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Not Using Gift Cards, Money wasted: nearly $1 billion

Simultaneously the most maligned and requested of holiday gifts, gift cards can either simplify shopping or make money simply disappear. About $1 billion of the money packed away in gift cards goes unspent every year, reports of a CEB TowerGroup study said last year. All those minuscule sums people either forget about or are too proud to use really do add up, but there's a thriving market in buying, selling, and trading "used" gift cards on sites such as Raise and Cardpool, and 11 states mandate stores pay back a remaining balance below a certain threshold.
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Guzzling Bottled Water, Money wasted: $31 billion

The facts of environmentally overwhelming plastic waste and little to no oversight on water quality didn't stop Americans from spending $31 billion on bottled water in 2018, according to by Consumer Reports. Bottled water also costs 600 times more and requires up to 2,000 times as much energy to produce than tap water, meaning this waste of money and resources isn't confined to just consumers.
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Making Pennies, Money wasted: $69 million

Each one-cent penny cost 2.06 cents to make in 2018, while each nickel cost 7.53 cents. Though both spiked this year thanks to rising metal prices, pennies have cost taxpayers more than they're worth for 14 years. The Government Accountability Office reported that in fiscal year 2017, the U.S. Mint wasted $69 million producing pennies and $21 million on nickels.
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A watch by Swiss luxury brand Patek Philippe has sold for over $31 million, the highest price ever paid for a timepiece at auction.

The Grandmaster Chime 6300A-010 has never been worn -- it was created specially for Saturday's auction in Geneva to raise money for research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to Christie's.

It is the only version of the timepiece ever produced in stainless steel and the alarm sub-dial is marked with a special inscription, "the only one."

The watch has a reversible case in black and rose gold, 18-karat solid gold dial plates and is fixed with a band made of black, hand-stitched alligator leather.
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I have been "binge watching" the TV show: LAST MAN STANDING with Tim Allen. This truck caught my eye. Probably not the same make but it looks like the same color as the one on the show.
Tim's truck is a Ford. Yes, similar color.
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Old 11-13-2019, 05:21 AM
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I have been "binge watching" the TV show: LAST MAN STANDING with Tim Allen. This truck caught my eye. Probably not the same make but it looks like the same color as the one on the show.
I'd rock that.

I daily drove this '87 pickup off and on over a 30 year period.

Drove it off the end of the assembly line myself.

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----Keith,,, Please talk to the right people at GM and have them remake this era truck......Bill S
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