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Clearance prices don't always make it to 90 percent though because the store stops getting the product in shortly before it goes clearance, and once it's gone, it's gone. Sears: Prices ending in 99 are regular, 98 is no coupons or sales, 88 is closeout, 97 is clearanced/discontinued, 93 is refurb/open-box. A letter, followed by a number indicated what the original price of the item was. A=10, B=20 and so on. So an item marked A7 would have been 17.99, an item marked C9 would be 39.99. Circuit City: 98: local price match 97: open box item 96: limited stock item, either oop (out of production) or so new that supplies are not regular yet 95: clearance  product Best Buy: Frigidaire items have a code on the tag 0000*****00000. The numbers in between the zeros is the dollar amount they can reduce the item by. Office Depot: Prices not ending in 0, 9 or 5 are final markdowns. Gap & Old Navy: prices ending in 7 are the final markdown and will not go down further in price. Usually, unsold items with this code are supposedly sent to closeout stores within a few weeks of the markdown. Abercrombie & Fitch: anytime an item is $xx.50, it is full price, and anytime it is $xx.ANYTHING ELSE, it is on sale. 99.99%, the item on sale will end in $xx.90, but sometimes we do $xx.89 just to confuse people. JC Penny: If the price ends in a 7; that's the lowest price the item will be sold at. Gift receipt code: letters correspond to the numbers on a computer keyboard. Q=1, W=2, E=3, R=4 etc. If the gift code ends in the letter U (corresponds to 7) you know the person bought your gift on clearance. Lowes: there's a number underneath the bar code before a decimal point. That number is the commission amount the sales person makes on the item (called the "spiff"). Ace Hardware: uses letters to tell the employees what the cost of a product was. 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Karry Halbleib's Cheesecake Bars Cheesecake Bars  9x13 pan - greased Preheat oven to 350 degrees Beat the following until smooth: 2 pkgs Crescent Rolls 2 8 oz. pkgs cream cheese 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla  Spread 1 pkg Crescent Rolls on bottom of pan Spread the Cream cheese mixture on rolls Top with the 2nd pkg of rolls Sprinkle with cinnamon & sugar (nutmeg optional) Bake 30 minutes.  Easy, huh?   Laughlin's Ice cream Pudding Cake Crust:   64 Ritz crackers crumbled 1 stick melted butter and 1/4-1/2 cup sugar (to taste) mix and line  in 9X13 pan. If you don't have one,  a 13X9 pan will do.  Mix 1 small package of vanilla instant pudding 1 cup milk and 1 quart of softened vanilla ice cream pour over crust refrigerate for 1/2 hour and cover with 12 -16 oz Cool Whip. Keep refrigerated.  Eat it.   To All The Kids Who Survived The 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because we were always outside playing. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no150 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...we had friends and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them! Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all! And you are one of them! Congratulations!

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