It went into the "home improvement" fund. So... most of it will be going to Lowe's by the time the summer is through. But that's where most of my money goes in the summer anyway.
Paid off the last of my debt to my brother (who initially loaned me the money for a new computer when my previous one blew up.)
If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We don't seek your counsel, we don't seek your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countryman. - Samuel Adams
Every damn thing in my home decided to break at once, so I've got a new monitor and desk chair now, and I reckon I'm going to have to bite the bullet and replace my kitchen faucet pretty soon here.
$1100 paid off my winter heating bill. $1100 went into savings.... to pay for my first tank of oil in the fall.
You know with the rest of that money you can put down towards something that would reduce your heating bill, I know just the guy to help you with that!
No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. -Dogma
Replaced the Den furniture - Getting rid of the old stuff has REALLY helped my daughter's allergies... Haven't had to wipe a runny nose in a week, which is amazing, since before she literally had a runny nose every single day since we adopted her.
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My $600 went pretty quick. I had been thinking about getting a Wii for a while, so I picked one up this weekend, along with 3 extra controllers, nunchuks, and 3 games (Mario Party 8, Mario Galaxy, and the Spyro game (for my mom)). Would have spent even more, but no Wii Fit or Mario Cart in stock anywhere I went.
World of Warcraft: Delissandra - Blood Elf Rogue (retired) - Feathermoon
EverQuest: Delissandra Splitshadow - 75 Rogue (retired) - The Rathe
City of Heroes: Splitshadow - Scrapper (retired) - Victory
Gonna get a new TV. I'm still deciding what brand and size.
Tax return went to a 20 horsepower Craftsman riding lawnmower with tilt prevention. It's sweet.
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it. -- P.J. O'Rourke
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I finally got my letter from the IRS. The money will be in my account on Friday. So, I decided to wait on the mortage until friday and went yesterday to buy my 26 " Toshiba HD flat widescreen TV with dolby sound. It was $549.99. It can be hooked up to a pc, but I doubt I will.
omg, what a difference! My old one that died was from 1994 and a dinosaur. My pc is a 17 inch flat screen and while it's good, I hate not being able to slouch on the sofa to watch tv.
Boy, all their Sony and Samsung TVs were gone!!! (Sony and Samsug same size was $599.00) I'm talking the entire region. You'd have to drive over 200/300 miles to get to next region. They were out of stock in their warehouses. I think a lot of people spent a chunk of their return/stimulus check on TVs.
First movie in to play was 30 days of night - it looks epic on my new TV. I'm gonna have to get cable now. HD has spoiled me.
Bought a PS3 from walmart the other day for the sake of the blu ray player. Then went to borders and got the Planet Earth blu ray. Been too ****ing hot to run the TV the last couple days, though, so won't screen it until Thursday or so.
Also, got a sun oven which is hopefully going to see action today.
I also dropped 3.5k on a pellet stove, thanks to my 3.89/gal cap for fuel oil and a 1500 gallon a year habit.
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Been too ****ing hot to run the TV the last couple days, though, so won't screen it until Thursday or so.
My great room was really warm on Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday, before it hit 98 degrees, I went to Home depot and bought a film to put over my sliding glass door. 1 tube does both sides of that door. Blocks 99% of the UV and 51% of the heat. omg, I cannot express how wonderful this stuff is.
Trick is to use baby oil (according to my Dad) becasue it doesn't dry outand squeeze out the air pockets with a squiggy. It worked like a charm.
My back wall is 3 windows and the sliding glass door. the verticla blinds were ok, but the heat would seep right in. I have a left over tube and I'm probably gonna use it on the other 3 windows.
Im thinking cause of the heat that radiates from the TV. I know that in the room I have my 47'' if you're within a couple feet from the TV itself it gets a little warm.
I'm confused what do you mean "too hot to run the TV"?
We try to run as few appliances as possible during hot spells, since they give off so much heat. No central air, so everything we can do to keep the temp down during the day helps.
We try to run as few appliances as possible during hot spells, since they give off so much heat. No central air, so everything we can do to keep the temp down during the day helps.
I forgot you live in Maine. If we did that we wouldn't run anything from mid may until sometimes late into October.
Hell it was 80 deg here yesterday and the wife baked cupcakes.
We're the same way. The TV is the only thing on at night though. I've gone to bed before 10:00 all week. I just do not function well in this heat. We usually don't get stretches like this until August. /bleah
Concerning heat--accept it as it is, and drift through it. Drink early and often--water, coffee, alcohol. Do not strain--the heat does all the important work for you.
Concerning heat--accept it as it is, and drift through it. Drink early and often--water, coffee, alcohol. Do not strain--the heat does all the important work for you.
Couches are also good.
Of the three things you suggested to drink only one of them you should actually drink. Caffeine is a diaretic (sp) so it makes you pee out the fluid you just took in, and alcohol is even worse for you than that to hydrate.
So I hope you were just kidding.
At work we just go through a **** load of bottled water, and Gatorade this time of year.
Fairly certain I was drunk when I posted that, having been offered a bottle of wine in a slightly random encounter (thanks, Wine_Monster_09!) at three in the afternoon before I had a chance to eat anything today. Life's weird, and sometimes hot, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't drink--water, coffee, alcohol. Mmm. I'm having my coffee and my water now, after my nap, to make up for lack of them earlier, when there was booze about.
Sounds like my weekend. Between a wedding rehearsal, wedding, and softball game, I went almost 48 hours with the only liquid consumption being alcohol. hangovers are nothing compared to dehydration
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I'm young enough to do it over and over again, but old enough to do it right the first time!
We were just saying the same thing about the weather in NJ - that it felt like August.
I almost got heat stroke on the way into work this morning, took me about an hour and a lot of hydration to get me back to normal.
found of these neck-bandana that was filled with a gel/crystals, soak it in cold water for 5 minutes and the thing soaks up the water and then wrap it around your neck.. and it'll last for quite a long while.. then go back to it's original state and you can use it again..
I found em at a concessions stand at a baeball game.. I'm sure an outdoor store or wal-mart/target would have something
alcohol is bad when it's very hot. wine is sugar & beer is liquid bread which breaks down as sugar. It raises your gluocous and therefore your body temp to burn it. If you do drink, eat to help prevent the sugar shock when it hits your system, so you don't yo-yo up and down.
gatoraide and poweraide= good because fo the salt and mineral loss from sweating. water is ok, but gatoraide will hydrate you much better. dehydration=kidney stones for me eons ago.
Ever use a push mower in july in Georgia, did for 4 years, lol. never once got heat exhaustion either.
Racist and not technically correct, but non-the-less I found it funny and fitting!
If we spend our money at Wal-mart the money will go to China
If we spend it on gas the money goes to the Arabs.
If we purchase a computer the money goes to India.
If we purchase fruit and vegtibles the money goes to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.
If we purchase a good car the money goes to Japan.
If we purchase useless crap the money goes to Taiwan...
and none of it will help the American economy.
The only way to keep that money here at home is to buy prostitutes, weed, beer and tattoos, since these are the only products still produced in the USA!
alcohol is bad when it's very hot. wine is sugar & beer is liquid bread which breaks down as sugar. It raises your gluocous and therefore your body temp to burn it. If you do drink, eat to help prevent the sugar shock when it hits your system, so you don't yo-yo up and down.
gatoraide and poweraide= good because fo the salt and mineral loss from sweating. water is ok, but gatoraide will hydrate you much better. dehydration=kidney stones for me eons ago.
Ever use a push mower in july in Georgia, did for 4 years, lol. never once got heat exhaustion either.
Even better than just Gatoraide is 1/2 gatoraide, 1/2 water. This is my miricle-hangover-cure.
Racist and not technically correct, but non-the-less I found it funny and fitting!
hehe... I like that!
Although they left out anything related to entertainment industry(Hollywood, music, video games, porn), hotel industry, and pharmaceuticals. To maximally support our economy, one must buy beer, weed (as long as it's not Mexican dirt-weed), prostitutes, Viagra, video games, DVDs, music CDs, and rent a hotel... then throw a huge party at said hotel.
