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I appreciate the feedback. I'm happy to hear that your energy bill didn't change much. Sorry that you don't like Florida, but I completely understand.
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H. Helluva posted:What kills me now, the cost to maintain the sanity of my wife and I has reached (our total monthly rent and utilities) $1600+ (Cost us an extra $300 for top floor). Meanwhile my friends back in my home state are renting/buying entire houses for less than half what we pay a month. Yeah this kills me as well. Our rent is way more than what we ever imagined for a small house ($1685/month, ~25% of income), and friends have mortgages for much nicer houses for almost $300 less. But we just got a roommate for 500-1000/month (he's working in the oil fields so may only need a place a couple weeks a month, so that's more bearable. We also have a whole house, huge yard, park right behind us, and a cool landlord so we're content. Someday we'll buy something. Now I need you guys to talk me out of buying a pre-owned rogue gym setup for 2k*. We had the money earmarked for a vacation we now can't take, and my wife and roommate would really benefit most from it, but I have free Olympic-class facilities at university where I have to travel every day anyway, and the wife exercises at work most days but wants to lift more.  *full FTS cage, flooring, nice barbell, 330lbs in bumper plates, bands, chains, adjustable bench, other stuff. It's a sick deal.
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tuyop posted:Yeah this kills me as well. Our rent is way more than what we ever imagined for a small house ($1685/month, ~25% of income), and friends have mortgages for much nicer houses for almost $300 less. But we just got a roommate for 500-1000/month (he's working in the oil fields so may only need a place a couple weeks a month, so that's more bearable. We also have a whole house, huge yard, park right behind us, and a cool landlord so we're content. Someday we'll buy something. Chains are for the gym so you can walk around intimidating all the bros as Marley's Ghost. Can't do that at home can you Tuyop 
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Veskit posted:Chains are for the gym so you can walk around intimidating all the bros as Marley's Ghost. Can't do that at home can you Tuyop I was going to use them to hold the lights in my BASIL room. Edit: and the listing is gone. Oh well, no chains for me! 
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tuyop posted:I was going to use them to hold the lights in my BASIL room.
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SiGmA_X posted:Sounds like some expensive and high quality *BASIL*, do you do hydro, or soil;if soil, chem or organic? Right now just one little seedling under a blue-tinted CFL in a seedling flat with potters mix. It's a sad BASIL.
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Went wedding dress shopping today. Didn't buy a dress. Win? My plan is to shop around and then buy a design I like off of Tradesy or PreOwnedWeddingDresses. Engagement ring was an heirloom necklace reset by a jeweler friend for just $200. Trying to keep the cost of this wedding under $10k!
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Guys, there's something in my car. It's riding very low in the back. Something heavy.  What could it be?  Wait, no, that's not right.  Oh poo poo, no!  $1050 all in for rack, bench, Olympic BB, 405lbs in plates Forgive me goons. 
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SOoooooo you're canceling your gym memberships then? Ohh god you don't even have a squat cage Tuyop whhyyyy.
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Apr 20, 2014 01:48
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Veskit posted:SOoooooo you're canceling your gym memberships then? Ohh god you don't even have a squat cage Tuyop whhyyyy. Don't need no stinking cage. We ditch in this house. The ceiling is 75 inches, and the shortest cage we could find is 82. We have to do overhead work sitting down. And we don't have any gym memberships, but Toeshoes and I both have free gym access at our works that can't be opted out of. She just doesn't really get time to lift much and my roommate wants to start as well and has no experience or gym access. I'm personally going to enjoy not carting gym gear back and forth to school anymore and working out with my wife again. Another concern is that the max I could deadlift was 485 last summer (before a herniated disc in my neck, and other spinal complications) but our current setup tops out at 450. So there may be some more 45s in our future. Dude sells them for $1/lb and has a garage loving full of them.
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Nice setup. I am at the Rockies game buying $10 beers woo (at least it is a 24 ounce)
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Apr 20, 2014 02:09
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Spend a few bucks and wash yo car!
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Apr 20, 2014 03:12
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tuyop posted:Forgive me goons.
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Juanito posted:Spend a few bucks and wash yo car! What a racket. poo poo just gets dirty again. And the filth is hiding all the retarded cosmetic damage my wife has done.
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tuyop posted:What a racket. poo poo just gets dirty again. I love that both of you are terrible with cars. Match made in heaven.
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Apr 20, 2014 04:54
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Quick tuyop, find some friends and charge them to use your weight set. While they're over upsell them some BASIL.
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Apr 20, 2014 13:41
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Almonds aren't very filling.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Almonds aren't very filling. Just buy a bag of carrots. A carrot has like 36 calories. I bet you can only eat three raw. No dips.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:01
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Tuns our carrots are stupid easy to grow. Though they take for god drat ever.
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I have a bag of carrots at home, I should have brought them to work. should've would've could've
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:I have a bag of carrots at home, I should have brought them to work. Call a taxi driver and see if he'll bring you carrots from the grocery store.
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Apr 22, 2014 13:36
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I don't think that would be cost effective.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:I don't think that would be cost effective. Well get like 20lbs so you've got carrots for weeks!
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tuyop posted:Well get like 20lbs so you've got carrots for weeks! Protip: Raw carrots don't freeze well.
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Folly posted:Protip: Raw carrots don't freeze well. They last for many weeks though. People would eat that poo poo all winter.
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Folly posted:Protip: Raw carrots don't freeze well. Interesting, I'd never considered freezing raw carrots. What happens? Are defrosted carrots like very old fresh carrots that get all limp and bendy?
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They sorta turn to mush. You have to cook them a bit first. I might have ruined 2 large bags of carrots by freezing them. That isn't sarcasm. I actually have no idea if I put them in the freezer or not.
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They seem to last a long time in the fridge though.
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I've got an Alton Brown book where he says he keeps carrots in a tub of playground sand in the fridge. 
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Got a 2% raise today. Not bad for 5 months of work. Just gotta resist using it to justify more video game purchases...
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Not a Children posted:Got a 2% raise today. Not bad for 5 months of work. Set up a payroll split so that 2% of your paycheck goes into a savings account! Use it to fund your IRA at the end of the year or something. Bump it up every time you get a raise so you don't buy more video games than you did in your humbler, -2% days.
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dreesemonkey posted:There is a boat thread in DIY that might have the answers for you Oh man, I want a boat so bad. I don't like having these five year plans of like: (a) teach on reserves in the North, (b) move back to rural NS to live in a yurt and teach, then (c) buy a boat and raise my future kid(s) sailing around the world teaching English in the darkest Orient if necessary. I just want c!
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tuyop posted:Oh man, I want a boat so bad.
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Juanito posted:It's a neat idea, until you watch a movie like All Is Lost. Have you seen that? Yeah I felt so bad. But, you know, there's a reason it wasn't a movie about a car accident where a whole family is killed by a drunk driver on their way to the grocery store or something. At least Redford's dude was being a loving badass when poo poo went down. It's kind of similar to mountain climbers dying. Is it stupid? Yeah. But when is dying not stupid? When you played it safe for 80 years, securely nestled in the bosom of civilization totally dispossessed of your animal nature or convinced to surrender it for some gilded cage, neutered for all your days until you succumb to mechanical decay as the final logical reduction of Western Civilization? Eating, buying, sleeping, dead? Nah, that's the most stupid death of all.
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I've turned on people in the GBS work crew to the best of BFCs and putting more money into roth iras and 401ks. I thought this was funny though.SarutosZero posted:Veskit I am having a hard time reading the Tuyop thread because he just keeps getting more depressing and delusional as it goes on.
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I overslept and had to run out of the house to make it to work on time, and I think I'm going to have to eat out today. Will probably end up paying $8 for a lovely sandwich at the office cafeteria. There goes a two-week streak. Really should be making my lunches before I go to sleep.
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Inverse Icarus posted:I overslept and had to run out of the house to make it to work on time, and I think I'm going to have to eat out today. Will probably end up paying $8 for a lovely sandwich at the office cafeteria. This, and having a stock of non-perishable food at work has saved me many times. I keep a ceramic bowl and just regular cans of soup for emergencies. Put the soup in the bowl, microwave.
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Inverse Icarus posted:I overslept and had to run out of the house to make it to work on time, and I think I'm going to have to eat out today. Will probably end up paying $8 for a lovely sandwich at the office cafeteria. Making lunches before you go to sleep is the key. Unfortunately I rarely follow this practice myself. But I did manage to go from February 24th to April 16th without buying any food at work. Though I've definitely had a few mornings where I've been struggling to throw together a peanut butter sandwich before I run out the door. I budget $30 a month on "work food" (usually lunch), but I try not to hit that. edit: What that guy above me said is good too, but I try to avoid sodium-heavy foods like cans of soup and frozen dinners. Definitely economical though.
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Rick Rickshaw posted:Making lunches before you go to sleep is the key. Unfortunately I rarely follow this practice myself. Why this is especially dumb? I have a handful of frozen vacuum sealed meals in my freezer. I keep forgetting to grab one and a larger Pyrex storage bowl to reheat it in!! FFS!
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