I have been blogging since 2007 and didn't really pay attention to my blog until this year. I realized that indeed there is earning potential for blogs and there is a real need for valuable information out there. There is so much crap on the net that if you come up with valuable content people will really respond. The issue though is the time!
Having purchased the contents of several, maybe 6, storage units whose 'owners' had not paid their fees I'd like to make some observations. Total cost was $651.
First - based on what we've found, if the owners of these units had simply sold off 1/10th of what was in the unit, they would have been able to pay the charges.
Second - All of the units had real junk stored - there is no reason to store paint encrusted brushes, broken or pieces missing toys or food (it should be eaten).
Third - I don't believe any of these people had any real thought of using, selling, donating, dumping the items they stored. Sort of using a basement/attic for the extra stuff - except it costs them monthly and you have to travel to get there.
Some of the items we have found and sold: 2 LR sets, 12 lamps with shades and bulbs, children's toys, set of dishes service for 6 in the box never opened, same for stainless utensils, several 100 candles/candleholders/vases/knick knacks, designer purses including authentic Dior/Coach/Nine West, a dining room set with table/6 chairs/china hutch, really nice costume jewelry, pots and pans, and clothing including Victoria's Secret, David's Bridal and Martha Stewart towels with tags. Total was about $5000.
What we've kept include a 5 pc. bedrooom set with no mattress, more Martha Stewart towels and sheets with the tags still on, service for 6 STERLING silverware, several paintings, lots of craft items, yard tools, hand tools and power tools, glasses and dishes service for 8, pots and pans. Total was about $2500
We've donated probably 1/3 of what we bought, value about $500 and tossed about 1/4, worthless. State law requires that return personal papers, photos etc. We have returned passports, birth certificates, credit cards and even the CREMATED REMAINS OF A 10-month old child.
Did any of the owners really value their things, respect them, or want them? I don't think so. BTW we were warned about the Remains after we bought the unit - it was sad & creepy all at the same time.
Just for the record, we have used storage units off and on (total 4 months) for the 5 years we've lived in FL - after Hurricane Charley and in between moves. It's been mainly for furniture & appliances, never for personal papers or food.
Shine is shine, the recipe is the same. You can change it by the nature yeast in your area compared to another area of the world. That changes flavours. The type of corn you use, whole, cracked ground. whether its toasted first, boiled with water before adding sugar, what you ferment in, the temps and fluctuation, the type of water (hard or soft, minerals), type of sugars used (dextrose, lactose, so on). Some people add items to add different flavours, but I don’t think that is shine any longer.
The pressure cooker will not stick to a magnet if it is stainless or aluminum. You will need to take a dull metal, like a fork tine, and try to gouge the side. Stainless will barely scratch, but aluminum can leave a deep mark. I would use the pot for now. It takes longer to do the floating boil, because you can NOT let it boil. It tips the bowl, causes too much water to evaporate and land in the bowl. I would think about 3 hours or so. If you go too fast, and get too much water in the bowl, you get a larger volume. Take it out, add distilled water and do it again with lower heat. The taste will come out cleaner, like vodka.
The type of pressure cooker is a Maitre's made isn Brazil.. I will have to check if a magnet will stick to it to see if it is stainless steel or aluminum. I do have some tall cooking pots with a copper bottom I could use for now like mentioned in previous scripts.
Also, how long does it take to steem off the alcohol of a 3gal. batch using a pot and a floating bowl??
After heating the water and adding sugar and white cornmeal and then the yeast after it cools.(#94) can I transfer it to another food grade pail or a plastic sparklets bottle???
Where can I find recipes for more versions of shine..???
Thanks for all you do..
Finding out about money making ideas are a good way to invest in yourself. If you are serious about making money online there is an awesome website that offers a link it works. Copy and paste the url in your browser Healthstore-howtobehealthy.blogspot.com and look under financial health. I was surprised when I found it but it really made sense.
My wife and I were given expensive, high quality, heavy gauge stainless steel pots and pans when we got married. We've bought a few cast iron pans. We use the cast iron almost exclusively because they are easier to use and to clean, and because food cooked in them tastes better. It's not any more steps than stainless - in fact it's less*. And where some of our "stainless" pieces actually have stains from too high heat or being left unattended too long, the cast iron is pretty much indestructible.
If you're at all curious, pick up a small cast iron skillet at the local MegaMart for $20 or less. Most or all now are pre-seasoned - get one of those. Give it a few tries, get used to it, and get some flavor in it - don't try to burn anything, but don't worry about it if you do. Try bacon and eggs, easy and tasty. After each use, wipe it out with an oily paper towel - to remove any remaining food chunks and refresh the seasoning a bit. Don't wash it, but if really necessary you can run it through some very hot water and scrub it with anything - but no soap. Then swipe with the oily towel once the pan is dry.* Pretty soon you'll love it - or you'll pass it on to someone else who will.
P.S. Here's a tip for eggs and meat, for cast iron or stainless: Heat your pan to the temperature you're going to cook at - should be pretty hot. Add room-temp oil immediately before the proteiny food. If you flip, flip once - not until the first side is done; you'll be able to tell because it will unstick itself from the pan. Give it a little test poke at an edge, when it's ready to be flipped it will go from stuck tight to easily scoopable.
*Our schedule, when using a cast iron skillet once each day, is roughly: after enjoying our meal, we wipe out the now-just-warm pan to remove food chunks. About every other time or so, we pour in a very small pool of olive or vegetable oil and smear around with a paper towel or rag. About every week (again, given using it every day) we'll wash the pan by scrubbing under very hot water, no soap. Dry well and while still warm from the wash, do the oil thing. Overall, very low maintenance, especially compared to our stainless, which we have to scrub each time (even if they're going into a dishwasher), sometimes using special cleaner.
I mentioned the tortillas in my posting #9 - "Flour tortillas, white or whole wheat, are MUCH cheaper than any grocery store prices in my area, and their large quantity stores for a long time in the fridge with no ill effects."
i happen to really like the craigslist toolbox add on for firefox - it shows thumbnails of the included pics on the search page. you can save time by not having to click on the listing if the sofa/car/bookcase isn't what you are looking for
I also didn't see anything about ShoppingEssentials-- is this still going on? I actually didn't see anything inordinarily sneaky although I do assume I'll get a lot of junk mail now until I opt-out, which I plan to do promptly.
How would a restaurant know if you're using a coupon twice in one month?
Suck it up, pay it off early, treat it like a gem, and drive it for the next decade or more. My 8 year old BMW is long since paid for and still provides great service every single day. I still make 'fake' payments - right into my investments and money market. The money market is used for maintenance and repairs (even if needed rarely). It's a self supporting system but you must LOVE the car or it will not work.
I had my pics rejected at the post office today done by CVS - excellent photos - I went back to CVS - corrected the problem - went back to the post office - and they rejected the same photo that CVS fixed - for a completely different reason they didn't state the first time. The post office was trying to convince me to get the pics redone by them - for 14 bucks for 2 - after I paid the 7.99 to CVS. I think it is a way for the govenment to make more money.
I have to get new pics done.
I quess I have to use the post office or the people there just won't allow me to mail it in at all.
I am considering using a different po in another town with the same photo - which I still don't understand why they rejected it.
They said they have new guidelines - but I can't find them online and they didn't have a copy of it.
I don't know what to do.
My other family members got theirs super fast using the same place for photos.
I have to recommend Hey Craig - http://heycraigapp.com/ - it's a simple application that lets you get notifications when something you want is listed on Craigslist. Super useful.
We've been a one-car family for about 1½ years so far, and generally it's been great. I work in downtown Ottawa, which is about 22km (about 14 miles for you Yanks :) from home in the burbs. I've been biking in almost every day since early spring. So far I've lost 30lbs that way...
When I'm not biking (that is, when it's pouring rain in the morning - I'm pragmatic, not dogmatic about cycle commuting - or in the winter) I'm lucky enough to have an express bus whose stop is a 2min walk from my house that takes me right downtown in about 35min.
So far having one car has been truly problematic twice in 18 months; so when we do need a second car, I just rent one from Avis. The way I see it, about $3oo in car-rental so far sure beats payments and maintenance on a new set of wheels!
When it comes to errands and stuff, we just consolidate/coordinate our efforts on the weekends and it works out.
I'm convinced it *can* be done, but you have live in a city with decent public transit.
For every person, the Costco experience is different.
You mention the seafood weekends. The $8.99/lb shrimp are a size that Whole Foods sells for $15.99 on a good day.
The cheese stix (motzarella) are $2.66/lb, less than half the supermarket price.
The secret to my Costco success is knowing prices, and tracking the unit price of the items I buy. TP and Kleenex at Costco? Better than supermarket, but not as good as BOGO sale with coupons. Same with some detergents, dish soap, etc.
When my daughter was a baby, the diapers and wipes saved enough to pay the membership in the first couple months.
Costco keeps looking for the best deals, so many items won't have a huge selection, you may also fall in love with an item only to find they no longer stock it. So for those, I just enjoy it while they have it.
@Xandra - Good question! I think those statistics only take into account the personal transportation costs, and not those of the catalog retailer. That's a great observation! Does anybody have something to weigh in here on this idea?
I have read several comments from people who said that the membership was worth it because of the savings on prescriptions. You DO NOT need a membership to use the pharmacy. Prescriptions are federally regulated substances. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in.
First: I agree we Americans have too much stuff. That said there are deeper issues. For the record I do have a storage unit- see the end of this comment.
"It took 25 years to build the first one BILLION square feet of storage. But it took just eight years (1998-2005) to add the second billion."
Chalk that second billion up to the easy building loans and people realizing the headaches of renting homes to actual people who need utilities, heating, etc and call at 3am to complain about broken pipes, trash the rental home's interior, leave the place dirty, quit paying rent, and then are hugel legal pains in the neck to evict. Or you can rent out a practically indestructable metal wall/concrete floor storage space and quickly sell the stored goods if they don't pay- put a few lights on timers, install a keypad entry system, and away you go...
"According to the National Association of Home Builders, the average 1960's home was 1200 square feet. In 2004 the average home had ballooned to almost twice that size to 2330 square feet.
Bigger houses are harder to fill up, which may explain why Americans buy twice the number of consumer goods than the citizens of any other first world nation. (Okay, so we're a geographically huge country, but if we've got such big homes, why do we need an additional billion square feet of storage space?)"
One answer to your question is because the new big homes typically have crap designs for storing good s and items. Ever hear about the "big home small lot" or "McMansion" issue? What would have been a full attic 75 years ago is now a "bonus room" of sellable square footage. Or this attic space is now unusable due to lack of planning that just puts a small square access hole or lame pulldown stair in an inaccessable closet and cheap building practices which do not install flooring in the space during the building phase. Or the engineered trusses for the roofing are maximized for the least wood use but not the most usable open space. Anyone want a slab or crawl space home for a complete lack of basement space? An unfinished crawlspace which a small entry door but in which you can stand up is an obnoxious issue but that is what cheap builders provide today otherwise it would be a sellable square footage basement...
Another answer is that certain towns/cities and home owners associations now have laws and/or rules against storing certain items or building un-attached outbuildings or altering your existing home to add storage. Sure you might be able to buy a used 10' x 20' shipping container and get it dropped on your property for about $2000-$3000 but the fun will really start when your town cites you for code violations or the HOA says you have to move it or face a lawsuit because it is against the rules.
Some other issues: people are just plain dumb/stupid and do not know how to pack/store items in their homes for least amount of space. That same issue follows through to the storage units. I estimate that most people could probably store their same items in 1/2 the size unit they currently have. I know this because I have had to pack out a storage box for myself and also participated in clean outs with people who have purchased defaulted units. It is incredible the empty and unused space in found in the cleanouts- people literally move items into the storage units like they arrange them in their homes. I helped with one in which the people had put the dining room chairs around the dining table as if they were going to eat at it- though they did put about three medium sized boxes on the table top which could have held about 10 of the same size.
I do have a 10' x 30"(12.5' x 30 actual) storage unit in a rural area outside of a major Southeastern US city. I pay only $97! per month for this space. I needed to get it when a divorce forced me to move a volume of vintage motorcycles, parts bins, tools, workshop items from my former residence's full basement garage and put myself into an apartment with no storage other than the room closets and no tolerance for unregistered vehicles parked on the property. At my initial move out I actually needed two units for about two months to store and sort the equipment. I knew that it would all fit into one unit but that is what happens when moving but not packing and I got everything into one unit after two months.
I like the giant size of Wyman's frozen blueberries (4 lbs for $10, that are at a couple of local Costcos, as well as baking ingredients, such as vanilla and nutmeg, which are so expensive otherwise. Nice!
However, today's find was a matcha green tea by an esteemed tea retailer, Ito En, for $12.99!!!
I have a net spend visa and I love it. I am not dumb #152! I use it to pay bills and to purchase items online. My sister has a visa, that is not prepaid, and her son used it to purchase a game. Someone got her numbers online and used her card to buy an airplane ticket that cost over $900.00. If they would have stolen mine- so what? They wouldn't have been able to do this. I only load it as I need to. Plus I have never been charged for loading money onto the card!
I have been blogging since 2007 and didn't really pay attention to my blog until this year. I realized that indeed there is earning potential for blogs and there is a real need for valuable information out there. There is so much crap on the net that if you come up with valuable content people will really respond. The issue though is the time!
Having purchased the contents of several, maybe 6, storage units whose 'owners' had not paid their fees I'd like to make some observations. Total cost was $651.
First - based on what we've found, if the owners of these units had simply sold off 1/10th of what was in the unit, they would have been able to pay the charges.
Second - All of the units had real junk stored - there is no reason to store paint encrusted brushes, broken or pieces missing toys or food (it should be eaten).
Third - I don't believe any of these people had any real thought of using, selling, donating, dumping the items they stored. Sort of using a basement/attic for the extra stuff - except it costs them monthly and you have to travel to get there.
Some of the items we have found and sold: 2 LR sets, 12 lamps with shades and bulbs, children's toys, set of dishes service for 6 in the box never opened, same for stainless utensils, several 100 candles/candleholders/vases/knick knacks, designer purses including authentic Dior/Coach/Nine West, a dining room set with table/6 chairs/china hutch, really nice costume jewelry, pots and pans, and clothing including Victoria's Secret, David's Bridal and Martha Stewart towels with tags. Total was about $5000.
What we've kept include a 5 pc. bedrooom set with no mattress, more Martha Stewart towels and sheets with the tags still on, service for 6 STERLING silverware, several paintings, lots of craft items, yard tools, hand tools and power tools, glasses and dishes service for 8, pots and pans. Total was about $2500
We've donated probably 1/3 of what we bought, value about $500 and tossed about 1/4, worthless. State law requires that return personal papers, photos etc. We have returned passports, birth certificates, credit cards and even the CREMATED REMAINS OF A 10-month old child.
Did any of the owners really value their things, respect them, or want them? I don't think so. BTW we were warned about the Remains after we bought the unit - it was sad & creepy all at the same time.
Just for the record, we have used storage units off and on (total 4 months) for the 5 years we've lived in FL - after Hurricane Charley and in between moves. It's been mainly for furniture & appliances, never for personal papers or food.
Shine is shine, the recipe is the same. You can change it by the nature yeast in your area compared to another area of the world. That changes flavours. The type of corn you use, whole, cracked ground. whether its toasted first, boiled with water before adding sugar, what you ferment in, the temps and fluctuation, the type of water (hard or soft, minerals), type of sugars used (dextrose, lactose, so on). Some people add items to add different flavours, but I don’t think that is shine any longer.
The pressure cooker will not stick to a magnet if it is stainless or aluminum. You will need to take a dull metal, like a fork tine, and try to gouge the side. Stainless will barely scratch, but aluminum can leave a deep mark. I would use the pot for now. It takes longer to do the floating boil, because you can NOT let it boil. It tips the bowl, causes too much water to evaporate and land in the bowl. I would think about 3 hours or so. If you go too fast, and get too much water in the bowl, you get a larger volume. Take it out, add distilled water and do it again with lower heat. The taste will come out cleaner, like vodka.
The best exemple is how the governement waste money
The type of pressure cooker is a Maitre's made isn Brazil.. I will have to check if a magnet will stick to it to see if it is stainless steel or aluminum. I do have some tall cooking pots with a copper bottom I could use for now like mentioned in previous scripts.
Also, how long does it take to steem off the alcohol of a 3gal. batch using a pot and a floating bowl??
After heating the water and adding sugar and white cornmeal and then the yeast after it cools.(#94) can I transfer it to another food grade pail or a plastic sparklets bottle???
Where can I find recipes for more versions of shine..???
Thanks for all you do..
Finding out about money making ideas are a good way to invest in yourself. If you are serious about making money online there is an awesome website that offers a link it works. Copy and paste the url in your browser Healthstore-howtobehealthy.blogspot.com and look under financial health. I was surprised when I found it but it really made sense.
Oh, cast iron pans! Will you ever be understood?
My wife and I were given expensive, high quality, heavy gauge stainless steel pots and pans when we got married. We've bought a few cast iron pans. We use the cast iron almost exclusively because they are easier to use and to clean, and because food cooked in them tastes better. It's not any more steps than stainless - in fact it's less*. And where some of our "stainless" pieces actually have stains from too high heat or being left unattended too long, the cast iron is pretty much indestructible.
If you're at all curious, pick up a small cast iron skillet at the local MegaMart for $20 or less. Most or all now are pre-seasoned - get one of those. Give it a few tries, get used to it, and get some flavor in it - don't try to burn anything, but don't worry about it if you do. Try bacon and eggs, easy and tasty. After each use, wipe it out with an oily paper towel - to remove any remaining food chunks and refresh the seasoning a bit. Don't wash it, but if really necessary you can run it through some very hot water and scrub it with anything - but no soap. Then swipe with the oily towel once the pan is dry.* Pretty soon you'll love it - or you'll pass it on to someone else who will.
P.S. Here's a tip for eggs and meat, for cast iron or stainless: Heat your pan to the temperature you're going to cook at - should be pretty hot. Add room-temp oil immediately before the proteiny food. If you flip, flip once - not until the first side is done; you'll be able to tell because it will unstick itself from the pan. Give it a little test poke at an edge, when it's ready to be flipped it will go from stuck tight to easily scoopable.
*Our schedule, when using a cast iron skillet once each day, is roughly: after enjoying our meal, we wipe out the now-just-warm pan to remove food chunks. About every other time or so, we pour in a very small pool of olive or vegetable oil and smear around with a paper towel or rag. About every week (again, given using it every day) we'll wash the pan by scrubbing under very hot water, no soap. Dry well and while still warm from the wash, do the oil thing. Overall, very low maintenance, especially compared to our stainless, which we have to scrub each time (even if they're going into a dishwasher), sometimes using special cleaner.
I mentioned the tortillas in my posting #9 - "Flour tortillas, white or whole wheat, are MUCH cheaper than any grocery store prices in my area, and their large quantity stores for a long time in the fridge with no ill effects."
i happen to really like the craigslist toolbox add on for firefox - it shows thumbnails of the included pics on the search page. you can save time by not having to click on the listing if the sofa/car/bookcase isn't what you are looking for
For all those who are thrilled with deep discount coupons, please shop around. They start with an inflated price and it's usually no deal.
I also didn't see anything about ShoppingEssentials-- is this still going on? I actually didn't see anything inordinarily sneaky although I do assume I'll get a lot of junk mail now until I opt-out, which I plan to do promptly.
How would a restaurant know if you're using a coupon twice in one month?
This is a very thoughtful and considerate approach to this promotion. Kudos!
Suck it up, pay it off early, treat it like a gem, and drive it for the next decade or more. My 8 year old BMW is long since paid for and still provides great service every single day. I still make 'fake' payments - right into my investments and money market. The money market is used for maintenance and repairs (even if needed rarely). It's a self supporting system but you must LOVE the car or it will not work.
I had my pics rejected at the post office today done by CVS - excellent photos - I went back to CVS - corrected the problem - went back to the post office - and they rejected the same photo that CVS fixed - for a completely different reason they didn't state the first time. The post office was trying to convince me to get the pics redone by them - for 14 bucks for 2 - after I paid the 7.99 to CVS. I think it is a way for the govenment to make more money.
I have to get new pics done.
I quess I have to use the post office or the people there just won't allow me to mail it in at all.
I am considering using a different po in another town with the same photo - which I still don't understand why they rejected it.
They said they have new guidelines - but I can't find them online and they didn't have a copy of it.
I don't know what to do.
My other family members got theirs super fast using the same place for photos.
It makes no sense.
I have to recommend Hey Craig - http://heycraigapp.com/ - it's a simple application that lets you get notifications when something you want is listed on Craigslist. Super useful.
We've been a one-car family for about 1½ years so far, and generally it's been great. I work in downtown Ottawa, which is about 22km (about 14 miles for you Yanks :) from home in the burbs. I've been biking in almost every day since early spring. So far I've lost 30lbs that way...
When I'm not biking (that is, when it's pouring rain in the morning - I'm pragmatic, not dogmatic about cycle commuting - or in the winter) I'm lucky enough to have an express bus whose stop is a 2min walk from my house that takes me right downtown in about 35min.
So far having one car has been truly problematic twice in 18 months; so when we do need a second car, I just rent one from Avis. The way I see it, about $3oo in car-rental so far sure beats payments and maintenance on a new set of wheels!
When it comes to errands and stuff, we just consolidate/coordinate our efforts on the weekends and it works out.
I'm convinced it *can* be done, but you have live in a city with decent public transit.
Where can i get this "can of CO2" ?
For every person, the Costco experience is different.
You mention the seafood weekends. The $8.99/lb shrimp are a size that Whole Foods sells for $15.99 on a good day.
The cheese stix (motzarella) are $2.66/lb, less than half the supermarket price.
The secret to my Costco success is knowing prices, and tracking the unit price of the items I buy. TP and Kleenex at Costco? Better than supermarket, but not as good as BOGO sale with coupons. Same with some detergents, dish soap, etc.
When my daughter was a baby, the diapers and wipes saved enough to pay the membership in the first couple months.
Costco keeps looking for the best deals, so many items won't have a huge selection, you may also fall in love with an item only to find they no longer stock it. So for those, I just enjoy it while they have it.
@Xandra - Good question! I think those statistics only take into account the personal transportation costs, and not those of the catalog retailer. That's a great observation! Does anybody have something to weigh in here on this idea?
I have read several comments from people who said that the membership was worth it because of the savings on prescriptions. You DO NOT need a membership to use the pharmacy. Prescriptions are federally regulated substances. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in.
First: I agree we Americans have too much stuff. That said there are deeper issues. For the record I do have a storage unit- see the end of this comment.
"It took 25 years to build the first one BILLION square feet of storage. But it took just eight years (1998-2005) to add the second billion."
Chalk that second billion up to the easy building loans and people realizing the headaches of renting homes to actual people who need utilities, heating, etc and call at 3am to complain about broken pipes, trash the rental home's interior, leave the place dirty, quit paying rent, and then are hugel legal pains in the neck to evict. Or you can rent out a practically indestructable metal wall/concrete floor storage space and quickly sell the stored goods if they don't pay- put a few lights on timers, install a keypad entry system, and away you go...
"According to the National Association of Home Builders, the average 1960's home was 1200 square feet. In 2004 the average home had ballooned to almost twice that size to 2330 square feet.
Bigger houses are harder to fill up, which may explain why Americans buy twice the number of consumer goods than the citizens of any other first world nation. (Okay, so we're a geographically huge country, but if we've got such big homes, why do we need an additional billion square feet of storage space?)"
One answer to your question is because the new big homes typically have crap designs for storing good s and items. Ever hear about the "big home small lot" or "McMansion" issue? What would have been a full attic 75 years ago is now a "bonus room" of sellable square footage. Or this attic space is now unusable due to lack of planning that just puts a small square access hole or lame pulldown stair in an inaccessable closet and cheap building practices which do not install flooring in the space during the building phase. Or the engineered trusses for the roofing are maximized for the least wood use but not the most usable open space. Anyone want a slab or crawl space home for a complete lack of basement space? An unfinished crawlspace which a small entry door but in which you can stand up is an obnoxious issue but that is what cheap builders provide today otherwise it would be a sellable square footage basement...
Another answer is that certain towns/cities and home owners associations now have laws and/or rules against storing certain items or building un-attached outbuildings or altering your existing home to add storage. Sure you might be able to buy a used 10' x 20' shipping container and get it dropped on your property for about $2000-$3000 but the fun will really start when your town cites you for code violations or the HOA says you have to move it or face a lawsuit because it is against the rules.
Some other issues: people are just plain dumb/stupid and do not know how to pack/store items in their homes for least amount of space. That same issue follows through to the storage units. I estimate that most people could probably store their same items in 1/2 the size unit they currently have. I know this because I have had to pack out a storage box for myself and also participated in clean outs with people who have purchased defaulted units. It is incredible the empty and unused space in found in the cleanouts- people literally move items into the storage units like they arrange them in their homes. I helped with one in which the people had put the dining room chairs around the dining table as if they were going to eat at it- though they did put about three medium sized boxes on the table top which could have held about 10 of the same size.
I do have a 10' x 30"(12.5' x 30 actual) storage unit in a rural area outside of a major Southeastern US city. I pay only $97! per month for this space. I needed to get it when a divorce forced me to move a volume of vintage motorcycles, parts bins, tools, workshop items from my former residence's full basement garage and put myself into an apartment with no storage other than the room closets and no tolerance for unregistered vehicles parked on the property. At my initial move out I actually needed two units for about two months to store and sort the equipment. I knew that it would all fit into one unit but that is what happens when moving but not packing and I got everything into one unit after two months.
So it is not all cut and dried the issues...
I like the giant size of Wyman's frozen blueberries (4 lbs for $10, that are at a couple of local Costcos, as well as baking ingredients, such as vanilla and nutmeg, which are so expensive otherwise. Nice!
However, today's find was a matcha green tea by an esteemed tea retailer, Ito En, for $12.99!!!
Seen here as a link:
CONSIDER US YOUR SPARE ROOM
1ST MONTH FREE- RESERVE YOUR UNIT TODAY
EXTRASPACE STORAGE
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Anyone else find it ironic?
I have a net spend visa and I love it. I am not dumb #152! I use it to pay bills and to purchase items online. My sister has a visa, that is not prepaid, and her son used it to purchase a game. Someone got her numbers online and used her card to buy an airplane ticket that cost over $900.00. If they would have stolen mine- so what? They wouldn't have been able to do this. I only load it as I need to. Plus I have never been charged for loading money onto the card!
I've bought and sold 15 cars on Craigslist over the past 8 years, and I can't tell you how many scammers there are.
Beware of:
Grammar errors
Shipping vehicles
Escrow
Same thing goes for any jewelry you want to sell. If no phone number, forget about it.
Be careful everyone!
Keigu,
Financial Samurai
"Slicing Through Money's Mysteries"