister, daughter)? Of course, if I hear about a great job I’d tell my (fill in the blank) to apply for it, & put in a good word for him/her. And then, we’ll all get together to gossip & tell state secrets…..
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
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Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 (Yuengling)
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Lemon Scones with Vanilla Lemon Glaze
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Breakfast looks good. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Morning auscitizenmom!
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Ohhhhhh…. lemon scones!!!! Thank you, Nyet!
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Hi, everyone! Long time, no visit. Work is incredibly, brutally overwhelming at the moment. It will settle down in August. This week should be slow, since May 1 is a holiday in most European countries. The following week is Ascension Thursday — we will be in Italy near Siena at an Air B&B renovated stone farmhouse with big kitchen. We will rest, go to the little farmers’ markets, tour a bit, cook and drink wine. Can’t wait!
Breakfast is PERFECT — even the carb offering of scones — probably orange flavored — look good!
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Hi Mike! I see you on Twitter, so I know you are okay! Have a great vacation and take lots of pics. I think I’ve mentioned it before, but Siena was my daughter’s favorite place when she visited Italy.
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He lives! (you’ll be glad to know I won the bet).
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What did you win?
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First prize, one week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks in Philadelphia.
Old joke.
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ba-da-BING!
🙂
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I know your mini break in Siena will be wonderful. I went once and I loved it. Have a good time!
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Hey ZM, glad you dropped over. Hope your vacay is lovely. Don’t you get to think about retiring sometime soon? I did it in January and could not be happier.
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At the moment I have golden handcuffs as work — it would be a pity to stop at the moment. Despite the craziness, I like my work and all the travel and working with my team. But I can indeed see retirement on the horizon! 🙂
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I totally understand!
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Good morning, Nyet! I’m late to breakfast, as always. Sit me in the corner with a bowl of this…
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The OTHER Grape Nuts
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Michelle Wolf is a vile woman. I’d never heard of her, but I’m glad to see there is a big backlash against her evil tirade against Sarah Sanders.
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If you have a Facebook account, and feel inclined, go there are tell her what you think about her.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/DeputyPressSecretary/reviews/
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I don’t have FB, but my husband does. I’ve asked him to say something.
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There is also this FB page. I don’t know which is correct, but I left reviews at both.
https://www.facebook.com/PressSec/
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Thank you for doing that.
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I hadnt either but she is on the daily show at comedy central. I cant watch what she did or ill want to go postal.
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Yeah, I’m not watching it either, but she made the main page of Drudge that posted some of her comments and her profanity laced tirade was disgusting.
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https://twitter.com/kacy10000/status/990609461814448134?s=12
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An update to her Wiki page 👆🏻
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Someone on reddit said “”Why is carrot top at the correspondents dinner anyway?”
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😉
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Disagree. Maggie Haberman is a *cause* of the hatred toward Sarah. Maggie’s tweet is just virtue-signalling BS.
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Probably. But then, who would want to identify with that bitch, Michelle Wolf?
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M-53 in Macomb County …
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Im so used to serious traffic in CA, I dont know if this is exceptional for the area. Is it?
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This is way out in the suburbs, and definitely exceptional. This is about 30 miles north of Detroit.
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But no one likes POTUS…..😁
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And this is on a Saturday.
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The CSA that includes Detroit is 5.3 million people (combined statistical area) which includes ten counties, but the population of Detroit is only 673,000.
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First, here is a map of the area. Washington Twp is where the rally was held.
Here is a comment on Facebook:
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If this were in SoCal, it would be like traffic backed up to Bakersfield waiting to get in to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia.
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Thanks for the visual. NOW I completely get the significance. Holy smokes!
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Mornin’ y’all!
https://twitter.com/LedgeSomewhere/status/990574265631043584
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Followed the trail blazed by roaches scavenging for scraps?
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Afternoon Z’s!
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86 yesterday – a planting more ‘maters and peppers day today.
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https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/990448737720795136
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I believe the shocked expressions on the faces of the three CNN dilettante talking heads says it all.
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Amazing photos in this –
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/24/wildlife-photographer-captures-osprey-carrying-shark-carrying-fish-in-one-in-trillion-photograph.html
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Wow….that osprey must have timed it just right. Dinner and dessert!
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Euell Gibbon’s version of a turducken? Now there’s an oldie!
(“Many parts of this tree are edib le…especially this delicious squirrel…”)
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Euell Gibbons taught a generation that grape’s have nuts……God Bless Him. :0)
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Nice…vintage humor.
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Does anyone here think that there will be a Unified Korea, without Kim’s entire regime, including himself, being put to a Nuremberg-style trial for their heinous actions and then summarily executed?
How does Korea incorporate these generations-brainwashed people without LEGALLY executing Kim and his entire regime, in public? How could Kim, and his regime of terror, possibly skate, and have a peaceful Whole Korea?
Just look what he did! Mussolini (Benito, not the current one) got a tenth of what the NK regime, including Jong-un did. They deserve more than Benito got. Hanged upside-down and beaten beyond recognition like Pinatas by the people. DPRK. My arse.
Nope. The world is going to praise this smiling man-child, and he’s going to be a celebrity.
Kim Jong-un will probably receive the Nobel Peace Prize, instead of a blindfold, a cigarette, and a dozen bullets. Because that’s the world we live in.
He and his entire coterie of sycophants and handlers, his whole government, need to be put on trial, and then executed in full view of his starving people, and in full view of our idiot MSM.
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I am exhausted. I have been trying to take a drawer out of a chest in my LR for months. Now it is stuck open. I went on the Internet and figured out a new thing to look for, this dresser has two wooden guides on the bottom, different from any I have ever seen before. But, now I know there is a stop in the center that I couldn’t see. I think I will rest up for a while before I go back to it. Maybe then I can think of something to hold the plastic stop down. 🙄 Haven’t found anything so far.
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Try tilting the front part of the drawer downward which should make the back part of the drawer pop up and then you should be able to ease the drawer out aus.
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Been trying that. Exhausted myself doing it. But, I was finally able to look under the drawer and find the stop. I will give it another try here in a little bit. LOL
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I have a dresser with wood guides. One of my drawers was stuck, and it turned out to be a nail that was used to secure the guide had popped up.
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Bet that was hard to find.
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GOT IT! The problem was, the piece on the back of the drawer comes down so far, it took pressing the stop down and then tilting the front of the drawer down at the same time. And, I had to use a kitchen tool that was metal and long to be able to hold it down. I’m too old and out of shape for this.
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I am one of those who occasionally unravels when faced with issues like the one you just overcame aus, so I was totally feeling your frustration. So glad that you persevered. :0)
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Well, if I was 20 years younger, it would have been easier. LOL It was hard to get down on my knees, and harder, almost impossible, to get up. So, I appreciate your calm encouragement. 😀
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I know that of which you speak! I just spent over an hour wrestling seat covers on the front seats of my car. Last time I did this I was five years younger & didn’t have an injured knee.
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And speaking of Michigan…Dems and the GOP catering to shariah-loving jihadis nowadays….
Michigan: Gubernatorial candidate slammed by both parties by pointing out reality of “civilization jihad”
April 28, 2018 by Robert Spencer
“State Sen. Patrick Colbeck in a Thursday speech defended unsubstantiated claims of the Muslim Brotherhood installing ‘civilization jihad’ in the U.S.”
Unsubstantiated? Really?
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/michigan-gubernatorial-candidate-slammed-by-both-parties-by-pointing-out-reality-of-civilization-jihad
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“Coming and Going” – Norman Rockwell
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So, maybe someone can help me with some math. Pinterest thinks I’m a liberal and I that I sympathize with fellow Millenials. They’re wrong on both counts! But I saw pin where a Millenial was complaining about how a Baby Boomer didn’t understand what they were going through because their parent’s $35,000 house is now worth like $650,000 or something totally unbelievable like that due to inflation, so Millennials can’t get anywhere because of inflation and how their money has less value.
Why does this math sound wrong me to though? I’ve heard this complaint before, that the deck is stacked against “poor Millenials” because of inflation. I may have misread the number (I don’t think I did, because I saw it and went “that’s nuts”) but even if I did, A house going from $35,000 in value to $65,000 in value makes sense to me. I heard of a man who bought a $20,000 house and fixed up when he had spare time and money, and made the house worth $60,000 when he was done. But while that might be in part due to inflation, he credited the improvements that he made for increasing the house value.
Something about this whining about how Millenials can’t get anywhere because of inflation devaluing money feels wrong, but I can’t put my finger on why.
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You have to take total cost of living now against then (when?) Compare annual income – then and now. If they live in Cali, the huge increase in housing may be due to land use policies there, which are unique. I have an article about it somewhere. I’ll look for it and post.
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“When” – Dunno. usually when I see Millenails whining on Pinterest, it’s about how Baby Boomers don’t understand the struggles they’re going through, so sometime in the Baby Boomer era.
I always thought it was just that Baby Boomers spent less time whining about how crappy their lives were and instead worked to make their lives better, and understood that the crappy apartment they started out in/job they started out with wouldn’t be home/work forever, so they worked hard and made plans for reaching better days.
Maybe I don’t understand Baby Boomers, though.
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My first apartment was two rooms, a livingroom/kitchen/bathroom/diningroom and a bedroom that we could just barely walk past one side of the bed to a 3 ft closet. I bathed in one of those metal tubs that we had to bring in off the porch. It cost $50 a month. My husband was a third class in the Navy at the time and made $200 a month if I remember correctly.
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You didn’t stay there forever, though, did you?
I’m not sure what I’m trying to ask here.
Am I correct to say that that was a just a stopping point for a time in your life, and that things did get better, and you got more space, and maybe nicer furniture and things as time went on and you could afford them?
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Yeppers. We were there, in N. Chicago beside the Naval Base up there, for 4 months. Then we went to Key West (much nicer) and rented a travel trailor for 2 months. Then I had to rent a garage apt. for the next year.
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We started out in a crappy apartment over a woodworking shop, then a garage apartment. I divorced when my daughter was 4 years old, and I didn’t even own a house until I was in my 50’s. Didn’t think I could afford it until I decided I would do it somehow, so I did. What I’m saying is that if a millennial decides they want to buy a house, they have to find out what it takes to do that, what they can afford, how much of a down payment they will need, then take the steps necessary to attain that goal. It may not be the house that you would really like to have, because you can’t afford it yet, but you start with what you can afford. And – very important – keep your credit squeaky clean.
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The first house we bought was in 1977 for $26,000. An educated guess, without doing some research, is that the house would be worth at least 140,000 today. We did some major improvements on it, which means we put money other than the purchase price into it.
Assume we had stayed in it and paid the mortgage off. We would have paid roughly (very roughly because taxes would have gone up) 90,000 in that 30 years. Probably less because back then the interest rate for a mortgage was a lot higher than it’s been in some years and maybe we could have refinanced.
You think that 50,000 is a lot of gain for 41 years of putting money in that house? I bet you could do better if you wisely invested the money.
Plus, the huge fact that what we made in 1977 was probably about one tenth of what we make now, and not just because wages are higher because of inflation. It’s also because both of us learned skills along the way, gained experience from hard work that earned us higher wages than we made as very young adults. That should be the wish of all young people shouldn’t it, that life gets better?
We actually were only able to buy a house 9 months after we married because as a child and teenager I saved all my money and it became a down payment.
Some real estate investments wind up being right time right place decisions and maybe they have grown the amount you mentioned. But not without elbow grease, more money put into the house, mortgage payments, taxes, and insurance payments.
So one side of me says that they aren’t entitled to just walk out of college and buy a house. You work a few years, save, choose a starter house, work your way up.
But I also know that for my kids housing seems to be quite a bit higher in relation to their salaries than it was for us.
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“We did some major improvements on it, which means we put money other than the purchase price into it.”
I thought that is what drove house values was the improvements put into it. Maybe sometimes the land is worth money if it’s by a beach or it’s an otherwise valuable piece of land, but I thought the home improvements were what drove the value of the house and made it go up more than inflation did.
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Part of it is the improvements you put into it, and part is, inflation, I guess. In the 70’s some people bought condos for $30,000 and a year later sold it for over a $100,000. Property values went up more in certain area. All still in S. Cal.
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Demand for the property drives value too, doesn’t it? Some areas of California are areas where lots of people want to live, and that should drive up the value of the property.
I think.
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Absolutely.
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Here is the article about housing prices in California that I said I would link.
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-california-home-prices-are-so-high
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I think that is a pretty good article. I don’t think it mentioned the fact that they were building huge homes on larger lots and selling them for 1/2 to a million $. This was back when we lived there in the middle 80’s. They probably sell for several million now. Oh, and they were gated. The only illegals allowed in were worker bees. 🙄
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So, if this person was from CA, which they may have been, they didn’t mention, then inflation might not even be a factor. It might be an artificial crisis created by the gov’t.
Thanks for the info!
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Also, if you just multiply the amount of that original payment times 41 years, we would have saved 111,000 between then and now, and hopefully compound interest would have turned that, over that long period of time, into quite a larger amount.
Online you can play with some amortization tables assuming a certain payment and minimum annual return to see what compounding does.
Of course, there is no way to go back and accurately picture the ups and down of investments, but that is part of the picture. Another part is that we got tax deductions from mortgage interest too.
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The way I see it, and I could be wrong, inflation pretty much doesn’t make much difference. Now follow me here. There was a time, many, many years ago that a loaf of bread was only a dime. But, people made something like $30 a week. So, inflation doesn’t make a difference as long as the ratio between things stays the same. So, bread costs $4 and people made $1000 a week, or whatever.
As far as the prices of houses goes, I bought one in S. Cal. back in the 1972 for $25,000, sold it in 2000 for $210,000. My friend bought one here in FL about the same time for $15,000 and sold it in 2009 for over $350,000.
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Thank you everyone, for helping me feel like I wasn’t crazy when I read that post and went “That’s wrong!!”
I feel better now. 🙂 I think it’s not wrong to say inflation drives a role, but I think the post put too much focus on inflation as the reason. It didn’t, for example, even mention any of the other things that can drive property value.
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This doesn’t have anything to do with property values or inflation, but I think the last couple of generations has expected to leave their parents’ homes, get a job making as much or more than their parents and move into a bigger house than their parents have. Something else. When I was growing up, we had one small TV, no cable, no Internet, no private phone, and none of the expenses that go along with. Kids now expect to have ALL those things and more.
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Another problem is some people want to live “where it’s at” in tony neighborhoods, or trendy downtown areas. I had a friend who lived right in San Francisco, because she loved it, but on her salary had to rent a room in someone’s house. Did that for years until she moved up in salary to get a couple of roommates and a small apartment. My brother wanted to live in Manhattan, nothing else would do, so he rented a basement room for years until he could move to a third floor walk-up he did the renovations on. In 1975 i moved into an apartment I simply loved in a safe neighborhood, but could just afford if I never turned the air conditioning on (in Miami), ate frugally, & made other sacrifices. I spent extremely hot summer afternoons at the air conditioned library or the mall. The whiners need to decide what they want and how they will get there. Everyone else does.
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I bring this up whenever someone says that “it takes two incomes to live now, but our parents only had one”. Yes, but our parents had one modest car (if any at all), a tiny house, no air conditioning etc.
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Yeah, the first wall air conditioner we got was probably in the late 50’s. And, we had lived in Panama, Cuba, VA, GA, and FL. We only had one car until my mom got a job when my dad retired from the Navy. Then, we had to get another one, a VW. Just think how much the gadgets cost.
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For example, my house was built in 1937. It is less than 900 square feet, has one very small bath, two little bedrooms with miniscule closets, and a small kitchen and dining room. A living room of course, but it isn’t huge.
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My apt. is almost 1200 sq. ft. Of course, there is a stairwell and landing at the top that makes up a big portion of the sq. ft. My friend’s house is about the same size as yours with one extra bedroom. It is a perfect size for one person and some animals.
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I was in the room last night when that wretched, leftist “comedian” began attacking Sarah Sanders to her face. It was disgusting. You could not really see it on TV, but virtually no one in the room was laughing. I saw even some of the most liberal reporters in the profession cringe with disgust.
If a conservative comedian was so vicious to a working mother in the Obama administration, they would never get a job in the industry again. The organizers of the dinner would have cut their mic.
The double standard is sickening.
However, there is something you must know about Sarah Sanders: She is a better and bigger person than the sad leftists who attack her.
At the MSNBC after-party, I spoke with high-ranking members of Sarah’s staff. They were disgusted by the remarks – and tell me that the plan was for Sarah to walk-out if they got too personal. Sarah however, stayed firm. “I don’t know how she does it,” one of her closest confidants told me, “She kills them with kindness – she puts up with it. Good-hearted American people see that – and then she wins.”
Members of the White House press corp tell me they were sending Sarah a flower basket today – they felt so bad.
Then, Sarah Sanders walks into the party. The MSNBC party. A network that lives to savage and promote the godless vitriol that just attacked her. Guess what? Sarah Sanders was smiling. She owned it. I asked her about the attack and she shrugged with a smile and just said the attacks didn’t bother her and that she’s praying for the comedian.
That is the kind of woman she is.
Flying into a city to cheap-shot a working mother to her face in front of a room of one thousand journalists because you disagree with her politically is not brave. It’s the definition of a coward and a bully. Putting up with it and forgiving that person afterward?
That is real power.
That is strength.
That is class.
That is Sarah Sanders.
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“Flying into a city to cheap-shot a working mother to her face in front of a room of one thousand journalists because you disagree with her politically is not brave. It’s the definition of a coward and a bully.”
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Aren’t these the people who whined about how Trump was being a bully to them? Aren’t these the people who are so upset and worried about bullying in school? But it’s okay to bully someone you disagree with politically?
Methinks the Left doth project too much.
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SJWs always lie.
SJWs always double down.
SJWs always project.
You say “too much”, Rhea, but there is no “too much” for the Left — they went after the Catholic Church for child abuse, after they insisted and were granted access to impressionable boys, and ignored their own.
Later studies, even by the CDC, even confirmed that the Catholic schools and church are the absolute SAFEST place for your kids, as far as “Organizations” The Protestant churches have more complaints. The Public Schools have more complaints than that. Both of the “Scouts”, “YMCA”.
But Hollywood+Politicians have the Trophy.
And that’s just Christian and Decidedly-Antichrist denominations! There is worse than those. Islam. That weird Satanic stuff Podesta & Co. are doing.
Those are the three immutable laws. They do always project.
All three laws, they always apply to what these people do.
“Trump had hookers pee on a bed!” {{We made 30,000 Hatian girls disappear.}}
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Remember Sinead O’Connor ripping a picture of John Paul in half on SNL?
I shudder to think what she was doing at the time.
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That is great. 🙂
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen.
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