All the big box retailers (K-Mart, OfficeMax) have "special" island prices. Part of the calculation is freight and gross receipts tax which has to be...

Juanita -- I bet the astronauts use more than a pint of water to bathe. 🙂

islandlola, I'm sure your right about the automatic dishwasher using less water -- especially the way I wash dishes. I keep the faucet running and wa...

Our water bill runs a bit over $100 per month from WAPA. That's 3 people taking showers once or twice a day. We have an automatic dishwasher which w...

Antiqueone got me wondering. What is a manchineel tree? So I looked it up: The tree and its parts contain strong toxins. It will secrete a white...

Linda, my wife did look at Carlos but she said that there stuff was just OK. We haven't ruled out making a local purchase but it seems that local fur...

Thanks Linda and Sky. Your advice is very helpful. It sounds like the price and quality of mainland furniture more than offsets the cost of shipping...

Thanks Linda. Their web site says $2.40 per square foot. I did call but they said "it depends on the square feet". I'm just trying to ballpark pri...

Hi AllMashUp From what I’ve read, it’s more efficient to run refineries at close to 100% capacity and it’s inefficient to shut down parts of the ...

hi Diverdude, I can only speak to the breakfast at K-Mart. BTW--the chili is not bad at Wendy's (but the crackers are ALWAYS stale)

My experience with the local banks is they only do asset based lending. Your credit or the track record of the business won’t matter. Unless the bu...

At about the same time that Carol was at IHOP, the wife and I were getting breakfast at the K-Mart at Sunny Isle. It took less than 10 minutes to ge...

Surfer33, Differences of opinion are welcome but personal insults are not. Your comment is inconsistent with the courtesy and respect demonstra...

There seems to be a double standard. Patrons expect to be seated quickly and served promptly. They expect the food to be good and the prices reasona...

I receive lots of priority packages and it seldom takes more than a week to get to STX from the upper 48. Flat rate boxes, which are just a form of p...

Don't go disrespecting Texas BBQ Juanita. 🙂

We went to Angry Nates yesterday for dinner. Had the salmon sushi, calamari, talapia, and seafood pasta. It was decent to good. What was really wei...

No doubt about it, being middle class is tough on St. Croix. They pay proportionally more than the states for the basics of housing, utilities, food,...

I see these commercials on CNN from Taxmaster and it leads me to believe that there are lots of people that never even bother to file. So I suspect t...

I'm not a beer drinker Bernie, but the ice tea at Polly's was pretty good. 🙂

The wife and I went to Polly's in Fredericksted on Sunday for lunch. The menu is limited because they don't have a grill. They offer salads, wraps, ...

Alas, some businesses on the island are still using last century technology. I prefer to use e-mail but some businesses (and government) insist on f...