cost o' living

[pianolover 88]

with a whole week's worth of driving to and from jobs, i MIGHT end up paying 
an additional $5 in gas because of the higher  prices at the pumps; that's 
it! But 99% of my business is within a 10 mile radius, and I never have to 
use the freeway. Gas prices have not affected me negatively at all...yet.

Terry Peterson



----Original Message Follows----
From: "James Grebe" <pianoman@accessus.net>
Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Subject: Re: cost o' living
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:45:49 -0600

I added a  increase tuning price last spring to cover the higher gasoline 
cost.  It probably is a wash.  I am not making any more profit, just putting 
myself in a higher tax bracket.  Gasoline costs are going to do the country 
in unless we find another way of getting around with our tool boxes.
Jim
James Grebe
Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
(314) 608-4137
WWW.JamesGrebe.com
1526 Raspberry Lane
Arnold, MO 63010
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pianoman@accessus.net
----- Original Message ----- From: "J Patrick Draine" 
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To: <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>; "Pianotech" 
<pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 5:48 AM
Subject: cost o' living


>
>On Nov 13, 2004, at 2:00 AM, David Ilvedson wrote:
>
>>Terry,
>>
>>You don't want to think about the cost of living in California
>>right on the coast in La La Land...
>>
>>David I.
>
>I know we've all absorbed the costs of the past year's gasoline
>price jump, but folks in the north are looking at a 37% increase in
>home heating oil (gas heat is up too but not that much). That had
>been a bit abstract (gloomy projections in the business section),
>but the temperature's been in the 20s most mornings this week, and
>there's five inches of snow on the ground today. The good news? With
>the heat going full blast, the pianos will be going out of tune
>fast. But will the heating budget eat up the "discretionary 
funds"
>used for luxuries like a properly tuned piano? It seems time for
>another price adjustment of my own.
>Life in the Northeast,
>Patrick Draine
>
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