willie-boy
The idea is to make it age like you would in a used, charred, oak barrel. Shave it, char it, soak in wine then dry. The drying part is optional. Now it will be as if you poured your alcohol in an old wine barrel to age.
While researching for ideas of the wine barrels, I came across this reason for not using red oak. For our usage, I think it should work just fine. And it seems Spanish Oak is stronger in flavours then the American Oak. That could be worth a try. Be careful not to over flavour it though.
"red oak has good flavor too, it just needs to be used in chip forms because red oak barrels leak." And "if I added a few (6-10) black peppercorns to my aging process I would get a new appreciation! I did and it worked very well,"
make all your pieces in your wardrobe mix-and-matchable. When you buy a new article of clothing on sale, ask yourself how many outfits you can make out of it with what's existing in your wardrobe and let that determine if it is a worthwhile purchase.
Your Dad really knows how to save for the rainy days. He had experience how to be broke during the great depression thus he does not want to experience it again. We, as the head of the family must know how to take of things in the house, from the smallest gadget to financial. I admire you dad as he really knows how to take care of his family. With your post, I remember my Dad who is just like your Dad. I miss him.
A degree in common sense and independent, clear, and logical thinking. Not really a degree and it won't directly get you a job, but it will help you make the right choices in following your dreams.
Do not, NOT, NOT!!! EVER eat pokeberries! IF you are very lucky, they will just go through you like a bottleful of liver pills (and you will have a THOUROUGHLY cleaned out digestive tract - which can take days to settle down). Pokeberries are used as a vegetable dye and will give a very nice red-purple color. I don't know how they are used for dye, but I was asked to bring some pokeberries back from a trip I was making anyway (MN to AR and back) and when I brought a sackful, the ojibwa acted as if I had brought gold to a miser, so I know it's good dye. My dad grew up during the Depression in the Ozarks, and learned how to hunt and gather anything that could be made edible, 'cause lots of times that was all they had to eat. I tried to get him to teach me all he knew, but got only a little. Try cooking poke (after 2 changes of water) with a little bacon or fatback, chopped fine, and some wild onion, then serving it with cider vinegar on the side, so it can be added to taste. GOOD STUFF.
Zorcy, the red wine bit?..............Should I soak the shavings in red wine, let them dry, and then char them? Or soak the entire block of oak in red wine, let it dry and use it to shave and char as required? Or even shave and char the untreated oak and then soak it in red wine before adding to the bottle? Have to admit, I'm a bit confused here!
All time best party game: Balloon stomp. Good for children of all ages, and is even more fun with adults. Each participant gets an air-filled balloon with a yard of string tied to it. The other end of the string gets tied around the ankle of the participant. On "Go" participants try to stomp balloons of others, while preventing his/hers from getting popped. Once a balloon is popped, that participant is out of the game. It is a totally hysterical game. It works better indoors, unless you have every soft grass, as things in grass can pop a balloon.
Last Halloween, my boyfriends family and I did a group costume. Were we all characters from Super Mario Brothers. Two of sisters were Mario and Luigi, one with red converse, red shirt, overalls, red baseball cap with an M painted on and of course a big fake mustache; the other in the same but green. The other sister was a Goomba, mushroom, which consisted of a big brown sweatshirt stuffed with pillows with eyes and a mouth glued on. I was a set of block which we made by gluing three boxes together and cutting a whole in the middle box and painting the whole thing like bricks. I wore a sky blue dress with clouds taped on it. The crowning glory if the whole thing was my boyfriend went as one of the green pipes. We used a hula hoop and draped green fabric over it and he had a flower on a stick. The whole mess of us was hilarious.
What about insurance? It is such a big part of life, and probably one of the biggest when it comes to chewing through the wallet. There are ways of going about it to save money though. Shopping around for cheaper quotes is one. Websites like this offer free quotes for insurance online.
By far, I think the most valuable apprenticeship/certificate to have would be one in plumbing. The average person has limited plumbing skills. When the plumbing backs up, you NEED a professional. There is no getting around it. Plumbing skills also are in demand in boom times during periods of constructions, but a plumber will do well in down times, too. No one will live with a stopped up toilet for long.
I must say that I am observing the changes and lately the most valuable degree is in Nursing and in Special Education especially specialization in Autism.
We're working on my student loans and also I have a rental property that is next on the list. So debt free is a little ways away for me. We've talked about what our goals are and so far we have early retirement and a vacation or retirement home. Because we're a little ways away, we haven't come to a final decision (early retirement is probably in the lead...), but it's fun and motivational to think about it now.
So this is great advice, but I wouldn't wait until being debt free to start planning. An easy way to do it is to think about "that payment" you're making and how long it would take you to save for something with that payment (retirement, savings, big-ticket). That motivates me to pay things off even sooner. I'm sick of paying Sallie Mae almost $6,000 per year when I could redirect that money somewhere else. I look at my son and think "wouldn't it be much better to be saving that money for him." Yes. Yes, it would.
Writing down our goals helps keep me motivated. I have "vacation home" written on a post-it above my desk at work (I don't have "early retirement" written on a post-it at work for obvios reasons....but I know it's there...).
I know your list of expenses to be covered by an emergency fund was not exhaustive, but you left off one of the most expensive: health insurance. If you lose your job, you need to figure out the cost of COBRA or private health insurance. Many people fail to account for that expense in establishing an emergency fund.
I understand that in the real world you have to play the game of looking just so in a business environment, but it is interesting to challenge that. One time I wore the same suit (jacket and skirt) two days in a row, though with a different blouse. Someone commented on it, and I responded, "If I was a man, would you have noticed?" How come we women are supposed to have so many different outfits... what is that about?
And while I completely appreciate how you can mix and match a small number of good pieces to make an endless number of outfits, it is interesting to challenge the underlying reason we feel we need to do this. Are we trying to fake out others that we are more affluent than we really are?
I do appreciate that some women just enjoy clothing, and so enjoy wearing a variety... this to me is valid. Most professional women accept the reality that their work performance might be superficially judged by whether or not they wear the right uniform. I wish it wasn't so, but economic reality requires that most women feel they must play a long with the game.
Other than that, however, I question why women feel a need to wear variety... why we feel we feel we can't be seen wearing the same dress at more than one party. Are we afraid others will think we are poor? Men don't care.
With all frugality choices, to an extent we are "frugality evangelists." When we openly challenge the social norm, we make it easier for others to make frugal choices. If someone comments on me wearing the same clothes often, I smile and say, "This is my favorite shirt, I got it at a yard sale and just love it. So I wear it a lot."
080610
Very nice start. Sounds like a solid go already. By the time I read your post, you may have already started to distill. Hope you save a little living yeast for next time. Hope you have finished and ready to taste by the time you read my post today. Lets hear the great news.
Still waiting for someone to post how they did on a large scale. Something along the lines of a commercial size trash can, 55 gallon, with a tight lid. That will be my next step. I may add a large tap to the bottom to pull the wash off from it. About 6 inches from the bottom so as not to pull up dead yeast.
Why can't the CDs or DVDs be made in a casing like they used to make Minidiscs? Coz no matter how careful you are, the disks get scratched sooner or later. I have cassette tapes that have outlasted most of my CDs because they are in a casing. Sometimes I think it's a ploy by content makers to make us keep buying new disks of their same old stuff.
Thanks to the post's authors for disclosing that they wrote a book that bashes the very idea of owning a car. No, I haven't read the book, but the synopsis is on their website. And contains an egregious grammar mistake in the third line.
Catherine and Anne (I assume you're reading this), if your car-buying decision has progressed to the point where you're visiting the dealership, the only reason you'd want to bring another person along would be to help negotiate. (Well, that and you'd need someone to drive your old car home.) You say it's better to take a woman to the dealership than a man, but you don't say a word about whether Mom or Dad would negotiate better. Frankly, if you bring any other person to the dealership - other than a cold, seasoned negotiator - you're already ceding ground. Do the smart thing and read this instead: bit.ly/CYCFree
"Chris should have never walked alone through the auto dealer's doors...because he is a man." I'm going to write something similar for my blog, only changing the sexes of each person in the post, and see how long it takes before someone calls me a chauvinist pig.
One year we had a lego party where we pulled out all the legos for the games. 1) Lego Charades: assign things for the kids to build, give a time limit, and see who can guess what it was 2) Drop the lego in the jar (3 different sized spouts) 3)Work in teams to build the tallest tower that will stand in 5 minutes 4)Guess how many legos are in the jar. Of course free building with the legos was a great way to entertain the boys while we waited for everyone to arrive. The party was a great hit!
ING Direct's Orange Checking account charges very little for overdrafts. I go below zero i just pay 7.5% interest on the overdraft amount. It's more of a "loan on demand" rather than a "fee generating service". I never worry about bouncing a check. The fees amount to pennies for my typical overdrafts. Much, much better than getting charged $35 for the "convenience" of overdraft protection.
Finding honest people to work with online is just like finding them offline. Knowing that you are good and honest will lead you to like minded people to work with, and when you find them, you simply hang on to that lead...it is sorta like making new friends when you move to a new area. Work from home is a wonderful option, even better when it is your own business, and you can work for yourself.
willie-boy
The idea is to make it age like you would in a used, charred, oak barrel. Shave it, char it, soak in wine then dry. The drying part is optional. Now it will be as if you poured your alcohol in an old wine barrel to age.
While researching for ideas of the wine barrels, I came across this reason for not using red oak. For our usage, I think it should work just fine. And it seems Spanish Oak is stronger in flavours then the American Oak. That could be worth a try. Be careful not to over flavour it though.
"red oak has good flavor too, it just needs to be used in chip forms because red oak barrels leak." And "if I added a few (6-10) black peppercorns to my aging process I would get a new appreciation! I did and it worked very well,"
I was just pouring some ketchup yesterday and thinking "I could make something like this" so may well give your recipe a whirl.
I think honey will be my corn syrup substitute and if it's any good I will report back.
I use it with my iPhone now. I love this app, too!
It seems like if you are really PASSIONATE about something, you wouldn't have to look too hard for it.
make all your pieces in your wardrobe mix-and-matchable. When you buy a new article of clothing on sale, ask yourself how many outfits you can make out of it with what's existing in your wardrobe and let that determine if it is a worthwhile purchase.
Your Dad really knows how to save for the rainy days. He had experience how to be broke during the great depression thus he does not want to experience it again. We, as the head of the family must know how to take of things in the house, from the smallest gadget to financial. I admire you dad as he really knows how to take care of his family. With your post, I remember my Dad who is just like your Dad. I miss him.
A degree in common sense and independent, clear, and logical thinking. Not really a degree and it won't directly get you a job, but it will help you make the right choices in following your dreams.
Do not, NOT, NOT!!! EVER eat pokeberries! IF you are very lucky, they will just go through you like a bottleful of liver pills (and you will have a THOUROUGHLY cleaned out digestive tract - which can take days to settle down). Pokeberries are used as a vegetable dye and will give a very nice red-purple color. I don't know how they are used for dye, but I was asked to bring some pokeberries back from a trip I was making anyway (MN to AR and back) and when I brought a sackful, the ojibwa acted as if I had brought gold to a miser, so I know it's good dye. My dad grew up during the Depression in the Ozarks, and learned how to hunt and gather anything that could be made edible, 'cause lots of times that was all they had to eat. I tried to get him to teach me all he knew, but got only a little. Try cooking poke (after 2 changes of water) with a little bacon or fatback, chopped fine, and some wild onion, then serving it with cider vinegar on the side, so it can be added to taste. GOOD STUFF.
Zorcy, the red wine bit?..............Should I soak the shavings in red wine, let them dry, and then char them? Or soak the entire block of oak in red wine, let it dry and use it to shave and char as required? Or even shave and char the untreated oak and then soak it in red wine before adding to the bottle? Have to admit, I'm a bit confused here!
All time best party game: Balloon stomp. Good for children of all ages, and is even more fun with adults. Each participant gets an air-filled balloon with a yard of string tied to it. The other end of the string gets tied around the ankle of the participant. On "Go" participants try to stomp balloons of others, while preventing his/hers from getting popped. Once a balloon is popped, that participant is out of the game. It is a totally hysterical game. It works better indoors, unless you have every soft grass, as things in grass can pop a balloon.
Ironically, if I won the lottery I would want a piece of you too. :p
I would hire a lawyer, accountant, and financial advisor to watch after my new loot.
Then I would hire an additional lawyer, accountant, and financial advisor to look after the first three.
Then I would probably shoot all six as I would just know they were all in cahoots against me.
What was the question?
Last Halloween, my boyfriends family and I did a group costume. Were we all characters from Super Mario Brothers. Two of sisters were Mario and Luigi, one with red converse, red shirt, overalls, red baseball cap with an M painted on and of course a big fake mustache; the other in the same but green. The other sister was a Goomba, mushroom, which consisted of a big brown sweatshirt stuffed with pillows with eyes and a mouth glued on. I was a set of block which we made by gluing three boxes together and cutting a whole in the middle box and painting the whole thing like bricks. I wore a sky blue dress with clouds taped on it. The crowning glory if the whole thing was my boyfriend went as one of the green pipes. We used a hula hoop and draped green fabric over it and he had a flower on a stick. The whole mess of us was hilarious.
What about insurance? It is such a big part of life, and probably one of the biggest when it comes to chewing through the wallet. There are ways of going about it to save money though. Shopping around for cheaper quotes is one. Websites like this offer free quotes for insurance online.
By far, I think the most valuable apprenticeship/certificate to have would be one in plumbing. The average person has limited plumbing skills. When the plumbing backs up, you NEED a professional. There is no getting around it. Plumbing skills also are in demand in boom times during periods of constructions, but a plumber will do well in down times, too. No one will live with a stopped up toilet for long.
I must say that I am observing the changes and lately the most valuable degree is in Nursing and in Special Education especially specialization in Autism.
We're working on my student loans and also I have a rental property that is next on the list. So debt free is a little ways away for me. We've talked about what our goals are and so far we have early retirement and a vacation or retirement home. Because we're a little ways away, we haven't come to a final decision (early retirement is probably in the lead...), but it's fun and motivational to think about it now.
So this is great advice, but I wouldn't wait until being debt free to start planning. An easy way to do it is to think about "that payment" you're making and how long it would take you to save for something with that payment (retirement, savings, big-ticket). That motivates me to pay things off even sooner. I'm sick of paying Sallie Mae almost $6,000 per year when I could redirect that money somewhere else. I look at my son and think "wouldn't it be much better to be saving that money for him." Yes. Yes, it would.
Writing down our goals helps keep me motivated. I have "vacation home" written on a post-it above my desk at work (I don't have "early retirement" written on a post-it at work for obvios reasons....but I know it's there...).
I know your list of expenses to be covered by an emergency fund was not exhaustive, but you left off one of the most expensive: health insurance. If you lose your job, you need to figure out the cost of COBRA or private health insurance. Many people fail to account for that expense in establishing an emergency fund.
I understand that in the real world you have to play the game of looking just so in a business environment, but it is interesting to challenge that. One time I wore the same suit (jacket and skirt) two days in a row, though with a different blouse. Someone commented on it, and I responded, "If I was a man, would you have noticed?" How come we women are supposed to have so many different outfits... what is that about?
And while I completely appreciate how you can mix and match a small number of good pieces to make an endless number of outfits, it is interesting to challenge the underlying reason we feel we need to do this. Are we trying to fake out others that we are more affluent than we really are?
I do appreciate that some women just enjoy clothing, and so enjoy wearing a variety... this to me is valid. Most professional women accept the reality that their work performance might be superficially judged by whether or not they wear the right uniform. I wish it wasn't so, but economic reality requires that most women feel they must play a long with the game.
Other than that, however, I question why women feel a need to wear variety... why we feel we feel we can't be seen wearing the same dress at more than one party. Are we afraid others will think we are poor? Men don't care.
With all frugality choices, to an extent we are "frugality evangelists." When we openly challenge the social norm, we make it easier for others to make frugal choices. If someone comments on me wearing the same clothes often, I smile and say, "This is my favorite shirt, I got it at a yard sale and just love it. So I wear it a lot."
080610
Very nice start. Sounds like a solid go already. By the time I read your post, you may have already started to distill. Hope you save a little living yeast for next time. Hope you have finished and ready to taste by the time you read my post today. Lets hear the great news.
Still waiting for someone to post how they did on a large scale. Something along the lines of a commercial size trash can, 55 gallon, with a tight lid. That will be my next step. I may add a large tap to the bottom to pull the wash off from it. About 6 inches from the bottom so as not to pull up dead yeast.
Why can't the CDs or DVDs be made in a casing like they used to make Minidiscs? Coz no matter how careful you are, the disks get scratched sooner or later. I have cassette tapes that have outlasted most of my CDs because they are in a casing. Sometimes I think it's a ploy by content makers to make us keep buying new disks of their same old stuff.
Thanks to the post's authors for disclosing that they wrote a book that bashes the very idea of owning a car. No, I haven't read the book, but the synopsis is on their website. And contains an egregious grammar mistake in the third line.
Catherine and Anne (I assume you're reading this), if your car-buying decision has progressed to the point where you're visiting the dealership, the only reason you'd want to bring another person along would be to help negotiate. (Well, that and you'd need someone to drive your old car home.) You say it's better to take a woman to the dealership than a man, but you don't say a word about whether Mom or Dad would negotiate better. Frankly, if you bring any other person to the dealership - other than a cold, seasoned negotiator - you're already ceding ground. Do the smart thing and read this instead: bit.ly/CYCFree
"Chris should have never walked alone through the auto dealer's doors...because he is a man." I'm going to write something similar for my blog, only changing the sexes of each person in the post, and see how long it takes before someone calls me a chauvinist pig.
Nice piece. Your Dad would be proud.
(By the way, your Dad reminds me a lot of my Grampa.
One year we had a lego party where we pulled out all the legos for the games. 1) Lego Charades: assign things for the kids to build, give a time limit, and see who can guess what it was 2) Drop the lego in the jar (3 different sized spouts) 3)Work in teams to build the tallest tower that will stand in 5 minutes 4)Guess how many legos are in the jar. Of course free building with the legos was a great way to entertain the boys while we waited for everyone to arrive. The party was a great hit!
ING Direct's Orange Checking account charges very little for overdrafts. I go below zero i just pay 7.5% interest on the overdraft amount. It's more of a "loan on demand" rather than a "fee generating service". I never worry about bouncing a check. The fees amount to pennies for my typical overdrafts. Much, much better than getting charged $35 for the "convenience" of overdraft protection.
Finding honest people to work with online is just like finding them offline. Knowing that you are good and honest will lead you to like minded people to work with, and when you find them, you simply hang on to that lead...it is sorta like making new friends when you move to a new area. Work from home is a wonderful option, even better when it is your own business, and you can work for yourself.