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We who live in the north have to spend lot of money on winter clothing, heating, etc; what do southerners do with all the money they save?

Posted - November 28, 2016
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  • 3907
    Hello K:

    They buy air conditioners..

    excon
      November 28, 2016 9:04 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Hah! I probably  paid more for my parka and winter footwear than what an air conditioner costs.
      November 28, 2016 9:15 AM MST
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  • Operational costs.
      November 28, 2016 9:59 AM MST
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  • 44223
    All of that flood and hurricane insurance is very expensive.
      November 28, 2016 9:40 AM MST
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  • 44223
    We get a double whammy here in the Great Lakes region.. Very cold winters...High gas bills. Very hot summers...high electric bills.
      November 28, 2016 9:43 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Since all that cold weather blows in from the north you should make Canada pay your heating costs. 
      November 28, 2016 9:50 AM MST
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  • 44223
    Hey...I can use that currency you sent  me. Thanks for the idea.
      November 28, 2016 10:41 AM MST
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  • 22
    Sounds like a plan! (I live up north). And I am sure that getting Canada to pay for our heating bills will be as easy as getting Mexico to pay for that wall.
      November 28, 2016 10:47 AM MST
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  • I can verify that.
      November 28, 2016 9:58 AM MST
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  •   It's exactly how it is.
      November 28, 2016 10:23 AM MST
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  • 9861
    Tube tops and chewing tobacco. :)
      November 28, 2016 9:54 AM MST
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  • 44223
    Don't forget pickup trucks and beer.
      November 28, 2016 10:42 AM MST
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  • 46117
    I'm too sexy for a truck.  Too sexy.

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at November 28, 2016 4:39 PM MST
      November 28, 2016 10:44 AM MST
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  • 3934
    I could be horribly mean and bigoted, and claim they spend it on robes, pointy hats, and flammable crosses...but I wouldn't do that....;-D...
      November 28, 2016 10:07 AM MST
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  • 3934
    @WW -- Of course rampant bigotry is not just a Southern thing. KKK activity is a significant phenomenon in Indiana. An in-law of mine used to watch "militias" in her rural town in Michigan, Cliven Bundy drew out the crazies in Nevada and nearby states, and so forth.

    But the basis of humor is stereotype.

      November 28, 2016 10:17 AM MST
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  • Might want to.  Apparently my comment saying they prolly don't have much to save in many southern places because of weak wages and prospects was too "bigoted" a truth even.
      November 28, 2016 10:29 AM MST
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  • NYS has quite a few. 
      November 28, 2016 10:26 AM MST
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  • 2515
    Our summer electric bills for air conditioning are like your winter heating bills---extremely high! We divide the cost of all the anticipated bills into 12 payments and pay them through the year. 
      November 28, 2016 10:22 AM MST
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  • 3523
    We travel someplace cool in summer.
      November 28, 2016 5:16 PM MST
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