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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 5:52 PM

Re: Cheap Diet?

Yes, its amazing that anyone buys canned or frozen green beans, when they are in the produce section for less than $1.50/lb. Abt the same price as canned, cheaper than frozen, and without the salt and processing. [more]

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reader99 replied to the Get Organized! board. 5:37 PM

Re: Starting the FlyLady

Thanks LQu, I was about to buy a timer and you've pointed out I already have one in my cell phone. Not only that the timer in my cell phone goes as high as double digit hours, not limited to 60 minutes like some are.

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reader99 replied to the Get Organized! board. 4:44 PM

Re: Want to get organized in a hurry?

Wow!

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:24 AM

Re: Frugal vs. Cheap?

At present it's frugal for me not to have a car.

If I didn't give my friend who occasionally gives me rides gas money, that would be cheap.



At present it's frugal for me not to buy new clothes.

If I borrowed a [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:14 AM

Re: Individual medical insurance

The biggest difference between individual and group coverage is how claims affect your premiums the following year. If you are healthy and never use your insurance, your rates will be pretty low. If something happens and you have to use it, your [more]

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reader99 replied to the Get Organized! board. 10:11 AM

Re: Task Forces Offer Hoarders a Way to Dig Out

Hoarding
Alzheimers
Autism

All are conditions rarely heard of when I was a kid; now they are everyday things.

For the hoarding, I wonder if part of it is that physical objects are so much more available now than they were in [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 9:27 AM

Re: Medical providers: up-front payment

Reader99
Living - or perhaps dying - in the only Western country without some type of universal healthcare.

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You can always move to a socialist utopian country. Problem solved. [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 2:05 PM

Re: Medical providers: up-front payment

Bottom line: LBYM and build up an e-fund.

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Or just go ahead and die of whatever it is. Since my income rarely tops $500 a month there's very little to save, and medical care is far more expensive than I ever realized when I [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:48 AM

Re: A bargain at the Dollar Store.

Although I previously said I like these pics, they lighten the mood, that was when they came up once in a while. I just went through 80+ posts and come away with the feeling that it was mostly these pics. I feel they would be more at home on the [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:46 AM

Re: A bargain at the Dollar Store.

I can't read it - what does it say?

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:44 AM

Re: Student's oven mitt

Very manly

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:17 AM

Re: OT: Must stop reading Yahoo articles

Maybe I was reading too fast, but I had to wonder, "Are there no editors? No proof readers?"

The only thing about no optical drives is what about the person who has no internet access but wants to watch a DVD on their [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:15 AM

Re: Bankers Who Can't Live on $1 Million

That supports my observation that people can screw up at any level of income. A higher income offers more expensive opportunities and the voracious human mind reaches for all the material goodies it can kid itself it can [more]

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reader99 replied to the Humor and Urban Legends board. 8:38 AM

Re: Life lesson

Wait until the daughter starts slaving away at a real job and investing in her retirement account. Then she will discover that her labor and her investments are eroded away to enrich the elite and bail out the banks so that fat cats don't ever [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 8:36 AM

Re: Long - LBYM vs. tooth extraction

I have been walking around with a cracked molar for nearly two years. I told my dentist my financial situation and instead of crowning or extracting it he ground it down a LITTLE, just enough so it doesn't take pressure when I chew, and it's been [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 11:07 PM

Re: Dental pain: 3 days till extract

A whole clove next to the affected tooth will numb the area. And feel strange too.

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reader99 posted to the Living Below Your Means board. 2:50 PM

Cleaning the dishwasher

There's a persistent idea on the internet that if you run your dishwasher empty with two packs of lemon Kool-aid (no sugar)it will clean the dishwasher.

That seems unlikely to me. If it's a matter of acidity, surely vinegar would be more [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 7:08 AM

Re: Star Trek and Economics

And in this world of virtually unlimited supply, I'm thinking demand would probably go down—people wouldn't buy stuff to make themselves feel better, and no one would have to have a bigger house to show your neighbors how great you are, because [more]

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reader99 replied to the Get Organized! board. 9:01 AM

Re: The Little Things

Studying makes cleaning seem like fun! This was true for me all through college.

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Yes. And sometimes getting the mundane out of the way makes room in my head for a more challenging [more]

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reader99 replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 9:32 PM

Re: OT, and yet extremely cool

"My goal is to have the most in-demand rental room in Florida"

You have free Wi-fi, right?

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Absolutely