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My cell phone is saved for emergency use only. It sits in the pick-up truck glove box in case of wreck or medical emergency or whatever. I do not take calls or texts nor do I send them out. Not my style, buckaroos and buckarettes.
Piss on any firm expecting me to use a cell phone app for anything. There better be an alternative method of acquiring a bargain than using a cell phone. Failure to have an alternative can lead to my banning that firm from my patronage. One of the reasons I greatly limited my eating at McDonalds was based on multiple reasons. A major one has been the inflation rate hitting food joints hard. With living costs leaving my earnings in the dust cutbacks had to be made. So, much more eating at home where the food dollar can be stretched to the utmost.
At-home eating can also be healthier eating. Cheaper, better for your body and maybe even mind. So, even though Burger King and Wendys, and Culvers and Hardees and other keep mailing me coupons to buy semi-cheap burgers I rarely use them. Once in awhile nostalgia compels me to grab a fast-food meal but to save money I get only the item I have the coupon for. No expensive, fattening french fries. Nothing else. Just the item the coupon buys. When I get home I usually toss away to the top bun since it is the thickest of the two buns. Buns are carbs and carbs are calories. The burger tastes just as good with but one bun. For me, anyway.
Nostalgia does affect my eating . . . to a very minor extent. Once every few months, around every 6 months or more, I do bite that proverbial bullet and buy a burger from McDonalds. Decades ago, on leave from the US Navy, I visited the folks living in their small California town. Dad and I took a trip to the nearby small city that was the hub for the nearby towns. While there we watched a walk-in movie at a theater. A rare event. More than rare. As a family we only went to the drive-in theater where folks can take their own food. After the movie we went to the close-by McDonalds where I bought the meal. That Old Man got a kick out of that and ordered a Big Mac saying they were a poor imitation of a real home-made burger but that they did taste good. I had never seen him eat a store-bought burger before. He obviously liked it and I never forgot that scene. He died not long afterwards when i was back aboard ship. I suppose it is in his memory that I eat a Big Mac.
Dad was a child of the Great Depression and was always frugal in his ways even after that economic event was over and he had returned from the Pacific Theater of World War Two. If there was a way to eat a Big Mac in a less expensive way he would be all for that!!! Here is a cost-saving tip I happened across that may save us a buck or two. I haven’t tried it yet but placing the method here is one way for me to be able to refer back to the formula to apply when needed.
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“Are you craving a Big Mac but don’t have $6 for lunch? Look back to another McDonald’s commercial of the past to learn just what makes up a Big Mac, this one from 1974: Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions and a sesame seed bun.
You can come pretty close to that classic menu item by ordering what has become known as the “Poor Man’s Big Mac.” Start with a McDouble — priced at about $2 — which comes with two patties, cheese, pickles, onions, ketchup and mustard. At the order window, ask to hold the ketchup and mustard and substitute special sauce and lettuce. The end result is a faux Big Mac, minus the third piece of bread and cheese. Even if the restaurant charges a little bit for the lettuce, you’ll still have saved some serious cash — and some calories.”
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2 Simple Ways To Save on Your McDonald’s Order
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