Congratulations, you have received money! That is the message that I got from my PayPal account just recently. I opened that e-mail and boy did it make me feel good. I get this message each month now but each time I still get that feeling of being special. I am sure that you know the feeling, when you scratch that lottery ticket and discover that you have just won $1000.00.
One of my biggest earners is Big Crumbs. All I have to do here is buy stuff thru them that I already buy every month anyway. If I need some sporting goods, I don't drive thirty miles to the sporting goods store, I turn on my computer and log into Big Crumbs and make my order. In a few days it arrives at my door and in some cases the shipping is free. The next month I get an amount equal to a percentage of the amount I spend. That amount can be anywhere from Wal-Mart at 1% to Web Hosting companies at 28%. Wal-Mart always has free shipping when you use the "Site to Store" feature.
How do I do this, you ask? Well I log into Big Crumbs then go to the company that has what I am buying and make my purchase. If I want to I can compare prices from several stores before I buy. I like this in that I can go to the store in question and see the item in question and see if item is what I want. I have found items cheaper than Wal-Mart shopping this way. Here in our are we have to drive 30 miles to shop at any store other than Wal-Mart or Dicks Sports.
Not only do I get a pay day each month I save money, gas,and time on what I purchase.
Views of this old Lake area Hillbilly.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Pumpkin Festival
Well we can now know that fall has arrived, The Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival has come and gone. I had the good fortune to attend this year and was it ever crowded. I would estimate the crowd at around 20,000 people on Saturday the 9th of October. I'm sure that it was just as crowded on Sunday also.
Hartsburg Missouri, population 182, is located in the Missouri River bottoms about twenty miles upriver from Jefferson City and on Missouri's longest park, The KATY Trail Park. Each year in October, for two days, that population explodes to over 50,000 with the onset of the pumpkin harvest. The soil here is very fertile and grows some big pumpkins. Corn and Soybeans are also grown here in this valley.
My wife and I arrived about 10:00 AM on a sunny day with the temps supposed to be in the lower 80s. The first area that had been set aside for parking was full and the traffic was lined back about 3/4 mile outside town. We were thirty minutes in line to get through town to another parking lot. (we were lucky later in day people were in line an hour to get parked.) We parked about a 1/4 mile from the downtown are and started walking and looking at vendor booths, there was a lot, about 180 I think. There were sellers of funnel cakes, corn on the cob, kettle corn (popcorn), jellies, jams, Apple butter and a bunch of other things that I don't have room to list here.
They had rides for the children and the children at heart, there was music and apple butter making demos. A parade and even a King for a day crowning. There was woodworking crafts demos, pen making booths, quilts for sale.
I really enjoyed this and will try to go back next year. If you get to you should go next year, or at least drop by their web site here.
Another place along the KATY Trail that has a lot going on during October is Herman MO, an old German river town that has several vineyard and wineries.
Hartsburg Missouri, population 182, is located in the Missouri River bottoms about twenty miles upriver from Jefferson City and on Missouri's longest park, The KATY Trail Park. Each year in October, for two days, that population explodes to over 50,000 with the onset of the pumpkin harvest. The soil here is very fertile and grows some big pumpkins. Corn and Soybeans are also grown here in this valley.
My wife and I arrived about 10:00 AM on a sunny day with the temps supposed to be in the lower 80s. The first area that had been set aside for parking was full and the traffic was lined back about 3/4 mile outside town. We were thirty minutes in line to get through town to another parking lot. (we were lucky later in day people were in line an hour to get parked.) We parked about a 1/4 mile from the downtown are and started walking and looking at vendor booths, there was a lot, about 180 I think. There were sellers of funnel cakes, corn on the cob, kettle corn (popcorn), jellies, jams, Apple butter and a bunch of other things that I don't have room to list here.
They had rides for the children and the children at heart, there was music and apple butter making demos. A parade and even a King for a day crowning. There was woodworking crafts demos, pen making booths, quilts for sale.
I really enjoyed this and will try to go back next year. If you get to you should go next year, or at least drop by their web site here.
Another place along the KATY Trail that has a lot going on during October is Herman MO, an old German river town that has several vineyard and wineries.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Bait and switch?
Twice now I have had Wal-Mart switch the price of an item on me. Let me explain,
A couple of weeks ago I went to buy a can of Folgers Coffee, I picked up a can from a shelf that had a price marked of $6.98. I finished my shopping and when I went to check out the check-out clerk rang up a price of $8.48, I called her on it and she left the cash reg and went back into the store,no word or anything. Soon she came back and told me I was a lier it was marked with the 8 dollar price.
Last weekend I was again shopping there and saw a box on a skid with apples in it the sign on the box had them listed as "$2.00each" I got a bag and when I went to check out the clerk charged $6.45 cents. I called his hand on it and he called a supervisor who went back in the back room of the store and came back stating that they were $2.00 per pound. She never even checked the box that they were in.
So if you are ever in Fulton Missouri and want to shop at wal-mart number 51, my advise is to drive on by they want to cheat you. They tried to me anyway.
A couple of weeks ago I went to buy a can of Folgers Coffee, I picked up a can from a shelf that had a price marked of $6.98. I finished my shopping and when I went to check out the check-out clerk rang up a price of $8.48, I called her on it and she left the cash reg and went back into the store,no word or anything. Soon she came back and told me I was a lier it was marked with the 8 dollar price.
Last weekend I was again shopping there and saw a box on a skid with apples in it the sign on the box had them listed as "$2.00each" I got a bag and when I went to check out the clerk charged $6.45 cents. I called his hand on it and he called a supervisor who went back in the back room of the store and came back stating that they were $2.00 per pound. She never even checked the box that they were in.
So if you are ever in Fulton Missouri and want to shop at wal-mart number 51, my advise is to drive on by they want to cheat you. They tried to me anyway.
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