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I always walk to the grocery store near me when I need quick trips (ran out of milk, pick up a bag of apples etc. As long as it's only a few bags I can carry home) it's probably a tenth or a fifth of a mile away. My neighbors think I'm crazy to "walk all the way to the store" I think they are crazy to bother driving their cars that far!
At least I never had to carry a chandelier.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not yet, but who knows what you'll buy in the future [img]wink.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by Skittl1321:
...At least I never had to carry a chandelier.
Gas here is from $2.82 to 2.94 per gallon. I WISH I could walk places that I need to go, but I live away from civilization (and yes, I accept that I am paying for seclusion). Regardless, there's not a good chance of survival for walking on my road to the gas station for groceries because of the high-speed traffic! I live 13 miles away from a Walmart (which I really don't like to go to). I work 25 miles from my house, and I'll be increasing that distance by 20 miles. Now, if I could take a boat to work, on the other hand, traveling at 50 mph it would only take me 20 minutes to get to work as opposed to 1 hour. Give or take on the commute from the dock.
** Due to hurricane Katrina, Alabama's price gouging law went into effect.
<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ April 26, 2006 04:29 PM: Message edited by: angelnise ]</font>
I know that here in America we pay far less for gas than any other country and gas is usually the cheepest thing in America that you can buy by the gallon. When I went to Turkey they paid $6 - $7 a gallon and they had to have someone pump their gas so on top of that they had to tip them. They also do not make a lot of money over there my AFS sister makes only $17,000 a year with a docters degree in chemical engineering and that is in the city! They also had no public transportation and the area is very hilly so they use a lot of gas braking and accelerating. Some roads even have treds (metal bars) because they are so vertical. On spring break I was talking to someone from England and they said that right now they pay about $10 a gallon equivalent.
I received this in an email once. It says how much every day products cost by the gallon:
Some are very expensive!
Chanel No. 5 Parfum: $45, 056
Revlon Nail Enamel: $983.04
Visine Advanced Eye Drops: $741.12
Vicks 44D Cough Syrup: $96.67
Coppertone SPF 45 sun-block lotion: $90.11
Pepto-Bismol: $58.52
Evian bottled water: $21.19
Mocha at Peaberry coffee (tax included): $22.28
Corona beer: $12.89
Snapple: $10.32
Tide liquid detergent: $8.39
Coca-Cola: $2.64
Tap water, Denver Water - .00186 cent for 11,000 gallons or less per month, including monthly service charge
The highest its gotten here so far is about $3.40. [img]confused.gif[/img] [img]eek.gif[/img] Both of our cars only take the most expensive gas, and to fill up the gas tank costs almost $60.00! [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]confused.gif[/img] [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]
Gas prices are killing me. I drive an Expedition I hate that it ***** gas but I have 4 kids and take my niece and nephew to school also so I had to have something that seated 8. My husband has an Accord and it gets great Gas mileage but I never have few enough kids with me to drive it!
Luckily, with Rich and I, we only have one car. I don't drive. So we only worry about one car being filled up. However, we do live close to a couple of restuarants/gym/movies/mall, so we walk there typically.
And we aren't TOO far (i.e. walking distance) from others, but well-the streets/roads are so congested with traffic, that it is hard to walk. If they had sidewalks/crosswalks, we'd be fine. But they don't [img]frown.gif[/img]
-Jordyn
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is so funny! You know the mall is about a mile and a half from my house and it has never occurred to me to walk there? [img]redface.gif[/img] In my defense, I've never been without a small child and the weather isn't conducive to walking for 6months of the year.Quote:
Originally posted by Miki_:
... but it wasn't heavy at all - just a bit funny looking carrying a chandelier as they didn't have a bag to fit it in.
Ya'll are such an inspiration, I may have to give walking a chance now that my oldest can babysit. I don't think my 4 or 5yo could walk that far, and they are too big for a stroller.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I also have a Toyota-a Corolla. I have owned 3 cars in my life and they were all Corollas. Since I only drive myself around and have to parallel park on the street, a small car that is reliable is what I depend on. My mom also is on her 3rd Toyota(owned a Tercel and 2 Corollas, the one she has now is 12 years old and still running great) and my brother has a Honda Accord, so these kinds of cars are what I'm accustumed to. The only time I ever has any desire for an SUV is when we have snow and we have to dig our cars out of snowdrifts. The benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. [img]graemlins/car.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by angelnise:
I am so thankful that I bought my toyota, so thankful. The other cars in the size range of my toyota didn't get nearly the gas mileage. While it takes $10 more to fill it up now, I still only have to fill up once a week to get back and forth to work. It's saving me $15 per week to be driving this car rather than the one I had or the one I was going to get, and that's $780 per year! I'd save another $15 if gas prices went down to normal. Of course, that doesn't include the inflation it has put on consumer goods. It's going to take me more gas to get back and forth to work after August because of the new house location.
We're up to $2.85 here in Michigan, which really stinks. It means we need to conserve on our trips and try to go out only once or twice a week for groceries and other supplies. Think I'm going to start feeling it even more now that I've got a wonderful boyfriend. And his passion happens to be showing his '71 Olds at car shows. I'm going to feel bad if Ed can't show as much because of the gas prices. [img]frown.gif[/img]
And then there's the threat of gas shortages, which is even more upsetting considering my business is online and power outages will not be beneficial for it. I'm already stashing away some paperbacks, notebooks so I can write when the urge strikes, and an extra cross stitch kit or two so I can amuse myself during black outs!