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As someone's whose tried salt water aquariums and even cooked a puffer fish because of a lovely thermostat in a cold house, there's no comparison to horses. It's expensive, but not hopelessly expensive and it's far easier to get out of fish ownership than horse ownership. Plus get to enjoy your aquarium all the time rather than driving a hour out to the country every other weekend to glaze wistfully upon your equine equity. Also, don't have tanks with more water than you're prepared to have leak all over your floor.
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But can you throw a fish wedding?
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No less so than a horse wedding
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Depending on your type of fish, they eat their young. Guppies are good with money.
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Pureauthor posted:Is there a worse pet than horses in terms of being BWM? Well, there are these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzb2yq6XYY If you ever want a new derail bird, you might look into the palm cockatoo. It looks like something you'd see if Hot Topic opened up a pet store.
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Krispy Kareem posted:glaze wistfully upon your equine equity I know that's what I do with my horse.  
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So are there wifi-capable fishtanks that will text you when your expensive fish dies, or is that an untapped market? e: And after searching, of course there are. In fact, it probably makes way more sense with fish than horses because you could even solve the issue remotely. At least you could use an IP camera to get the full enjoyment of looking at your fish from wherever you are. I'm sure that would be a cool screensaver. Teeter fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Teeter posted:So are there wifi-capable fishtanks that will text you when your expensive fish dies, or is that an untapped market? Makes sense that there'd be apps. A readout on Temp + Ph + Salinity + Dissolved oxygen with alerts on allowable levels seems like a no-brainer.
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Uncle Enzo posted:Makes sense that there'd be apps. A readout on Temp + Ph + Salinity + Dissolved oxygen with alerts on allowable levels seems like a no-brainer.
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Here's one I don't think we've seen in this thread before:What to do about my 9.990% piano loan? posted:
In the comments it is clarified that this guy is not a professional musician and does not use this piano to make any income.
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Guinness posted:Here's one I don't think we've seen in this thread before: What an idiot. Why didn't he just buy the piano straight up cash? Yes, pay it off with your savings, idiot. Save yourself $111/month.
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Guinness posted:Here's one I don't think we've seen in this thread before:
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Yea, pianos are terrible to move, a lot of professional movers won't even move them. You have to get a mover that will bother with it, and there is usually a special surcharge. Doing it properly, even on a small upright, requires more people and special equipment. The smallest pianos still weigh 300lbs or so. I have no idea what people even do if they have a grand piano, I assume you just roll it out the window to kill someone and call it done. Also once you move a piano you have to get someone out to tune it, and then retune it again in a couple weeks after it has settled. Musical instruments are often BWM but pianos are noteworthy because they're a headache to even get rid of.
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Ashcans posted:Yea, pianos are terrible to move, a lot of professional movers won't even move them. You have to get a mover that will bother with it, and there is usually a special surcharge. Doing it properly, even on a small upright, requires more people and special equipment. The smallest pianos still weigh 300lbs or so. I have no idea what people even do if they have a grand piano, I assume you just roll it out the window to kill someone and call it done. Dedicated piano movers who hire a crane, pull a permit to block the street, and lift that sucker into your Manhattan apartment.
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Ashcans posted:Yea, pianos are terrible to move, a lot of professional movers won't even move them. You have to get a mover that will bother with it, and there is usually a special surcharge. Doing it properly, even on a small upright, requires more people and special equipment. The smallest pianos still weigh 300lbs or so. I have no idea what people even do if they have a grand piano, I assume you just roll it out the window to kill someone and call it done.
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H110Hawk posted:Dedicated piano movers who hire a crane, pull a permit to block the street, and lift that sucker into your Manhattan apartment. This, my parents hired a piano mover seperate from the regular mover last time they moved. I've also heard that pool tables are simialrly complex to move.
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crazypeltast52 posted:This, my parents hired a piano mover seperate from the regular mover last time they moved. I've also heard that pool tables are simialrly complex to move.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Look at these plebs. Get some real specialized moving challenges like grandfather clocks. What are you talking about, I just toss grandfather clocks into the back of the wagon. Usually five or more of them.
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DarkHorse posted:What are you talking about, I just toss grandfather clocks into the back of the wagon. Clocks. We're talking about clocks.
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Ashcans posted:Yea, pianos are terrible to move, a lot of professional movers won't even move them. You have to get a mover that will bother with it, and there is usually a special surcharge. Doing it properly, even on a small upright, requires more people and special equipment. The smallest pianos still weigh 300lbs or so. I have no idea what people even do if they have a grand piano, I assume you just roll it out the window to kill someone and call it done. At least good quality (non piano) musical instruments hold their value pretty well. My French horn is worth pretty much what it was bought for when I was in high school, probably a little more.
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DarkHorse posted:What are you talking about, I just toss grandfather clocks into the back of the wagon. Clocks and a few kegs of pickles. Then just go for it. I like the way you think. Pool tables arent bad. Remove sides and pockets. Take the slate off. Take legs off. Throw in in truck.
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My parents have a piano inherited from my great-grandfather, who I never met. He bought it off a man in a bar for $50 in cash. The guy showed up at their door later that day, with a friend, carrying a piano, knocked on the door and informed my great-grandmother (she was the only one home) that he'd arrived with her piano. Great-grandpa hadn't been home yet, so she had no idea what the hell was going on, and somehow didn't send this man offering a "free piano" away. GWM, because the piano totally fell off the back of a truck. Also GWP, I guess, since the piano is still in good shape and, as far as I can tell, sounds really nice. I wonder how many pianos that guy sold that way.
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quote:I'm (hopefully) starting a new job soon, for which I'm going to have to buy a car, and since I know the bank will definitely lend me the cash for this, I was thinking about asking them to (significantly) increase the size of the loan, so I could buy a really good upright (I've outgrown the cheap thing I currently practice on).
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H110Hawk posted:Dedicated piano movers who hire a crane, pull a permit to block the street, and lift that sucker into your Manhattan apartment. In Boston there's a company that does this called "Deathwish Piano Movers" that also moves all sorts of giant heavy expensive stuff. I can only imagine how much that it costs to hoist a piano out of one apartment and into another. edit re: music expenses. My best friend from high school plays cello, and she did a study abroad program in Chile in college, and she had to purchase a second airplane ticket for her $8k cello.
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A lot of times a piano can't be moved. When they built a new school in my city, the piano for the music room went in before they put the walls up, and there is no way it can be removed without knocking them down.
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Konstantin posted:A lot of times a piano can't be moved. When they built a new school in my city, the piano for the music room went in before they put the walls up, and there is no way it can be removed without knocking them down. The senior prank when I graduated was some students leading a piano in to the main building and on to the top floor. Apparently pianos refuse to go down stairs, or at least that's my understanding of it.
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Konstantin posted:A lot of times a piano can't be moved. When they built a new school in my city, the piano for the music room went in before they put the walls up, and there is no way it can be removed without knocking them down. Have a cup of tea
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Moneyball posted:The senior prank when I graduated was some students leading a piano in to the main building and on to the top floor. Apparently pianos refuse to go down stairs, or at least that's my understanding of it. We used to paint pianos with '1' '2' & '4' and let them loose in the main building.
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spog posted:We used to paint pianos with '1' '2' & '4' and let them loose in the main building. One time I was watching my neighbor's piano for the weekend and I gave it chocolate and it died. I was so worried but when they came back the Mom slipped me an extra $20 and said she'd been trying to get rid of the thing for years.
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What are some BFC approved hobbies? I am afraid that my $50/month gym membership is going to be considered a felony here.
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JohnGalt posted:What are some BFC approved hobbies? Part time jobs.
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JohnGalt posted:What are some BFC approved hobbies? I am afraid that my $50/month gym membership is going to be considered a felony here. Budgeting.
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Whatever makes you happy as long as it works in to a reasonable budget relative to your income level. Poker night, indoor rock climbing, gang bangs, etc. It's all good. If you're oil magnate wealthy, owning tigers and horses is fine. But if you have to charge a bull, it's probably a bad idea.
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JohnGalt posted:What are some BFC approved hobbies? I am afraid that my $50/month gym membership is going to be considered a felony here. I do some hobby blacksmithing using pieces of metal I pick up off the side of the road, using charcoal I made myself from discarded pallets I fished out of dumpsters. I do buy things related to that hobby from time to time though, so it's definitely BWM. BFC-Approved Hobby: Working a second job and using the money to buy index funds
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JohnGalt posted:What are some BFC approved hobbies? I am afraid that my $50/month gym membership is going to be considered a felony here. Being healthy is good with money, because you will require fewer medical treatment expenses. However, living longer can be bad with money, because you will need to save more for retirement if you live too long.
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JohnGalt posted:What are some BFC approved hobbies? I am afraid that my $50/month gym membership is going to be considered a felony here. I think the only fully sanctioned BFC hobby is numismatics, with an eye for volume, not rarity or condition. The ideal case is to have one of every serial number.
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$50/month for a gym membership isn't that bad when I have friends who pay $200/month and additional parking fees to work out in a gym/club that doesn't even have a bball court. Don't go to gyms that have valets ya'll.
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At a recent get together, a sort-of-friend was going on about how excited she was to get a "discount" at some crossfit gym. The discounted rate was $175/mo. Apparently it's normally almost $250. Not even some fancy pants high end gym, just your typical warehouse-turned-crossfit place. And she's a public school teacher, so not exactly rolling in disposable income. Crossfit people are insane.
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GWM: Own and operate a crossfit gym.
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WampaLord posted:GWM: Own a
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