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Agreed. A couple going out 3-4 times a week can very easily go through $500 a week. Thats over two grand a month. How much mortgage does that buy? Then there's the upgraded car, a couple of trips a year to get out of the apartment, the designer pooch,

The last time I ordered a meal combo from McD's it was about $13-14. Today is Whopper Wednesday at BK and it's about $16 for two. Both chains are offering mini combos for about $6-7 a piece. It's a better deal as few really need the extra fries. The next step up is the sit-down diner. Before...

If your income would have been sufficient to save for a house the number in that group has significantly diminished. So many "YOLO" and enjoy the day.

Another American owned Canadian institution closing. The joys of equity capital (Which I do not understand) and e-commerce. (And tariff uncertainties) https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/hudsons-bay-waiting-for-court-order-start-liquidating-stores Get your HBC blankets now.

Self sticking or do you get to spit on them?

Oddly enough, I watched a YouTube video yesterday on retrieving an Argo ATV to submarine conversion on Lake Simcoe. It was a primitive A frame rig and lots of iffy rope anchors spots. Chain saw a hole and lots of "go by feel" stuff. In some places there are companies set up to retrieve non...

How long is the piece? I needed 2) 14 footers and saw a crew doing a house nearby. They ran the two white (Brown inside) pieces as a cash job. They threw in the end caps and brackets. I put them on the roof racks, drove home and DIYed the job.

I have a set of dies but only go to 1-1/4" and they're NPT. 1-1/2" NPT is 11-1/2 TPI, not 12TPI so running the die backwards won't help even if I had the right size. My thread chasing file has a 12 TPI edge but I don't know if the outcome would be very true, filing by hand. Does the part need to...

Most adults will suffer third-degree burns if exposed to 150 degree water for two seconds. Burns will also occur with a six-second exposure to 140 degree water or with a thirty second exposure to 130 degree water. Even if the temperature is 120 degrees, a five minute exposure could result in...

What is the incentive to up productivity? Does the union leadership want to lose 30% of its force and therefore income? Does management want to admit by change that they've been screwing up for decades? CP management has been into DEI for ages, Dumb, Expensive Inept

McDonalds DeJa'Vu but X 10. IIRC that one eventually settled out at a penny on the dollar for the victim. ~$50,000

When I do a ceiling I but the DW sheet between the joists backed by a 12" strip of plywood. BUT I put a long thin shim strip (1/16") on the plywood 6" back from the edge. When the sheet ends are screwed to the plywood, they pull up a bit, creating a taper that is treated like the tapered edges...

An 80-year-old friend of my wife wears hearing aids but has just been told that her GP of many years is retiring. The replacement doesn't have an Anglo-Saxon last name. Communication can be difficult at best without added barriers. It gets awkward asking to repeat.

Do poems count as word art? Hot, sexy, a ten out of ten, Words alluring to most men. Words as those like a lamp on a shelf Only shedding its light upon itself Beauty though, when it encounters gloom Spreads its light throughout the room

Probably said before but as-is has to be something rare that I really want and it's dirt cheap. Dirt cheap means being able to part it out to re-coup losses.

Design by Trump University engineering graduate. Repair by Trump culinary college graduate.

The big change is in the complexity of things over the years. A generation ago a person could fix their vehicle with a modest tool kit. Those skills were universal and a handyman was at least partly trained for other trades by at least having a knowledge of math, general physics and electricity...

Typical government position. They can't do the job but make it illegal for anyone else to take over. I can't see why a Power of attorney over mail wouldn't work. All it would take to get it federally approved is a ten-year study at $20 million. :( In reality the private party would not be...

If your luck is anything like mine, clean the floor and paint it white. Dropped screws, being asymmetrical in shape, bounce in unpredictable directions.

First powered two-wheel ride was on the back of a scooter ridden by a friend's slightly older really cute sister. She said hold on. I did, grinning like a fiend. Mid 1960's I rented a Honda 50cc step-through from a store on Dundas Street near the junction. Back then anything was considered a...