Second, snags in the supply chain have led to higher transportation costs, increasing overhead and further reducing the amount of food that food banks can afford.įreight costs to move donated food are up 20% over this time last year. May all of our fates be met with such fortune.įirst, the increase in demand at food banks has risen so much over the past fiscal year they have had to purchase 58% more food. (Sorry, 'working' world.) Are 'Wheel of Fortune' viewers all people older than me? They must be because until recently I didn't even know these game shows were still running on network television.Ĭongrats on being the luckiest human on the planet, Vanna, despite your not making it past the first round of 'The Price is Right' in your 20s.

I'm not sure who even watches 'Wheel of Fortune' these days, but clearly someone does because that's the only way to possibly justify Vanna White's existence in the working world. I just can't get over how much she makes for how little she does at a superfluous job. It's great that she's still going strong and looking amazing at age 64. And she has a charitable yarn line, so that's neat. She actually holds a Guinness World Record for clapping. (The clapping is a bigger part of the job than you might think. If someone offered to pay me $10 million a year to look fabulous in a gown and heels and touch letters and clap for four days a month, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Sometimes this world we humans have created just makes no sense. And she earns $10 million a year doing it. She only works four days a month-not four days a week, four days a month-doing what is arguably the world's easiest and least necessary job. Vanna White has made a 40-year career out of wearing dresses, smiling and clapping. But as it turned out, she didn't need to know how much things cost since she ended up basically winning the lottery with her job at 'Wheel of Fortune.' Vanna White on The Price Is Right (June 20, 1980) Vanna was clearly not skilled at guessing prices. This video has it all: the early '80s hairstyles, a fresh-faced Vanna White and Bob Barker's casual sexism that would never in a million years fly today. Bob Barker's voice, the theme music, the sound effects-I swear I'm home from school sick, lying on the ugly flowered couch with my mom checking my forehead and bringing me Tang. Watching this clip from 1980 of Vanna White competing on 'The Price is Right' two years before she started turning letters on 'Wheel of Fortune' is like stepping into a time machine. As a member of Gen X, television game shows like 'Wheel of Fortune' and 'The Price is Right' send me straight back to my childhood.

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