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$860 a month for DH and me: $4715 gym membership, $5K personal trainer, and $600 for 2 pair walking shoes/year. Have a good selection of resistance bands, balls, rollers, weights, etc. that we've purchased over the years. I categorize the protein drinks under groceries as we tend to eat low on...

I used expired 2/2024 tests (they expire date had been extended) last week for both DH and I and we tested positive. A very strong positive, no faint lines.

That's what I assume. I just got annoyed when they said that Medicare required that they get the SSN. Just doesn't make sense to me. I guess they'll run a credit check to make sure you can afford the phone and cable TV :laugh:.

I just received a call from the SNF/rehab facility that is admitting DH from the hospital in 1.5 hours. They stated they had to have his SS number as Medicare requires it. Sounds fishy to me but I'm between a rock and a hard place at this point. Getting into a good facility was a nightmare as he...

Just received the renewal yesterday and was surprised if went DOWN by ~15% :dance:. They made up for it with the 25% increase in our auto policies and have already stated that HO insurance will increase by 20%.

I tested positive Saturday with symptoms starting Thursday. DH had tested positive on Wednesday. He was prescribed Paxlovid and had to stop his 2 heart and colesterol meds. My doc prescribed Lagevrio which has no conflicts with other meds (my BP meds) as well as doesn't have the nasty side...

I caught one of the nasties mid December. Both upper and lower respiratory infections at the same time with the lower one worse. I believe I caught a secondary bacterial infection around day 10 as my upper respiratory infection went through the roof then. Tested several times for Covid but it...

I'm sorry to hear that. Wishing you a speedy recovery. DH is on his second day of relatively mild upper respiratory infection with some coughing. I just picked up the Paxlovid.

DH just tested positive this morning...2 tests as we thought the first might have been a false positive. I'm negative. Unfortunately, DH just had an endoscopy Monday morning and I'm very concerned about how that might interact with the Covid infection spread as well as his age, 77. Video appt...

Saw my first Cybertruck today :dance:. Very cool looking thing! Living in the SF Bay Area, I'm surprised it took so long.

I haven't seen $5 cereal in years and years. Last time I bought a box....wait for it... ...$8.49!!! As to bread, we eat very little and I buy an 'artisan' style baguette which lasts us for the week. I think it's $6.50 or so a loaf. We do eat a lot of wraps and I buy the low carb ones.

I recently started tracking our expenses 'for the heck of it' and 2023 was my first 12 month period. This excludes food consumed during vacations. Groceries: $1,417/month (this is food only; no alcohol or other non-food items) Eating out: $99/month (we don't eat out much) 2 Cats: $114/month...

I'll be scheduling ours for next week as we're off to Vegas mid-April and planning on catching the 2 Cirque shows we haven't yet seen along with hordes of our best buds.

Work-at-home customer service. The connection is usually crappy. However, today took the cake. We have a brand new BTD solar + battery system that is already having problems...we're on the second one. We called today because instead of one panel DOA, we now have 5 panels DOA. We could not get a...

Very productive morning for me...snagged the timeshare for our vacay in April, made flight ressies, spent an hour+ on the phone as our solar battery stopped working on Friday, took a walk. Now munching on some fruit then install the replacement printers for the color laser that died yesterday...