Oh yes. When my kids were very little, I think I was paying out about $3k (circa 2010 metro-Boston region) per month on childcare expenses. It was absolutely worth it for a great facility, but the budget opened up quite a bit once both kids started public school.

Or the less old time, but still defunct, Service Merchandise chain. It was a department store of sorts without any clothing. All the merch was for display and you would grab tickets of the it’s you wanted to buy and cash out. Then the backroom staff would push all your stuff out on roller belts for you to take home.…

I’ve never seen a Vons in MA. Stop & Shop and Shaws are by far the biggest players in the state. I would guess number three is a toss up between Market Basket and Big Y. 

If you need a car you need a car. Defining need can be hard of course. There is likely a sort of panic buying effect. Some vehicles are so hard to get that people get worried they’ll never be able to get the car. So you weigh your axis of needs and wants while trying to predict what the car market will look like over…

5th gear: I love how Uber calls it their fleet when a sweeping initiative like this happens. But at the same time they’ll note that the drivers aren’t employees and love the flexibility of earning with their “side hustle”. And yet the flexibility comes with all sorts of requirements, this being the most ridiculous…

I’m actually curious about this. I never rented cars when going from transit hub to metro downtown. However, anything outside of those confines almost always required a car. Having a car in downtown Boston is a pain in the butt. Having a car to visit company offices in Andover or Waltham is almost a necessity. 

I’m having a hard time thinking of a spikey punchline.

Vaporware moves the real product, the stock price.

I had to put in a $500 deposit, but they did finally allow me to do everything over email and the phone. I’ve never done business with this dealer before, but I was happy enough with it. I was trying to work with another dealer that is about 80 miles away, but just didn’t hear back from the sales rep. I assume they…

Amazingly my local dealer did work with me online on the last day hybrid orders were open. I was able to do the whole thing through email after I told the sales rep I just didn’t have time to come on over. Agreed to MSRP, but the only kicker seems to be agreeing to dealer financing.  

Neutral: It’s the time of year when people go apple picking in New England and my favorite concoction at the orchards is the cider slushy. Really anything slushy is great, but something about cider in frozen form is great. Non-alcoholic that I’ve seen, but I’m sure some enterprising orchards and bars are spiking it up.

100% agree. My SIL just got a Chevy Tahoe with some appearance package and the thing is massive. The RI DMV initially told her because of the weight it required commercial plates. That error got corrected, but man her forward visibility has to be extremely limited in that thing. But Americans like big rigs and it’s…

It would be great if Ford would let you do this online, alas one must go to the dealer and provide license  fill in paper work etc. All things that I just don’t have time to do at the moment. Granted, that’s a me problem as clearly Ford is having no problem selling these under those conditions.

It would be great if Ford would let you do this online, alas one must go to the dealer and provide license  fill in paper work etc. All things that I just don’t have time to do at the moment. Granted, that’s a me problem as clearly Ford is having no problem selling these under those conditions.

One of my grandfather’s favorite sandwiches was a combo of two of these. Peanut butter with bacon and onions. The onions had to be white and thinly sliced. Sweetened peanut butter was key as well as soft white bread. The go to used to be JJ Nissen’s Canadian white.

I wonder if these have made it to my local Shaw’s where “Signature” is also the store brand. 

Or electronics maker Sorny. You can get great deals on Sornys at the ogdenville outlets. 

I’m with ya. I just borrowed my mom's car at times. Meant I could get it some weekends and late nights in the summer. None of my friends had cars either, we just hoped one of us could borrow a parent's car when we wanted to do something. That said, if able I'll probably keep a car for my daughter instead of trading in…

I'm 1.5 years away from having my daughter do this. Bon I'm sure she'll learn the manual transmission in no time. 

Great call. I never see a lot of these in a decent price range, or even many available used at all. Must be some real keepers.