OMG ,I have been looking for something like this for 3 years now , i hate my house ,love my location & i also thought about walking away , but its a thought ... Really hope this become a reality. it would save the housing market ...
Getting to meet Kylie Ofiu at the Love Drop volunteer event. It took me a good bit to understand what she was saying with her accent, plus I didn't expect her to be that tall.
Finding out the driver to the hotel shuttle scored us gals restaurant reservations Saturday night, through his (previous) mob connections. -No joke
Meeting Jake from Debt Sucks Blog and finding out we are both normally introverted, unsocial people, and finding a sharpie to mark our name badges with the word INTROVERT. I got so many funny comments about it.
Seeing the words "Pat Flynn is now following you" on Twitter after I (obsessively) live tweeted his session with pictures. I wonder if he thinks I'm a super fan girl stalker?! Oh wells...
Also, I have so many favorite moments from this past weekend it's hard to say. Maybe chatting about cat blogs. Perhaps most surprising overall was the fact that this was the tightest conference I've attended with the best, most relevant content.
Your description of living large is so apt...and really the point you are making is just that:living large by investing those small, daily rituals with meaning. By contrast, a day spent in unmindfulness is living small, no matter what one's budget. This is a good reminder of prioritizing as well. Maybe the recession can teach us how to spend as well as save.
If a 30 year old has to be told the things in this article I'm not sure I have much hope for them, unless they have a developmental condition. I'm sorry I know that sounds harsh, but at 22 years old my oldest child doesn't even have to be told this stuff.
Good point, I guess I could have added a 7th way. Get a free degree - my last employer paid for 100% my Masters degree. So since they paid my tuition, I guess I was getting paid to learn.
Don't know if it'll work for roaches, but we've had good luck using Goo Gone (spray) against ants. Pros use d-limonene, which is very similar. Both are citrus extracts.
Fantastic article, yet again! We're finding more and more people participating in coworking spaces rather than just renting office space. It's cheaper, you get friendlier with the people in the office and it can actually help grow your business because you end up collaborating with the people around you. That said, sometimes the environment isn't as "professional" for outside meetings and the like. Does anyone have experience with this over more traditional renting?
The best way I've found to get out of bed is to put a price on it. I used to ride the bus to work which allowed me to avoid any transportation costs (I got a free public transit pass from my employer). If I slept in I'd miss the bus, have to drive myself (gas $), pay for downtown parking ($8 per day), eat out for lunch (about $7). I figured it was at least $15 to sleep in an extra 30 minutes. Totally not worth it!
I don't have a roach problem but I recently had a very serious ant infestation problem. What worked well for me was to use 2 different types of ant baits. I forgot the name of the brands, but I believe the cheaper brand was the one the ants actually preferred.
The ants were gone within 2 days. I'm so glad I went with baits instead of sprays.
I live in a NYCHA Apartment. Moving is not an option. I fought the war for eight years. I would pack up all the food in plastic containers(take out of cardboard packaging and use ziplock bags), cover all dress clothes with garbage bags and tie the bottoms, and bomb the apartment(I would notify neighbors a week or two in advance in case they also wanted to bomb their apartment at the same time.) I would spray and bait afterward, 6 months later my friends(roaches) were back in full force, it went this way for eight years. In 2008 I bought Riddex and plugged one in front of the apartment and one in back. I noticed the Roaches would act weird around it but as each generation was born they acted less and less weird(They seemed to become immune.) I would have told you that it didn't work if I wasn't so persistant. I had to do all the things I did before to rid the house of roaches (plugging holes between apartments very, very, important) but immediately after reentering the apartment I plugged in the Riddex. I also handed out Riddex to a few apartments on the first floor. I have been Roach Free for 3 years. I keep a can of Raid just in case but keep spraying and baiting for the next 3-6 months after for any stragglers or visitors from other apartments.
There might be opportunities at your current job as well. The first company I worked at offered several classes for employees to help you learn about other areas of the business and general workplace skills like improving communication.
I like that you mention that not only should you have a budget but you should stick to it. Eating what you have is also important to staying within the budget. To often I use to go get something when food was actually available to eat at home. $300 usually is enough for my family more than a month.
I have tried to go cable free for 2 months and it's just a big hassle. It is possible to keep up with all your favorite shows without cable but nothing yet can beat the convenience of turning on the TV and instantly flipping through channels. The thing I missed the most with no cable was the morning news. I like to watch the news while I get ready in the morning and dont have the time to pull up a stream or startup my HTPC.
A huge downside to cutting cable is lack of sports. It's possible to find streams of every football game but it's a HUGE inconvenience to flip through games if you want to keep up with multiple scores.
Laid down some roach motels only to find that they picked up in their crawling all over the kitchen counters. Not only that, they appeared to have grown bigger faster. Might have to look into that boric acid mix.
It's not hard and it's not to confusing once you start. There should be some animated pictures on distillation on the net. To see it happen in pictures is, well, worth a 1000 words.
Once you actually build it, then it really takes off. Just try the siplest still for 2 bottles of wine. Once you get some snow, it's easy. Take the largest stainless steel pot and lid you have, dump in the wine. float a glass bowl, invert the lid and add snow to the top. You will have to boil slow or the bowl will sink. Change change out the melted snow for fresh often. You will get a lot of carry over in flavour this way. May be the best way for you.
Lets see how much you should get. Lets say you start with 2 bottles, 750 ml each, you get 1500 ml. Home brewers and wine makers tend to get a little higher content in their stuff, so we can guess 14% for you. that is 210 ml of 100%. Since that is an unacceptable expectation, we will say 75% for 280 ml. If you want to carry over a little more flavour, just distill it down to the drinking level of 40%. That gives you about 525 ml. Not sure what part of the world you are from, but white America oak or red French oak, toasted, and soaked in canning jars for a couple weeks, would be GREAT.
Here is my recap of #fincon11: http://thejennypincher.com/financial-bloggers-conference-fincon11-saved-...
There were so many favorite moments and things I learned, I can't even begin to list them all. Most of all I'm just thankful for this experience.
Hope to get to meet you next year in person Will!
OMG ,I have been looking for something like this for 3 years now , i hate my house ,love my location & i also thought about walking away , but its a thought ... Really hope this become a reality. it would save the housing market ...
Lynn is a huge fan of Pat's as well. Maybe a fan club lunch for 2012?
"...this was the tightest conference I've attended with the best, most relevant content."
+1
The intimacy of the conference was awesome. Also, huge props to PT's team. Jessica, Justin, et al made it all happen.
Thank you Glen! You're right. The individual stories of why people started blogging were definitely the best part of the conference.
A few of my favorite fincon moments:
Getting to meet Kylie Ofiu at the Love Drop volunteer event. It took me a good bit to understand what she was saying with her accent, plus I didn't expect her to be that tall.
Finding out the driver to the hotel shuttle scored us gals restaurant reservations Saturday night, through his (previous) mob connections. -No joke
Meeting Jake from Debt Sucks Blog and finding out we are both normally introverted, unsocial people, and finding a sharpie to mark our name badges with the word INTROVERT. I got so many funny comments about it.
Seeing the words "Pat Flynn is now following you" on Twitter after I (obsessively) live tweeted his session with pictures. I wonder if he thinks I'm a super fan girl stalker?! Oh wells...
Added!
See you at the Dr. Who Convention 2012.
Biggest takeaway? Be yourself and tell your story. And make the story BIG!
Loved the WiseBread sessions too.
Will, I have a summary from my perspective here: http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/meeting-colleagues/
Also, I have so many favorite moments from this past weekend it's hard to say. Maybe chatting about cat blogs. Perhaps most surprising overall was the fact that this was the tightest conference I've attended with the best, most relevant content.
Your description of living large is so apt...and really the point you are making is just that:living large by investing those small, daily rituals with meaning. By contrast, a day spent in unmindfulness is living small, no matter what one's budget. This is a good reminder of prioritizing as well. Maybe the recession can teach us how to spend as well as save.
Dinner - on average every other week. Lunch - I tend to go out once a week.
If a 30 year old has to be told the things in this article I'm not sure I have much hope for them, unless they have a developmental condition. I'm sorry I know that sounds harsh, but at 22 years old my oldest child doesn't even have to be told this stuff.
Good point, I guess I could have added a 7th way. Get a free degree - my last employer paid for 100% my Masters degree. So since they paid my tuition, I guess I was getting paid to learn.
Don't know if it'll work for roaches, but we've had good luck using Goo Gone (spray) against ants. Pros use d-limonene, which is very similar. Both are citrus extracts.
Fantastic article, yet again! We're finding more and more people participating in coworking spaces rather than just renting office space. It's cheaper, you get friendlier with the people in the office and it can actually help grow your business because you end up collaborating with the people around you. That said, sometimes the environment isn't as "professional" for outside meetings and the like. Does anyone have experience with this over more traditional renting?
The best way I've found to get out of bed is to put a price on it. I used to ride the bus to work which allowed me to avoid any transportation costs (I got a free public transit pass from my employer). If I slept in I'd miss the bus, have to drive myself (gas $), pay for downtown parking ($8 per day), eat out for lunch (about $7). I figured it was at least $15 to sleep in an extra 30 minutes. Totally not worth it!
I don't have a roach problem but I recently had a very serious ant infestation problem. What worked well for me was to use 2 different types of ant baits. I forgot the name of the brands, but I believe the cheaper brand was the one the ants actually preferred.
The ants were gone within 2 days. I'm so glad I went with baits instead of sprays.
I live in a NYCHA Apartment. Moving is not an option. I fought the war for eight years. I would pack up all the food in plastic containers(take out of cardboard packaging and use ziplock bags), cover all dress clothes with garbage bags and tie the bottoms, and bomb the apartment(I would notify neighbors a week or two in advance in case they also wanted to bomb their apartment at the same time.) I would spray and bait afterward, 6 months later my friends(roaches) were back in full force, it went this way for eight years. In 2008 I bought Riddex and plugged one in front of the apartment and one in back. I noticed the Roaches would act weird around it but as each generation was born they acted less and less weird(They seemed to become immune.) I would have told you that it didn't work if I wasn't so persistant. I had to do all the things I did before to rid the house of roaches (plugging holes between apartments very, very, important) but immediately after reentering the apartment I plugged in the Riddex. I also handed out Riddex to a few apartments on the first floor. I have been Roach Free for 3 years. I keep a can of Raid just in case but keep spraying and baiting for the next 3-6 months after for any stragglers or visitors from other apartments.
There might be opportunities at your current job as well. The first company I worked at offered several classes for employees to help you learn about other areas of the business and general workplace skills like improving communication.
I like that you mention that not only should you have a budget but you should stick to it. Eating what you have is also important to staying within the budget. To often I use to go get something when food was actually available to eat at home. $300 usually is enough for my family more than a month.
I have tried to go cable free for 2 months and it's just a big hassle. It is possible to keep up with all your favorite shows without cable but nothing yet can beat the convenience of turning on the TV and instantly flipping through channels. The thing I missed the most with no cable was the morning news. I like to watch the news while I get ready in the morning and dont have the time to pull up a stream or startup my HTPC.
A huge downside to cutting cable is lack of sports. It's possible to find streams of every football game but it's a HUGE inconvenience to flip through games if you want to keep up with multiple scores.
I didn't leave my email last time so adding in this post.
Laid down some roach motels only to find that they picked up in their crawling all over the kitchen counters. Not only that, they appeared to have grown bigger faster. Might have to look into that boric acid mix.
Bridgey,
It's not hard and it's not to confusing once you start. There should be some animated pictures on distillation on the net. To see it happen in pictures is, well, worth a 1000 words.
Once you actually build it, then it really takes off. Just try the siplest still for 2 bottles of wine. Once you get some snow, it's easy. Take the largest stainless steel pot and lid you have, dump in the wine. float a glass bowl, invert the lid and add snow to the top. You will have to boil slow or the bowl will sink. Change change out the melted snow for fresh often. You will get a lot of carry over in flavour this way. May be the best way for you.
Lets see how much you should get. Lets say you start with 2 bottles, 750 ml each, you get 1500 ml. Home brewers and wine makers tend to get a little higher content in their stuff, so we can guess 14% for you. that is 210 ml of 100%. Since that is an unacceptable expectation, we will say 75% for 280 ml. If you want to carry over a little more flavour, just distill it down to the drinking level of 40%. That gives you about 525 ml. Not sure what part of the world you are from, but white America oak or red French oak, toasted, and soaked in canning jars for a couple weeks, would be GREAT.
Hey at least you only lost $75. =]