I'm sorry :(

Yeah, maybe something crafty or artsy. I still enjoy coloring and painting. I like to find the little ceramics you paint. If you have a Dollar Tree or Dollar General I've seen holiday themed ones. Last year I found a penguin wearing a hat and scarf. This year I've found a Frankenstein's monster and another Halloween one. They were in $1 kits! I keep my own paint at home, though. More colors to choose from. I skimmed the posts. I think someone mentioned cooking or baking. Maybe something like a cake decorating set? Cookie cutters? It was for a younger girl, but I gave something like this once. It can be used for making cakes or pancakes. I found it at Hobby Lobby. https://www.amazon.com/Bakelicious-73851-Cupcaker-Batter-Mixer/dp/B00IWHTQY4/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1505693306&sr=8-11&keywords=cupcake+mixer+for+kids

I love rice. I like chicken and rice casseroles, rice in gumbo, chicken and dumplings over a bed of rice, stir fry with rice and even just rice and veggies with butter. Might be too hot for a lot of those. My mom used to make a dish of pork chops with rice.

Not so much about the fairness, but this.

I bent my fingernail backwards ripping open a package the other day. I have a small bruised area but it's so close to the edge it's not very noticeable. I also have a toenail story. I dropped a water bottle (partially full) on my bare toe. It caused a bruise. I don't really get how it works but the black dot appears on the top of the toe nail and I guess won't be visible once enough time passes and the toe nail grows more because the dot has moved over as the nail grows. I punched myself in the face doing something stupid like adjusting a blanket. I can't remember all the details but I think I tripped stepping over the tall baby gate instead of using the door? Pretty sure I had a pancake on a paper plate and was trying to fall gracefully and not drop the pancake. Probably saved the pancake and hurt my other pancake. I don't consider myself that accident prone, but my kids are. Now, Thursday was pretty bad. I didn't see dd's toy and I slipped carrying laundry. I have a bruise on my palm. On my palm! lol. My other one feels bruised, but it's not really visible. Maybe I am more accident prone than I'd like to admit...

Can you get feedback from the town?? Like a survey you mail or hand out or put in public places like the library? Or just ask around? In one of our homeschooling groups we're planning some games and one suggestion was like a ring toss with a pumpkin. You try to get it to land on the stem. I've also heard suggestions lately for rock painting? If they painted a rock (assuming you could get some) they could take them home and you wouldn't have the issue like the mural thing. Because even after you stored the mural you could still have to worry about graffiti I guess.

Yes, I have read fine print and I still figured it was kinda like buying something like applesauce that had no *added* sugar. We all know appleasauce is sweet on its own but unsweetened seems healthier. /shrug

Both. Some packages say nitrate and nitrite-free

Ugh off gasing*

When it happened to us I put it in a ziplock bag and took it outside. I read something online about getting it away. Can't remember if I unzipped the bag first. Waited a bit before putting in can. I have no idea if that was the best way to handle it but I definitely didn't want it off fading or whatever indoors

Usually a mix. Just ketchup. Preferably nitrite-free. Like bun length.

something simple like corn hole? Cake walk? Face painting? Balloon animals? I know, not exactly original lol.

I think my office just scheduled me. The receptionist would probably just say, "can you make it on X day?" and I'd say, "yes" and then we'd discuss morning/afternoon. I had what were considered healthy pregnancies. Is there a conflict that's making it hard to come back within the recommended time frame or is it an insurance thing or you just don't want to come in that often? You don't have to say. I don't imagine it would be a big deal unless the dr. thought it was. Like come in at X time to drink some glucose drink.

From where? The beach? I think it's illegal on the gulf coast to take the sand. Well, the one we used to live near is the longest man made beach and I think it was illegal to take that sand.

40%? Maybe they are including anyone over age 18. Might be more common say, with a young person sleeping with the teddy their significant other gave them?

So he can't go to more than one store to get more than 10? This may be dumb but I sometimes wonder if people can just buy cheap litter instead of sand. I don't know how I feel about the whole sand thing. I wonder how much he took. Not that less is suddenly ok.

not on The Walking Dead. That's not how they use the term. I do think taking from someone's home is looting, though.

I am pretty sure someone at co-op was wearing a shirt with his business logo lol. I wanted to say something, but I hadn't watched the show in a while. I had an issue with that link but found one. http://www.wideopencountry.com/clint-harp-diy-series/ Scroll down to the video -- Chip makes fun of Joanna saying shiplap all the time HA

This thread :laugh: I don't know what's so special about rod iron stair rails. She got them in her home and thinks everyone should enjoy them. The carpenter guy does good work. When she says, "ok we have this much left... these are you choices. Do you want A, B, or C?" I think "None of the above! What a waste of money" half the time. I just feel like they spend too much money to do what they do. But maybe that's because on demo day I think of all the stuff they could have reused. I can watch them or not watch them. I don't have cable.

We did try to see if our computers worked after Katrina. Believe it or not, you may have some electronics with things on them you wanted to keep. Like when your photo albums are destroyed and not everything is digitally saved. Or maybe it is saved, but not on a harddrive in a dry place. People deserve the opportunity to investigate that if they want. Have you had a home destroyed, Tanaqui?

Yeah I raised an eyebrow at that post, too. I get it, insurance will cover stuff. But wouldn't it help to have photos? A photo of that big screen TV or whatever. At first I worried about the little details but in the end they did cut my parents a check and then I went out and rebought stuff I lost. There's no way I could tell you ever CD and all that. Most of that stuff I never bothered to replace.

Looting would piss me off after a disaster because you never know if the item was sentimental or the family was coming back to gather up what they could. When you have to buy a new wardrobe maybe you did care about those jeans that didn't get ruined. But whatever. It wouldn't be my biggest focus, either. I walked through my home after Katrina and my parents told me it was not going to be our last visit to the home. I didn't grab everything, but I grabbed a few things like my guitar. I left behind my senior class ring. The sizing was off. But I guess I thought I would go back one more time and I'd get it then. Well, we didn't. So what happened to my unclaimed stuff? Who knows. A group from a church offered to clean up homes including ours and I assume if the helpers wanted something they kept it for themselves. Not sure anyone would want that ring with my name engraved on it. My name made the list for extinct names this year lol.

My guess. People that don't need the money. I did the math and the rate I was told for an assistant teacher job worked out to be around min. wage but I guess you have to factor in that you get paid in summers, too when you aren't working. Still, it was quite low.

I was going to make volunteering suggestions but... there's always Netflix, Hulu, Amazon... :D

wow, really? I don't know why anyone would call it "finding" in a grocery store unless the remark was to emphasize the fact that it was so hard to find bread right before the disaster let alone after. To me taking food out of the grocery store can be called looting. That's not to say I don't think people can justify it (ie. my family was starving, the bread would go bad, the owner wasn't going to sell it, etc. etc.)