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The Most (and Least) Expensive States for Retirees

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This is Vash, perhaps worried that there is not MORE snacks.

Now that I have your attention

My friends got flooded out of their home (thanks Helene!) Insurance will cover much of the damage, but I've easily spent $300 since Saturday, and they've put out maybe $500 so far.

The kitchen is unusable so all food must be eaten out, and even McDonalds is $12+ in our area, per person. A sushi lunch special is $15, so. The appliances are unusable, so they've just packet wet clothes into bags. We'll see if it can be salvaged later.

The cpap machines are dead. I'm still trying to convince one that sewer + river water in plastics like hoses CANNOT be sterilized.

Plus, they are 70+ years old. They *cannot* do all this, and I have EDS. Everyone we know is either also flooded, helping flooded friends, or also medically unstable. It's costing even more to pay people to lift boxes and such.

I've been working for 5 days so far. Today was short, only 4 hours not including logistics like driving and securing storage.

If you can help with $5, please $@ me with note TKO (helps me separate btw other job payments.)

Retirees on Motorcycles Retirees on motorcycles is the theme today based on my going to the senior center (yes, I actually went during the middle of the week) to eat lunch last week.  As I drove into the parking lot, I noticed a bunch of motorcycles parked over in the grassy side of the parking lot.  There were approximately 15-20 motorcycles.  They had Harley Sportsters to Honda Electra Glides.…

Winter has always been a season for indoor hobbies, and that will be especially true this year. While Hagley Library’s Digital Archive contains a wide variety of materials documenting the hobbies and busywork of yesteryear, Henrietta Wolf’s miniature city of Congenial, USA is maybe the cutest.

This image is sourced from a January, 1980 issue of Avon Products' company magazine Avon and You. The article it was featured in covered the various hobbies that retired Avon employees had adopted in their newfound spare time. Henrietta’s miniature city occupied an entire three-room apartment across from the one in which she and her husband lived. It featured a working railroad system, a Bee Gees tape and strobe light, and “hundreds of little people" made out of “pipe cleaners and beads” in “all colors—black, white, green, purple—so there’s no racial discrimination at all.”

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