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JD The Jazz Doctor


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HEY!


Do you have a FAVORITE NAME BRAND product that you swear by, or knowledge of a bargain item that makes purchasing the more expensive name brand absurd?


For example, I could plug Freeze Frame Radio- and say that it features great pop music, classic and new, a great weekday dj with Riggs, is accessible through your pc at work, thereby eliminating the need to bring a radio to work, which could be easily stolen. Plus, Freeze Frame doesn't kill you with 8 minute segments of commmercials 10 times an hour. Heck, we don't even give you 8 second commercials 1x an hour! A great bargain!


Another example in the JD household is dish-sponges. An oft-needed item, an item replaced 1x a week, usually an item forgotten to be purchased while at the grocery store. An item JD absolutely refuses to make a run for and fight the rush hour grocery store crowd for, an item that he has spent $1.29 on at the local White Hen Pantry for, just to avoid the crowd. That is a hefty convenience fee.


Well let me tell you, I just recently discovered the wonder of the $1 stores. I found 12 packs of dish sponges for $1. I bought like 40 packs LOL. Problem solved forever. I also found the coolest pair of sunglasses that I have ever owned for $1. Also a platter for the Christmas ham- $1.


But 1 item JD (by god I apoligize for the 3rd person reference) WILL NOT compromise on- Charmin toilet paper. When it comes to TP, buy the most expensive you can find. The quality is worth it! That is a sacred rule in the JD household- "Don't go cheap on 1. steaks 2. beer 3. toilet paper." Your body will thank you later!!!


JD signing off



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Jeremy Riggs


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sounds like rules to live a healthy life by J.D.!

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By Golly Riggs, if it were PBR that I drank, and not Becks,


If it were the $2 cube steaks and not the angus rib-eyes,


If it were the $1.00 4 packs of Generic TP, and not the more expensive Charmin


I would have been pushing up daisies a decade ago!



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JD The Jazz Doctor


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Hey!


To any and all who are covered under a health insurance plan. Pull the card out from your wallet and call the customer service number and see if you are elegible for a health club discount.


I am covered under Humana Health Care. I found out today that they will reimburse me $100 a year on my Bally's membership. That is HUGE! My maintenance fees run $12 a month or $120 a year. They will now cost me $20 due to the reimbursement. Your health care provider wants you be be healthy (for their own motives don't be fooled) but this right here is more bang for your ever-rising insurance bucks!!



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Trish


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I agree with the whole TP thing, JD. Those are delicate regions, if it were meant to have something the consistency of sandpaper used on them, they would have never invented Charmin. We just go the easy route on the beef. We have a whole cow butchered and put in our freezer in the basement. I never have to worry about the quality of the meat and if I'm making something that calls for ground beef, I don't have to run to the store, I go down to the basement. Convenience is important in my life. Now wait a minute, I have a question on the beer. You mean you live near Milwaukee and you don't drink THE BEAST?!?!

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Here is a problem that I have encountered (and may have mentioned before).  The nearest store is a  half hour away.  It is a super walmart.  If I go there and try to buy a 100 oz bottle of tide, it is $7.44, if I go the regular walmart an hour away it is $5.24.  Our walmart used to carry it for $5.24.  What happened?  Other stores are obviously still getting it for that price or they wouldn't be selling it for that price.  Over 2 bucks difference?!?!?  I now use Gain.  I love the smell and the price is CONSTANT.  It's the same everywhere I go.  I also like that they came out with the new Gain dryer sheets.  It matches the scent of the detergent, so I don't have to worry about crossing smells.  I know that sounds stupid, but that's something that freaks me out.  I use the soap, body spray, and lotion all in the same scent.  I have also found a similar scent in deoderant.  The only problem is shampoo.  I wear a jasmine scent from bath and body works (that they have now decided to discontinue so I stocked up, my bathroom now looks like a warehouse ).  They have a freesia shampoo in our local grocery store, but no jasmine.  What's up with that?  O.K.  I'm a little strange, but I don't want to use a soap that smells like coconut and then use a fragrance that smells like flowers and my hair smells like apple.  It's too confusing.  Now that I read this, I guess I'm just a little bit obsessive compulsive.     

-- Edited by Trish at 08:25, 2005-01-15

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Hey Trish-


What's The Beast?? Is that a code name for Miller Beer?



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OMG!   You don't know what the BEAST is?  Milwaukee's Best!  Maybe it's a local thing.  They all call it the BEAST here.  All the beer with half the cost.  The beer of teenagers and college students in our region (though Keystone runs a close second).  This is where it gets kinda sad.  You know you've made it when you can afford Budweiser products.  Yeah, baby. 


My sister actually stole some BEAST (yes, it does have to be capitalized every time) out of the back of another guys pickup truck at a party.  He came up to her and confronted her about it and she got all beligerant and said it was her beer (with a few cuss words thrown in).  He just looked at her and said so and so had seen her.  You should have seen the change in attitude.  "Oh, hey, sorry about that, man.".  I still tease her about that.  She did a similar thing at Casa Gallardo (or however that is spelled).  She had just come back from tech school, but wasn't 21.  She slid up to the bar and said "Watch this, this is how you get served.".  She ordered a pina collada and when the woman asked for i.d. she says in this tiny voice "Oh, didn't I say virgin pina collada?".  I about fell on the floor!    Good times!



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Trish


I had someone yesterday tell me what THE BEAST is because they couldn't believe that I hadn't heard that's what Milwaukee's Best (a lie!) is called. I had my share of THE BEAST back in the day, had no idea that's what it was called! Ah the good old days, when quantity of beer mattered more than quality!


I go to the beer depot now and wait in line with my little 6 pack of Heineken, and invariably there are some frat-house numbskulls there with 12 packs of THE BEAST in each hand. They look at me as if to say "Duuude you get so much more beer for a better price with this stuff. Like a case of this costs what you are paying for that 6 pack." And I look back with a glance that says "Heh, you kids. I was once like you. But I grew up. Taste and quality matter. Rock on."


I live 9 blocks away from Miller Brewery. Once or twice in the summer I'll walk down there for the tour and the free samples, and sit outside and listen to the 3 big polka guys. Its a happy place. The beer there is freshly made on tap, is just the right temperature, and not bad. But I got to tell you, Miller products, with the exception of Ice House, when not consumed on site, are terrible!!! I do not know what they do, but their stuff tastes chemically. 2 Miller beers and I've got an awful headache!


I am usually loyal to local brands, but if given the choice between Miller and Bud, I'll pick the Bud every time! Rock on, St Louis.



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J.D.


I could not disagree with you more!


Miller Genuine Draft is fantastic!  All the others, expecially High Life, and any of the Lite varieties DO suck, but MGD is still my favorite beer.


Actually, I should say it's my favorite REGULAR beer.


If I'm in the mood to pay $2 or $3 a bottle there are some good ones out there.  I still get a hankerin' (how country soundin of me hey?) for a Mississippi Mud every now and then.



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Riggs, I CANNOT find the MUDS anywhere anymore!! Those are (were?) goooooooooood.



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Really?


I'll have to check my Pick N' Save next time I go, they used to always carry them.


I could go for a mud right about now!



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I'll check again too- hey if I get lucky, and you are at the studio tonight, I MIGHT JUST BRING THE MUDS wooooooooooooo!

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I personally prefer German beer.  The closest that you can get to it (buying the German beer they import does not count, it does not taste the same and is pasteurized) is Amber Bock which is made right her in St. Louis by Anheuser Busch.  It is awesome.  I go to Grant's Farm, which is owned by Anheuser Busch and that place is awesome.  It's like a zoo mixed with a German beer garden and you actually get free samples!  My kids love it there.  It's inexpensive and a blast.  I've toured the brewery and that was fun, too, but I go to Grant's Farm every year and I've only been to the brewery once.  It's just so much more fun.  Any zoo that lets you drink beer rocks!

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HEY!


Here is a consumer report! I am not a big McDonald's fan, but every once in awhile I'll head over there and get a couple of hamburgers (tastes like my childhood) or one of their salads. BUT today I saw they were running a campaign that I think is BS. 3 for $3. BUT pretty much everything on the 3 for $3 menu that I saw were items normally carried on the 99 cent menu!!! Sundaes, McChickawich (or whatever its called) , fries......what the heck kind of BS promo is that????



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JD...It all comes down to perception on that Mickey D Thing. If you give it a name, more people will buy into it. If you ask for a sundae, and the cashier says would you like 2 more (for no reason) you'd say "um...NO!"


Now if they Say "Would you like to take advantage of the 3 for $3 special...people THINK they are getting a deal, even thiough they aren't.


It's like Titles in jobs. Offer "down on his luck" guys $28,000 a year to be a garbage man, & most will pass, But offer the same guys $25,000 to be a Sanitation Engineer, and you'll get more hits...just because people are willing to sacrifice money for a title.


The promotion has a title, & people are willing to spend the extra money for things they don't want even when there is no extra benefit.


...On the other hand...The McChickwichnuggetburger was taken off the dollar menu, at least it was here in IL.



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Trish--I work for a company that supplies Wal-Mart and I know exactly what you mean.  The marketing matirx that is involved is incredible.  For either the good or the bad, I love what I do in working with Wal-Mart.  Our comapny growth is wonderful and yes, Wal-Mart does support domestic suppliers.


The complexity of the matrix is fun, especially that as a vendor we can rework the matrix and send in suggestions and changes.



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