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Post by lucie on Jul 23, 2014 5:58:29 GMT -5
Wow, what a perfect timing to find it now! I wonder what other treasures are there
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Post by dayeanu on Jul 23, 2014 21:56:14 GMT -5
Today I went to town.
Feed store. Bought only feed. Other feed store. Bought nothing. Drug store. Bought only Mother's prescriptions. Dollar store. Bought several packets of cheap wet wipe-type cleaning cloths. Nothing else. Wal-Mart. Bought groceries, 2 quick-connect garden hose connectors (planned, use to simplify animal care. Old ones wore out. Thrown away.), gun sling (planned, needed for convenience and for free hands, when needed). Did not buy anything else. Did not buy beautiful pink bromeliad.
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Post by imamess on Jul 24, 2014 8:53:54 GMT -5
Good you for Daye! I've been trying to buy only food for us and the animals and prescriptions and personal hygiene things as well. Even so, those things still cost a lot.
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Post by dayeanu on Jul 24, 2014 10:44:36 GMT -5
Today I went to town. Feed store. Bought only feed. Other feed store. Bought nothing. Drug store. Bought only Mother's prescriptions. Dollar store. Bought several packets of cheap wet wipe-type cleaning cloths. Nothing else. Wal-Mart. Bought groceries, 2 quick-connect garden hose connectors (planned, use to simplify animal care. Old ones wore out. Thrown away.), gun sling (planned, needed for convenience and for free hands, when needed). Did not buy anything else. Did not buy beautiful pink bromeliad. Amended to add that I bought a hand mirror for Mother's bathroom at Dollar Tree.
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Post by angela on Jul 26, 2014 21:37:49 GMT -5
Feed store, hay, chicken food. No treats for anyone today. I've spent a lot on some additional goat supplies and supplements so otherwise they're getting basics. Oh wait, I guess the orchard grass is a treat..though I'll feed it out mixed into their plain grass hay as a way to make them more interested.
Nothing bought at yard sale today or at the library thrift. I don't need or even want another book right now. I was tempted by a three drawer plastic bin thing but it was $7. More than I wanted to spend. Also a digital picture frame, $15, again more than I was willing to spend.
A piece of clothing purchased NEW at the local all-in-one store. Half of the last marked clearance price, so $4 for an all cotton, short sleeved, coral red t-shirt. Score. It seems like most t-shirts these days have some rayon or spandex in them and I always feel hot. So I always look for all cotton.
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Post by dayeanu on Jul 26, 2014 22:09:23 GMT -5
Good job, angela! I went to the feed store yesterday, bought feed and necessary supplies, a small water trough, and two saddle blankets for $12 each. (DD "borrowed" mine.) Went to the grocery store again. Bought only what was on the list. Tonight at the dollar store I bought a toothbrush, slippers, a t-shirt, green tea, and a small tub to put the goats' soda in.
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Post by puppybox on Jul 27, 2014 10:26:10 GMT -5
goat soda!?
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Post by dayeanu on Jul 27, 2014 16:48:47 GMT -5
, Puppybox, I guess that DID sound funny - l can see a little soda fountain with little cafe tables and little umbrellas set up alongside the edge of the pasture. The billy goat saunters up and orders sodas for him and the gals! . It's actually baking soda. Goats are supposed to have access to fresh baking soda at all times, so they can adjust the acidity of their rumen. But they only eat very small amounts of it, so I don't need a great big bucket to serve it in. And being goats, they do tend to tear up containers. So I have to buy either really heavy duty (expensive), or so cheap it doesn't matter.
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Post by dtesposito on Jul 27, 2014 16:53:46 GMT -5
Goats are supposed to have access to fresh baking soda at all times, so they can adjust the acidity of their rumen.
Well who knew! I learn something every day on this site!
Diane
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Post by dayeanu on Jul 27, 2014 20:28:20 GMT -5
Goats are supposed to have access to fresh baking soda at all times, so they can adjust the acidity of their rumen.Well who knew! I learn something every day on this site! Diane We're a diverse group here, that's for sure! I'm not sure about the accuracy of my explanation "why" they need it for their rumen. I just know it helps their rumen somehow, and if I understand it correctly, that's why. Mostly, I just know I'm supposed to keep it out for them all the time.
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Post by angela on Jul 27, 2014 20:37:40 GMT -5
Daye
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Post by dayeanu on Jul 27, 2014 20:48:19 GMT -5
I went to a thrift store. I intended to buy nothing. I bought a large old mirror, in perfect condition, with a nice wood frame to hang in the dining room, for $10. It is so heavy I can't lift it. They loaded it in the back of my truck. Ten minutes later a massive thunderstorm hit. I pulled under the awning of a gas station "to buy gas" (I needed to anyway), and a nice man loaded it into the back seat of the truck for me. Whew!
I went to an antique store and bought a 1946 wheat penny mounted in a little horseshoe, for my grandson. It was $2. BUT this right here is where I get in trouble. I bought the darn thing *because when I was little, my brother and I had one just like it, AND because the penny was 1946 - the year my brother was born*. He died 12 years ago.
This was some kind of sentimental purchase. I'm not sure what - holding on to the past? Holding on to the childhood relationship with my brother? Commemorating his life by buying our childhood memento with his birth year? Idk. Definitely some kind of sentimentality there.
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Post by dayeanu on Jul 28, 2014 19:13:34 GMT -5
I bought three of an item this weekend,when I only intended to buy one. It's something that definitely will not ever be clutter; they were good purchases. But looking back, I realize I bought all three - not because I truly believe I ought to have bought all three, but because I could not make up my mind. Decision-making issues.
So - I made 3 purchases this weekend for all the wrong reasons.
The penny and horseshoe - sentimentality The two same-type items - indecision.
I have work to do.
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Post by papermoon on Jul 28, 2014 19:28:21 GMT -5
A couple of days ago I cleaned the inside of my grimy toaster oven. Either I didn't clean it soon enough or else I did some damage. In any case, while making toast last night I noticed that one of the heating coils has developed a split and is bulging like a huge scary bubble and about to burst.
I bought this particular toaster oven because it's a very good brand (Cuisinart) and comes with a 3-year warranty. If something goes wrong, California law provides that all I have to do is take it back to the store and I will get a free replacement on the spot. My toaster oven is 2 years and 4 months old.
But I have no idea where my receipt is!! And of course I never sent in the warranty card, and couldn't lay my hands on that info even if I had sent it.
I think the papers might be in one of the bankers boxes crammed full of paper chaos in my basement storage. But I don't dare to open those Pandora boxes except in carefully controlled increments of 12 minutes max or I would place myself in peril of a breakdown.
I have searched everywhere else. I found the instruction booklet, but evidently I failed to staple the receipt in it, way back when.
So I must go buy another toaster oven ASAP. This tiny studio kitchen has no oven, and I use the toaster oven every day, often three times a day. Fortunately I can afford the price of a new toaster oven because I can use a 20% off coupon at Bed Bath & Beyond. So it will cost $80 - $16 + tax.
I'm glad I wrote all this out because it has been roiling inside my head since last night and making me very anxious. Now that I have a plan I feel better. I will go to BB&B tomorrow and buy a new toaster oven.
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Post by dtesposito on Jul 28, 2014 20:05:34 GMT -5
I went to a thrift store. I intended to buy nothing.
If you intended to buy nothing why did you go into the store?
It's funny that you bought three of an item--I used to do the same. There's something about three--one for me, one spare one, and maybe one for someone else? I don't know, but I used to buy multiples of things I liked, and the most common number I settled on was three. In fact, up until last year, when I went to a grocery store, if I only needed one item, I would look around until I found a couple of other items to buy--it felt wrong to buy one item even if that's all I needed. I've been consciously working on this and have gotten way better about it.
Diane
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