And the same can be said for men’s wear – I picked up 3 pairs of pants (same size) and returned 2 because they were small. The only online shopping for clothes I do is for sweatshirts / T-shirts that I order larger anyway.
Actually pigs are as clean, or cleaner than dogs when they can be. Pigs don’t sweat and don’t have a biological way of reducing their body heat. They wallow in mud to cool themselves down which gives them a bad reputation.
If you want to blame someone – do a hard look at the stock holders of the oil companies that are demanding more profit even though they are enjoying $Billions already – it’s called GREED and has nothing to do with politics.
Pump price is based on: Cost of crude oil: 55% – Marketing: 18% – Costs of refining: 13% – Federal and state taxes: 14% of the price of gas (Fed tax has not changed since 1 Oct 1993)
I agree and the demise of malls and large stores has not been pretty. My sister lives in a large city and the size of the paper has dropped 75% in the last 10 years (but the price hasn’t). I was there last year and mentioned her paper shrunk to the size of our paper (small town midwest paper) but she likes the local news and the ads. The huge mall (1,152,333 sqft or 107,055.2 m2) we used to go to is being converted to housing and business offices due to lack of shoppers. High $$$ shoppers began to shop at newer facilities and retailers began to carry fewer high-end name-brand goods focusing on items more in line with the middle-income customer base. As the retail climate started changing, several chain stores closed in the mall and over time the mall contained more small businesses and fewer chain stores.
Tried that and decided since I’m retired, I don’t need it – but if you like it, check out the app “Ships Bell Clock & Duty Bells” which includes Reveille, Retreat, and Taps :o)
I was salaried and paid for the job – not the time – if the work was done, we could leave, but, we were also on call 24/7/365 for the customers we supported – it balanced out in the long run.
Our watches can make calls and have their own phone numbers – no need to carry the phones when exercising