What’s insanely overpriced but you keep paying for it anyway? First thoughts might include electricity and property taxes… but I’m talking about something you want or enjoy, and not something you need or are required to pay.
Around here, we go through coffee like we’re millionaires.
Coffee is expensive, no doubt about it. But around here, it’s pretty darned important. Ben and I like the darkest brew we can get — and even supplement that with shots of espresso or an additional spoon of intense instant — and Perry is a medium roast kind of guy.
Coffee is one of our biggest monthly expenses for an item we choose to buy. We don’t buy Folger’s or Maxwell House, and we don’t brew… we use k-cups. Yes, it’s overpriced. I don’t have any plans to stop paying for it anyway.
What’s your one item that’s overpriced but you keep buying it anyway?
A small surgical complication…
All the places removed by my cosmetic surgeon healed up nicely. Again, the pathology report came back just fine. Here we are, 3 weeks down the road and my shoulder gets sore all over again. It felt like I had a splinter right in the middle of the scar! I got my trusty tweezers and got the end of what was poking out. I pulled… and pulled hard… and it hurt. 🙁
What I got was a piece of wire about 1/2″ long! What the heck was that doing in there??
I’ve called the surgeon’s office and sent the photo above along with a photo of my shoulder that looks gnarly once again. The nurse said (before seeing the photo), that it was likely an internal stitch that would’ve dissolved. I let her know I could put this sucker in lye for 6 years and it would still be intact. I’m waiting for the surgeon to view the photos and give me a call back.
And then we found that the ole’ CRV is considered totaled.
Perry’s run-in with a deer took out the reliable but older SUV. We can now add that problem to the other life complications we have going on right now. Oh well… at least we have coffee. 🙂
Now you know: It wasn’t until July 30, 1956, that “In God We Trust” became the official U.S. motto. President Dwight Eisenhower signed a law passed by the 84th Congress, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Latin: “Out of many, one”), which has appeared on the Great Seal of the United States since 1782.