I have disccused quit a bit recently with my wife. I also asked my mother/brothers/sister if I were to go hunting would the eat the meat. I myself love venison, and would not mind having it on hand. but I think the hard part would be the hunt. The shooting/gutting of the animal. if i could have someone else do it for me that would be great.
I like Self, but it would cost me $30 a year to subscribe instead of the $8 for Americans. Seems like a rip-off to me. (Can't they find a Canadian distributor?)
Move to Barack Obama's Chicago, where we've not only decided to hike public transit fares for 2009, but the City Council just voted yesterday to hike parking meter rates 400 percent, eliminating free holiday, Sunday, and overnight parking. So start hoarding quarters! Oh and did I mention that the city's privatizing the meters? That the alderman were given 72 hours to consider a 75-year $1.0+ billion contract that will hit the poorest Chicagoans the hardest? Change you can believe in!
Back to the new meter rates. You'll need $1 for every hour. You can only put money for two hours into a meter. So if you parked overnight (when it's free) on a metered street before, get ready to set your alarm so you can wake up and go feed the meter every TWO hours. It's that or add to the congested side street parking. Parking downtown? Bend over, Obama and his butt buddies Dick Daley & Co. are gonna give it to ya good!
Did I mention that Chicago has the highest sales tax (11 percent) in America?
Hi, Beth. Isn't it funny that magazines seem to love the NuvaRing so much? I'm beginning to wonder how much of a kickback they are getting from big pharma.
Thanks for the tip, Paul. I actually really like Self - one of the few women's magazines that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye.
I love Self - I actually just filled out the form for the free subscription a couple weeks ago. And is it just me, or will it tell you that NuvaRing is right for you no matter what??
My family used to celebrate Christmas on Thanksgiving, because I had an older sister who was pregnant and due before Christmas. Driving was better/safer at Thanksgiving.
Now my family likes to celebrate Thanksgiving as a family. Unfortunately, I have a sister in retail, and she works that day (getting ready for Black Friday), so they moved it a week early.
I'm on the opposite coast, and we don't go back for Tgiving and Xmas. Every few years we forget why we don't, then we travel, and remember that it sucks.
We have to use parking meters every day @work - the only parking is either a metered garage or metered parking on the street. The County will only forgive ONE ticket per person - and since most people have been working here for years, everyone pretty much has had @least one ticket. And they've been writing tickets like crazy even though people have paid in many cases. McShady.
Moreover, they've also just extended the metered hours from 7am-10pm (was til 7pm).
"But if you see some old lady struggling to walk back to her car, and the meter has ran out, you can’t go topping it up to help her avoid a ticket. In NYC, these random acts of kindness obstruct official business. By adding money, you’re robbing the city of potential revenue."
Sure, I can help her out so she won't get a ticket. I really don't care if official business is obstructed for a few minutes, or if the city loses a few dollars because I put another quarter in the meter for someone who is physically struggling. Geez, I hope when I'm old and frail that someone would help me out if I needed it.
An old reliable is the little smokie sausages (beef or pork) wrapped in crescent dough browned in an oven... Easy to make, carry and reheat in a microwave at your destination... Great finger food for most any occasion... These go fast at a super bowl gathering... cheers
Count me as another big fan of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I didn't read them as a kid, but my wife and I have been taking turns reading them out loud to our children. I love them!
She can really convey the richness and delight the Ingalls family took in simple pleasures. And yes, the Christmas gifts really do throw our current consumerism into relief...
1) We're in this mess because we (individuals and the country as a whole) have been living way beyond our means. We consume too much and don't produce enough. This has been largely caused by the gov't itself (Fed, Fannie, Freddie, etc.) by making too much money too easily available (read: too much credit, too cheaply available). The chickens are now coming home to roost.
2) I'm afraid the fix is for the country to endure lots of pain and get off the credit merry-go-round, including the government. If you havn't noticed among all the talk about credit cards (individual debt), our gov't is the biggest debtor in the world. Individuals are going bankrupt but our gov't has been bankrupt for a long time now. Trying to fix this mess by creating MORE cheap credit will, at best, only push the problems further into the future when they will become even more severe. Individuals, companies and banks are rapidly "deleveraging" (read: reducing debt). Our gov't is still going in the opposite direction.
3) people talk about the "Global Crisis" but we seldom hear about the fact that we (the U.S.) are the cause.
4) A personal note: I've had an average-paying job all my working life (I'm now 65 and still working). My wife also worked for most of our married life. We bought our first house (after living in apartments for a couple of years) with 30% down payment and a 6% mortgage. We put 6 kids through private (read: expensive) secondary school without credit. We never bought a car using credit until just a month ago, and the reason we did that was that it would have been silly not to take their money for 3 years for free (0% interest) while our money sits in CDs earning money. We simply never had a new car. Never bought a car we couldn't afford.
We use credit cards a) for convenience and b) to get the cash back they give us. We never carry a balance and so never pay any interest. We realize we're not their favorite customers and the day they start charging us fees for not carrying a balance will be the day we dump the cards.
5) I'm sorry. As I re-read this post it really sounds like I'm crowing. My only intention is to try to point out what kind of excesses our gov't and many of our citizens have indulged in and what a different approach looks like. People like Dave Ramsey and other financial advice gurus recommend this kind of approach (Dave even recommends buying a house for cash!!).
Free parking isn't the answer. "Not driving" is the answer.
New York isn't New York because of its excellent parking. It's where the entire world wants to live because you can *walk* (or take transit) to everything.
If organic isn't REALLY organic, then why does the mlilk taste better? I've recently switched to organic milk because I did a comparison and noticed a significant differnce in taste. Also, when you leave it out of the fridge for awhile, it doesn't get the same off-taste as other milk. Why is that?
The big winners would potentially be investors in real estate that could rent out their homes for returns more than the interest rate they pay, but once again, these are people who already have money and do not need any help.
I disagree with this statement. Many people looking to buy investment property to rent out aren't rich. Instead, they own one or two 1-4 unit properties that make up a portion or all of their income. In my state (Louisiana), small-scale landlords make up at least 1/3 of the rental properties available. A 4.5% interest rate could help someone buy a property to supplement their income, for instance, a single mom who might be able to buy a condo to rent out so that she doesn't have to take a second job to support her family.
Personally, I'll be looking to buy a house (to live in) in the next year or so. This is a big incentive for me.
Whatever happened to letting people succeed or fail on their own? When did self-reliance become 'Un-American'? Everything the government is doing is distorting the marketplace and will cause the problem to get worse - not better.
Obama will become the new FDR and throw billions - excuuuuuse me, Trillions - into the problem. Read your history - FDR's misguided lurch to socialism greatly extended the length of the Great Depression. Unemployment was about the same in 1941 as it was in the early '30's. World War II finally ignited the economy.
How come so many have so much faith in those who run the grossly bloated government. Don't you realize the same people who caused the problem are the ones who are expected to solve the problem?
A meter maid was waiting next to a vehicle about to expire. My husband ran over and put a quarter in and was told it was illegal to do that. My husband said that it was his car and walked away. Crazy. The sad part is there are so many older folks in this area that it probably was one of them at the doctor's (medical center area).
Another time, he got a ticket for being over the "line". The reason he was over the line was because a police car was over the line behind him and he wanted to give him room to pull out.
It's a work situation so it's not like we have much of a choice with these crazy parking rules.
Yes, and I actually saw it on the show Jackass. They had a guy in a fairy costume going around putting quarters into expired meters. The meter maids were *pissed*. It seems ridiculous, but the city must make a lot of money on tickets to get so high-n-mighty about it.
And I really don't see the problem of using the leftover time of someone else. They paid for that much parking time, what's it matter if I use it? Me putting money into it too only extends the time for the next guy. I'm glad the town I live in doesn't have the zero-out meters.
Make sure your tags aren't expired. I don't park downtown too often and where I normally park and drive around there aren't a lot of cops checking. So, when I parked at a meter downtown, at a place where cops are constantly checking, I got a ticket because my tags were expired. So, make sure you don't make my mistake.
yay! thanks! i love self.
I have disccused quit a bit recently with my wife. I also asked my mother/brothers/sister if I were to go hunting would the eat the meat. I myself love venison, and would not mind having it on hand. but I think the hard part would be the hunt. The shooting/gutting of the animal. if i could have someone else do it for me that would be great.
I like Self, but it would cost me $30 a year to subscribe instead of the $8 for Americans. Seems like a rip-off to me. (Can't they find a Canadian distributor?)
Not for Canadians. Arrrrrgh. Thanks for letting us know anyways :) I like Self as well.
Andrea and Bethany: Just out of curiosity, are you talking about articles or advertising?
Move to Barack Obama's Chicago, where we've not only decided to hike public transit fares for 2009, but the City Council just voted yesterday to hike parking meter rates 400 percent, eliminating free holiday, Sunday, and overnight parking. So start hoarding quarters! Oh and did I mention that the city's privatizing the meters? That the alderman were given 72 hours to consider a 75-year $1.0+ billion contract that will hit the poorest Chicagoans the hardest? Change you can believe in!
Back to the new meter rates. You'll need $1 for every hour. You can only put money for two hours into a meter. So if you parked overnight (when it's free) on a metered street before, get ready to set your alarm so you can wake up and go feed the meter every TWO hours. It's that or add to the congested side street parking. Parking downtown? Bend over, Obama and his butt buddies Dick Daley & Co. are gonna give it to ya good!
Did I mention that Chicago has the highest sales tax (11 percent) in America?
Change you can believe in!
Hi, Beth. Isn't it funny that magazines seem to love the NuvaRing so much? I'm beginning to wonder how much of a kickback they are getting from big pharma.
Thanks for the tip, Paul. I actually really like Self - one of the few women's magazines that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye.
I love Self - I actually just filled out the form for the free subscription a couple weeks ago. And is it just me, or will it tell you that NuvaRing is right for you no matter what??
My family used to celebrate Christmas on Thanksgiving, because I had an older sister who was pregnant and due before Christmas. Driving was better/safer at Thanksgiving.
Now my family likes to celebrate Thanksgiving as a family. Unfortunately, I have a sister in retail, and she works that day (getting ready for Black Friday), so they moved it a week early.
I'm on the opposite coast, and we don't go back for Tgiving and Xmas. Every few years we forget why we don't, then we travel, and remember that it sucks.
We go back during the summer.
Thanks!
"Personally, I'll be looking to buy a house (to live in) in the next year or so. This is a big incentive for me."
Your probably trying to sell a house. Or you work for a bank.
We have to use parking meters every day @work - the only parking is either a metered garage or metered parking on the street. The County will only forgive ONE ticket per person - and since most people have been working here for years, everyone pretty much has had @least one ticket. And they've been writing tickets like crazy even though people have paid in many cases. McShady.
Moreover, they've also just extended the metered hours from 7am-10pm (was til 7pm).
"But if you see some old lady struggling to walk back to her car, and the meter has ran out, you can’t go topping it up to help her avoid a ticket. In NYC, these random acts of kindness obstruct official business. By adding money, you’re robbing the city of potential revenue."
Sure, I can help her out so she won't get a ticket. I really don't care if official business is obstructed for a few minutes, or if the city loses a few dollars because I put another quarter in the meter for someone who is physically struggling. Geez, I hope when I'm old and frail that someone would help me out if I needed it.
An old reliable is the little smokie sausages (beef or pork) wrapped in crescent dough browned in an oven... Easy to make, carry and reheat in a microwave at your destination... Great finger food for most any occasion... These go fast at a super bowl gathering... cheers
Carrie,
Count me as another big fan of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I didn't read them as a kid, but my wife and I have been taking turns reading them out loud to our children. I love them!
She can really convey the richness and delight the Ingalls family took in simple pleasures. And yes, the Christmas gifts really do throw our current consumerism into relief...
-Daniel
1) We're in this mess because we (individuals and the country as a whole) have been living way beyond our means. We consume too much and don't produce enough. This has been largely caused by the gov't itself (Fed, Fannie, Freddie, etc.) by making too much money too easily available (read: too much credit, too cheaply available). The chickens are now coming home to roost.
2) I'm afraid the fix is for the country to endure lots of pain and get off the credit merry-go-round, including the government. If you havn't noticed among all the talk about credit cards (individual debt), our gov't is the biggest debtor in the world. Individuals are going bankrupt but our gov't has been bankrupt for a long time now. Trying to fix this mess by creating MORE cheap credit will, at best, only push the problems further into the future when they will become even more severe. Individuals, companies and banks are rapidly "deleveraging" (read: reducing debt). Our gov't is still going in the opposite direction.
3) people talk about the "Global Crisis" but we seldom hear about the fact that we (the U.S.) are the cause.
4) A personal note: I've had an average-paying job all my working life (I'm now 65 and still working). My wife also worked for most of our married life. We bought our first house (after living in apartments for a couple of years) with 30% down payment and a 6% mortgage. We put 6 kids through private (read: expensive) secondary school without credit. We never bought a car using credit until just a month ago, and the reason we did that was that it would have been silly not to take their money for 3 years for free (0% interest) while our money sits in CDs earning money. We simply never had a new car. Never bought a car we couldn't afford.
We use credit cards a) for convenience and b) to get the cash back they give us. We never carry a balance and so never pay any interest. We realize we're not their favorite customers and the day they start charging us fees for not carrying a balance will be the day we dump the cards.
5) I'm sorry. As I re-read this post it really sounds like I'm crowing. My only intention is to try to point out what kind of excesses our gov't and many of our citizens have indulged in and what a different approach looks like. People like Dave Ramsey and other financial advice gurus recommend this kind of approach (Dave even recommends buying a house for cash!!).
Free parking isn't the answer. "Not driving" is the answer.
New York isn't New York because of its excellent parking. It's where the entire world wants to live because you can *walk* (or take transit) to everything.
If organic isn't REALLY organic, then why does the mlilk taste better? I've recently switched to organic milk because I did a comparison and noticed a significant differnce in taste. Also, when you leave it out of the fridge for awhile, it doesn't get the same off-taste as other milk. Why is that?
The big winners would potentially be investors in real estate that could rent out their homes for returns more than the interest rate they pay, but once again, these are people who already have money and do not need any help.
I disagree with this statement. Many people looking to buy investment property to rent out aren't rich. Instead, they own one or two 1-4 unit properties that make up a portion or all of their income. In my state (Louisiana), small-scale landlords make up at least 1/3 of the rental properties available. A 4.5% interest rate could help someone buy a property to supplement their income, for instance, a single mom who might be able to buy a condo to rent out so that she doesn't have to take a second job to support her family.
Personally, I'll be looking to buy a house (to live in) in the next year or so. This is a big incentive for me.
Whatever happened to letting people succeed or fail on their own? When did self-reliance become 'Un-American'? Everything the government is doing is distorting the marketplace and will cause the problem to get worse - not better.
Obama will become the new FDR and throw billions - excuuuuuse me, Trillions - into the problem. Read your history - FDR's misguided lurch to socialism greatly extended the length of the Great Depression. Unemployment was about the same in 1941 as it was in the early '30's. World War II finally ignited the economy.
How come so many have so much faith in those who run the grossly bloated government. Don't you realize the same people who caused the problem are the ones who are expected to solve the problem?
In any event, it's too late.
I'm from the 'Cool Hand Luke' school of using parking meters. Who's with me? Anybody? Anyone?
A meter maid was waiting next to a vehicle about to expire. My husband ran over and put a quarter in and was told it was illegal to do that. My husband said that it was his car and walked away. Crazy. The sad part is there are so many older folks in this area that it probably was one of them at the doctor's (medical center area).
Another time, he got a ticket for being over the "line". The reason he was over the line was because a police car was over the line behind him and he wanted to give him room to pull out.
It's a work situation so it's not like we have much of a choice with these crazy parking rules.
Yes, and I actually saw it on the show Jackass. They had a guy in a fairy costume going around putting quarters into expired meters. The meter maids were *pissed*. It seems ridiculous, but the city must make a lot of money on tickets to get so high-n-mighty about it.
And I really don't see the problem of using the leftover time of someone else. They paid for that much parking time, what's it matter if I use it? Me putting money into it too only extends the time for the next guy. I'm glad the town I live in doesn't have the zero-out meters.
Just because this happened to me...
Make sure your tags aren't expired. I don't park downtown too often and where I normally park and drive around there aren't a lot of cops checking. So, when I parked at a meter downtown, at a place where cops are constantly checking, I got a ticket because my tags were expired. So, make sure you don't make my mistake.
If this 4.5% rate happens for a 30 year, I wonder what a 15 year rate would look like? Perhaps between 3.5% and 4%?
If the law doesn't allow a re-fi for existing homeowners who qualify, I think there will be a terrible backlash.
it may not kick start the economy. i was already gonna buy a house, but saving 50 bucks a month would be AWESOME!!!!