A Vocabulary Lesson......

nick·el-and-dime

adjective
Definition:
1. low-paid: paying or involving only a small amount of money ( slang ) a nickel-and-dime job
2. minor: small-scale, or of little importance ( informal )

transitive verb (past and past participle nick·el-and-dimed, present participle nick·el-and-dim·ing, 3rd person present singular nick·el-and-dimes)
Definition:
1. impoverish somebody through small expenses: to get somebody or something into financial trouble by accumulating many small costs and expenses ( slang )
2. bother somebody in many small ways: to hinder or harass somebody with trivialities and insignificant matters

I feel like I am being nickle and dimed to death.

Anyone else feel this way??

I got to the store once a week and in that time things have increased to where for $100 I used to get 8-10 bags full of groceries and now I am lucky to get 5. Lets not even talk about meat.

Then there is the blessed trip to the pump.

I am a God fearing, tax paying, SUV driving Momma. I will never change and when I begged "the Man" to buy me my dream car, the Explorer with all the bells and whistles, it cost $35.00 to fill it. That was in 2004, now I get a PANIC ATTACK each time I have to go there and watch the numbers go higher and higher and higher.

When is it ever going to end!!!!?

I recall reading a newspaper article about the cost to the gas station owners. The cost being their need to install pumps that would allow them to post the gas price higher than $2.99. Does that send a huge message that no one, no one, in their infinite wisdom thought that they would need to ever set those old gas pumps that high.

I think that they were on to something.

Anyone think the lotto will pay out? I'm going to Idaho to get me a ticket..........