RE: Back and Looking Forward - Imprinted by LightCaptured
The second-hand car industry is strange. They make up the prices and the government gives a hand. As long as you need a car they ask what they like. Cars from Germany are imported by us as well, but Tax should be paid, and of course, the Dutch check ups with extra costs but as I understand it's not much different from other EU countries. A friend imported her car to Hungary and the cost were over 2000 Euro! For that amount a car can be bought. After all it's jus to drive from A to B.
Lidl and Aldi both became very expensive shops, unlike Aldi was 40 years ago. I rarely go over there. My child says the Lidl is "cheaper" now mainly because of the coupons but even these are not the same in different countries.
Sounds we all should shop in Germany at a cheap place or Italy if we are there (which I did by the way same for gasoline in Germany).
I won't lease either, it's way too expensive, and if you stop the contract, you are fooled and should deliver the car back as you received i,t meaning: polished (by a company), cleaned (by a company) and so on.
Here it comes: a friend in Belgium leases a car for about 15 euros per month via the MediaMarkt (strange) and if the tires or whatever is broken, it's all paid for or refunded, same for the car repairs and soever.
Why with them and not with us? It beat me.
Here we say: It's too much to die and not enough to live...
Totally! Second-hand car market is really weird :)
Remember how Covid halted new car deliveries and production so second-hand ones prices jumped high but now, long past covid, prices are still high. Surprise, surprise...
It's a popular business here in BG, I personally know two guys who do that for a living, a classmate and a friend in another city (good when I want to get rid of an old car ;))
I'm very pragmatic when it comes about cars - if it works, I keep it and maintain it as long as possible (I drive a 20 years old S.Korean SUV)
So, not a good customer to those businessmen :D
No Aldi in BG so far, but Kaufland instead, but I hate to shop their, the most of their "special offers" are fake - "out of stock" few minutes after opening :))) I still buy some items there, that I can't find elsewhere - horseradish, some cosmetics, wines, etc.
Agreed, apart from the discounted stuff, the most of the items are expensive but I like Lidl, 'cause I usually find all I need at one place, warm in the winters and cold in the summers. Also, the fastest payments compared to all other stores.
The car we have is a "second" hand Ford 2002 fine enough it drives and taken care off. I agree with you that buying new is a waste of money and also not good for the environment. I remember they gave big money if you gave your old car, next they paid you if you didn't leave it with them, today they give nothing but at the same time they sell the parts for high amounts (strange, strange, strange?). Since iron and car parts can be reused, it's simply a game they play (how to earn as much as possible)..
Kaufland we don't have but those discounts sound very familiar. The MediaMarket is famous for it. Before they start with the discounts they raise the prices with 30%.
There's nothing I need that badly that it can't wait. A big plus of the internet is that we can look around and see what others have to offer.
I rarely visit shops. They give me stress, especially before the weekend and before holidays where people behave as if they haven't been eaten in a very long time (also the idiotery during the Covid and toilet paper. I would say: use a piece of paper, water, your hand, plenty of options. As if you die without.
I agree with you that there are certain shops who do sell what others don't have. Lidl has a a better variety of fruits and vegetables. I did notice that the once "cheaper" supermarkets including the market all charge the same. The market became very expensive which already started with the euro.
A great weekend!
Hahaha, so it doesn't matter which part of the world, stores do the same.
So so so familiar :D
Sometimes this increase-before-discount is only on the price tag :))) Marketing tricks, probably coming from across the ocean, after all. Wild-wild-west :D
Thank you and I wish you a great week. We are under a big house reconstruction, kinda urgent, so I hope to find soon time again to check out my favorite blogging blockchain :)))
All the best with the renovation. I hope it wents well and no one hits the road with the tools, bricks, windows and roof tiles.
A great relaxed time.
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Thank you :)
So far so good, despite a minor injury I caused myself on my left leg while getting down from the roof... I'll be as new in a couple of days :)
We are using a relatively new "technology" to repair our roof, perhaps I'll put a post, as this is the second part of that particular repair, we fixed the other part of the roof two years ago and I am satisfied with the inspection of the old part.
Long story short - no roof tiles on our house, but asphalt shingles instead, they were originally dark-brown, now we are applying liquid rubber roofing on top of them, with a special white rubber, it is in two layers with a textile membrane in between the layers of rubber and as a result the whole roof becomes white. This has a wonderful effect during the hot summers - two degrees Celsius down for the part of the house we completed two years ago ;)
If you injured yourself you can't be back to brand new LOL
If you write that post please, let me know. I assume no leakages either? The temperature isn't such an issue. I wonder if the leaves of trees affect it.
Some parts of me still regenerate, LMAO :P
Yes, with this rubber technology, the whole roof becomes as a single shingle so no leakages at all. The price is quite good too, excluding the manual labour I am putting myself, heheh.
I suspect this new layer also has a thermal insulation effect but couldn't find anything related online.
I ordered the rubber and the textile layer in May, the total cost per m2 is about EUR 6-7.
The huge problem with that "technology" is that temperatures (day+night) should not drop below +16 C as if that happens then the rubber crystalizes and doesn't cover the surfaces properly but then those days are in terms hot and I cannot work under burning sunlight for more than 2-3 hours. (It's a wonderful cardio-exercise, by the way :DD) Also, the roof has to be absolutely dry and some mornings there is morning dew and the roof is wet so I have to wait for it to dry before starting the application.
What do you mean by "if the leaves of trees affect it"?
Have an awesome Sunday! :)
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