What can you buy with $5? The BofA monthly debit charge

[Liberal_in_LA]

In LA you can get a gallon of gas and a bit more. Or you can buy brown rice and vegetables. what else?

[tridim]

1. Five... Five.... Five dollar foot-long.

[one_voice]

3. LOL!!...

first thing that came to my mind too!

[tech5270]

6. Shit! I can do about three meals for two people.

Loaf of bread, dozen eggs, half pound of good ground beef or cheese. The spices and seasonings, it's hard to measure but they usually last half a year.
It's good to have a local grocer that doesn't rape you at every turn and space for a garden to grow some of your staples.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. i'm seeing meatloaf or omelets from your ingredient list

[RebelOne]

12. According to my calculations,

at my local Kroger, which is the cheapest supermarket around, the store brand loaf of bread would cost about $1, a dozen eggs would be $1.39, and a pound of beef would be at least $3.99, and without the spices and seasonings, the cost would be $6.39 not including tax.

[Cid_B]

2. I'm keeping my 5 bucks...

USAA rocks...

[Auntie Bush]

4. So are you saying the charge is no big deal...just shut up and pay it?

Then bend over and wait to get screwed again?

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. no, that's not what i'm saying. i'm saying $5 is big deal for many

[Auntie Bush]

13. Sorry, I certainly misunderstood your point. Glad I was wrong! nt

[chollybocker]

5. About a month's worth of toilet paper (with coupon).

Ingredients to make a homemade birthday cake for a child, not including candles.
A membership at a local library (annualized).
A previously owned CD to cheer up a hospital patient.
A chew toy for a pet.
A child's admission to a zoo (weekdays, non-holidays only).
Vacuum bags.
Two loads of coin-operated laundry.
Enough postage to mail out a few job applications.
...
A magic marker and some cardboard to make a decent protest sign.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. good list

[David Sky]

17. You use a heck of a lot of toilet paper, (family of 10?) ...I bought

12 rolls at my local discount grocery chain last month, 12 rolls...12,000 sheets, I use about 5-10 sheets a day. (Oh, but I'm a guy, maybe women use twice or three times as much!).


At 12,000 sheets,10 sheets a day per guy, 20 sheets per woman, a family of 2 males 2 females should use 60 sheets a day, 12,000 sheets in 200 days, $4.99..plus tax. (Why does my state tax toilet paper at 5%?)

Children in MY local zoo get in on some days a year for FREE! Memberships at local libraries are also free (so far), where does it cost $60.00 a year to go to the library and borrow books?---- only in America!.

Speaking of job applications, sending resume's and cover letters by email direct response to internet listings is FREE from library computers!

Chew toys for pets, butcher's bones, old leather from discarded shoes, (washed in disinfectant before offering to pet), and extra scraps from a few rib dinners. Most commercially available chew toys for pets are either discarded scrap cloth or discarded scrap non-tanned leather or other discards from pigskin or cattle, which is boiled to sanitize, and salted or flavored.

If a load of coin operated laundry costs $2.50, 300 loads buys a washer and a dryer. (Then about 25 cents a load for soap, bleach/softener/whatever, and electricity/gas for water heating, washing/drying and fresh tap water.


.....

JUST SAYING...

We should all sacrifice our pets' pleasures, find another way to wash clothes, and go to zoos and libraries when they are FREE, in order for the bankers to continue to make their millions and our expense~!

You can and must sacrifice in order to keep rich bankers rich!

:sarcasm:

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. good tips about the pet chew toys. I've seen cat toys that are obviously

just a stuffed and sewn baby sock. mabye a bell sewn on the end. otherwise, mostly round stuffed balls - probably cost $.05 cent to make.

[liberaltrucker]

7. A 2 pound boneless pork roast

Provides meat for at least a week.

:)

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. true or 4 packages of tofu

[Odin2005]

14. A week's worth of Ramen noodles.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. salty shit. at our 99cent store. $5 bucks will buy you 30 packages or more

[kenny blankenship]

16. But the realization that you're being charged rent to use your own money is priceless

[David Sky]

18. YES, that's the kicker! I fully expect that Congressmen and Congress women with a real

spine, should and would introduce a bill to make it ILLEGAL for a bank to charge a customer for the use of his/her own money, PERIOD!

I was alive in the days 30 years ago, when, if you put $10,000 into an account for 5 years, you got 5% interest on your money, AND A FREE BRAND NEW COLOR TV!!!!

$1000.00: you got a toaster, mixer, electric knife sharpener, electric can opener, SOMETHING!!! Plus 5% or MORE!!

In the mid seventies, I deposited my payroll check of about $100. for a full week's work and got a free loaf of Pepperidge Farm whole grain bread of my choice for making a deposit over $100. Retail price of a loaf of that bread at that time: $.50.

I had one of the first IRA's at a savings bank in the early 1980's, end of and post Carter years, when interest rates on loans were approaching 14%! They paid me 10.5% on my IRA for 18 months!!! In less than 2 years, my $1500 annual contribution turned into $1750 !!! Of course, that bank went out of business, and never offered ATM's or Saturday banking hours, or anything else.
It was a BANK, period!

[L0oniX]

19. How about $5 times the number of those who will be charged = CEO bonus...

and more golden parachutes ...plus a new Rolls Royce ...and a Lexus for the kids.

[sarcasmo]

20. For 60 dollars a year you can buy a lot more than shitty BOA service.