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- Independent
Not yet, but my black book is getting pretty full.
For those wondering why I do this, it's simple, you write down the store you visit, save all receipts, dates and times, and when you think you're not getting the deal today as you got two weeks ago, you can reference to see if you are or not. This is especially useful when it comes to car repairs, which might have had a warranty.
But, have I ever tried to force my way into a store, any store that was closing? no.
I have gone to the back of Gonella Baking and Cardinalli's Bakery early before opening, to acquire warm fresh bread straight out of their ovens.
I had an uncle who kept logs of every penny he spent, he noted it even if it was just a 50¢ candy bar.
When he passed away, we went through drums of old jounals, dating back to the 1950's. Discovered that he had purchased 100 ozs of gold in the 70's, then we found 50 little certificates which said that the gold coins were 999 fine. One note made in the 1980's said "not interested in gold", so we thought that maybe he sold then gold at that point, but there was no corresponding deposit in any account to indicate that.
Sometime during the 1970's he had told my mother that he had buried treasure beside an outbuilding. We rented a backhoe and dug down to the water table, didn't find anything. We even hired a psychic and dug where he told us he "felt something".
One day, I was cleaning out one of his outbuildings and a felt like I needed a break, so I wondered into a different outbuilding, and noticed an ammo can sitting on a table. Opened it up, and there was the gold (not really, it was empty). I glanced over at a shelf, and under a pile of trash I saw something that looked like a large cloth money bag, much like the ones that we picture bank robbers with. I tugged on the bag, it was quite rotten, and pennies started flooding the floor. Turned out that there were around 50 $50 bags of pennies in there, plus quite a few ammo cans of pennies.
I've always wondered if that empty ammo can contained the gold coins, and if someone else found them first.