If you want to purify your alcohol, ie: clean up the taste a bit, you should just use your brita filter at the end of the distillation line. (sometimes doing it a second or third time can help even more).
1. Put it in the mouse's belt at Chuck E Cheese
2.Hang it out your window and see if anyone climbs up the side of your house
3.Sell it for $1
4. Get a month’s subscription to a magazine with it and get a half of a page.
I'll think of some...
Yeah, I'm not sure who that was aimed at either, but generally let people have their say.
On another topic: Zorcy, I don't know who you are, but I want to say thanks for your contributions on this thread. This page is a lot more useful than it would have been without your comments along the way. Thank you!
It can hardly be blamed if some people choose to believe it is something else. I use it frequently as a starting point in research, and for that, it's fantastic, but I would never dream of considering it factually authoritative, much less Truth with a capital T. Unlike most encyclopedias, you can refer to the discussion page and edit history to help figure out how much credit to give its text.
The ability to trace edit sources is a wonderful tool, although, like every other Wikipedia tool, it provides only limited information. Guest @49 gives a very interesting list of edit sources, but no explanation for why, on some, s/he says "someone at" the edit source, while on others, s/he omits that qualifier. In fact, all that Wikipedia Scanner can say about ALL of those edits is that they were done by "someone at" the source. Whether the edits were authorized by the corporation, organization, Congressperson, White House, etc. is anybody's guess.
Dislike of an edit source isn't evidence of authorized editing, or of false content in the edit either. Wal-mart's claims about its workforce are definitely going to be biased, but so will the claims of the Retail Clerks Union. Proof of bias is not proof of falsehood. It just tells you to be skeptical, which any sensible researcher already is.
Anonymous Troll @39 has a curious plan for what to teach our children about debate: do it politely and factually, unemotionally correcting errors of fact or faulty logic, and then beat up the liars - presumably those who do not agree with your factual recital or logic lesson - and get them expelled from school or removed from their families for appropriate re-education.
That's more than a little different from the rules of debate I learned. A society that "violently silence liars" (with the government presumably getting to choose who wears that label) sounds like one that Stalin, Saddam, Castro or Pol Pot would be quite at home in. O tempora o mores!
I must have missed a post, as to where that came from. I have re-read what I wrote to be sure it was not directed to me. It does not help the post, but everyone has a say, I guess.
Have the people cheering ever heard of universal default?
If you lose a job, it is very likely you will be late on one or more payments (medical bills, mortgage, etc.) If you are late on *any* of these payments, the credit card can and will jack your interest rate way up *immediately* (without giving you 30 days' notice). This is actually in the fine print of your contract.
So suddenly that balance you are carrying is drawing 25% or more in interest. Great. If you're only making minimum payments, your balance will snowball through the magic of compound interest. Meanwhile, you're socking the money you should be using to pay down that balance into a savings account, where it will be earning less than 1%. Do you see where this is going? Do I see bankruptcy in your future?
Yes, of course you should have a big emergency fund. But to rack up credit card debt to do it? Bad idea.
Sadly, there may come a time when you've exhausted all your funds and have no choice but to pay the minimum on cc just to eat. I hope this doesn't happen to you, and it certainly isn't a "strategy".
Suze is such bad news. Now all those Oprah viewers will be taking the part of her advice that they like: make minimum payments. But they will miss or ignore the big picture.
Thanks, Kelja! Figuring out how to win--even if you don't have all the advantages that some other people have--is exactly the topic of this post. (Aside from one off-topic sentence that seems to have gotten all the attention.)
I've never had any problems with freecycle, so I really believe it may be a better solution. I've given away and recieved items there. I've never used craigslist for freebies, but then again I don't live near a bigger city.
as someone kept flagging them as inappropriate within a few hours of posting. I went on the forums and asked for advice in wording it and even then it kept getting flagged.
I have the same problem with freecycle- resellers are sitting by the computers all day sniping everything of value before people with real needs who have jobs or other responsibilities can put their requests in. there's no way to verify who's asking... maybe an authentication system of some sort would help....
Hey there is always an exception to the rule.But there are a lot of companies that pull that junk.I was very bitter when they did it to me because i gave my company plenty of blood ,sweat and tears.I could`nt even tell you how many free hrs they recievd from me.Not to mention i held three store sales records in 3 differant locations.The problem came when the last store i worked,started comen up short.When the paperwork did`nt jive.2 assistants were transferred.And when they thought the time was ideal they fired me,then said i quit.Talk about a bunch of ingreats taking a gamble that i was a thief.AFTER 6 years of no major money problems.I hope they collapse! lol some days your the dog some days your the tree!
I posted a story below (as a guest)I had a company do the same thing to me.I waited (what seemed like forever)for my benifits then they paid me a little finally.Then they held it up again.I COULD`NT BELIEVE IT!!!I ended up winning.But just another sad story of the big guy playing the bully!I hope you win.Matter of fact if he was laid off,what they will eventually do is call in both sides and ask questions.If you have any documents or witnesses,i recommend you line all that up now.In my case the company never even showed up to the hearing.Talk about showin an appreciation for an employee that worked on a salery of 40hrs a week and did about 65hrs a week!!
This happened to me.I was a reatail manager for 6 years with 1 company.In that time i missed 1 day.To make a long story short.I could`nt make it in on time 1 day,to open the store.Although there was another employee there to open the store,my supervisor fired me.I believe i was fired because they were haveing money problems & thought it was me.So i applied for unemployment and low and behold....They said i quit!!They stalled and stalled on my money.Until finally i told the so called mediator that i was calling the attorney general if this matter is`nt resolved.They called both sides in to ask questions
and the employer never even showed.So in short there are companies that stall as long as they can because they are hopeing you will find something else,so they won`t have to give you a dime.Good luck.I am sure in the end when the truth comes out you will recieve the money you deserve.
I heard a story on NPR a while back about people who were using flagging to eliminate the competition. In the story, the people doing the flagging were "ladies of the night"--ironic that they were using the feature as a business tool when it was created to help filter out just the types services they are trying to sell.
When I used Craigslist to give away something, all I want is for that item to be gone. I don't care who takes it, just please take it.
One experience: had a big, heavy weight exercise machine. Tried to sell it but no buyers. Put it in for free with a picture and the phone immediately started ringing. Must have had 30 calls within the first hour. Some wanted me to deliver (no dice); some wanted it to be perfect; everyone else said they would be by to pick it up. One person finally showed up. I told him he would be responsible to get it out of my back yard into his borrowed panel truck. I feigned a bad back. He huffed & puffed and nearly had a heart attack. I ended up taking it apart for him and helping him get it into the truck. (Didn't want him dying on my driveway!)
Interesting that people are trying to scavenge off a system like Craigslist. Let's hope they are aware of the situation and doing something about it. Thanks for the heads-up.
This all is compounded by promotions or added responsibilities that either don't come with a salary increase or the work load vs. the flat salary is not in balance.
People mistakenly assume being on salary rather than hourly is great. Many times if you take your salary and divide by the hours your actually working people get a horrible wake up call. They find that they are working for peanuts. People can be working mid level professional jobs but they are making the hourly wage of someone working the check out line at Target.
So a promotion that comes with a small salary bump but a considerable jump in expectations and hours but in might actually put you at a disadvantage.
Thank you for being honest about taxes. So many people online post their techniques for making some extra money and when you ask them about taxes, they look like a deer caught in the headlights and stammer about how they didn't think they had to report it because they didn't make enough. This after they tell you how much you can make.
It is not difficult to operate a side business. Keep records of what you paid and what you sold items for as well as miles driven to book sales and the post office, postage, shipping materials, etc. to offset a portion of profit and report your earnings on Schedule C and SE (the latter if you made $400 or more profit in the year.)
It's not too difficult to make some money, as you describe, and it is none to difficult to do so honestly and correctly either, if one is of a mind to do so.
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5. Use it as a change of bedding for your pet gerbil
If you want to purify your alcohol, ie: clean up the taste a bit, you should just use your brita filter at the end of the distillation line. (sometimes doing it a second or third time can help even more).
Cheers!
I made up some!
1. Put it in the mouse's belt at Chuck E Cheese
2.Hang it out your window and see if anyone climbs up the side of your house
3.Sell it for $1
4. Get a month’s subscription to a magazine with it and get a half of a page.
I'll think of some...
Tape trick worked like a charm on a cyan cartridge for an old Brother MFC 5100C
I may never have to buy a color cartridge again since I only print in black with this printer.
Thanks for the tip-
...but the writer is just about ready for one!
Yeah, I'm not sure who that was aimed at either, but generally let people have their say.
On another topic: Zorcy, I don't know who you are, but I want to say thanks for your contributions on this thread. This page is a lot more useful than it would have been without your comments along the way. Thank you!
It can hardly be blamed if some people choose to believe it is something else. I use it frequently as a starting point in research, and for that, it's fantastic, but I would never dream of considering it factually authoritative, much less Truth with a capital T. Unlike most encyclopedias, you can refer to the discussion page and edit history to help figure out how much credit to give its text.
The ability to trace edit sources is a wonderful tool, although, like every other Wikipedia tool, it provides only limited information. Guest @49 gives a very interesting list of edit sources, but no explanation for why, on some, s/he says "someone at" the edit source, while on others, s/he omits that qualifier. In fact, all that Wikipedia Scanner can say about ALL of those edits is that they were done by "someone at" the source. Whether the edits were authorized by the corporation, organization, Congressperson, White House, etc. is anybody's guess.
Dislike of an edit source isn't evidence of authorized editing, or of false content in the edit either. Wal-mart's claims about its workforce are definitely going to be biased, but so will the claims of the Retail Clerks Union. Proof of bias is not proof of falsehood. It just tells you to be skeptical, which any sensible researcher already is.
Anonymous Troll @39 has a curious plan for what to teach our children about debate: do it politely and factually, unemotionally correcting errors of fact or faulty logic, and then beat up the liars - presumably those who do not agree with your factual recital or logic lesson - and get them expelled from school or removed from their families for appropriate re-education.
That's more than a little different from the rules of debate I learned. A society that "violently silence liars" (with the government presumably getting to choose who wears that label) sounds like one that Stalin, Saddam, Castro or Pol Pot would be quite at home in. O tempora o mores!
+1 ...this article needs a beer.
This was well written, concise and full of timely information. Thanks for showing me how I can make some extra money during this economic slump!
Donna
An article I wrote on how to answer these stupid questions the way you always want to answer them.
http://www.examiner.com/x-3040-Minneapolis-Life-in-the-Cubicle-Examiner~...
I must have missed a post, as to where that came from. I have re-read what I wrote to be sure it was not directed to me. It does not help the post, but everyone has a say, I guess.
Have the people cheering ever heard of universal default?
If you lose a job, it is very likely you will be late on one or more payments (medical bills, mortgage, etc.) If you are late on *any* of these payments, the credit card can and will jack your interest rate way up *immediately* (without giving you 30 days' notice). This is actually in the fine print of your contract.
So suddenly that balance you are carrying is drawing 25% or more in interest. Great. If you're only making minimum payments, your balance will snowball through the magic of compound interest. Meanwhile, you're socking the money you should be using to pay down that balance into a savings account, where it will be earning less than 1%. Do you see where this is going? Do I see bankruptcy in your future?
Yes, of course you should have a big emergency fund. But to rack up credit card debt to do it? Bad idea.
Sadly, there may come a time when you've exhausted all your funds and have no choice but to pay the minimum on cc just to eat. I hope this doesn't happen to you, and it certainly isn't a "strategy".
Suze is such bad news. Now all those Oprah viewers will be taking the part of her advice that they like: make minimum payments. But they will miss or ignore the big picture.
Thanks, Kelja! Figuring out how to win--even if you don't have all the advantages that some other people have--is exactly the topic of this post. (Aside from one off-topic sentence that seems to have gotten all the attention.)
I've never had any problems with freecycle, so I really believe it may be a better solution. I've given away and recieved items there. I've never used craigslist for freebies, but then again I don't live near a bigger city.
as someone kept flagging them as inappropriate within a few hours of posting. I went on the forums and asked for advice in wording it and even then it kept getting flagged.
I have the same problem with freecycle- resellers are sitting by the computers all day sniping everything of value before people with real needs who have jobs or other responsibilities can put their requests in. there's no way to verify who's asking... maybe an authentication system of some sort would help....
Hey there is always an exception to the rule.But there are a lot of companies that pull that junk.I was very bitter when they did it to me because i gave my company plenty of blood ,sweat and tears.I could`nt even tell you how many free hrs they recievd from me.Not to mention i held three store sales records in 3 differant locations.The problem came when the last store i worked,started comen up short.When the paperwork did`nt jive.2 assistants were transferred.And when they thought the time was ideal they fired me,then said i quit.Talk about a bunch of ingreats taking a gamble that i was a thief.AFTER 6 years of no major money problems.I hope they collapse! lol some days your the dog some days your the tree!
I posted a story below (as a guest)I had a company do the same thing to me.I waited (what seemed like forever)for my benifits then they paid me a little finally.Then they held it up again.I COULD`NT BELIEVE IT!!!I ended up winning.But just another sad story of the big guy playing the bully!I hope you win.Matter of fact if he was laid off,what they will eventually do is call in both sides and ask questions.If you have any documents or witnesses,i recommend you line all that up now.In my case the company never even showed up to the hearing.Talk about showin an appreciation for an employee that worked on a salery of 40hrs a week and did about 65hrs a week!!
This happened to me.I was a reatail manager for 6 years with 1 company.In that time i missed 1 day.To make a long story short.I could`nt make it in on time 1 day,to open the store.Although there was another employee there to open the store,my supervisor fired me.I believe i was fired because they were haveing money problems & thought it was me.So i applied for unemployment and low and behold....They said i quit!!They stalled and stalled on my money.Until finally i told the so called mediator that i was calling the attorney general if this matter is`nt resolved.They called both sides in to ask questions
and the employer never even showed.So in short there are companies that stall as long as they can because they are hopeing you will find something else,so they won`t have to give you a dime.Good luck.I am sure in the end when the truth comes out you will recieve the money you deserve.
Freecycle is a good alternative to the Craigslist free section.
I heard a story on NPR a while back about people who were using flagging to eliminate the competition. In the story, the people doing the flagging were "ladies of the night"--ironic that they were using the feature as a business tool when it was created to help filter out just the types services they are trying to sell.
When I used Craigslist to give away something, all I want is for that item to be gone. I don't care who takes it, just please take it.
One experience: had a big, heavy weight exercise machine. Tried to sell it but no buyers. Put it in for free with a picture and the phone immediately started ringing. Must have had 30 calls within the first hour. Some wanted me to deliver (no dice); some wanted it to be perfect; everyone else said they would be by to pick it up. One person finally showed up. I told him he would be responsible to get it out of my back yard into his borrowed panel truck. I feigned a bad back. He huffed & puffed and nearly had a heart attack. I ended up taking it apart for him and helping him get it into the truck. (Didn't want him dying on my driveway!)
Anyway, it's gone and I'm happy!
some think life's unfair and figure how to still win
others
think life's unfair and blame others.
Which one are you?
Interesting that people are trying to scavenge off a system like Craigslist. Let's hope they are aware of the situation and doing something about it. Thanks for the heads-up.
This all is compounded by promotions or added responsibilities that either don't come with a salary increase or the work load vs. the flat salary is not in balance.
People mistakenly assume being on salary rather than hourly is great. Many times if you take your salary and divide by the hours your actually working people get a horrible wake up call. They find that they are working for peanuts. People can be working mid level professional jobs but they are making the hourly wage of someone working the check out line at Target.
So a promotion that comes with a small salary bump but a considerable jump in expectations and hours but in might actually put you at a disadvantage.
Thank you for being honest about taxes. So many people online post their techniques for making some extra money and when you ask them about taxes, they look like a deer caught in the headlights and stammer about how they didn't think they had to report it because they didn't make enough. This after they tell you how much you can make.
It is not difficult to operate a side business. Keep records of what you paid and what you sold items for as well as miles driven to book sales and the post office, postage, shipping materials, etc. to offset a portion of profit and report your earnings on Schedule C and SE (the latter if you made $400 or more profit in the year.)
It's not too difficult to make some money, as you describe, and it is none to difficult to do so honestly and correctly either, if one is of a mind to do so.
Thanks.