Groceries an gas

Gas up another .10, groceries every week goes up , completly out bologna with lots other products out stock with crazy prices, in a year from now, I can't see be able afford buy groceries, some more bindens doing, do lot trapping this season for me, sound like very bad idea , can't do as much

You'll be dead some day and none of this will matter. Go trap!

I have an idea how to make trapping pay

"Trapping for groceries"
A new reality show. With coonman 220

You should go to an Amish bulk food store, Dave. I wouldn't be surprised if there is one close to you. I go to a bulk food store and they are fairly well stocked with good quality food.

Just $0.10? Our gas went up $0.50 in the past 2 weeks

I no longer keep track of increases. Just try to compare current pricing.

Me Also

Like I said yesterday 5 bucks is walking up the driveway

Well, I don't really either but when you fill up your truck one day at $2.65, the next trip at $2.95 and the last at $3.19.... you kind of tend to notice anyway.

$3.24 now, soon be $3.50 an keep go, $5 plus in a year ?

3.55 here now. It run 2.20 most of last year.

$3.05 on the Reservation

A pound of Bacon I just bought was 7.50 up from 5 bucks not real long ago.

Unless you eat trapline catches you should consider hunting, fishing and putting in a garden this spring.

Paid $2.24 a gallon for E-85 today, better than $3.14.

Decide go fairway for grocery's Tonite as exhausted after work an one in small town close where work factory morning, wow ! I thought Walmart suck on prices, last at fairway about year ago, an I thought bad then, crazy prices , try best I could for cheapest shop before but wow! Not go there again, they suck, so does factory close by, remind me of this morning, I begining think all factory's close in that area, all totaly suck ! Can't get over how much work I do an strict , on like 6 jobs this morning an hurry up an get job finish up , supposed catch on in seconds at different parts an finish rest order up , jeez , I about really had it, start rethink stuff , need stay at least cpl weeks till after Thanksgiving to have time trap an get my vacation pay for this week

Aldi is your friend!

Do you hunt at all? Lotta deer in iowa.

How would you make it without snivilization? Get some onions, and carrots, some cabbage, dried beans, some rice and use coon as your meat and make some stew or what the kids used to call dad's gruel. Foods just not that expensive if you eliminate meat cost and buy fresh vegetables and and basic carbs. I love a big ole slab of bacon, but a man does what he has to do to survive and doesn't constantly whine about how tough life is in a country where most people can afford bad habits and hobbies.

Coonman220 you made the bed you sleep in. This post hits a nerve because my dad has worked at Fareway for 42 years and unless you want Fareway to be Wal-Mart which may have slightly cheaper prices (pennies on the dollar) you are complaining because the little guy (in this case being Fareway) did not have the goods you wanted when all business's struggle to provide goods? You simply don't understand how the world works. You can't be educated or fixed. Good luck to you.

Whatever

try this thread and make some Erbsworst , cheap eat whip ip a few batches on a weekend and have weeks worth of I am tired meals

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/7403435/war-kitchen#Post7403435


Perpetual stew is another good way to go , a crock pot and you alwasy have hot and ready eats one the cheap

I’ll need $13 ‘rats to break even this year

We don't have fareway grocery stores here. But some towns around here have Aldi.

That is not true we’re I am at .We can use colony traps a have a 3 day soak.
I can pick up 20 rats going the back way to my P.O. Box in town without trying hard.
Trapping out of the m 3 bmw…. Lol

And gas is down 10 cent here

The wife and I went into the Iron and Steel business for extra income and it's working out well. She Irons clothes in the daytime and I go out and Steel stuff at night.

Not funny, but funny!
I found a tweker in one of my houses on the property when I got back on Tuesday from AZ.
Good thing I am 4foot 2 and 987 pounds I could just lay on him…….

www.Gasbuddy.com

Coonman will still be sputtering about how crappy things are as he falls over dead.

When I was in college and living in a old trailer, I ate pretty cheap, almost entirely critters I killed except for some lunch meat once an while. If eating coon sort of makes you puke, try muskrat. Just like eating wild duck but different shaped pieces. If you don't like what wild duck tastes like, hide it as much as possible in the dishes you make. If you eat almost solely out of boxes and other processed containers, yeah grocery prices are biting ya in the a$$. Study the situation, make a plan, and execute on days when you're not busted down tired. You pay a lot for "convenience"...

Driving and eating is over rated anyway.

Yeah I don't normally like hunting deer, but this year I plan to shoot at least 3.

Kroger sells a lunchmeat I like which was always kinda spendy (in my book) at $6/lb but I would buy it now and then. Saw a sale flyer today and it's on sale for $8/lb!!!! #FJB

Here is a lady that can help you get three deer at a time.

$3.319 here. Doubt it gets to $5 but prepare now, get you one of those electric vechiles that will save you!



Keep on keeping on Dave, don’t worry, you’ll always have something to worry about.

Just bought my same ol Nissan Canadien sandwich bread…use to be 2 for 5.00 ..or 2 for 6.00….Just paid 4.19 for one loaf.

Gary, this is hilarious.

The inflation numbers for groceries are lower than they seem to be because they count all the grocery items. If they just looked at the most common items people buy like chicken, ground beef, bread and milk the inflation numbers are immense. Many of the less used groceries have not gone up in price.

Keith

Gonna have to start raising your own meat birds and layers. Do you have room for a few pigs or small beef?

I have meat birds on order. Coming Thanksgiving week. I've been debating raising a hog for 10 years now but never bit the bullet on it. Pork is still relatively cheap here. I don't want to deal with raising a beef, so deer it is.

I like your honesty.

The more I think about it an kinda ppl that see work, old drug an alcohol burn outs some, old meth heads it got be an more I think about it, fags have got be some like other factory, (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) hole , that kinda dump work at, all factories problems , sick it

Angela, you can buy a finished hog at auction for far cheaper than you can grow one.

You can buy finish weight, cornish/rock chickens at the end of the fairs for 30 to 40 cents an estimated pound and they typically weigh several more pounds than estimated. I bought 1200 some pounds of them back in August for resale.

You can get fair turkeys for around 25 cents a pound.

Keith

Trap beaver for meat… sell the castor for gas.

Canned and fresh vegetables and potatoes are still pretty cheap . Add that to beaver meat and you can make some delicious stews. Just use your imagination. I’m sure you could find some places close to you with beaver colonies. That would allow you to trap . Without driving a lot of miles. And provide yourself with some delicious protein.

Intresting my boys got 500 for two cornish crosses ans 375 for the other two. The lady that paid 500 told my son to keep them. Im guessin you are buying from the auction winners that dont want them?

I saw store brand (HyVee) canned corn and 2 different kinds of green beans for 74 cents last night. Same brand generic "chili beans" for 99 cents.

The fairs take closed or sometimes open bids on everything that is left over. The prices are very cheap. Some small fairs have no competition at all. You can get rabbits, chickens, turkeys, lambs, hogs and goats. It's a very good way to get good quality Boer does for little money.

Cull buying at poultry and rabbit shows is another way to get very cheap livestock.

Keith

I think you might have meant to post this in the thread you have about kind of people at work but from your last post coonman, it sounds like you're tired of working where you're at (still). There are plenty of jobs around your area. The time is now if you want to change jobs, you have nothing to lose as you have no benefits where you're at now.

However, I'd advise you to cut down the racist, anti gay tone though and that's no matter where you work.
Good luck

Oddly, we don't have any little fairs around here. Just great big ones a couple hours drive away.

That's to bad. I'm not positive, but I believe all 88 counties in Ohio have a fair with livestock for sale,19 smaller communities do and there is the Ohio State Fair for the total of 108 fairs listed.

There should be livestock auctions close to you. The prices are typically cheap. Last year they got very, very cheap for a while. Hogs went down to 1 cent a pound, canner cows 25 cents a pond and choice finished beef to 75 cents a pound.

Here's a local to me, auctions results from last Monday.

"Jackson Livestock Auction, LLC
November 8 at 3:48 PM ·
November 8th Sale Results
31 Hogs
Sows 345-585: .6550-.7650
Boars: 455-590 lbs: .13
Butchers: 270-305 lbs: .57-.6250
Feeder Pigs: 50-76 lbs: 51.00-69.00
11 Goats: 35-55 lbs: 65.00-92.50
60-65 lbs: 122.50-160.00
112 lbs: 332.50
160-185 lbs: 265.00-325.00
21 Sheep: 55 lbs-Thin: 1.96
80 lbs-Thin:1.96
70-80 lbs: 2.29-2.38
85-95 lbs: 2.27-2.37
135-137 lbs: 2.16-2.21
Ewes: 165 lbs: .91-1.20
190-195 lbs: 1.25
127 lbs-Hair: 1.09
Cattle: 625 lb Brown Swiss Str: .82
780 lb Yearling Cross breed: .65
1265-1355 brown Swiss: .7250-.73
1275 Hol Str: .88
Cows: 1190-1965 lbs: .59-.7150
Mare: 25 yr old: 390.00"

For instance the most a butcher hog could of cost, if it weighed the highest weight sold of 305, was 190.62. It probably sold for $173.85. Prices are up considerably now over a few months ago.

If you and Dirt don't want to do the butchering, you can make an appointment with a local butcher for a sale date and drop an animal off or just pay a small fee to a transporter for the auction.

You can buy meat this way for a tiny fraction of grocery store prices.

Keith

Dirt? LOL I think you mean Drifter. Thanks for the ideas though. I'll look into it.

Getting a locker date is the issue around here anyways. LLL

If can get a job where limp, ppl are down on limpers, definately notice much more severe arthritis in knee from year ago, been worn out severe for years but it is very bad doing some trapping for up to 4-5 hrs somedays at most, so plan on try wait till next summer if can an collect soavil security an at least have some income while off work if make it that long, pretty painful lately, especally after home , if knee don't move, get stuff few min an can't stand it, not severe pain but arthritis is different with stiffness, I be done without tile spade to use as cane while walk trap on uneven surface, have not fell on creek but came close today set pocket in deep water in mud sink in bottom with lots grass

$3.899 here for mid grade. Who runs 87 octane in new vehicles?

X2.

I have been watching some tips on preserving wild meat on you tube. Slowly smoking over a wood fire outdoors looks simple enough. The dominoes could start falling anytime. Lets all have a survival plan. Our leaders are living in la la land.

I'm afraid the next lesson you learn the hard way Coonman, is gonna hurt the rest of your life.

I run 87 in new vehicles. Why wouldn’t I if it is made to run on 87?

You can even get 87 octane in a nonethanol version in Elkton, VA.

$3.24 here.

Heating costs are what's going to put people in a pinch.......thanks Biden

Ok then, you can trap for 4 or 5 hours a day in and out of ditches and creeks, I know it's painful but you can still do it. Working/walking on a flat surface is where you draw the line though. You just got to retire then you're problems are solved. You're going to retire and wind up paying for your knee surgery out of your own pocket and you're fine with that and that's up to you. You're losing money trapping most likely but the real problem you have is groceries and gas went up.

I wish you the best, I really do.

BTW, Thanks to the other posters on this thread, It's been informative.

It’s hard to go trapping with the price of gasoline now a days especially when living on a fixed income.

I really believe the town u talk about the factory up the street, an all factories are same, totaly suck an nasty ppl, amount work get out me ridiculous

Wallow in your misery, You enjoy your situation, or complaining about it. Makes for good TV

Dave, I have to disagree with you. Not all factories suck and have nasty people in them. I worked in a factory for 32 years and I can tell you, I wouldn't want to work with or around someone like you. Your attitude is not the greatest and bad or poor attitudes are just as contagious as a positive attitude is. Especially in a factory environment.

Factory work is like any other job, it is what you decide to make of them. I'm sure you are good, hard worker too as you have told us many times. But, what you always fail to mention is how much complaining you do. I'm willing to bet that for the amount you complain on this site, you are also complaining to someone at work too. We all have choices to make and you have chose to stay at jobs you don't like. You chose to stay as a part-time worker and you choose to keep complaining about other people, your job etc. etc.

Are you the type of person you would hire, are you the type of person you would want to work with? Are you the type of person that tries to find the good in things?

Try to find the good in something for a change, try to be positive and try to enjoy yourself for a change. You deserve it.

I don't complain at work, they fire u, nasty mean ppl , I not only one who talks of ones run an in factory , I know many others thoughout years, factory's ate where u go when never went to school so if ur younger u might wanna consider it or get stuck in crap hole in ground , where got take ladder to get down into in morning , didn't get any grocery's in town there Tonite, work some half black Mex or Purto Rican mix other day I not sure but the next day he work someone else an walk out door, seem pretty interested in break an bathroom when I with him, I wish I could get away with that stuff, so now there after me take vacation. Last week as temp an came out office an ask what up last week, some other probly Anti workers wanna get me fired, idk , I laugh them an tell them what think crap hole, , work an trapping don't go well, I always notice dont drive as good after work if run traps as if no work, so leave work today some black guy pull out front me an didn't look am nearly cream him, earlier on way work again, a Schneider national black truckdriver pull out bottom hill from stop sign in front ppl go 35 mph an didn't even pay any attention , probly another worker or driver that last a cpl days

Well, that cleared things up.

Things conman don't like:
1. Work
2. Low coon prices
3. Any human with a little skin pigment

That's easy to read. Thank you.

WOW

BTW I've got some friends that work in factories and they're very good people. Far, far better than you, I can guarantee that. Also that's a pretty broad brush you're painting with when you make those statements.

I think you’re the problem in these situations Dave.

I went to school! And I’ve worked in a factory, and distribution warehouse and slaughter house.

Please stop being a racist and focus on your faults, not what you project onto others. These are your problems, not what you think a person who doesn’t look exactly like you does.

Maybe he was interested in the break room because he needed a break after pulling all the weight since you are just sitting there watching what all the “black and brown maybe black Puerto Rican mix” people are doing, instead of focusing on what Dave needs to be doing to do his job.

Take the vacation, you don’t want to work anyway, so go trap worthless coons so you have some fur prices to come back and complain about:

They don’t want to get you fired, you may not believe this. But nobody is talking about you, people don’t do things to get you. Most people probably don’t ever think about you. Same as me, nobody thinks about me or cares about getting me fired. The only person worries about me is my son who wants me to build a train set with him.

My boss trusts that my job is being done, and it is! Very well I might add.



As far as trapping and work. They go great. I check 5 properties before work, then check two during lunch break, and the other on the way home.

I’m not worried about my truck breaking down though, it only has 75,000 miles on it.


Of course you do better trapping when not working, you don’t want to work. We are all more energetic when just trapping. Just like I’m more energetic when I haven’t been getting up to go hunting at 3 am and going to bed at 10pm.


Would you have reacted differently if it was a white dude that pulled out in front of you or a white truck driver at to e bottom of a hill? If you noticed the color of their skin, you should have already assessed the situation and noted the traffic hazard no matter their race.

Or was it the race you were concerned about? Not their driving?


Get over yourself!


Look in a dang mirror before you start whining!

Just like we all should .

It don't matter what color really, so not good mood, go up gas station POS bp in town, the pump not fix an take hh to put in $20 in gas, the guy works there jerk, no garbagectags like week ago, city hall, forget try get them, don't have all day deal with try get them at there speacil appt or hrs or with masks or leave money in envelope an mail as never come an now letter about street assement next summer, like $11 plus k

BP gas stations or corperate sucks, another one I rember at different times would leak gas by nozzle an all over hand, happen twice, the first time last Feb one nite when -30, the attendent laugh about it, these pumps that go slow, everyone should complain , the attendent should be Hollar yell at till quit, I pay 6 cents more at truckstop from now on. With Phillips 66, better gas than BP crud

Anyone know how contact corporate bp jerks, I like give them a piece my mind about there service an pumps

I suspect that the BP c-stores in your town are a franchise operation. "Corporate" BP doesn't care what happens there as long as some gas gets sold.

But here's the contact info for BP. Go tear 'em up tiger!

bpconsumer@bp.com 1-800-333-3991

The BP minimum wage worker should be "yelled at til he quits" over something he has zero control over? Should you be yelled at til you quit over a janky gate that you have no control over? You reckon the BP gas attendant has any more control over those pumps than you do over that gate?





I wouldn't bet on that!

Maybe try a different nozzle at the BP next time? Or do they all leak?

Dave, go see a doctor, you're getting worse.

I hate to see what you are like when you try sell fur this fall. The fur market is all but DOA.

I wouldn't give them too big of a piece.

coon,rat and beaver sausage 😋

Save the coon and rat fat. Use it in place of butter and cooking oil. Save big money.

Why does anyone live in that part of Iowa? Every business is a bunch of crooks, jerks and low life’s out to screw you, and there are no decent jobs to be had either. And just thinking about all those hills and stoplights to wear your old truck out is enough to give one the vapors. People appearing under bridges out of nowhere and cops after you when your trapping just to screw with you. I bet the fur buyer won’t recognize the value of your coons either. You could move but the problem is no matter where you go you’ll still be there.

K52, your last sentence says it all.

Wow.

LOL. I love it. Wonder what Coonman would say if he came to Virginia?

He'd say people are nasty, factory work sucks, people of color are to be distrusted, and the coon are worthless.

Don't forget the cops, mechanic shops, road crews and city counsels.

The coon are going to be worthless. He will trap them though.

Possum fat is special. It has such a rich nutty taste that will make your mouth water. And it is free! Possum pelts are bringing $.05 to maybe $.25 which is about the same as picking up pop cans out of the road ditch. Money talks.

I will let you be the authority on possum fat.