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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on July 12, 2009, 08:00:20 PM
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 07:59 PM
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what are you doing to save money in this economy? We are...
we are not "hurting" like a lot of others but we are doing some cutbacks to repair our own budget due to some wastefullness on our part in the past
We ended our Y membership and have started taking walks together in the evening...kind of romantic
we cut down on our internet speed...haven't even noticed it
we cut out a LOT of channels on TV...haven't missed them yet...ask me again during football season
We keep our air on 78 day and night...opening windows is not an option due to hubbys allergies
We have been buying more generic foods instead of name brands...when you cook it really doesn't matter
We make sure we go to several stores when we go out and do not just go to one store
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6051353
There's something strange about a lying braggart like DUmmy greenbriar claiming no financial stress, but giving up the Y, giving up broadband, giving up premium cable, etc. The probable explanation is that everything she posts is an outright lie. She's trying to curry favor in DUmmyland by starting a thread on thrift, since DUmmies, even in boom times, are poverty-stricken.
NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 08:04 PM
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1. I lost my job a year ago...doing some consulting, but made some changes.
We only get Fri-Sat-Sun newspaper
Only basic cable (and hence watch it rarely if at all)
No land line, just cell
put all home improvements on hold
Netflix, not out to the movies
Rarely eat out - we love to garden and cook, and purchase little meat or prepared food...legumes, fruits, veggies primarily.
Purchasing less wine and beer, and aim toward two buck chuck!
Instead of expensive vacations, we take a drive to the lake and drop our kayaks in....
greenbriar (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 08:06 PM
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2. we have talked about getting rid of the land line
but that would actually cost us more because of the cox bundle...
and I am a bit shy of not having a house phone...something about having it makes me feel more secure
Bitter, angry, useless old DUmmy Warpy chimes in:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 08:15 PM
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5. I didn't have satellite or cable
If nothing was on PBS, I just turned to the puter, which was grandfathered in to cheap DSL through Qwest. Land line, no frills. Answering machine until it died, when I just stopped answering it at all. Nothing new. If it died, I replaced it at a thrift shop, fixed it, or did without. Made my clothing and mended thrift shop clothing, overdyeing the ugly stuff. Knitted my own sweaters, spun the yarn to do it. Wool is cheaper when it's off the critter's back. Cooked my own food, mostly beans, rice and roasted root veggies. Insisted on real maple syrup, my one luxury.
Reread all my books. Read magazines at the library a block away. Wrote a few short stories which have since been tossed.
Lived a dull life, drove so little I got 6 months out of a tank of gas in an old Ford Ranger, heated with scrap wood.
Survived.
DUmmy Forkboy is one of the few DUmmies with an honest post on this thread.
Forkboy (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 08:15 PM
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6. I stopped doing heroin daily.
DUmmy NightWatcher makes a half-hearted pass at DUmmy Forkboy:
NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 08:16 PM
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7. you dont have to buy smack, you can barter
bemildred (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 08:19 PM
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9. No cable, no "health insurance", no "security services", no fast food, no movies, ...
It's amazing how much stuff you do not need once you get focussed on the problem.
DUmmy bvar22 is apparently one of those dirty, smelly, hairy, commune-type hippies:
bvar22 (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 08:28 PM
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13. Why would anyone "unrecommend" this?
We "cashed out" in 2006 and moved to The Woods where we grow a good percentage of our food.
We raise Free Range chickens and keep HoneyBees.
We avoid buying anything NEW whenever possible.
What we can't make ourselves, we buy 2nd hand or Salvage direct from the previous owners when possible.
We don't use credit cards.
We avoid packaged food and cook from bulk scratch as much as possible.
We are working to make our cabin more energy efficient.
Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 08:32 PM
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17. Buy food staples in bulk, no factory-made food.
Driving a 1992 car with good mileage.
Not wasting money on plastic crap from China.
Growing a lot of my own food.
Baking my own bread.
etc. etc.
Same stuff I've been doing since adopting a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity 6 or 8 years ago.
I am still confused. Most DUmmies rarely have more than intermittent, minimum wage employment, of which plenty is always available. For people like that, how are hard times detected? Fewer handouts from parents and sympathetic relatives? Fewer coins tossed into the guitar case? More activity at the food bank?
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Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
I thought this was all supposed to change on January 20, 2009.
The primitives promised us it would.
That was a long time ago now.
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we cut out a LOT of channels on TV...haven't missed them yet...ask me again during football season
When will Greenbriar realize that nobody will ask her during football season if she misses the TV channels because no one cares.
But then again, she's not "hurting."
What a nitwit.
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So, she's not "hurting", but she feels the need to discuss how she is "cutting back" :loser:
The fact that her thread is being unrec'ed means that there are probably people over in DUmmieland who have realized what an attention whore she is :popcorn:
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So, she's not "hurting", but she feels the need to discuss how she is "cutting back" :loser:
The fact that her thread is being unrec'ed means that there are probably people over in DUmmieland who have realized what an attention whore she is :popcorn:
Ohhhhhhhhh, I forgot all about the unrec feature over there - I bet a lot of hers will turn out to be unrec'd.
Bwahahahahaha!
:lmao:
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This carp is a member of the teachers's union, is she not? She couldn't get fired for anything less than giving one of her students a hand job. Just what the hell does she have to worry about?
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I think some of this stuff DUmmies do to be 'hip'. It is far cheaper buy bread in many cases then making it oneself, particularly when one considers the time investment in doing so. There are bread outlet stores in a lot of places that sell even organic, whole wheat type bread for a buck and some change(the good stuff).
As for clothes, anyone who has made them knows it is cheaper to buy casual clothes especially off the rack at Walmart or something. Fabric is expensive unless the DUmmie somehow gets their mits on free or greatly reduced remnats. Again there is a time cost involved too that can not be discounted ie time is money. They should look into something called economies of scale--it's the reason buying bread and clothes at a store is somtimes more prudent then doing them oneself.
Now, there is an enjoyment factor in some of those creative outlets, but to consider it 'thrifty'--I wouldn't go that far.
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So, she's not "hurting", but she feels the need to discuss how she is "cutting back" :loser:
The fact that her thread is being unrec'ed means that there are probably people over in DUmmieland who have realized what an attention whore she is :popcorn:
She started a thread about that too...
greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-10-09 11:55 AM
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I think I will neg rep everyone...I don't like having neg rep (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8917895)
I post things I think are relevant and sometimes important...to get neg repped sucks
but I think I will neg rep just to see others
AN Idea....maybe be able to see who neg reps the posts...we can see if it is spiteful
Her reputation in the Lounge appears to be less than stellar. GD is another matter, but this is what I found when I looked...
Having a yard sale tomorrow....Trampolilne, Tenor Sax, computer (Recs: 0)
My husband cooked for me tonight. he fixed almost everything from scratch (Rec: +2)
Jury Duty...have you served? (Rec: 0)
help me settle an argument...does food help or hinder absortion (Rec: 0)
Hubby is pissed at me....for the YS tomorrow, we pulled our Jeep out of garage and it hailed (Rec: <0)
Just checked our garden...we have 3 orange/yellow tomatoes... (Rec: 0)
We took in over 300 bucks today at our YS...as a precaution about 2 I took extra cash inside to safe (Rec: 0)
Daughter is back for a week...I am trying my best to be disconnected yet civil (Rec: 0)
I think I will neg rep everyone...I don't like having neg rep (Rec: <0)
anyone have ripe tomatoes yet? (Rec: 0)
Hey you guys Big Brother starts tomorrow night (Rec: 0)
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I used to be an assistant manager at Aldi like 19 years ago
back when everyone had to memorize all the prices as there were no scanners or labels.
The lying cow. She did not memorize all the prices. There were price stickers.
I imagine a few of them really do just fine financially, and never realize it for the envy they have for others' possessions. The things they're giving up isn't any kind of hardship. Especially not the green bat, she loves lording her relative wealth over the rest of the DUmmies.
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I think some of this stuff DUmmies do to be 'hip'. It is far cheaper buy bread in many cases then making it oneself, particularly when one considers the time investment in doing so. There are bread outlet stores in a lot of places that sell even organic, whole wheat type bread for a buck and some change(the good stuff).
As for clothes, anyone who has made them knows it is cheaper to buy casual clothes especially off the rack at Walmart or something. Fabric is expensive unless the DUmmie somehow gets their mits on free or greatly reduced remnats. Again there is a time cost involved too that can not be discounted ie time is money. They should look into something called economies of scale--it's the reason buying bread and clothes at a store is somtimes more prudent then doing them oneself.
Now, there is an enjoyment factor in some of those creative outlets, but to consider it 'thrifty'--I wouldn't go that far.
I make my family's bread when I am at home. My daughter has already asked me to make more when I come home on leave.
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I make my family's bread when I am at home. My daughter has already asked me to make more when I come home on leave.
My mother used to bake bread, rolls, and biscuits on the weekend. Best bread you ever ate.
I did find a recipe for no-knead bread that I posted here... you could probably make a loaf for about fifty cents.
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I make my family's bread when I am at home. My daughter has already asked me to make more when I come home on leave.
And many people do just that, however this was a thread on being thrifty and bread making hardly qualifies when one can buy a loaf at a discount bakery for cheap without a lot of expense on their limited time. There are other more significant and less time-consuming ways to save money(and time). Never doubted people do it(bake bread) and I've done it myself, but not as a means to save money.
As a side note, I love fresh baked yeast rolls...mmmm. :-)
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My mother used to bake bread, rolls, and biscuits on the weekend. Best bread you ever ate.
I did find a recipe for no-knead bread that I posted here... you could probably make a loaf for about fifty cents.
I can buy it at Aldi's for .79 and save myself a lot of time in making and baking. Just saying.
As an aside because I have a feeling it's being misconstrued, I didn't say anyone here does anything like this to be 'hip', but it can't be denied that DUmmies really get off on seeing themselves as running against the grain of society and if they see convenience, average grocery stores, and cars as part of normal society they will takes hours to make one loaf of bread, shop at the Whole Foods, and ride a bike, not because they want to save squat, but just to thumb their finger in the face of what they see as normal societal norms. They fit in with one another by outdoing each other on how 'smart' and edgy they can be.
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I think some of this stuff DUmmies do to be 'hip'. It is far cheaper buy bread in many cases then making it oneself, particularly when one considers the time investment in doing so. There are bread outlet stores in a lot of places that sell even organic, whole wheat type bread for a buck and some change(the good stuff).
As for clothes, anyone who has made them knows it is cheaper to buy casual clothes especially off the rack at Walmart or something. Fabric is expensive unless the DUmmie somehow gets their mits on free or greatly reduced remnats. Again there is a time cost involved too that can not be discounted ie time is money. They should look into something called economies of scale--it's the reason buying bread and clothes at a store is somtimes more prudent then doing them oneself.
Now, there is an enjoyment factor in some of those creative outlets, but to consider it 'thrifty'--I wouldn't go that far.
When I have the time I enjoy making clothes, curtains, bread, vegetable gardening, etc., but once you figure in the labor and cost of materials it more often than not ends up being more expensive than purchasing these things ready-made.
I understand what you're saying about DUmmies and why they feel they must trumpet their alleged frugality to one another. I suspect that the vast majority of the time these humble attribute they assign themselves are the usual lies, fabrications and embellishments to add to their DU cred. If they're so frugal why are they buying computers and paying for service? I don't buy their "using the library computer" excuses.
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OTOH, DUmmies have much more free time than people that work for a living, so they don't have to consider the "cost" of their time spent doing these things.
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Meh. Sam's Club is my bestest friend EVAR. Spent a few bucks yesterday for critter food/litter, and got me some chickens (.69/lb for two whole fryers) and bacon. Would have spent more on food but freezer is pretty much full already.
I have noticed Hannaford's is doing "meat packages" these days--some chicken, steaks, hamburger, pork, and overall at a VERY good price. I'll have to do that if they're still offering that when my freezer runs out next time.
Oh, and since nobody delivers, I make my own pizza. Frozen dough balls at the store for $1.19, and I top with my own toppings--did I mention how good pizza tastes when you use your own roma tomatoes and basil on it?
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Meh. Sam's Club is my bestest friend EVAR. Spent a few bucks yesterday for critter food/litter, and got me some chickens (.69/lb for two whole fryers) and bacon. Would have spent more on food but freezer is pretty much full already.
I have noticed Hannaford's is doing "meat packages" these days--some chicken, steaks, hamburger, pork, and overall at a VERY good price. I'll have to do that if they're still offering that when my freezer runs out next time.
Oh, and since nobody delivers, I make my own pizza. Frozen dough balls at the store for $1.19, and I top with my own toppings--did I mention how good pizza tastes when you use your own roma tomatoes and basil on it?
Yeah, we love Sams. $20 for 50lbs of dog food. We buy bulk chicken and hamburger there as well.
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Warpy and her damned veggies. Does anyone believe that she's living like a frontierswoman? She's making her own sweaters directly off the sheep? Breaking up scrap wood and building campfires in the living room? I was waiting for her to churn her own butter and dip her own candles.
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Warpy and her damned v*****s. Does anyone believe that she's living like a frontierswoman? She's making her own sweaters directly off the sheep? Breaking up scrap wood and building campfires in the living room? I was waiting for her to churn her own butter and dip her own candles.
She tans her own deerhides to make her own buckskin clothing, and she collects spider webs to make her own decorative hummingbird nests. Also, like most DUmmies, she creates her own reality, without which none of the rest of her tales would exist.
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Sun Jul-12-09 07:59 PM
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what are you doing to save money in this economy? We are...
we are not "hurting" like a lot of others but we are doing some cutbacks to repair our own budget due to some wastefullness on our part in the past
We ended our Y membership and have started taking walks together in the evening...kind of romantic
we cut down on our internet speed...haven't even noticed it
we cut out a LOT of channels on TV...haven't missed them yet...ask me again during football season
We keep our air on 78 day and night...opening windows is not an option due to hubbys allergies
We have been buying more generic foods instead of name brands...when you cook it really doesn't matter
We make sure we go to several stores when we go out and do not just go to one store
Why do all that shit? Seems to me she could just stop goin on cruises every other month and that would save alot more! :whatever:
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Warpy and her damned veggies. Does anyone believe that she's living like a frontierswoman? She's making her own sweaters directly off the sheep? Breaking up scrap wood and building campfires in the living room? I was waiting for her to churn her own butter and dip her own candles.
I really have to chuckle at some of these cretins, and even if partially true, the lengths that they go to to portray themselves as "frugal" (which ironically is a conservative value)........
My wife grew up as a farm girl, and until her early teens lived in a century old house with no phone, no electricity (it had a "Delco" 12 volt system for lights), and no indoor plumbing, and was heated with a woodstove. She went to a one-room schoolhouse until the seventh grade. When I've felt brave enough to ask her why she doesn't make homemade bread and get involved in vegetable gardening because of her roots, her response is simply.......
"......that's what supermarkets are for......why the hell would I want to go back to that lifestyle, after we worked our collective asses off to better ourselves........"
doc
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Warpy and her damned veggies. Does anyone believe that she's living like a frontierswoman? She's making her own sweaters directly off the sheep? Breaking up scrap wood and building campfires in the living room? I was waiting for her to churn her own butter and dip her own candles.
Exactly my point and if she does, it's to impress other dummies, not for any real sense of 'living simple'. it's a 'one up' thing.
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Oh, absolutely, Angel. She's always one-upping. Fissy-fussing about what other primitives eat and being high handed about eating twigs and lawn sweepings while they enjoy fried dough or whatever.
And another thing: Why do we have hear about "romance" in Greenbriar's life all the time. Since I've seen the pics of those two it's really leaving me creeped out. I still need brainbleach for the "date night" episode.
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Oh, absolutely, Angel. She's always one-upping. Fissy-fussing about what other primitives eat and being high handed about eating twigs and lawn sweepings while they enjoy fried dough or whatever.
Well now, don't be too harsh on the warped primitive.
Remember, the warped primitive was born lacking much in the pulchtritude department, and constantly derided by everybody from her old man to her classmates to men in general.
Which isn't decent and civilized behavior, making fun of ugly people.
franksolich has no problem, no problem at all, finding something attractive in even the most hideous-looking women; God gave us all beauty, in one way or another.
But anyway, the warped primitive grew up bitter and angry and Hate-filled because no one ever said she was beautiful, and every woman likes to be told she's beautiful, even if only for carnal motives.
This "one-up" obsession is symptomatic.
All that being said, franksolich is intensely curious about something else, about the warped primitive. The warped primitive is a registered nurse, originally from Massachusetts, now from New Mexico.
The warped primitive put a great deal of time and effort and expense into becoming a registered nurse, and was a registered nurse in Massachusetts for decades.
Then this sudden change, a few years ago.
The warped primitive, no spring chicken, still has a lot of years of work in her, but is not practicing in her profession in New Mexico, instead living in near-poverty.
One wonders what's up with that.
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Resurrected because it appears popular with primitives lurking here.
This way, it's easier for them to find.
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The very thought of Greenbriar on a "Trampolilne," oh my.
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The very thought of Greenbriar on a "Trampolilne," oh my.
Greenbriar- puttin the "tramp" in trampoline.
Anyway, times have become so hard here that we are being forced to cut our barrel proof bourbon down to 100 in order to make it last.
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So, if I am understanding the primitives correctly, the ideal is going back to living as a plains indian. Feather, not dot.
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Wasn't she the one who posted sly little references to how much they had?
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Wasn't she the one who posted sly little references to how much they had?
Not so sly. She went on and on about their cruises.
She posted pictures of Mark's Glock.
She would mention how many of her family, except herself, were deadbeats.
She once even mentioned her house was five stories and could sleep fifty. (It's a split level starter home in a cookie cutter 1960s Wichita neighborhood.)
In lots of her photos, she would casually include her counterfeit Coach purse.
Pam did not do "sly".
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Not so sly. She went on and on about their cruises.
She posted pictures of Mark's Glock.
She would mention how many of her family, except herself, were deadbeats.
She once even mentioned her house was five stories and could sleep fifty. (It's a split level starter home in a cookie cutter 1960s Wichita neighborhood.)
In lots of her photos, she would casually include her counterfeit Coach purse.
Pam did not do "sly".
There is a racially insensitive phrase that comes to mind that describes her apparent financial management skills that I will not repeat here.
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When your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall.
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Resurrected because it appears popular with primitives lurking here.
This way, it's easier for them to find.
You're always thinking them, coach. Always trying to help them. Why do they fear and hate you so much?
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She is mental. She will make around $54k this year:
http://www.kansasopengov.org/SchoolDistricts/PayrollListing/WichitaSchoolPayrollListing/tabid/1763/Default.aspx?dnn_ctr2876_GridDesigner_rgDisplayChangePage=11
and for those new to this one, she is "featured" in the video within this link where a bunch of people are bitching about the DMV:
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/People-in-Wichita-Frustrated-With-Continued-DMV-Problems-212566721.html
she needs to spend MORE on her personal appearance IMO. :mental:
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she needs to spend MORE on her personal appearance IMO. :mental:
That is not attractive woman in the least. Has she ever participated in any thread ridiculing Southerners for how they look and sound? That is one white trash, meth lab, kids-with-shitty-diapers, stringy haired, twangy-voiced, shotput-in-a-sock titted woman. Ew. No wonder her husband hits the sauce.
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She is mental. She will make around $54k this year:
http://www.kansasopengov.org/SchoolDistricts/PayrollListing/WichitaSchoolPayrollListing/tabid/1763/Default.aspx?dnn_ctr2876_GridDesigner_rgDisplayChangePage=11
What's interesting about this is that Pam apparently got Hollie a job with the Wichita schools.
Hollie escaped from her mother on her eighteenth birthday and apparently, against the odds, is doing well.
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That is not attractive woman in the least. Has she ever participated in any thread ridiculing Southerners for how they look and sound? That is one white trash, meth lab, kids-with-shitty-diapers, stringy haired, twangy-voiced, shotput-in-a-sock titted woman. Ew. No wonder her husband hits the sauce.
No shit! Blecch!