Aww. My boyfriend's dad who has alzheimer's eats these. They are one of the few things he can eat by himself, without making messy (really, taking the mess out of PBJs is quite a feat!) But yeah, other than that and maybe toddlers eating without making a mess, I'd agree that these are a useless and overpriced invention.
If your heart's desire is not inside that gift-wrapped box, why hold onto something you clearly don't want if you know someone else could get much better use out of it? Isn't it showing more contempt to just leave that gift rotting in your basement?
For the FSA, you can't just allocate $3000, put in $1000, and walk away... that money WILL come out of your paycheck. You can't quit work and not pay it back.
Sorry folks. This is not frugal, it is not careful. It is just cheap and tacky. A gift is a special thing, and "reusing" a gift shows contempt for the person who gave to you and for the new recipient. By now we should all be to the point where we do not look for our heart's desire in a gift-wrapped box.
It is indeed the thought that counts, both that of the person who gave you the gift, and the person upon who you wish to pawn off unwanted goods.
Enjoy the fact that someone cared enough to give you a gift, and care enough to be thoughtful if you are giving a gift.
After the death of my wife of 26 years. I started thinking of trying something different. I taught school for 11 years in Voc. education and have a master plumbing lic. My kids are grown. I started I should sell my home and move on. At 49, I wonder is a hobo life is good way to clear my mind. Thanks
When we moved into our current home,a couple of years ago, we were given 6 months free rent in exchange for cleaning up the house (the former tenants had trashed it), cleaning out a small outer building, and a barn next to the house. The buildings were full of old cages, airconditioners, appliances, etc. My hubby and another male friend spent two weekends cleaning and salvaging. They took three trailers of "trash"(wiring, metal, scrap, cans) to the salvage yard and made over $700. We are moving out of the house now, and my hubby offered to clean out a 2nd barn on the property, in exchange for the final month's rent payment. He made over $400 at the recycling place. I was just shocked how much money was in old appliances, air conditioners, and scrap wire and metal. Right now the prices are sky high.
SO, offering to clean out someone's barn or storage area can be very profitable to both parties involved. They get a clean building, and you get bucks. Just a thought.
"PS- small caloric deficits created by walking more have NEVER been shown to be a long term solution to anyone's weight problem."
This summer I was housebound for four weeks because of a heatwave, so I stopped doing all the "small calorific deficit" stuff, such as walking up six flights of stairs daily, striding around the mall window-shopping every weekend, strolling to the convenience store down the road, etc. Really small stuff, that I assumed didn't make any difference to my health.
Guess what? I gained 10 pounds in four weeks, without even trying.
Hi Andrea,
Baby carrots get spoiled so easy that it didn't make any sense to me to buy them. That was the main reason why I don't buy them anymore.
Thank you so much for writing such an informative article!
Great tips but a key piece you are missing that underlies all of your suggestion is glucose control. Unless you are controlling your blood sugar levels, you can exercise and exercise and won't see great results in the first month or two of your program. Yes exercise helps your insulin sensitivity, but it takes some time to adapt. Also if you don't have adequate antioxidant status, exercise if done too harshly in the beginning can actually be damaging. I recommend cutting out refined flours and sugars for a few weeks and then starting a gradual walking program and moving up from there. When it comes to exercise, you need a balance of aerobic exercise and weight training (at least 50% of your max) and attempt when at all possible interval training where you vary the intensity of your workout within the actual workout (ex. walk 10 minutes, speed walk for a minute, walk 10 minutes). These are lifestyle changes so small changes are fine as long as they are permanent and you gradually ratchet up your goals.
I have been on and off unemployment for most of this year. I decided after the last lay off in April, April 1st to be exact, that I would go back to school in the fall. I had a couple things to get out of the way to get my financial aid and I had to get a waiver for unemployment. But now I am all set to go back to school next month. Check with your local unemployment one-stop center. See if they have a program for dislocated workers that will grant you money to go back to school. MI has a $5000 grant per year (2yr cap) through its WIA program (No Worker Left Behind)
Sometimes when a job market stalls, like for me in a small town in MI, the best thing is to go back to school. Look for the up and coming careers. Health care is a big one. I am 50 and going back to school. Been out of school since the 70's. If I am not to old to go back and learn new things, no one is.
My next door neighbor is a freelance fruit and vegetable picker from Mexico. He has no health insurance and simply goes to the
ER for all his medical needs. They even fixed his teeth and delivered his girlfriends baby. He has never paid for any of this. Unfortunately the hospital is closing down because it went bankrupt. No problem, he has just moved into another town and the hospital is only a few blocks away. Freelancing is the way to go.
I use the Locationbar extension. It makes the URL in the address bar clickable, so that you can click directly to the root homepage, or any subdomain between there, and the page you start on.
If you have the Firefox extension All-in-One Gestures, you can customize a gesture to "Go Up to parent directory/domain".
First it will trim off anything after the last slash, i.e. "http://mail.site.com/username/email5" would go to "http://mail.site.com/username/", then to "http://mail.site.com/". If you do the gesture one more time, it will finally go to "http://site.com".
I used to like Runescape, but only because my crush plays it. I actually find the game really boring, and it has no storyline to it. Does anyone agree with me?
Two words: Hula Hoop!
Oops, I meant for that to reply to the Smucker's product, not Blasters. Blasters are inherently a ripoff P.O.S.
Aww. My boyfriend's dad who has alzheimer's eats these. They are one of the few things he can eat by himself, without making messy (really, taking the mess out of PBJs is quite a feat!) But yeah, other than that and maybe toddlers eating without making a mess, I'd agree that these are a useless and overpriced invention.
If your heart's desire is not inside that gift-wrapped box, why hold onto something you clearly don't want if you know someone else could get much better use out of it? Isn't it showing more contempt to just leave that gift rotting in your basement?
Splenda is chlorinated sugar, produced useing a process that involves toulene (part of gasoline) and wood alcohol.
Not really something I would trust putting in my body.
I'll trust regular sugar, but try and limit it instead.
For the FSA, you can't just allocate $3000, put in $1000, and walk away... that money WILL come out of your paycheck. You can't quit work and not pay it back.
In addition to eBay and Craigslist, there's Freecycle:
http://www.freecycle.org/
Sorry folks. This is not frugal, it is not careful. It is just cheap and tacky. A gift is a special thing, and "reusing" a gift shows contempt for the person who gave to you and for the new recipient. By now we should all be to the point where we do not look for our heart's desire in a gift-wrapped box.
It is indeed the thought that counts, both that of the person who gave you the gift, and the person upon who you wish to pawn off unwanted goods.
Enjoy the fact that someone cared enough to give you a gift, and care enough to be thoughtful if you are giving a gift.
Go-gurt (or, Horizon Farms' version, which doesn't have high fructose corn syrup) is great frozen! Better for you than ice cream!
The best way to avoid having to regift items is to accept no gifts in the first place.
LOTRO so beats WoW in every aspect.
Runescape is one of the best F2P/P2P games there is. - Voted #1 Best FREE MMORPG
After the death of my wife of 26 years. I started thinking of trying something different. I taught school for 11 years in Voc. education and have a master plumbing lic. My kids are grown. I started I should sell my home and move on. At 49, I wonder is a hobo life is good way to clear my mind. Thanks
When we moved into our current home,a couple of years ago, we were given 6 months free rent in exchange for cleaning up the house (the former tenants had trashed it), cleaning out a small outer building, and a barn next to the house. The buildings were full of old cages, airconditioners, appliances, etc. My hubby and another male friend spent two weekends cleaning and salvaging. They took three trailers of "trash"(wiring, metal, scrap, cans) to the salvage yard and made over $700. We are moving out of the house now, and my hubby offered to clean out a 2nd barn on the property, in exchange for the final month's rent payment. He made over $400 at the recycling place. I was just shocked how much money was in old appliances, air conditioners, and scrap wire and metal. Right now the prices are sky high.
SO, offering to clean out someone's barn or storage area can be very profitable to both parties involved. They get a clean building, and you get bucks. Just a thought.
"PS- small caloric deficits created by walking more have NEVER been shown to be a long term solution to anyone's weight problem."
This summer I was housebound for four weeks because of a heatwave, so I stopped doing all the "small calorific deficit" stuff, such as walking up six flights of stairs daily, striding around the mall window-shopping every weekend, strolling to the convenience store down the road, etc. Really small stuff, that I assumed didn't make any difference to my health.
Guess what? I gained 10 pounds in four weeks, without even trying.
Hi Andrea,
Baby carrots get spoiled so easy that it didn't make any sense to me to buy them. That was the main reason why I don't buy them anymore.
Thank you so much for writing such an informative article!
Great tips but a key piece you are missing that underlies all of your suggestion is glucose control. Unless you are controlling your blood sugar levels, you can exercise and exercise and won't see great results in the first month or two of your program. Yes exercise helps your insulin sensitivity, but it takes some time to adapt. Also if you don't have adequate antioxidant status, exercise if done too harshly in the beginning can actually be damaging. I recommend cutting out refined flours and sugars for a few weeks and then starting a gradual walking program and moving up from there. When it comes to exercise, you need a balance of aerobic exercise and weight training (at least 50% of your max) and attempt when at all possible interval training where you vary the intensity of your workout within the actual workout (ex. walk 10 minutes, speed walk for a minute, walk 10 minutes). These are lifestyle changes so small changes are fine as long as they are permanent and you gradually ratchet up your goals.
I have been on and off unemployment for most of this year. I decided after the last lay off in April, April 1st to be exact, that I would go back to school in the fall. I had a couple things to get out of the way to get my financial aid and I had to get a waiver for unemployment. But now I am all set to go back to school next month. Check with your local unemployment one-stop center. See if they have a program for dislocated workers that will grant you money to go back to school. MI has a $5000 grant per year (2yr cap) through its WIA program (No Worker Left Behind)
Sometimes when a job market stalls, like for me in a small town in MI, the best thing is to go back to school. Look for the up and coming careers. Health care is a big one. I am 50 and going back to school. Been out of school since the 70's. If I am not to old to go back and learn new things, no one is.
Explore your horizons.
My next door neighbor is a freelance fruit and vegetable picker from Mexico. He has no health insurance and simply goes to the
ER for all his medical needs. They even fixed his teeth and delivered his girlfriends baby. He has never paid for any of this. Unfortunately the hospital is closing down because it went bankrupt. No problem, he has just moved into another town and the hospital is only a few blocks away. Freelancing is the way to go.
I use the Locationbar extension. It makes the URL in the address bar clickable, so that you can click directly to the root homepage, or any subdomain between there, and the page you start on.
Works pretty well.
If you have the Firefox extension All-in-One Gestures, you can customize a gesture to "Go Up to parent directory/domain".
First it will trim off anything after the last slash, i.e. "http://mail.site.com/username/email5" would go to "http://mail.site.com/username/", then to "http://mail.site.com/". If you do the gesture one more time, it will finally go to "http://site.com".
I, for one, will gladly take a repackaged clapper for my birthday, thank you very much.
I used to like Runescape, but only because my crush plays it. I actually find the game really boring, and it has no storyline to it. Does anyone agree with me?
Thanks! But...that's not as good as Runescape. Sorry.
Sorry, but that didn't work. Thanks anyways!
It's a cool idea, but you'd think websites would have links to their homepages on every page, no? :)