Danae
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Do it. There is absolutely no comparison. It’s not a gradually getting more impressive thing, it’s like flipping a switch. Totality is a whole different thing.
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6 hours ago, marbel said:
There are uses for "plastic cheese" because of it's supreme creaminess. I know there are ways to get that with "regular" cheese and an additive I can't remember right now (someone will know it I'm sure) but every now and then a slice of American is just what's needed.
Sodium citrate.
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I think you would benefit by not taking anything she says personally.
No, she’s not kind to you. She never has been and she isn’t going to start now.
This is going to sound like I’m criticizing your posting, but I’m not, I promise. Over and over you post threads that are “Can you believe my mother did/said ______. Yes, we all can believe it, because that’s who she is. It’s glaringly obvious to anyone who reads your threads. I hope that you will get to the point where you don’t post this type of thread, NOT because it’s wrong that you’re doing it now but because you’ve made it to the point that you no longer need reassurance that she’s the one who’s “off” not you. My hope for you is that someday when she says these things you will snort to yourself “pfft, there she goes again” and have forgotten it by the time you get home and could post about it. Her nonsense doesn’t deserve the space it’s taking up in your heart.
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Yes, if the ratio of milk to cereal is high enough that the pieces move freely. Otherwise it’s salad.
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Quiche? You could either do it without the crust or just let him eat it out of the crust if the crust makes it look normal.
Actually, you could put puréed anything into a custard and bake it in a crust. 🙂
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Every reaction I’ve seen from marine biologists has been a massive eye roll along with the information that stingray parthenogenesis is a known thing and stingrays and sharks are not genetically close enough to cross-breed.
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You can freeze them whole and thaw slightly before juicing and zesting.
To make preserved lemons, pack them in coarse salt in a jar and stick it in the fridge. The salt will pull moisture out of the lemon to make a brine.
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This is going to sound stupid, but you wouldn’t believe how many websites mess it up: the address. Put it it multiple places. If someone wants to come to your church it should be easy to find out where you are.
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This Minnesota kid had never heard of it before reading your post.
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3 minutes ago, Carol in Cal. said:
I think of registries these days as as much a shopping list for the couple as ideas for the guests.
That makes it easier to smile at $500 pots and such.
In some cases literally. Some stores have registry completion discounts where you can buy anything left on your registry at 25% off, or similar. So it makes sense to put any major purchases you intend to make on the registry even if you don’t think your guests will buy them.
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Here’s a thread from a few weeks ago with many people’s experience.
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Since the content of the list is the same either way I’m not sure it matters. Think of it like the Ten Commandments . . . three different ways to split the verses, but they all have the same words and they all add up to 10.
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Physically pushing someone’s head down is not non-violent.
I’m also confused by the fact that this person thinks parents should report their disciplinary techniques to the school. Since when is that a thing?
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Lots of help, although I’m not really sure who did what. My first baby was a few weeks early, and I’m a horrible procrastinator. My parents and siblings drove in from 300 miles away and finished painting the nursery and did a bunch of other house projects. (We lived in a hundred year old Victorian that we were starting to fix up and restore, and then I got pregnant and priorities changed.)
Mom was in the delivery room with DH and I. If something had gone wrong the plan was that she would stay with me and DH would go with the baby. But we were both fine, so we all stayed together. After I was cleaned up and everyone else got to meet the baby they all left for an hour or so so DH and I had time alone with the babe, and then they brought us breakfast.
Siblings stayed for a few days, Mom and Dad for maybe a week? And then they came back for a long weekend every few weeks.
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I have it, but we haven’t played it yet.
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3 hours ago, Arctic Bunny said:
So here’s my question (First time, first month with YNAB)…
My budgeting method for food and groceries has been to automatically put the same amount from every paycheque onto the credit card that I use for those purchases. Has worked well for years, although not ideal. Now that DH has started taking over some of these purchases, and has never bothered to activate his card, more things end up coming out of our debit account and I’m left short there and with a surplus on the credit card, which all drives me a little batty.
My budgeting plan is that the surplus builds on the card, then I know how much we can spend on a large Costco shop, for example.
If I’m understanding YNAB correctly, I’ve got my debit account and credit card account. I’ve got fully-funded categories for groceries, gas, eating out, Costco, and the associated credit card payment. So now for this month, when I grocery shop, it will reduce the surplus on the credit card account when that transaction happens, and I will categorize that transaction as groceries.
Then next paycheque, instead of automatically making that pre-payment on my credit card, I will continue to fund the categories with paycheque money. Then when I use the credit card for groceries, it will still show as a transaction with grocery category, but the associated credit card payment category will go negative, showing me the actual amount to pay from the next pay cheque. This will leave the real money in the debit account. Then if I don’t use all the grocery budget in that pay period, I could move it to the Costco category, and it will sit in the debit account instead of letting the credit card company hold it. And if DH buys gas with the debit card, it doesn’t matter.
Yes?
Yes.
Although you don’t need to move the money to a Costco category. If what you buy at Costco is groceries you can just leave it in the grocery category and when the category has a large balance you know you can do your Costco shop. It gives you the same info that you were getting by letting the balance build on the credit card, but the money can stay in your debit account rather than pre-paying the card and it doesn’t matter which method of payment you use.
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1 hour ago, Heartstrings said:
What’s really scary about this particular stat is that some people drink 0 or near 0 soda, meaning some people are consuming much much more than the 40 gallons average. We gave up soda years ago, but I am pretty fond of the unsweetened seltzer waters.
I mean, it sounds scary, but 40 gallons is 213 cans of soda. That’s a little over 4 a week. So someone who has one can a day at work and none on the weekends is an above average soda drinker.
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I love them. We also have them color coded by family member and then the cubes are distributed between luggage in the most efficient way for the trip. So on a car trip with one or two overnights en route and a longer stay at the destination each person packs what they’ll need for the first night(s) in one cube and all four cubes go in one suitcase. Then that’s the only bag we need to bring in and the rest of the suitcases stay in the car.
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I think I would call it a stash exchange, or “stash & scrap” exchange. I think that would catch crafters’ attention and communicate that you want good quality supplies that people aren’t using, not just junk.
If your target audience is people who already craft I don’t think gluing together a card is going to be much of a draw. A display of crafts that various people in the neighborhood do might be. A supervised kid’s craft table so that parents can browse would be good.
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Disclaimer: I am a YNAB classic user. I don’t like the new subscription-based version. But I think some of this will translate.
One of the best things I did when setting up our budget was to group categories based on how/how often money is spent. So I have “out-and-about” categories for things like groceries, restaurants, gas, and clothes . . . things that we would buy at stores. Since we were manually entering purchases these were pinned at the top of the app. Then “monthly bills,” “non-monthly bills” (like insurance that is billed every six months or water/sewer that is quarterly, but still regular and mostly known amounts), and “expected unexpected” for things like car & house repairs that we know will happen but don’t know when or how much. “Saving to buy” for saving for expected purchases like cars, computers, vacations, and “long term saving” for just socking money away.
This is a fundamentally different way of looking at finances than grouping gas, car repairs, insurance, and car payment or saving for the next car as “car” or “transportation” but I find it much more useful.
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12 hours ago, Laura Corin said:
I wonder if this is still going
My youngest (now 15) attended a preschool in a senior living facility. It was awesome. Not just because of the grandmas and grandpas though, it was a great preschool for other reasons . . . 20 acres of woods and prairie and 3-4 hours a day outdoors, a full art studio (shared with the seniors), and really great teachers. But they also did a lot with the residents. The more independent folks would come down and read and do art with the kids and several times a week the kids would go up to the memory care unit to sing with the people there. Kiddo learned all the 1940s popular songs. He also went along with two classmates to the hospital to visit one of their regular story time readers who was dying. “Grandpa Paul” wanted to see some of the kids one last time, so the director asked for parental permission and arranged a visit. I wish the people who ran that preschool had designed an elementary school too. We’d have enrolled in a heartbeat.
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Is it correct in Google sheets and then the extra zero is added when you open it in Excel?
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That would bug me too.
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It will be about the same. A Bundt pan is just a long loaf bent around a curve. Maybe tell him to check it at 20 and 25 min just in case. The thickness of the pan and whether it’s dark or shiny will probably make a bigger difference than the shape in this case.
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Partial eclipses are awesome. Visiting the Mojave desert is also awesome. But visiting the Mojave desert and not seeing the Grand Canyon is not the same experience as seeing it, and someone saying “eh, I got within a mile of the Canyon, that’s close enough” doesn’t know what they’ve missed.