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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 12:38 pm
I do pay more with cash than I used to. It does depend on what I'm buying, how much it costs, and business I'm buying from. I used to use credit card for pretty much anything $25 and above. Now I'm more likely to pay cash up to between $50 - $100 depending on item / service and who from.
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Holly
Member
07-21-2001
| Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 3:25 pm
How about when it takes them 3+ weeks to credit your cc back if you cancel something--tons of them do this, eg Travelocity.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 10:55 pm
Wait Wait Wait. It is not the company that you are dealing with that delays the credit back to your account. It is the credit card company or the bank. This delay is ESP long if you used debit as debit. If your bank card that is associated with your checking account can be used as debit or credit, you should use it as credit on anything you might need to return or anything big. You have more rights with a credit purchase if anything goes wrong.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 6:47 am
I use it as credit (mostly because I get reward points...not that I ever use them but someday I might...LOL). This year I only spent cash for Christmas. Of course I spent too much but at least I don't have to pay for it next year. I think listening to Dave Ramsey is following sinking in.
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 10:00 am
My package arrived yesterday - yay! All my Christmas gifts are present and accounted for!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 10:52 am
I have Amazon Prime. Middle of yesterday afternoon I ordered two books. Scheduled delivery via UPS tomorrow. They were here at 10:00 this morning!!! Presents -- for me. 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 11:03 am
FWIW, when we do a customer credit, it can take 2-4 days from the day we issue the credit for it to show up on the customer's account. Oddly enough, purchases show up within 24 hours... always. So, yes, the credit card companies are accountable for part of that delay. Also, you should never ever use Debit cards ONLINE, and never for purchases outside your normal network of stores. The banks are virtually impossible about refunding charges, and esp if your debit card information is stolen. It can take MONTHS for them to refund your lost dollars. Credit card companies will mostly refund right away; altho some of them do make you fill out some paperwork.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 5:30 pm
DH came home with the French Silk pie I asked him to pick up on the way home for tomorrow. He accidentally bought a "no sugar added" pie. I thought "Ok, I'll give it a try" and I scooped out a little piece and almost gagged. Needless to say, he is on his way back to the store to get a regular sugar loaded one. (the actual chocolate filling tasted ok, but the whipped cream topping, crust, and fake chocolate shavings on top were terrible)
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 5:54 pm
RN eating veggie pizza cuz someone (ME!) forgot to defrost the meat for dinner. Duh!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 5:57 pm
A veggie pizza sounds like it would go well with a sugar free pie. LOL
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 6:13 pm
Well it was supposed to be liver and onions tonight, so I suppose some folks would think veggie pizza's an improvement. LOL. Thing is we both love liver and enjoy it once in a while. I especially need the iron. Anyhow, I'd already heated the burner and put the oil in the pan when I realized my booboo. (Smacks self upside head.) As for the sugar-free pie, I'm guessing it's for diabetics.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 6:25 pm
Oh, I am a liver lover, Mameblanche Yum! But I like to change it up from onions and do big sauted mushrooms instead once in awhile.
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 7:07 pm
Dra is picking up Taco Bell on his way home. After shopping all day, I sure wasn't in the mood to cook anything. LOL
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 7:34 pm
Naja, actually I was going to sautee mushrooms, onions, plus green, orange and yellow peppers. When I finally get to making it, it will be yummalicious. Just not sure when we'll get to it, with all the turkey dinners over the next few days. LOL Glad that you are also a liver-lover! DH prefers beef liver while I prefer chicken livers. But we both agree, it's all good. (I feel bad for grossing out the NON-liver-luvers here tho.) JMM, I love Taco Bell. 
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Glenn
Member
07-05-2003
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 2:02 pm
What'sup with people who clip those fuzzy antlers to the windows of their vehicles. Do they not know the tines are supposed to point to the front. I don't know what is worse, these people being anatomically incorrect or the fact that it bothers me.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
07-31-2000
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 2:20 pm
My in-laws just extended their stay to Friday. My ENTIRE week off. I know, I know, I'm ungrateful but... I thought I'd actually have a few days to myself on my vacation. Nope. Will be catering and hosting the entire time. (and yes, some of you may remember that my MIL is the one who can't stand me and criticizes everything I do. Yahoo.)
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 3:34 pm
she prolly did it just to piss you off. Can you opt to work this week and take off next week?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 3:37 pm
Aaaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Praying real hard for you, Yankee. Can't you get called in on a work emergency or something and have to cancel your leave? It sounds like a gigantic emergency to me. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if you not only got called in to work, but had to cancel your vacation to go work out of town. That is ridiculous. You're a better man than I am, Gungha Din.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
07-31-2000
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 4:08 pm
Unfortunately, not. They were supposed to leave Tues morn. Now Friday. They arrived Thurs. Sigh...
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 4:18 pm
Yankee, they don't have to know that you aren't realy going to work. I would schedule several time frames say 1-8pm and 8am to 3pm, of emergency meetings that you must attend. Then I would go to the movies, or ideally rent a hotel room and check in for a while, LOL.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 7:22 pm
I am pretty upfront about letting people know that staying three nights with us is the ideal length of visit, but they are welcome to stay four nights if three would be a major inconvenience to them. I have even been known to help arrange rental cars and plan itineraries for guests to take a little side trip for their own enjoyment rather than them having to be stuck with us for so long.

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Yankee_in_ca
Member
07-31-2000
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 7:31 pm
Well, they aren't staying IN our house. They are actually sleeping in a hotel. However, they don't have a rental car (too scared to drive here) and we've been picking them up around 8-9AM and bringing them back to the hotel after staying with us and eating all meals with us (at around 10-11PM). So they may as well be sleeping here. I keep sneaking away to the home office for little sanity breaks.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, December 25, 2010 - 10:53 pm
(((Yankee))) There's not much worse than friends or relatives who use your kindness against you and consistently take advantage. You have my total empathy. I had to learn that painful lesson the hard way, as I tend to give folks the benefit of the doubt. It's difficult enough in that situation with 'friends', it's got to be so much harder dealing with inlaws. Like Juju, I try to make it clear to out-of-town guests that it's not them, it's me, but I can only really tolerate folks staying for no more than the length of a long weekend, although I have been known to make exceptions. ETA, just read your post above. Glad they aren't staying with you, but like you say, for all the time they are usurping, they may as well be!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, December 26, 2010 - 6:42 am
Mame, I'm with you and good old Ben on this subject: Fish and visitors smell in three days. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736 US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, December 26, 2010 - 7:04 am
Yep, 16 hours a day with you is just the same as them staying with you, except you get less sleep carting them back and forth. Get them a bus pass. Riding L.A. area buses is always an eye-opening experience. It will make them appreciate Vancouver more. For example, I remember the time these little girls all got on with their very lifelike dolls. They even had strollers and things for their dolls. Turned out the 13 year olds were holding real babies, and we found out later it is a prestige thing for female gang members to have babies very young. Huh! I was sort of hoping somebody just made that up to shock me.
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