[design219]

Search results for caskets - Walmart

[olePigeon]

I never understood why caskets are so damn expensive.

Hey Rob, maybe you should build a designer casket. The markup on those are insane.

[ort888]

They sell booze at Target now. I find that more shocking for some reason.

[hyteckit]

What about Marijuana?

Medical Marijuana

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by ort888 

They sell booze at Target now. I find that more shocking for some reason.

Isn't the entirely dependent on (changing) state laws ?

-t

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Isn't the entirely dependent on (changing) state laws ?

-t

It does depend on the state. I know in Colorado you can buy alcohol through a drive through.

[wallinbl]

This is a good product for cheaping out. It only really needs to last a few days.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

It does depend on the state. I know in Colorado you can buy alcohol through a drive through.

Same in IL.

-t

[Arty50]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

It does depend on the state. I know in Colorado you can buy alcohol through a drive through.

Yeah, but the liquor stores are all closed on Sunday. Except for supermarkets, where you can buy 3.2% beer. Lame.

[olePigeon]

Utah only recently allowed sale of alcohol without some special license because a number of countries that refused to participate in the Winter Olympics if they couldn't drink beer. lol @ Utah

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

I never understood why caskets are so damn expensive.

Hey Rob, maybe you should build a designer casket. The markup on those are insane.

That's an easy one. "Would you cheap out on burying someone you loved?". Funerals are just like weddings in that way, with the added advantage that, usually, the customers don't have too much time to shop around for the best prices.

[Gankdawg]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

I never understood why caskets are so damn expensive.

Me either, that's why I'm being cremated. Why spend $5000 or more on a casket? I'd rather my kids have the money.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Wiskedjak 

That's an easy one. "Would you cheap out on burying someone you loved?". Funerals are just like weddings in that way, with the added advantage that, usually, the customers don't have too much time to shop around for the best prices.

I never understood the concept of spending lots of money on a dead person, maybe it's how I was raised. It doesn't make me remember them any more than I already have. So far all of our passed family members were cremated and had their ashes spread wherever they wanted them to go. Guess it's tradition. We then have a wake for that person with music, food, and good memories.

[ghporter]

You want to show how you valued the deceased, and a cheap looking casket would not do that. Of course my wife and I have agreed that, if we can't get cardboard, we'll go with the least expensive pine that can be found. We expect to be cremated, and burning up a $4k fancy box just doesn't make sense financially or ecologically.

FWIW, when my mother died, our local mortuary (actually family friends) took care of everything at a minimum of cost, and it still ran over $6k for just the box, the preparation and the services, with the plot costing more over that. If a small town mortuary whose matriarch is almost your mom's godmother can't cut costs below that (this was 12 years ago), then there must be a huge cost on the materials and labor involved in the whole mess.

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

I never understood the concept of spending lots of money on a dead person, maybe it's how I was raised. It doesn't make me remember them any more than I already have. So far all of our passed family members were cremated and had their ashes spread wherever they wanted them to go. Guess it's tradition. We then have a wake for that person with music, food, and good memories.

I agree completely, but the marketing has been designed to convince people that they're disrespecting the recently departed if they *don't* spend lots of money. It's very similar to the "an engagement ring should cost one months salary" campaign designed by the diamond industry.

For me, cremation with the dust scattered to the wind.

[Rumor]

I want to be put on a raft, pushed out into the open water, and caught on fire (preferably with a flaming arrow). Viking style.

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by Rumor 

I want to be put on a raft, pushed out into the open water, and caught on fire (preferably with a flaming arrow). Viking style.

I'd like to change my vote ...!

[reader50]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

You want to show how you valued the deceased, and a cheap looking casket would not do that.

Depending on what you thought of the deceased, a cheap-looking casket might do this perfectly.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by Wiskedjak 

I agree completely, but the marketing has been designed to convince people that they're disrespecting the recently departed if they *don't* spend lots of money. It's very similar to the "an engagement ring should cost one months salary" campaign designed by the diamond industry.

Only a month? I always heard four months' salary.

[shifuimam]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Only a month? I always heard four months' salary.

Either way it's idiotic.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by shifuimam 

Either way it's idiotic.

To you. Some people wouldn't be wooed by five Dell laptops, so I spent the equivalent.

[Rumor]

My fathers funeral set me back almost $16k. Wiped out my savings, and had to ask family/friends for help.

[JoshuaZ]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Only a month? I always heard four months' salary.

Damn... my lady wants a $15,000 watch.

Thats like 5 months at least for me!

Sigh... women.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by JoshuaZ 

Damn... my lady wants a $15,000 watch.

So what ? Don't we all want things that we can't (shouldn't) afford ?

-t

[Rumor]

[Thorzdad]

I'm trying to decide between as low-cost cremation as possible, or donating the body to a medical school. I just can't stomach the thought of saddling my family with a multi-thousand-dollar bill just to put me in a hole in the ground.

[ghporter]

My program started out with Gross Anatomy, a course that is impossible without donations such as what you're thinking of, Thorzdad. Every spring there's a memorial service where the cremated remains of the donated cadavers are presented and buried, with students, families, and faculty all in attendance. I was VERY fortunate to have had the opportunity to REALLY learn anatomy the way I did, and am forever grateful to the families who donated their loved ones' remains to the school. It's a Good Thing To Do. But, as with organ donation, you have to get your whole family on board ahead of time as well as committing your wishes to paper.

My wife and I are organ donors, which is also a very important Good Thing To Do, but unfortunately you can only donate either organs or the whole 9 yards, not both.

[Thorzdad]

That's cool to hear, Glenn. I've contacted the IU School of Medicine and got a donation form/contract from them. I haven't filled it out yet, though. It's kind of an intellectual/emotional leap to consciously plan to be a cadaver. One can't help envisioning yourself on the table being cut open.

[residentEvil]

i began to pickle myself from the inside out when i turned 21...i will make a good house ornament!

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Only a month? I always heard four months' salary.

I always heard two.

[osiris]

WalMart is ok, though I buy only food items there, not coffins. But when I die, I want to be preserved in formaldehyde then placed in a large glass tube. This tube should be suspended someplace prominent - perhaps a bridge toll way or tunnel entrance. Spotlights would highlight my features. Yes, that would be nice, just floating and bobbing.

[The Final Dakar]

When you die you'll be preserved on my mantle.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

When you die you'll be preserved on my mantle.

That would be nice. Perhaps an arrangement can be made to make my joints posable. That way you can use me to hold torches and stuff.

[ctt1wbw]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

What about Marijuana?

Medical Marijuana

Next to the donuts and Doritos. One stop shopping.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by osiris 

That would be nice. Perhaps an arrangement can be made to make my joints posable. That way you can use me to hold torches and stuff.

I'm not sure you'll have joints left. My plan involves kidnapping you, giving you a uterus, releasing you, and then impregnating you with a bomb.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

I'm not sure you'll have joints left. My plan involves kidnapping you, giving you a uterus, releasing you, and then impregnating you with a bomb.

Well, I'll be dead. What the hell will I care? Perhaps you're not thinking this through. I'm concerned.

[design219]

I love the "Regal Wide Body Steel Casket" ... 4" wider than standard sizes.

For those who die from eating too much. Real products for real Americans!

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally Posted by design219 

I love the "Regal Wide Body Steel Casket" ... 4" wider than standard sizes.

For those who die from eating too much. Real products for real Americans!

Next to the medical marijuana and the donuts and Doritos. One stop shopping.

[Doofy]

You can get anything at Walmart

No.

I just went in and asked 'em for a Gemballa Avalanche. Got a blank stare like they didn't know what I was talking about, much less stock them.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Rumor 

I want to be put on a raft, pushed out into the open water, and caught on fire (preferably with a flaming arrow). Viking style.

I want to be planted with a publicly accessible fruit tree so that everyone who eats an apple or whatever from that tree, they're eating a piece of me. Thus, they commit cannibalism and go to hell.

[kikkoman]

My local Costco sells caskets as well.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

That's cool to hear, Glenn. I've contacted the IU School of Medicine and got a donation form/contract from them. I haven't filled it out yet, though. It's kind of an intellectual/emotional leap to consciously plan to be a cadaver. One can't help envisioning yourself on the table being cut open.

Don't picture it-it won't be "you" then anyway. Cadavers are prepared in a number of ways, including embalming and removal of all body hair; I doubt anyone would ever recognize the cadaver a friend or relative donated to a medical school. Plus the outside isn't the important part; the INSIDE is the important part for the school.

My GA class had some "interesting" cadavers, including one man with a partially artificial knee, and THREE people with pacemakers.

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Plus the outside isn't the important part; the INSIDE is the important part for the school.

True. The OUTSIDE is more interesting on live people.

[torsoboy]

Dang, they don't deliver caskets to Utah

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/if/hmp/...very_Areas.pdf

[PB2K]

contrary to the old saying, I Will get a casket with many compartments so I can take all my stuff with me