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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 22 Apr

Tipping is kind of a controversial topic in some venues. People have differing opinions on the subject, some reasoning that the perfect tip amount is 30%, while others prefer 20%, 15%, or even !0%. I tend to tip at 20% in...

tipping

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Kristie Benjamin That's awesome. I think some people try to show off, and go to extremes, like 40% or something like that.

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marguicha @marguicha (223776) • Chile 19 Apr 23

I was worried about my cacti with all these problems (the fire and the colonoscopy). I confess I took care of Luna but not of my plants. But cacti are not much interested in water. Only a small amount will suffice and they had...

cacti

caring for cacti

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Kristie Benjamin @marguicha True. They are pretty sensitive.

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 19 Apr 23

So where I live the temperature keeps going up and down. One day it's 30 degrees and the next it's tee short and shorts weather. The day after that another ice age begins and ends by noon. Welcome to the wild and wooly midwest....

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Kristie Benjamin That's awesome!

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 19 Apr 23

So where I live the temperature keeps going up and down. One day it's 30 degrees and the next it's tee short and shorts weather. The day after that another ice age begins and ends by noon. Welcome to the wild and wooly midwest....

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Kristie Benjamin Better than seeing dead people, right?

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 19 Apr 23

So where I live the temperature keeps going up and down. One day it's 30 degrees and the next it's tee short and shorts weather. The day after that another ice age begins and ends by noon. Welcome to the wild and wooly midwest....

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Kristie Benjamin Same with the allergies. I had the monster cold too, but finally over it.

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 9 Feb 23

So now eggs are so expensive there are entrepreneurs out there who are renting out laying hens to people who can't afford to buy eggs. As goofy as that sounds, it's definitely a thing. At the same time, we can go in the store and...

chicken

eggs

bird flu

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Kristie Benjamin True, unless purchased from a small farm. They have to spend a lot on upkeep, feed and such.

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 9 Feb 23

So now eggs are so expensive there are entrepreneurs out there who are renting out laying hens to people who can't afford to buy eggs. As goofy as that sounds, it's definitely a thing. At the same time, we can go in the store and...

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Kristie Benjamin I don't know, but I guess after 6 months of renting them you can keep them. Not sure, but that sounds like it's pretty expensive too.

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 9 Feb 23

So now eggs are so expensive there are entrepreneurs out there who are renting out laying hens to people who can't afford to buy eggs. As goofy as that sounds, it's definitely a thing. At the same time, we can go in the store and...

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Kristie Benjamin They aren't killing just hens though. All chickens can get avian flu, so if both hens and roosters are getting destroyed, where is all this chicken meat coming from? Besides, the big egg farms don't even keep roosters, only hens.

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 9 Feb 23

So now eggs are so expensive there are entrepreneurs out there who are renting out laying hens to people who can't afford to buy eggs. As goofy as that sounds, it's definitely a thing. At the same time, we can go in the store and...

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Kristie Benjamin Nice. My neck of the woods has them at around $4 to 6 dollars a dozen. It's ridiculous.

9 Feb 23

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 9 Feb 23

So now eggs are so expensive there are entrepreneurs out there who are renting out laying hens to people who can't afford to buy eggs. As goofy as that sounds, it's definitely a thing. At the same time, we can go in the store and...

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Kristie Benjamin Same. I make jokes that we are actually eating the chickens they destroyed on the bird flu witch hunts. Seriously, what else can we think?

9 Feb 23

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Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29427) • Sonora, California 4 Apr 20

I had to run to Walmart to get my money order for my rent, and made it there just in time, got the Toilet Paper we needed and cat liter, along with some of the groceries we couldn't find at the store Wednesday because they were...

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Kristie Benjamin @porwest. Yup, and now we have to spend an arm and a leg to buy eggs while the chicken itself is under a dollar a pound. At least it is where I'm from. What are they feeding us, the chickens they destroyed with bird flu? LOL

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 18 Sep 15

Eat fast food, that is. Do you? I know a lot of people who refuse to admit that they have ever darkened the door of a fast food joint. (What a shock it must be to them when they first discover that nobody really cares. LOL) My...

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Kristie Benjamin Yeah, and likely just as addictive as porn as well. Fast food seems to get more expensive every day, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone from going out to spend that money.

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 6 Apr 16

I just got my first smart phone... (yeah, I'm a bit of a tightwad...LOL) and it brought back to my mind a problem I've noticed for a while now when trying to call people who only use smart phones. Namely this... it's really hard...

smart phones

phone calls

audio troubles

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Kristie Benjamin It took me forever to join the 21st century, but I'm getting there in my own time, I guess.

5 Apr 20

Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 25 Sep 15

I'm talking about a restaurant, actually. In a recent discussion about people's dreams I mentioned my on-again, off-again fantasy about running a fast food joint that only sells healthy, well-cooked menus for an...

restaurants

low carb

salad bar

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Kristie Benjamin @mkrnex That's true. I didn't stop to think of that. I live in a metro area, but I don't frequent the malls very often due to the fact that I can buy the same items elsewhere for less. For those of us on smaller incomes, the mall prices can be intimidating....

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 6 Apr 16

I just got my first smart phone... (yeah, I'm a bit of a tightwad...LOL) and it brought back to my mind a problem I've noticed for a while now when trying to call people who only use smart phones. Namely this... it's really hard...

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Kristie Benjamin Awesome! I think I'm starting to get used to my phone now, but my hubby is still fussing over his, and my dad totally has to avoid touching any apps at all, since he recently accidentally activated airplane mode and his phone wouldn't DO anything for the...

7 Apr 16

Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 6 Apr 16

I just got my first smart phone... (yeah, I'm a bit of a tightwad...LOL) and it brought back to my mind a problem I've noticed for a while now when trying to call people who only use smart phones. Namely this... it's really hard...

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Kristie Benjamin That's interesting. I'll have to look into that deeper for my next phone. Thank you for that review of the iPhone. :)

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 6 Apr 16

I just got my first smart phone... (yeah, I'm a bit of a tightwad...LOL) and it brought back to my mind a problem I've noticed for a while now when trying to call people who only use smart phones. Namely this... it's really hard...

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Kristie Benjamin Well, I've always experienced "dropped" calls... with every cell phone I've ever owned. I have yet to have my new smart phone drop a call except once when I talked to my husband and he entered a building where cell signals are screened out and we both expected...

7 Apr 16

Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 23 Sep 15

Me? I'm cat people myself. Have raised cats my whole life, or should I say I have been raised by cats my whole life. I like the interior "plumbing" feature that cats have...they use a litterbox indoors and all I...

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Kristie Benjamin It's the same for my husband and I. He's always raised dogs and I've always raised cats. Now we have one cat and she is still working on training him properly. LOL.

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Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 23 Sep 15

Me? I'm cat people myself. Have raised cats my whole life, or should I say I have been raised by cats my whole life. I like the interior "plumbing" feature that cats have...they use a litterbox indoors and all I...

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Kristie Benjamin That's so funny about the cat sign, and so true as well. LOL. My cat firmly believes she is supreme ruler of the household and has the staff to prove it. ;)

6 Apr 16

Kristie Benjamin @Novelangel (394) • United States 25 Sep 15

I'm talking about a restaurant, actually. In a recent discussion about people's dreams I mentioned my on-again, off-again fantasy about running a fast food joint that only sells healthy, well-cooked menus for an...

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Kristie Benjamin McDonalds isn't even the cheapest fast food anymore, nor is it the tastiest. Bleh. :P

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