I have three teenaged girls in my house. I have a rule that works well. If it's from the mall, they have to pay full price, if it's from the used clothing store, I pay 1/2. If it's from Goodwill/Salvation Army I buy it. Guess where my kids get their clothes? (They have been voted "best dressed" at their school!) They don't tell where they get their clothes, but are always asked!
I tried this with my Sony DVP-NS57P and after I entered 12450 enter my dvd door kept opening and closing and it would not stop until I unplugged it. Can you help? Thanks.
My grandmother, who grew up during the depression, almost never threw anything out. She used things, everything, until they had no possible further use. All leftovers were stored in Oleo containers. Bakery string was saved and used to secure Christmas wrapping- of the comic pages. Scraps of soap melted and fused together. Old stockings used to tie plants. You name it. You never unlearn those lessons, and I have benefitted greatly from all she taught me. My own daughter sleeps under a quilt that is made of all fabric squares taken from the previous three generations of mothers in our family. I have a quilt made from my grandma's clothes after she died. And eventually, when those wear out (we use things, we do not store), some of the pieces will become pot-holders. The women in our family have always taken pride in figuring out creative solution with what we already have. I once, driving home alone, hours away, at 1am in torrential rain, had the driver side wiper stop working. Pulled over, took off my pantyhose, and used it to tie the one wiper to the other, so when the passenger side moved, the driver side wiper followed suit. Worked like a charm! One of my proudest improvs!
We kept one credit card each locked away in the safe deposit box. Each month there's an automatic utility bill payment from each of the cards. Each month, we pay last month's credit card bill (which consists of last month's utility bill) off in full. Thus, we keep an active credit line without increasing our debt load or our monthly expenditures.
what do you think is the best for scratch remover? i guess that would be the involving big tools like the buffing machine. its the fastest, and most efficient. it can clear deep cut disc too.
I'm anti coffee, as you can see from one of my posts on rich people calling others cheap. That said, if I can be more organized and get it together with rewards points and coupons, oh how nice the savings would be!
Too bad I cherish my flexibility and last minute decisions too much!
""Quantitative easing" doesn't solve anything, as all you're doing is debasing the currency, which in turn makes everything more expensive (or depresses wages - same outcome) and that in turn means that purchasing power decreases, which means that forward economic activity decreases as well."
I'd guess the dear author has no children. In my experience, children are less expensive on a lifetime basis when they are born in late spring or summer.
Yes, you have to actually pay for the child for an extra few months during their first year as a tax deduction. In the long run however, you have to pay for daycare or preschool for an extra year if the child is born in the fall which dwarfs the savings associated with care of a newborn. In most areas, the child cannot start kindergarten unless they are 5 years old before September 1. If your child is born in the fall and misses the cut-off, you end up having to pay for another full year of childcare or preschool. This costs anywhere from $300 per month for an inexpensive part time preschool program to $15,000+ for full time day care in an accredited child care center.
(I suggest late spring as a cut-off date, because sometimes summer babies are not mature enough to start school immediately after their fifth birthday. The parents keep them out of school for an extra year so that they are in a better position to compete with peers.)
Further, parents have to support the children for an extra year, since the child is a year older when they finish college or other career prep program and finally flee the family nest.
The only people whom deflation is bad for are banks and housing speculators.
Deflation of house prices makes them affordable for us younger generations, or any of us outside the corporate C-suite.
"QE" is more orwellian coverup of what the banksters are really up to.
A) helping politicians kick painful decisions down the road, so they will be even more painful
B) theft of everyone's savings but making them all diluted (printing more money makes existing money worth less)
Instead of a fancy word, why not be forthright? The big banks are creating a bigger mess of currency to prop themselves up and delay the "day of reckoning."
Your article correctly points out that Massive Money Printing usually ends in tears for savers. Zimbabwe is a good example. So is Germany. The Japanese people are suffering due to the insane yen-carry trade. Only the big corporations, banks and elite are doing well in Japan.
Central banks SHOULD stop creating more debt. Debt is heroin, and I don't know of any addicts who benefit from more substance.
I’m mainly concerned about the Fed buying toxic assets-mortgages from those seeking to dump them on the American taxpayer, again. I know the Fed has sent billions to states already to keep them from defaulting, California being the biggest recipient so far. I also know they have purchased a worthless shopping mall in Oklahoma, and I want to know what other worthless assets they have purchased with the American Taxpayers’ money.
If the Fed is going to Peg their Balance Sheet to $2.054T, we need to add this debt to the national debt which is at $13.2T right now. According to http://tiny.cc/e5lac, the BEA.gov site shows our GDP at $14.597T, which means we are above 100% debt-to-GDP if you add $13.2T and $2.054T.
We need to stop this BS and take our medicine to get better. Pain now or pain later, the pain later is going to be much worse.
You can stop it any time and start to clear it. An advantage to stopping early would be the off yeast flavours you could pick up from leaving it dead yeast too long. To avoid that and keep it going, you can pull off the trub. That is the dead glob at the bottom. Put in a new container and let it keep going. This will stir it up a bit and kick of for a while longer from the agitation. You can taste it at this time, too. If you taste sweet, keep going. If it is dry, then add some more dissolved sugar and see if you can tweak out another % of alcohol. The hardest thing at this point, is patients. If this is your first batch, you want to stop and distill. If it is not sweet, then do that. Next time, you can have all the time in the world, and try to get more out of it.
Large vessel,
Not so much airtight, as just a tight lid. It is hard to get airtight in large sizes that are easy to get, like a trash can. The idea is to keep all germs out. Moonshiners in the states would leave the top open, allow flies to land, and use the natural yeast in the air to ferment. That is fine, but natural yeast is slow and has a low tolerance to alcohol. It would die out at a low %. Since we have really good yeast available to us, keep the competing micros out, and give the yeast a chance to do more work. If you can get a pickle barrel, you are in great luck. It holds fermented veggies, so fermented grains or sugar will make no difference is safety. You will need to clean, clean and re clean to get the smell out. When you think it is gone, you will smell it when you use it again anyways. I use pickle buckets from delis. It takes about 4 cleanings with bleach or oxyclean to make is smell descent. It takes about 4 uses with a chance to air out in the heat between each use, to really go away. Anything delicate you try to brew, will still pick up the smell\taste. Since you are distilling, it should be ok after you bleach it enough. Hot sunny days in a sweltering shed will help, with no lid. With the size, you will need a large air lock. May i suggest the screw hole in top, with an adapter, to a 1 inch hose, submerged in a bucket of water? If you can imagine, 5 gallons of active yeast, blowing the stopper off a 3/8 inch hole, image 11 times the volume working the yeast!
Looking at the craig post, buy 2!
Great article! I agree that many of us are caught up in a cycle of never ending consumerism. I've been on a personal quest to try and pare down my belongings and better separate needs from wants so that I'm spending less money each month. Plus, for money that I do have to spend, I use my credit union debit card. I get rewards points for purchases I make that I can use to bid on items. Quite unconventional, but it's great because my points rack up faster than my other credit card rewards program. Your readers should check them out: www.telesiscu.com
A guy posts on Craigslist every so often. He has black, 60 gallon food grade, used pickle barrels. They have a tight screw off lid. They smell like pickles on the inside. I wonder if they would work? Put a spigot about 6" from the bottom to avoid the dead yeast etc, and another on the very bottle for clean out. Zorcy, why did you say "airtight" when you were talking about a large batch? http://roanoke.craigslist.org/grd/1892256221.html
Per my missive the other day, my Zorcy yeast pre-kicked turbo yeast was cooking real strong for 3 days. 24 liters in a tub that measured 85 degrees, with a laser temp gun, in a room of 74 degrees. Day 4 it dropped to 78 degrees and the bubbles slowed down. At the beginning it was constant bubbles in my gallon jug airlock. The bubbling gradually slowed down. Day 6 a little burb every 3 seconds. Day seven every 4 seconds. My question: is there a law of diminishing returns? Should I just kill it with the "Kleer" product, or let it go? If let it go, how long?
I never heard of airbnb.com, it sounds like a great idea!
I think I'm missing out on the deal with the coupons! Yeah, I use a papa John's coupon whenever I get pizza, but I bet you save much more with on grocery bill than we do!
Be careful with the surprise thing. My husband asked how I wanted to spend my birthday and I had it all planned out, and then he and my parents thought I'd enjoy being surprised by being taken to do something completely different, which I really had no interest in. I think it would have been different if it was something I'd wanted to do for a while and had mentioned really wanting to do it, but instead they just assumed I'd like it.
I have recently come to this conclusion myself. There are some things I would like to buy but I always told myself I didn't have the money and to wait but then I would just blow my money on purchases that were 'in the moment' type things instead of the stuff I researched and decided to did want to purchase ahead of time. Now I figure if I buy the stuff I have actually been wanting I will spend less over all and be a lot happier.
Wow. I put this post in Google Translate for bureaucratic-to-English. It's still churning.
"Give every car on the road plenty of room. I think one car length for every 10mph of speed is good."
I think so too, but to do that in L.A. traffic I'd have to drive in reverse!
The "N" word is bad. But is calling someone a media whore any better? Just wondering
I have three teenaged girls in my house. I have a rule that works well. If it's from the mall, they have to pay full price, if it's from the used clothing store, I pay 1/2. If it's from Goodwill/Salvation Army I buy it. Guess where my kids get their clothes? (They have been voted "best dressed" at their school!) They don't tell where they get their clothes, but are always asked!
you can now get on-line Thayers organic witch hazel toners and astringents in the uk and europe from www.thayerswitchhazel.com
hope this helps
I tried this with my Sony DVP-NS57P and after I entered 12450 enter my dvd door kept opening and closing and it would not stop until I unplugged it. Can you help? Thanks.
My grandmother, who grew up during the depression, almost never threw anything out. She used things, everything, until they had no possible further use. All leftovers were stored in Oleo containers. Bakery string was saved and used to secure Christmas wrapping- of the comic pages. Scraps of soap melted and fused together. Old stockings used to tie plants. You name it. You never unlearn those lessons, and I have benefitted greatly from all she taught me. My own daughter sleeps under a quilt that is made of all fabric squares taken from the previous three generations of mothers in our family. I have a quilt made from my grandma's clothes after she died. And eventually, when those wear out (we use things, we do not store), some of the pieces will become pot-holders. The women in our family have always taken pride in figuring out creative solution with what we already have. I once, driving home alone, hours away, at 1am in torrential rain, had the driver side wiper stop working. Pulled over, took off my pantyhose, and used it to tie the one wiper to the other, so when the passenger side moved, the driver side wiper followed suit. Worked like a charm! One of my proudest improvs!
We kept one credit card each locked away in the safe deposit box. Each month there's an automatic utility bill payment from each of the cards. Each month, we pay last month's credit card bill (which consists of last month's utility bill) off in full. Thus, we keep an active credit line without increasing our debt load or our monthly expenditures.
what do you think is the best for scratch remover? i guess that would be the involving big tools like the buffing machine. its the fastest, and most efficient. it can clear deep cut disc too.
I'm anti coffee, as you can see from one of my posts on rich people calling others cheap. That said, if I can be more organized and get it together with rewards points and coupons, oh how nice the savings would be!
Too bad I cherish my flexibility and last minute decisions too much!
Best, Sam
Hey Xin, here's a great response to "QE" -
""Quantitative easing" doesn't solve anything, as all you're doing is debasing the currency, which in turn makes everything more expensive (or depresses wages - same outcome) and that in turn means that purchasing power decreases, which means that forward economic activity decreases as well."
http://market-ticker.org/archives/2575-To-DC-Waking-Up-Yet.html
Cheers,
kenao
I'd guess the dear author has no children. In my experience, children are less expensive on a lifetime basis when they are born in late spring or summer.
Yes, you have to actually pay for the child for an extra few months during their first year as a tax deduction. In the long run however, you have to pay for daycare or preschool for an extra year if the child is born in the fall which dwarfs the savings associated with care of a newborn. In most areas, the child cannot start kindergarten unless they are 5 years old before September 1. If your child is born in the fall and misses the cut-off, you end up having to pay for another full year of childcare or preschool. This costs anywhere from $300 per month for an inexpensive part time preschool program to $15,000+ for full time day care in an accredited child care center.
(I suggest late spring as a cut-off date, because sometimes summer babies are not mature enough to start school immediately after their fifth birthday. The parents keep them out of school for an extra year so that they are in a better position to compete with peers.)
Further, parents have to support the children for an extra year, since the child is a year older when they finish college or other career prep program and finally flee the family nest.
Yeah..groupon is pretty cool!
The only people whom deflation is bad for are banks and housing speculators.
Deflation of house prices makes them affordable for us younger generations, or any of us outside the corporate C-suite.
"QE" is more orwellian coverup of what the banksters are really up to.
A) helping politicians kick painful decisions down the road, so they will be even more painful
B) theft of everyone's savings but making them all diluted (printing more money makes existing money worth less)
Instead of a fancy word, why not be forthright? The big banks are creating a bigger mess of currency to prop themselves up and delay the "day of reckoning."
Your article correctly points out that Massive Money Printing usually ends in tears for savers. Zimbabwe is a good example. So is Germany. The Japanese people are suffering due to the insane yen-carry trade. Only the big corporations, banks and elite are doing well in Japan.
Central banks SHOULD stop creating more debt. Debt is heroin, and I don't know of any addicts who benefit from more substance.
I haven't worked at Starbucks, but yes, there is a smaller size, "Short". I have ordered it and seen other people order it too.
I’m mainly concerned about the Fed buying toxic assets-mortgages from those seeking to dump them on the American taxpayer, again. I know the Fed has sent billions to states already to keep them from defaulting, California being the biggest recipient so far. I also know they have purchased a worthless shopping mall in Oklahoma, and I want to know what other worthless assets they have purchased with the American Taxpayers’ money.
If the Fed is going to Peg their Balance Sheet to $2.054T, we need to add this debt to the national debt which is at $13.2T right now. According to http://tiny.cc/e5lac, the BEA.gov site shows our GDP at $14.597T, which means we are above 100% debt-to-GDP if you add $13.2T and $2.054T.
We need to stop this BS and take our medicine to get better. Pain now or pain later, the pain later is going to be much worse.
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You can stop it any time and start to clear it. An advantage to stopping early would be the off yeast flavours you could pick up from leaving it dead yeast too long. To avoid that and keep it going, you can pull off the trub. That is the dead glob at the bottom. Put in a new container and let it keep going. This will stir it up a bit and kick of for a while longer from the agitation. You can taste it at this time, too. If you taste sweet, keep going. If it is dry, then add some more dissolved sugar and see if you can tweak out another % of alcohol. The hardest thing at this point, is patients. If this is your first batch, you want to stop and distill. If it is not sweet, then do that. Next time, you can have all the time in the world, and try to get more out of it.
Large vessel,
Not so much airtight, as just a tight lid. It is hard to get airtight in large sizes that are easy to get, like a trash can. The idea is to keep all germs out. Moonshiners in the states would leave the top open, allow flies to land, and use the natural yeast in the air to ferment. That is fine, but natural yeast is slow and has a low tolerance to alcohol. It would die out at a low %. Since we have really good yeast available to us, keep the competing micros out, and give the yeast a chance to do more work. If you can get a pickle barrel, you are in great luck. It holds fermented veggies, so fermented grains or sugar will make no difference is safety. You will need to clean, clean and re clean to get the smell out. When you think it is gone, you will smell it when you use it again anyways. I use pickle buckets from delis. It takes about 4 cleanings with bleach or oxyclean to make is smell descent. It takes about 4 uses with a chance to air out in the heat between each use, to really go away. Anything delicate you try to brew, will still pick up the smell\taste. Since you are distilling, it should be ok after you bleach it enough. Hot sunny days in a sweltering shed will help, with no lid. With the size, you will need a large air lock. May i suggest the screw hole in top, with an adapter, to a 1 inch hose, submerged in a bucket of water? If you can imagine, 5 gallons of active yeast, blowing the stopper off a 3/8 inch hole, image 11 times the volume working the yeast!
Looking at the craig post, buy 2!
Great article! I agree that many of us are caught up in a cycle of never ending consumerism. I've been on a personal quest to try and pare down my belongings and better separate needs from wants so that I'm spending less money each month. Plus, for money that I do have to spend, I use my credit union debit card. I get rewards points for purchases I make that I can use to bid on items. Quite unconventional, but it's great because my points rack up faster than my other credit card rewards program. Your readers should check them out: www.telesiscu.com
LARGE VESSELS
A guy posts on Craigslist every so often. He has black, 60 gallon food grade, used pickle barrels. They have a tight screw off lid. They smell like pickles on the inside. I wonder if they would work? Put a spigot about 6" from the bottom to avoid the dead yeast etc, and another on the very bottle for clean out. Zorcy, why did you say "airtight" when you were talking about a large batch?
http://roanoke.craigslist.org/grd/1892256221.html
Who wants to live like a celebrity???
I sure don't. I'd like to have their money, though.
You can keep all the fame and all the problems that come with it...
Zorcy wannabee
Per my missive the other day, my Zorcy yeast pre-kicked turbo yeast was cooking real strong for 3 days. 24 liters in a tub that measured 85 degrees, with a laser temp gun, in a room of 74 degrees. Day 4 it dropped to 78 degrees and the bubbles slowed down. At the beginning it was constant bubbles in my gallon jug airlock. The bubbling gradually slowed down. Day 6 a little burb every 3 seconds. Day seven every 4 seconds. My question: is there a law of diminishing returns? Should I just kill it with the "Kleer" product, or let it go? If let it go, how long?
I never heard of airbnb.com, it sounds like a great idea!
I think I'm missing out on the deal with the coupons! Yeah, I use a papa John's coupon whenever I get pizza, but I bet you save much more with on grocery bill than we do!
Be careful with the surprise thing. My husband asked how I wanted to spend my birthday and I had it all planned out, and then he and my parents thought I'd enjoy being surprised by being taken to do something completely different, which I really had no interest in. I think it would have been different if it was something I'd wanted to do for a while and had mentioned really wanting to do it, but instead they just assumed I'd like it.
I agree with your article. Why should the people that were irresponsible get a handout?
I have recently come to this conclusion myself. There are some things I would like to buy but I always told myself I didn't have the money and to wait but then I would just blow my money on purchases that were 'in the moment' type things instead of the stuff I researched and decided to did want to purchase ahead of time. Now I figure if I buy the stuff I have actually been wanting I will spend less over all and be a lot happier.