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jeffbrig replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 8:01 AM

Re: Vacuum Cleaners

They rated Kenmore models as best buys @ $250 - $300.

Funny enough, we bought one of these top rated Kenmore uprights about 5 years ago. We recently got rid of the last carpet in our house (now we have tile), and switched to a [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 12:34 AM

Re: Driver Drill

I love my Makita set. 1/2" cordless drill, cordless impact driver, flashlight, charger, and two 18v lithium ion batteries. Paid about $200 a few years ago. Everything still works great. LiIon Batteries can go unused for months and still hold a [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 6:09 PM

Re: How to test for electrical load

Yikes! That's a bit higher than what I estimated. You're talking about an INCREASE of 600kwh/month about 20kwh/day. That increase is like a 1000 watt device running 24/7. Think 17 typical incandescent light bulbs running all day. Or your wife's hair [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Credit Cards and Consumer Debt board. 2:42 PM

Re: Credit Card Debt Question

I had a lot of CC debt 10 years ago. Like $30-35k at one point. Like determinedmom, I found it extremely helpful to payoff some cards, then use balance transfer offers to move money around to lower interest rates (hopefully with promotional balance [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 2:28 PM

Re: How to test for electrical load

Even a low power bill is probably at least 20 KWH a day. In this theoretical case, a 50% bump would be 10KWH, the equivalent of having a 400 watt device running 24/7. That's not an insignificant amount of power. If this was a device in a particular [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 11:29 AM

Re: Any Mint.com users here?

I use Mint, and find it a handy little tool. Much easier than logging into 5-6 different websites to check my information. I'm not a real big stickler about specifying every last budget category (never have been, really). With a fair amount of [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Television Banter board. 10:24 AM

Re: Castle 042913

much heavier Fillion

Especially compared to his Firefly days.

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jeffbrig replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:23 AM

Re: bacteria in ground turkey

Ok, I know this sounds dire, but ground meats should ALWAYS be considered unsafe. That's why it's so important to cook them to the proper temperature before serving. Nothing new here to me....

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jeffbrig replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:49 AM

Re: "Certified Used" vs. Used Cars

Most manufacturer's offer a "CPO" (Certified Pre-Owned) for clean used vehicles that meet certain criteria. Whether it makes financial sense or not, many people want the perceived comfort of a vehicle with a warranty, especially during the [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 11:00 AM

Re: Is dental insurance worth the cost?

Mine's definitely worth the cost. I pay $10/month for family coverage, and we each get 2 cleanings a year for free. In the event of fillings or other work, there's a $100 deductible, then it covers 50%. Caps at $1500 annually, which I've hit when [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 10:45 AM

Re: air condtioner compressor question

I've dropped $300 more than once just in the capacitor,

And to think, it's a $5 part, if you know where to get it...you're paying for the service call, not a fancy piece of electronics.

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jeffbrig replied to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 2:03 AM

Re: Observation on comparative Samsung prices

The point I was trying to make in the OP is that Samsung charged nearly double the cost to put a SIM socket in their tablet. They then charged a similar re-double to switch from a telephony enabled tablet to a smaller cell phone with similar [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 9:10 PM

Re: Cleaning the dishwasher

And why isn't dish soap sufficient to clear your dishwasher? I mean, it cleans the food off your plates, are the sides of the dishwasher somehow immune?

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jeffbrig replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 9:06 PM

Re: In Which I Write a Letter to Merillat

Just out of curiosity, if the back is MDF, is there at least a solid wood strip along the top for attaching the cabinet to the wall?

This sort of thing makes me glad I went with kraftmaid. Not cheap, but I got all plywood construction, and [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 2:04 PM

Re: cheapest way to ship clothes-Fl--NY

Cheapest way would be to throw them in the back of another snowbird's car that's traveling from FL to NY (driven or shipped).

Aside from what others have mentioned, consider USPS flat rate priority boxes. Pack as heavy as you want, and they [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 1:34 PM

Re: OT: Have You Ever Won Something?

I can think of a couple of raffles where we've won something.

Once we won 2 nights in a really nice beach resort hotel. That was cool. Another time we won 4 day passes to Universal Studios theme park.

Of course, when you consider [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Buying and Maintaining a Car board. 11:51 AM

Re: Adventures in selling a car

Car is sold!

What really made it clear for me was Dean's observation that I was being offered "95% of your minimum price". Ultimately I decided it wanted the car gone before traveling, so it was time to be done with it. I [more]

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jeffbrig posted to the Buying and Maintaining a Car board. 12:53 AM

Adventures in selling a car

I'm once again going through the chore of selling a car. This time it's a 2006 Acura TL with 105k miles. I have it up on Autotrader, as well as the local craigslist. Car has new tires, new brakes, new oil, new air filters, new timing belt, and a [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Television Banter board. 12:29 AM

Re: The Americans 040313

I don't think in 1981 "hit the pause button" was that common a phrase.

I haven't seen the episode, so I don't know the context in which it was used, but cassette tapes would have been pretty common in the early 80s, and [more]

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jeffbrig replied to the Help With This Home Theater board. 12:22 AM

Re: Advice wanted!

I'll also add that my bluray player is a $40 refurbished Samsung that I picked up on special from newegg. It plays blurays, what else is there to say? I know there are players with more bells and whistles, but even a basic model does everything I [more]