Obviously it's different for everyone, but I personally splurge from time to time on clothes. I save so much that I figure it won't kill me to spend a few hundred every few months on building up a nice-looking wardrobe. In fact, it's kind of an investment in that the nicer-looking clothes will present a more professional appearance and help in career advancement. I also think it's ok to splurge on the holidays, especially buying gifts for others. I think allowing my frugality to affect myself is ok, but I'm not going to give loved ones "cheap" gifts.
In the past, we had a huge list of people to buy for and put it all on the CC. It would take a year to pay off....This year, I know that I have scaled my list down to my immediate family, a sister and my doctor. The gifts will be practical but frugal (clothing) and healthy (fruit or restaurant card). I pay with cash. With a major job loss and other surprises, I just can't shop much. DH spends his own money on his immediate family and I have a feeling it will be frugal as well. He uses the CC.
I had brand new tire 7 years old. After 2 or 3 month on 160kmh front one was exploded, car roll over 6 times, 2 people dead. Insurance refused pay, my car was absolutely destroyed . Now, when tire 6 years old, I change them.
i bought an apple care for a mac mini 2011 on eBay in
09/21/11 but the product is useless, i couldn't register the apple care because apple wants the original receipt from an apple or authorized reseller. I contacted the seller four times with no succeed. Please be careful when you buy apple care from eBay, ask first if the seller have the original receipt.
A favourite of mine (apart from green - lovelovelove) is white tea and camomile tea together in the same pot. It's really good if your camomile is not of the best quality and tastes slightly bitter, because the white tea softens the taste.
Bestmark is also a scam. They've changed their policies so much it's almost impossible to get full compensation. The most you can hope for is reimbursement when you have to front the money. I shopped for them for years with no problem but they've gotten greedy over the last year. Many of my mystery shopping friends have had issues with them as well. They started out with good intentions.
Dude, I have one word for you: Fluevogs. They never wear out. I am currently wearing a pair I bought in 1995. I buy one pair every other year. This summer I took 6 pairs to the shoe repair guy in town to have them resoled and cleaned to the tune of $46. Even the heels are comfortable. They are mega-expensive (The starting price is usually 200 bucks) but well, well worth it. Fluevog fans tend to be fanatical about them. Particularly good if you like classic shoes with an interesting twist and your foot is not narrow.
Thanks for your comment! I am now going to experiment with making a low-fat lemon mousse to stir into the plain yogurt. I love lemon anything.
P.S.: Your parkas are beautiful!
The Alameda Repair Shop says that gasoline starts to go bad after 30 days and that additives are of little use. Use fresh gasoline and dump the remaining gas into your car, when its time to refuel get fresh gas. (The current gasolines contain ethanal which absorbs water and dirt as it ages) Store your mower in a dry place and not where the weather can affect it. Most mowers will last over 30 years if serviced, used and stored properly.
Yay Phillip--kudos to you for your bravery! I find this season both saddening and amazing. I grew up reading The Nation, Z Magazine, Mother Jones, etc and was a founding member of the Green Party of California so in many ways none of this is surprising. I find it amazing that it took this long for people to wake up and smell the unfairness. I remember trying to organize people in the early 90s and in truth trying to live sustainably and reminding people that we went to war for oil just wasn't sexy enough in the late 80s and early 90s. No one cared. Oh, the old burned out sixties people cared, but my generation ? The Gen-Xers? No thanks.
And then you know there was that Wall that came down and a self congratulatory America. We won the Cold War! Communism bad! Capitalism good! We Americans were still here so we must have been doing it the right way...
But you know---if you subscribe to the idea (as I do) that everything is interconnected then of course everything is interconnected. You can't live a sustainable life in an unsustainable world. You can't continually blame people for being not as smart as you are and use that as justification for why they are suffering and you are not. This is what happens now.
Time and time again we know from our very first experience as a child with media and marketing that we live in a cultural that is trying to sell us the lives we are supposed to live. Every once in awhile and for some of us all the time, we buy into the ideals. So many of us bought into homeownership, and many of us bought into higher education, many of us bought into insurance plans and many of us bought into professions that were to take us great places. These illusions of grandeur didn't come out of thin air. The 99% did not invent these things---the 1% did. I see absolutely nothing wrong with the 99% exclaiming that the gig is up and that they are wise to this now.
It's disingenuous at least and criminal at best for the 1% of the wealthiest people in the nation (and the media outlets that they own) to pretend not to connect the dots.
It's entirely too simplistic to make this into a media talking point game of who is a communist and who loves America BS. A basic English 101 class would tell you that those are complete red herrings.
Our first step of recovery? Realizing that when the Berlin Wall fell and communism as we the West knew it , fell---we should have realized that that was also the beginning of our end too. The 21st century hopefully will bring us to a new place. The Greens used to have a saying: "We are neither left, nor right. We are in front." There is a truth to this. I think the 99% are fed up with the left or right rhetorical nonsense. For all intents and purposes we have just a right and a center anyhow. What the 99% are looking for is fairness and a new direction ---something that actually takes people --real live people with real lives to be lived--into account.
Remember to start saving up a few months before christmas starts and start looking around at gifts. When they go on sale, you then buy. Don't waste last minute.
Why not bring outsourced jobs back to America by penalizing companies that do it or offer incentives for those that do. I know the international community would not like it, but I care more about us than them at this point.
I will be joining you in a tv-free lifestyle shortly... Our TV is about to die and I'm preparing myself and my wife for the adjustment ahead. Excellent ideas as always Wise Bread!
Rereading the article, I don't think I made any kind of value judgement about Midwesterners. I was born and raised here myself. I was simply pointing out how different parts of the country have slightly different aesthetics and trends can be regional at times. Thanks for the comment, but no hate towards the Midwest here!
Hi,
I recently bought the friday the 13th 8 disc dvd boxset (noty bluray). They are all region 2 (Pal) dics. I have a Samsung bd-d5300 bluray player, which is region 4. Now wierdly enough part 1+2 worked perfectly fine without any problems, but i have tried to play parts 3-8 and none of them will work. I have tried the region change techniques listed for my player but i don't seem to get any response and i have no idea why? It would be very much appreciated if there is any extra advice someone could give me or different code change technique i could try as i really want to try and avoid selling this boxset!?!?
I am part of the 99% and I don't want something for nothing. I've worked hard all of my life and I just want the chance to compete for a job. The problem is that the jobs aren't currently available and companies have no motivation to open positions and hire new workers.
The government wants consumers to spend money to drive the economy but our wages haven't increased (or in my case, have been cut to ZERO by being laid-off) so our necessities are taking a larger portion of our paycheck. The 1% is who they should ask to start spending their money, not us!
Obviously it's different for everyone, but I personally splurge from time to time on clothes. I save so much that I figure it won't kill me to spend a few hundred every few months on building up a nice-looking wardrobe. In fact, it's kind of an investment in that the nicer-looking clothes will present a more professional appearance and help in career advancement. I also think it's ok to splurge on the holidays, especially buying gifts for others. I think allowing my frugality to affect myself is ok, but I'm not going to give loved ones "cheap" gifts.
Yes I know it.
In the past, we had a huge list of people to buy for and put it all on the CC. It would take a year to pay off....This year, I know that I have scaled my list down to my immediate family, a sister and my doctor. The gifts will be practical but frugal (clothing) and healthy (fruit or restaurant card). I pay with cash. With a major job loss and other surprises, I just can't shop much. DH spends his own money on his immediate family and I have a feeling it will be frugal as well. He uses the CC.
I had brand new tire 7 years old. After 2 or 3 month on 160kmh front one was exploded, car roll over 6 times, 2 people dead. Insurance refused pay, my car was absolutely destroyed . Now, when tire 6 years old, I change them.
i bought an apple care for a mac mini 2011 on eBay in
09/21/11 but the product is useless, i couldn't register the apple care because apple wants the original receipt from an apple or authorized reseller. I contacted the seller four times with no succeed. Please be careful when you buy apple care from eBay, ask first if the seller have the original receipt.
A favourite of mine (apart from green - lovelovelove) is white tea and camomile tea together in the same pot. It's really good if your camomile is not of the best quality and tastes slightly bitter, because the white tea softens the taste.
Definitely, Meg. I forgot to add that breathing deeply helps too, or simply lying down.
Bestmark is also a scam. They've changed their policies so much it's almost impossible to get full compensation. The most you can hope for is reimbursement when you have to front the money. I shopped for them for years with no problem but they've gotten greedy over the last year. Many of my mystery shopping friends have had issues with them as well. They started out with good intentions.
Dude, I have one word for you: Fluevogs. They never wear out. I am currently wearing a pair I bought in 1995. I buy one pair every other year. This summer I took 6 pairs to the shoe repair guy in town to have them resoled and cleaned to the tune of $46. Even the heels are comfortable. They are mega-expensive (The starting price is usually 200 bucks) but well, well worth it. Fluevog fans tend to be fanatical about them. Particularly good if you like classic shoes with an interesting twist and your foot is not narrow.
Ms. Wells,
Thank you!
Thanks for your comment! I am now going to experiment with making a low-fat lemon mousse to stir into the plain yogurt. I love lemon anything.
P.S.: Your parkas are beautiful!
The Alameda Repair Shop says that gasoline starts to go bad after 30 days and that additives are of little use. Use fresh gasoline and dump the remaining gas into your car, when its time to refuel get fresh gas. (The current gasolines contain ethanal which absorbs water and dirt as it ages) Store your mower in a dry place and not where the weather can affect it. Most mowers will last over 30 years if serviced, used and stored properly.
I love my refurbished iPod -- that's one piece of technology where it just seems silly to me to buy new.
Does anybody else have experiences (good or bad) with buying refurbished?
Yay Phillip--kudos to you for your bravery! I find this season both saddening and amazing. I grew up reading The Nation, Z Magazine, Mother Jones, etc and was a founding member of the Green Party of California so in many ways none of this is surprising. I find it amazing that it took this long for people to wake up and smell the unfairness. I remember trying to organize people in the early 90s and in truth trying to live sustainably and reminding people that we went to war for oil just wasn't sexy enough in the late 80s and early 90s. No one cared. Oh, the old burned out sixties people cared, but my generation ? The Gen-Xers? No thanks.
And then you know there was that Wall that came down and a self congratulatory America. We won the Cold War! Communism bad! Capitalism good! We Americans were still here so we must have been doing it the right way...
But you know---if you subscribe to the idea (as I do) that everything is interconnected then of course everything is interconnected. You can't live a sustainable life in an unsustainable world. You can't continually blame people for being not as smart as you are and use that as justification for why they are suffering and you are not. This is what happens now.
Time and time again we know from our very first experience as a child with media and marketing that we live in a cultural that is trying to sell us the lives we are supposed to live. Every once in awhile and for some of us all the time, we buy into the ideals. So many of us bought into homeownership, and many of us bought into higher education, many of us bought into insurance plans and many of us bought into professions that were to take us great places. These illusions of grandeur didn't come out of thin air. The 99% did not invent these things---the 1% did. I see absolutely nothing wrong with the 99% exclaiming that the gig is up and that they are wise to this now.
It's disingenuous at least and criminal at best for the 1% of the wealthiest people in the nation (and the media outlets that they own) to pretend not to connect the dots.
It's entirely too simplistic to make this into a media talking point game of who is a communist and who loves America BS. A basic English 101 class would tell you that those are complete red herrings.
Our first step of recovery? Realizing that when the Berlin Wall fell and communism as we the West knew it , fell---we should have realized that that was also the beginning of our end too. The 21st century hopefully will bring us to a new place. The Greens used to have a saying: "We are neither left, nor right. We are in front." There is a truth to this. I think the 99% are fed up with the left or right rhetorical nonsense. For all intents and purposes we have just a right and a center anyhow. What the 99% are looking for is fairness and a new direction ---something that actually takes people --real live people with real lives to be lived--into account.
Remember to start saving up a few months before christmas starts and start looking around at gifts. When they go on sale, you then buy. Don't waste last minute.
Stretching helps for me sometimes too, such as doing a backbend over an exercise ball.
I am as well. I support them.
Why not bring outsourced jobs back to America by penalizing companies that do it or offer incentives for those that do. I know the international community would not like it, but I care more about us than them at this point.
It didn't work!
Oh well, at least it felt good.
I will be joining you in a tv-free lifestyle shortly... Our TV is about to die and I'm preparing myself and my wife for the adjustment ahead. Excellent ideas as always Wise Bread!
Rereading the article, I don't think I made any kind of value judgement about Midwesterners. I was born and raised here myself. I was simply pointing out how different parts of the country have slightly different aesthetics and trends can be regional at times. Thanks for the comment, but no hate towards the Midwest here!
Good call. I found that offensive as well. I'm from the 'Midwest' and still reside near Chicago.
Hi,
I recently bought the friday the 13th 8 disc dvd boxset (noty bluray). They are all region 2 (Pal) dics. I have a Samsung bd-d5300 bluray player, which is region 4. Now wierdly enough part 1+2 worked perfectly fine without any problems, but i have tried to play parts 3-8 and none of them will work. I have tried the region change techniques listed for my player but i don't seem to get any response and i have no idea why? It would be very much appreciated if there is any extra advice someone could give me or different code change technique i could try as i really want to try and avoid selling this boxset!?!?
My favorite chew toy is frozen bagles...
I am part of the 99% and I don't want something for nothing. I've worked hard all of my life and I just want the chance to compete for a job. The problem is that the jobs aren't currently available and companies have no motivation to open positions and hire new workers.
The government wants consumers to spend money to drive the economy but our wages haven't increased (or in my case, have been cut to ZERO by being laid-off) so our necessities are taking a larger portion of our paycheck. The 1% is who they should ask to start spending their money, not us!