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I noticed at the end of Christopher Havel’s post regarding his mom’s electric bill that he mentioned “smart meters”. A few weeks ago while I was at the grocery store I got a notification on my phone. It was from my security camera telling me that someone was at myContinue Reading

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I can’t remember how many years ago I last traded cars, but it must have  been six .  I traded a van for a van and more or less expected the same  car. Not so. I traded a 1987 Dodge Caravan for a 1994 Dodge Grand Caravan.  It took meContinue Reading

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In: 27344, Musings, Siler City

Wanted to add my voice… I currently live in a small apartment in the middle of Siler, since Mom and I don’t really see eye-to-eye anymore and that has caused, er, problems… *that* part is not something I want to discuss publicly, though. She lives about a mile and aContinue Reading

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Many years ago, in my country antiques shop, I had beautiful red carpets. Incredible old pine furniture and accessories. One day a lady stopped in to look. She spied a crude three gallon pottery jug on the floor. Picked it up, slammed it down on the top of an oldContinue Reading

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In: 27312, Musings, Pittsboro

Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:09:24 -0500 From: “N.A. Booko” Subject: Disabled Actors Probably three weeks ago I visited a thrift shop in the area. Not the big ones, but a smaller less interesting store- Lots of junk boxes around. Nothing in order and seemingly nothing of great value. ThereContinue Reading

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 09:18:20 -0500 From: Carol Phillips < Subject: re: Electric Bill Last winter I was away for several months and Customer Service said my bill should run about $30 while I was gone. Instead, it average over $100 per month. Progress Energy was of no help–IContinue Reading

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 13:37:03 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: nabooko Subject: Hair Today- Groan tomorrow- Freak out . . . I suppose a third story about hair would be cutting it a little close so I will try and shave off some of the shaggier locks- In the 1980s IContinue Reading

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:55:41 -0500 From: Laurie Allen Subject: Electric Bill Hello there, We moved into our house here in Pittsboro in October. It was built in 1958 but does have new windows. So far, our electric bills have been $250+ every month. Our home is only 1200Continue Reading

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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:54:20 -0500 From: Thurman Maness Subject: 48 years without a hair cut? Not what you think- I do not have repunzel floor length hair flowing all over the place. Few would suspect I haven’t been to a barber in all those years .                                         ..                IContinue Reading

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:44:12 -0500 From: Bruce Hively Subject: eye-brushes ! Thanks N.A. Booko for the memories! I have a hair-raising story I like to tell every time I or someone else mentions eye-brows. When I was a little scamp, whenever we would visit where a certain Gr.Continue Reading

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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 14:04:48 +0000 From: Martin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Chatham Chatlist #6565 I don’t often agree with Mark Stinson but I do agree with him 100% regarding Fed. Ex. I wish I could stop all our purchases from being shipped by Fed Ex. For example, one particularContinue Reading

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Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 01:49:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Jean Haywood Subject: True Chatham County In the last few months a very nice black couple paid for my husband and I to have dinner.They were complete strangers, but they were a blessing and she wished God’s blessing for us asContinue Reading