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spwrozek posted:Just buy some popcorn for the troops you bum! Hell no. When I was a kid I had to go out into the river in the middle of the winter for 8 hours and dig up clams/oysters for money. not joking.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Hell no. When I was a kid I had to go out into the river in the middle of the winter for 8 hours and dig up clams/oysters for money. Hey, we did that too! My parents called it "vacation," haha. But they were both unemployed. I still remember being like four and hauling this sled full of buckets of clams and my baby sister across the low tide beach. It was really wet and cold but I had a lot of fun racing my dad. 
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I liked it when I was a kid because my dad made it fun and he also made really good money doing it on the side. It started to suck when I turned 12 and it became real work that I just didn't want to do. I kept thinking about how all my friends were enjoying their summers and meeting girls while I was standing waist deep in disgusting river water. Not to mention every now and then a yacht would haul rear end past us and create a giant wake that would rock the boat so hard that people's clams would get thrown back into the river.  That's when I became a leftist. edit: The other thing that sucks was that my dad had noble reasons for forcing me to do it. "Son, I lost my job once and doing this kept your mom and I afloat until I found a better one and the same could happen to you. If you learn how to do this you'll never have to worry about anything" but now the market has been flooded by commercial people that use dredges that strip mine the rivers and lowerd the price of clams/oysters so much the average guy can't make a living doing it anymore. Sephiroth_IRA fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Sep 24, 2014 17:51
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I just got notice from my landlord that they are selling the building I rent in to make more condos. I now have 60 days to find a new place which so happens to be the busiest time of year for my work. The good news is that I shouldn't dip into my savings too much although my goal of saving for a new car is going to wait a month or two because of this. I really liked this building too 
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Sep 27, 2014 23:02
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John Kelly posted:I just got notice from my landlord that they are selling the building I rent in to make more condos. I now have 60 days to find a new place which so happens to be the busiest time of year for my work. The good news is that I shouldn't dip into my savings too much although my goal of saving for a new car is going to wait a month or two because of this. I really liked this building too Are they allowed to just kick you out like that? Did they buy your lease out or anything? If you're in the U.S. several states have renter's protection laws that keep landlords from just kicking people out if they have a lease that's not in default.
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Sep 27, 2014 23:11
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My lease ended this month and the rental company was reluctant for me to sign a new one when I asked. Since it moved to a month-to-month it's well within the law. The area where the building is located in is a mixture of high end houses/rentals where construction is booming (5 projects in the neighborhood alone). Standard operating procedure here is to demolish the building and build an awful looking building on the land. I'm not too surprised that the owner took whatever money offered by a developer.
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Sep 27, 2014 23:19
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I just dropped $225 on craigslist for a 45 lb olympic barbell and 395 lbs of iron weights, and another 65 on amazon for a flat bench to go with the squat rack I built last month out of wood and concrete (for 35 bucks). I neeeeeeeeded it, I have already outgrown the lovely weight set I got off of craigslist for $25 dollars. That bar was a hollow pipe I need real tools. Gotta get swole. I'm $350 into this hobby already and I think I'm pretty much set for the next year at this point. Least I'm gonna sell the lovely weight set to a friend of mine and get my $25 bucks back later this week. I'm good now right???  Edit: My poor civic didn't have any shocks left with all this nonsense in the trunk. 
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Sep 28, 2014 22:41
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The return on investment of those weights in health and fitness benefits is well worth what you paid. You get to use them basically forever since they'll never break. Awesome move.
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I did the math and it was like 50 cents a pound including the bar. And the bar is really nice. NO REGRETS.
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That's the equivalent of only 10 months' membership at a reasonably priced gym and they will likely last forever. Free weights are an awesome investment if you have the space.
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Pretty stoked y'all. We just paid off my wife's student loans in FULL using a combination of our funds. It hasn't quite sunk in yet but we are now absolutely debt free! Pretty good way to start off our marriage I'd say. Now I just need to figure out some sort of money generating hobby and I'll be even happier about our financial situation.
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Iron Lung posted:Pretty stoked y'all. We just paid off my wife's student loans in FULL using a combination of our funds. It hasn't quite sunk in yet but we are now absolutely debt free! Pretty good way to start off our marriage I'd say. Now I just need to figure out some sort of money generating hobby and I'll be even happier about our financial situation. Congratulations! Getting rid of student loan debt must be the best feeling ever, I love when people post about it because I'm getting closer and closer to paying mine off. Another congrats on the marriage 
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Sep 29, 2014 12:43
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The box of Stella hiding out makes that photo.
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Sep 29, 2014 13:03
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Nail Rat posted:The box of Stella hiding out makes that photo. Pretty sure that is Rotella.
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Nocheez posted:Pretty sure that is Rotella. Was looking at it very small on a phone, so couldn't tell. That's rather disappointing.
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Nail Rat posted:The box of Stella hiding out makes that photo.  yeah it's rotella t motor oil. I use it in my motorcycle.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:I did the math and it was like 50 cents a pound including the bar. And the bar is really nice. Its hard to find stuff below $1 a pound around here, so you did a good job.
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Sep 29, 2014 23:23
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Just paid off the last of my student loans!
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Iron Lung posted:Pretty stoked y'all. We just paid off my wife's student loans in FULL using a combination of our funds. It hasn't quite sunk in yet but we are now absolutely debt free! Pretty good way to start off our marriage I'd say. Now I just need to figure out some sort of money generating hobby and I'll be even happier about our financial situation. crimedog posted:Just paid off the last of my student loans! Nice Job guys. Cross Post for the goals thread to keep people motivated to pay them off, here is my year so far: quote:On the big ole student loan goal we have paid $32,323 which is a principle reduction of $29,816. Based on minimum that we pay a month we will end up $1,500 over our goal of $35,000. drat do I hate student loans. My wife said she gets a monthly student loan payment to buy clothes or whatever once we knock them out, it is $1400 and I said sure you can!
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Gonna buy a $100 watch that I don't need in the US that sells for $350 here to help finance my vacation
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mobby_6kl posted:Gonna buy a $100 watch that I don't need in the US that sells for $350 here to help finance my vacation If you can buy something for x then sell it for 3.5x then you should probably buy at least 10
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:I did the math and it was like 50 cents a pound including the bar. And the bar is really nice. I did this a year ago. We got a really great deal on weights, a power rack and a adjustable bench. The only issue was that the only place we had for all that was in our living room and it took up a ton of space. The good thing is that since you got such a good deal if you ever decide to quit/switch to a gym you'll get your money back or more. mobby_6kl posted:Gonna buy a $100 watch that I don't need in the US that sells for $350 here to help finance my vacation My wife and I financed her trip back to Peru by buying a couple laptops off newegg and then selling them for a premium to buyers (friends of friends) we lined up in her home country. Apparently electronics and games (especially games, which is why everyone pirates them out there) are really expensive in South America. Sephiroth_IRA fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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I bought this thing that will apparently let me hardboil and egg in the microwave. It was only like 15 bucks and had good reviews. edit: dbl post my bad. Sephiroth_IRA fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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I've got a friend who takes camera equipment when he travels and sells it on MercadoLibre in Chile. He's knowledgeable about what is good, and what's not, and makes over a grand of profit every time he goes. He mostly does it to pay for his ticket. When my brother went down to Peru recently, he stuck his Xbox 360 in his luggage, and sold it on Craigslist in Lima. The biggest issue (and the reason you could get taxed), is if the stuff you're carrying in looks brand new, in box, and they figure it is for resale. So you want to unpack/open things up, so you can pass them off as your own personal property.
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Just spent 3k on holiday flights home. gently caress YOU AIR CANADA. gently caress YOU. Upside is that I now have enough aeroplan points to fly to basically anywhere on Earth. Except Halifax, which costs 3x as many points as Nairobi. Sephiroth_IRA posted:I bought this thing that will apparently let me hardboil and egg in the microwave. It was only like 5 bucks and had good reviews. Good buy, hard boiling an egg on a stove is an intense culinary task of the highest difficulty, right up there with making rice and roasting potatoes. 
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Well, the scary thing is my wife has told me some horror stories about Lima so I always worry when she goes over there loaded down with expensive electronics. Thankfully she's lucky and her family is upper middle class so she's usually in a decent area or with friends.tuyop posted:Good buy, hard boiling an egg on a stove is an intense culinary task of the highest difficulty, right up there with making rice and roasting potatoes. No stove at work buddy   Also a microwave uses much less energy than the stove so the thing will pay for itself after a year
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I bought RT tickets to Chile earlier this month via https://www.exploretrip.com . That site is pretty barebones. They do not hold your hand. But apparently it's legit. The prices were better than I could find on Kayak (or any of the other sites), and I spent like 3 days trying to buy tickets. Kayak/Orbitz would show a rate, and I'd go through the entire checkout process, including entering my CC number, and then they'd say the fare was no longer available. Did this repeatedly for multiple fares. I was even trying to buy more expensive ones, until I found out about exploretrip. They have some bad reviews, but I think it's people who try to change their trip and are upset about getting charged, or they don't understand how this process works. Explore Trip pretty much just gives you your ticket numbers via email, and that's all they'll do. You have to check in with the airlines.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:... Yeah, same poo poo here. The only problem is I don't have anyone lining up for the watch yet. So there's a bit of a risk, but I'm sure it'll sell eventually and with a margin like that I have some headroom. I'd buy 10 of them but then I'd be risking getting busted at the customs  .
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Man that egg thing is pretty sweet. I put in a little water, added 4 eggs, shoved it in the microwave, walked away for 8 minutes, browsed the Internet, ding, and blammo 4 perfect hard boiled eggs.
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Oct 2, 2014 22:53
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Man that egg thing is pretty sweet. I put in a little water, added 4 eggs, walked away for 8 minutes, browsed the Internet, ding, and blammo 4 perfect hard boiled eggs. Which one did you get? I'm now interested. Please don't ridicule me. 
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http://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Ware-Microwave-Egg-Boiler/dp/B0007M2BN0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412287890&sr=8-2&keywords=egg+microwave
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:http://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Ware-Microwave-Egg-Boiler/dp/B0007M2BN0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412287890&sr=8-2&keywords=egg+microwave This has opened my mind to the eggcelent world of eggzotic cookware! I feel like my thoughts were so scrambled before. Imma-let the whole world know about this.
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Sounds cool but the only time I'd use it (despite eating lots of eggs) is when I make deviled eggs. Which is almost never. Also, couldn't you just put some eggs in a tupperware container with water instead?
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They explode.
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Thanks, I'm buying one. For some reason I thought the microwave made things rubbery. It may have been from a childhood experiment when I tried to make a fried egg in the microwave, blegh. I hate messing around boiling water, so I'm getting this.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:They explode. You mean they eggsplode, right?
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eggxactly. I love egg yolks. edit: just make sure to check the wattage of your microwave and compare that to the instructions. I think adding an extra 30 seconds made the second batch a little better.
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I requested my CC limit to be raised (no debt, just want to put more on it to get more rewards) and they're allowed to raise it only by 25% every 3 months or something like that  When first getting it they asked me directly how much I wanted and I certainly could've requested way more based on my income.
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mobby_6kl posted:I requested my CC limit to be raised (no debt, just want to put more on it to get more rewards) and they're allowed to raise it only by 25% every 3 months or something like that I get calls a couple of times a year to literally double or triple my credit limits. I usually say yes. "Sir you have the aspire minimum smart infinite no fee visa black ice platinum with a credit limit of $1500. We see that you're eligible for a credit increase of $8000. Can I put that through for you?" "Yeah, that's hilarious but why not! Better utilization ratio!" I think at this point we have more than our annual income in available credit. Should we worry about this at all?
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Mobby_6kl: if you don't have a good rewards cards, then just get another credit card. If you like your card then I'd just put reminders up every 3 months to continue requesting increases. You may be able to escalate to get a bigger increase as well. Tuyop: the only potential issue I know of is that the same bank may not be willing to give you another credit card if you're into the sign up bonus game. You can get around this by calling them up and moving the limits between cards though.
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