KatherinetheGr8t

I hold the keys to my castle. Love God, family, the beach, good food and lively conversation, veteran, Mama Bear to several. Not dead yet😉

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

3rd of 4(?) hurricane remnants to reach us in Rim country. Nickel sized hail. Seasonally dry wash behind houses running up to fence lines. More today w chance of tornados! We need rain but this is extraordinary!

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@Arkypatriot Didn’t hate my mom, we talked it out eventually. Became independent/self sufficient at a young age. I raised my kids to be independent and self sufficient too Almost didn’t have kids, I was afraid of repeating her behaviors. thankfully I did not 💛!

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@ThrillaRilla369 All of the above and I will Faye Dunaway to the list

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@CardioFixer 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@ZEER0HOUR You apparently don’t live in SoCal. This happens every year at this time.

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@MLBONFOX Padres fan here. Nothing better than seeing the Dodgers lose and their coach melt down

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@culthummingbird First time you see one frozen in the snow because you left your feeder up, will affect you. Most will migrate this time of year but there is always one or two that needs to be encouraged to get on their way

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

Today is a sad day. It’s the day in the Northern Arizona pine forests that we typically take down our hummingbird feeders. Have to encourage the last Hbirds to migrate south so they won’t freeze. But we will see them again in the Spring by the 100s 😁

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@yashar Nope. Arrogant response w no apology I am team Kelly here.

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

Son: Hey Dad, how old are you?

Me: I'm this old, son.

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@Arkypatriot Well I was Army but we share some other things. First paragraph is me to a T. Keep on being you Always a pleasure to read

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@itsjennydoll @mala_sarkady Nope…you are not a lady lol.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

DISNEY SAYS THE LAYOFFS ARE EXTREMELY PAINFUL. SO WAS THE TICKET.

When I was a kid, my parents trusted one company without reading the fine print.

If it said Disney on the box, it went in the VCR. No research, no screening, no checking a parents guide. The Little Mermaid. Beauty and the Beast. Aladdin. The Lion King. My mother put them on and went to make dinner because she knew exactly what was coming out of that television.

That trust was the most valuable asset the company ever owned. It was not the castle. It was not the mouse. It was a mother in a kitchen who did not have to check.

Then they spent it.

They decided the movies were a place to deliver messages instead of stories, and parents noticed. Even Bob Iger admitted in 2023 that the studio had lost sight of entertaining first. You do not usually get the CEO confessing.

Then they priced the family out of the parks.

This year, a single day at Magic Kingdom crossed 200 dollars for the first time in its 55 year history. Peak days hit 209. That is up roughly 38 percent since 2020.

And waiting in line, the one thing that used to be free, became a product. FastPass cost nothing. It became Genie Plus at 15 dollars in 2021. Now the Multi Pass runs up to 45 a person at Magic Kingdom and the Premier Pass runs as high as 449.

Four hundred and forty nine dollars. Per person. To skip lines at a park you already paid to enter.

A family of four can spend more than 800 dollars on admission alone for one day, before a churro.

Then they let ESPN and ABC drift. ESPN went from roughly 100 million homes in 2011 to about 55 million, and the answer was to raise the streaming price to 31.99.

And now the president of the company says the layoffs are extremely painful. Three hundred more this week, mostly in HR and IT, after a thousand in April. She says technology set its sights on their business.

No. Technology did not empty those park lines and those living rooms. The pricing did. The lectures did. The slow decision to treat the family as a wallet instead of a guest did.

Every brand that tries this learns the same lesson.

Bud Light offended the people who bought it and lost its spot as the best selling beer in America.

Pepsi raised prices until people stopped buying the volume, and an activist investor showed up.

Nike walked away from the stores its customers shopped in, chased margin, and watched the stock fall by more than half.

McDonald's took out the playgrounds, raised the prices, and is now spending 8.5 billion dollars to figure out where the families went.

Annoy your customers, price them out, and sell them something that offends the people who can still afford you. It ends the same way every single time.

So here is the call.

Your wallet is a vote and you cast it every week. Spend it with companies that remember who they work for. Be the mom in the kitchen again, just with more questions this time.

They built that trust over sixty years.

They can earn it back the same way they lost it. One family at a time.

🦋

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@FoulTerritoryTV @MartyCaswell It’s embarrassing

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@Music_Goddesss I was waiting in Rome in St Michael’s square for the Pope to arrive (w thousands) and heard this for the first time, playing over the loudspeakers. It was 1981 and I have been captivated ever since.

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@MissB53 Red ones. Seem to just go w you lol

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@Deb67088601 @TaxLawProf @united I second this 😉

[KatherinetheGr8t @Chatelaine2407]

@TaxLawProf @united Gen X maybe preparing but a Boomer has been dealing with it most of her life. Whatever …find either one and we will take care of it …

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

“When you find it hard to find a friend to talk to, speak to your Guardian Angel, he is the most faithful of companions.”

St. Francis de Sales 🕊️