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• Where I live we have good water so I have no reason to buy. But respectfully I don’t think you are making an apples to apples comparison on prices. All venues like concerts or sporting events the food and drink is massively overpriced, no disagreement with you on that. Comparing water from home to a grocery store isn’t going to be accurate. That’s like me comparing vegetables I grew to the cost at the store. Of course the store is more. With bottled water the company has to account for its costs, the plant, materials, labor, fuel etc. At my local store a gallon of water costs 76 cents. The simple reason you see so many varieties of water is because the demand is there.

  Post: A clarification of the bottled water post

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024

• Couldn’t have put it any better.

  Post: In defense of billionaires

  Link to comment from September 29, 2024

• Boy this feels like a rare post that brought out the knives. I can’t say I disagree with the post, all I get is it wondering why times are so different. Are some important things more expensive now, yes but so are wages. Do people have more stuff, yes partly because there are a lot more choices than when I was younger. To me that’s a good thing. I think the political posts started to take this a little off base. I do have to respectfully disagree with the one implying money and corruption in politics has something to do with things now. Both have always been around. It’s just with social media it is easier to bring things to light. But all that is for a different post.

  Post: How did it all work for us? Why not now?

  Link to comment from September 27, 2024

• Nice for something a little more lighthearted. For me it was an interview in Barron’s about his book My Money Journey. Which I promptly bought.

  Post: How and when did you find out about HumbleDollar?

  Link to comment from September 25, 2024

• I agree with Elaine hell yes, but for another reason besides getting the right price. For many years I was the price coordinator at a grocery chain. My job was to upload price changes in our system and to make sure shelf tags and display signs were changed. Almost always the scanned price is the correct price. The errors come from a shelf tag or display sign not changed. Also if a store ran an in store special and that wasn’t changed back. Personally I always wanted a customer to let me know if a price is off so it can be fixed. It’s a lot better then having multiple customers get home and find out find out the price is wrong, and they are all going to be rightfully irritated. I can only speak for grocery stores, but each week they do a set of price changes and a new weekly ad. These can total into the low thousands. Mistakes happen. No chain wants their customers questioning price integrity.

  Post: Getting Rolled by Jonathan Clements

  Link to comment from September 22, 2024

• Truely deep gratitude, why does it so often take a terminal illness or death of a close one to realize it. I include myself in that. May I offer a thought regarding your last paragraph. My mom dealt with her terminal cancer pretty much like you, while my sisters and myself had various levels of grief during her last months. But long after she had passed, we all still have a great comfort and admiration in how she handled it. It was a gift she gave us. I’m not sure our memories would be the same if she joined in our grief while she was alive.

  Post: No Regrets

  Link to comment from September 7, 2024

• I completely agree.

  Post: This deserves a rant. The United States approach to paying for healthcare is a joke.

  Link to comment from August 18, 2024

• I cannot agree with Mike any more strongly. I saw firsthand the results of a family member that decided to “ go out with a bang” . That haunted me for decades. Have the guts not to. Your family will thank you. This is an incredibly personal subject for me.

  Post: On the Clock

  Link to comment from August 17, 2024

• we are on medicare and for us it does work well, I would respectfully disagree that it is doing well. My comment was geared more towards creating a new program

  Post: This deserves a rant. The United States approach to paying for healthcare is a joke.

  Link to comment from August 17, 2024

• I am certainly no expert on universal care in other countries but I can comment on a couple things. I had an uncle in Canada with cancer who died during a several month wait to see a specialist. I know that I am only giving one example for Canada. I grew up in Germany so that is the only country I will comment on. Yes the care is good. Trade offs are higher taxes and depending on condition wait time can be long. In Europe there has long been an acceptance of the government taking care or subsidizing social services. One of the things I respect of this site is it does not get political so I may be on thin ice with the next part. I would assume our government would manage any universal care program. As dysfunctional as our government is I cannot imagine them creating as well as managing such a system.

  Post: This deserves a rant. The United States approach to paying for healthcare is a joke.

  Link to comment from August 17, 2024