lorelei1622

@lorelei1622 (329)

United States • Age 59

Joined myLot 16 years ago

If all you're looking for are referals or quick cash schemes, especially PTCs, please don't try to add me as a friend, I will check your profile first and if al

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Are you an early bird on Black Friday?

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 24 Nov 09

Do you plan to get up at 3-4 am and wait in line at the big sales? I have to work 5am that morning, and am curious as to just what drives people to want to get up that early to shop. OK, I'm an anomaly, a woman who HATES to shop,...

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Let them eat cake! Stressed out and baking up a storm

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 13 May 09

I have an interview this morning for the manager training program at work. I HATE interviews! As such I have been sooo stressed out, that my husband finally told me yesterday to take the cake I made to work. "Let them eat cake,"...

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Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam, May I cross your River Dam? Tag you're it!

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 10 May 09

Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam May I cross your river dam? Yes you may, yes you may if you have the color I say... We played this form of tag at the bus stop when I was in grade school. Does anyone else remember it or other forms of...

tag childhood games

waiting for the bus

Do you know who I am?

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 10 May 09

1. I kept asking all the ladies to please not squeeze the Charmin? I know the answer, and hope that whoever comes up with it can add to the list and see how many old commercial pitchmen and/or spokesmen/women we can come up...

add one each time

make it a chain letter

BEWARE Grandma Scam

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 11 Mar 09

There is a new phone scam going around, 2 seniors in my area have been swindled and a third was stopped by the clerk at Walmart! Apparently the scammer calls the senior claiming to be a grandchild in trouble in Canada and needs to...

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Did your bank receive money from the bailout? Could be!

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 11 Mar 09

It was on the local (okay the New Hampshire) news tonight! Banks that didn't need it received money from the bailout! The Feds set up a program to give the money t strong banks to keep them strong?!? There are strings attached to...

Car Insurance went down, go figure!

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 10 Mar 09

A few weeks ago I posted about my POS Doge Neon having the window smashed, to update, I traded it 2 weeks ago for a Jeep Grand Cherokee 4x4, and added my newly licensed daughter to our insurance and the insurance dropped by almost...

Craig's List Flags, they don't investigate either!

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 10 Mar 09

Last Wednesday night I put my husband's boat on Craig's list, started getting responses within minutes, Thursday am about 6, I went in to check my emails and had 4 more responses, while answering them I get a notice from Craig's...

no reason given

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Recession or Depression? Is there any real difference?

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 6 Mar 09

With the unemployment figures for February just released and having not been that low since the 1940's are we still in a recession or is it now a depression? What really is the difference? And do you have any realistic ideas on...

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What unique product can you only get where or near where you live?

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 17 Feb 09

I'm in New England, Vermont to be nearer precise and although Real Vermont Maple Syrup is available via mail order almost every where, it's just the Grade A or Fancy. Most old timer's around here won't touch the stuff, too thin...

only available where you live

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Irresponsible people should get a conscious

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 4 Feb 09

Monday I ran up against a situation that shows some people have no conscious. I went shopping, parked my car walked 3 blocks (the store was closed!) walked back and found the passenger window shattered, broken glass all over the...

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Credit Card Company decides where you can shop

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 28 Jan 09

I was listening to GMA this morning and they had on a guy, who had his credit limit drastically dropped (thus hurting his credit score)all because of where he shopped. This is for real! They used some form of profiling and because...

credit card bills

penalties for shopping

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Can you Cook?

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 27 Jan 09

Are you the better cook or is your partner/spouse? Before we even moved in together, my husband was warned by my family that I couldn't cook, not even water or something out of a can. He thought at first they were kidding, but...

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What in the world is wrong with people

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 7 Jan 09

Night before last, some moron stole my phone and lighter out of my coat in the break room at work. As annoying as it is, they really won't benefit from it. The 3 year old, banged up phone was a Tracphone with just 5 minutes left...

stealing from your coworkers

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SNOW DAY HURRAY! not

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 31 Dec 08

Well it's snowing like crazy here, already 3 inches on the ground and calling for 5 more in the next 5-6 hours. My car is horrendous in the snow so I called in to work. For the first time in over 20 years of working, I have a boss...

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My tree is trashed!

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 1 Dec 08

Well I got home from work last evening, after a miserable sleet filled drive, walked in turned to the living room to say hi to my husband, and saw the tree, tilted drunkenly, garland that looked so good when I left hanging very...

broken ornaments

christmas disasters

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Black Friday, will you be joining the Frenzy?

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 23 Nov 08

yes the day the piranhas is upon us! The ads will be out on Wednesday, and bright and early Friday A.M. people will be lining up outside their chosen stores, ready to rush in and fight over whatever bargain has caught their eye....

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Police stone 13 year old rape victim to death

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 15 Nov 08

Yes this really happened! A 13 year old girl, who was walking to her grandmother's house, was raped and when she reported it to the police, they charged her with adultery, took her into a stadium, buried her up to her neck, stoned...

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Secret Santa for the Lonely

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 11 Nov 08

When our kids were little, we wanted to teach them that Christmas should have more meaning than just what they would get out of it. We started our own secret Santa plan for the kids. They picked out a person in our town who had no...

lonely for the holidays

not being selfish

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Christmas Cards are invading soon!

lorelei1622 @lorelei1622 (329) • United States 11 Nov 08

Do you still take the time and expense of sending out Christmas Cards? All of my in-laws send us cards every year, complete with school pics and newsletters. I haven't sent out Christmas cards in years, I prefer to donate the...

christmas cards

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