Emba
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I made BIL and SIL rice bags (rectangular fabric bags filled with rice that can be heated in the microwave to put on sore muscles). Very quick project. You might be able to find a pattern online for one that is more shaped, but I just used a letter size piece of paper for a pattern. Legal might have been better.
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The one that immediately sprang to my mind was Farkle. But there is some math, and I had to actually play a game to understand the instructions, so maybe that’s more learning curve than you want. But even my kids picked up on it pretty fast.
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Yes, my guess is burned tomatoes as well. If you want to incorporate them into a whole loaf, I would either knead them in toward the end of kneading, or flatten the finished dough and roll them up into it like a cinnamon roll, but then close the ends and tuck them under. However, I’d probably do the first, and only roll them in if there were other fillings such as cheese that were also going in.
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Is there room in the budget for a small space heater? That way you could heat up just one corner of the house for yourself?
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Wow. Where’s the insane rage red faced emoji when you need it?
and since when does “being open to meeting people” (if indeed one could even agree that that is what wearing a thong meant, and not “wishing to not show panty lines”) mean the same thing as “I want to have sex with this person specifically “?
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I wear knit hats indoors on cold days. Also vests. A warm core helps me more than warm peripherals (except to fall asleep my feet must be warm). Down or wool is good, of course, but so is polar fleece.
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This is not a “big picture” thing, but my DD enjoyed a book about Stubby, a famous dog who belonged to a soldier in the trenches. I can’t remember the title - Stubby: War Dog ? Maybe.
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There are several of the Redwall series by Brian Jaques that have female protagonists, and most, if I remember correctly, have females in leadership roles. Now, these are forest animal females, not human females. There are no humans in Redwall. There’s also no sex, and very little romance.
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I vote gray area.
but what gets me is multiple posters saying serving guests sugar packets is tacky. Is the unspoken factor here that the packets are assumed to have busines logos on them? Or is there something intrinsically tacky about packets? Because I bought a small box of artificial sweetener packets for an occasional guest, since I don't use artificial sweetener. Small boxes of sugar packets are also available at Dollar Tree, which I would keep on hand for guests if I didn't use sugar. Seems less messy than a pound of loose sugar.
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I am frugal, and my frugality is far surpassed by my mom's. Hers is kind of a family joke, like my BIL finds half a paper towel on the paper towel roll and says "I can tell MIL has been here". I use worn out clothes rags for cleaning, but her kitchen towels are the good parts cut out of worn out bath towels which are now worn threadbare. But knowing how she raised a family of five when my dad was making peanuts for years on end I don't get bent out of shape when she gives us presents that were bought at garage sales. It's a family joke but an affectionate one. And my BIL gets it but SIL was raised in an entirely different tax bracket, and she doesn't get it. Once she rolled her eyes so hard she nearly injured herself when mama started gathering up party decorations to save, and I wanted to slap her. I will say something next time.
So I have high threshold for cheapness, but once a saw a whole family, at least 4 people, sharing a single drink at a fast food restauran t, taking frequent advantage of the free refills.
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I find it interesting that some have mentioned not bringing their own because the speaker uses a different translation. I actually often carry a different version than the version predominately used at my congregation on purpose because I find that the slightly different wording can at times be interesting and illuminating. I usually carry a paper copy but also use an app if I get off without the "real thing".☺
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The big food things I save on are pizza and homemade bread. Making your own homemade multigrain bread may not save over store brand white bread, but it will definitely save over an equivalent bread, and taste better too. Homemade pizza is so much better than store bought frozen pizza that even if it isn't cheaper i don't care, and it is definitely cheaper than eating out pizza.
Cookies i imagine are cheaper, but I've not run numbers, and homemade are generally better to me. I never buy bakery cakes because cake mixes are CHEAP and I hate the icing most bakeries use.
sewing is one of those things that it really depends. Sometimes I can sew for my kids a lot cheaper than storebought, sometimes not. But buying secondhand things in good condition, of good quality, is almost always cheaper than sewing, if I can find what I want. Anymore I mostly sew to have really custom items. I did save a lot by sewing my daughter and niece dresses for a wedding
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I had mine out at 22 and got infected. That was pretty miserable. So even though I’m not big on antibiotics “just in case”, if the dentist thinks it’s a good idea...it might be a good idea.
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That’s funny, I spent Sunday afternoon holding a baby too, and all I got was a wet lap. Where are my kittens?
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I would say its been around for at least 20 or 25 years. I can't remember exact instances of hearing it that far back, but if it were more recent I would probably be having a "get off my lawn" sort of reaction to it, and I'm not. So it was probably around when I was a teen/kid. It seems totally normal to say, to me, in other words, whereas things like the use of "right" to mean "I hear you and totally agree with what you just said, me too" grates on my nerves. (For example, I say "Oh, I haven't had time for that since DS was born" and my cousin who has twins says "Right" - it's something about both the inflection of the voice and the actual use of the word that annoys me. I tend to dislike innovations in slang, for some reason.)
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I just looked at my shelf and realized I have an edible plants book. Thought I got rid of it. So that would definitely go into my suitcase.
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There is always the chance that my kitchen scale doesn’t match the scale at the p.o. exactly, and in that case I might end up eating some shipping costs. It’s a risk I’m comfortable with. My scale seems accurate so far. I print out shipping labels through eBay/PayPal and have it deducted immediately from my paypal balance. Very convenient, so far has worked perfectly.
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Usually if I offer “free” shipping it is not free it is included in the price I ask. But I think actually most of my listings are “buyer pays” shipping. I weigh my books with a padded envelope and use the postage calculator on USPS.com to figure shipping. That one with the auction listing starting at 0 was a major booboo and I would have eaten the shipping if it had sold for under what it cost to ship. Luckily I didn’t have to.
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Hmmm, given what I have and the ages of my kiddos, I would grab:
a Bible (probably ESV or NASB because this would be my higher level reading book as well as spiritual nourishment and because I have very compact versions of both these editions).
McGuffey’s readers (I only have up to the 4th, though). Youngest definitely needs the primer and early ones though.
blank notebooks, as many as would fit, as well as pencils, crayons, and erasers.
A small chalkboard and box of chalk.
a couple of strayer Upton style vintage math books currently decorating my mantle, inherited from great uncle. This takes me up to about 6th grade math.
a community college pre algebra book (for DD). After that, no math, as pp said, if the world is going somewhere in a hand basket, higher math is not my concern, and maybe if it gets to be we can scavenge something later. Also I just don’t have any higher math books yet.
a couple of paperback poetry anthologies- great British and great American.
History - I’m kind of lacking here with what I’ve got on hand. SOTW 1 and maybe History Stories for Children and Exploring American History (Christian Liberty Press) because I have them on hand. If they fit and nothing better presents itself.
science - all I’ve got at the moment is God’s Design for Our Universe. By no means comprehensive, but light and thin. Also How Things Work, perhaps more useful post-apocalyptically.
i’d tell Each child to pack their own favorite book or two in their personal backpack.
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No, I haven’t used the insurance. I ship media mail with tracking, and none of my stuff has been expensive enough that I’ve wanted to do insurance.
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I just looked at my stats - I've sold about a third of what I've listed, and some buy it now items still have a couple of weeks to go on their listings. I may or may not relist after September, because ebay takes up a lot of mental energy for me. I'm pretty happy with even 1/3 since it clears shelf space out, gets some of my money for curriculum back, and I know I couldn't have gotten rid of this stuff more locally, since I tried.
As far as pricing, the ebay listing tool gives suggestions, and I've sort of gone with those, except the suggestions are sometimes way off for sets and lots, so for those I look at what others are asking, how much I feel would be worth it for me, both as a buyer and a seller, and go with that. I try to make buy it now prices on auctions the price I'd like to get, not any higher or lower. I make the starting bid price the absolute lowest price I'd find acceptable, except my first listing I accidentally listed for a starting bid of $0.00 and free shipping. It could have ended badly for me, but luckily it was a science set that seemed decently in demand, because it ended up selling for $1 more than I'd put for the Buy It Now price. I don't recommend that as a selling tactic, however. ?
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I am selling some things on Ebay right now, as well as in the Classifieds here. Ebay is definitely busier, of course. I've also tried a local homeschool facebook group, and nothing has come of that, except people wanting me to lower my prices, then never responding, and one lady saying she'd take a Saxon set and then flaking out and buying it somewhere else. There was a local curriculum sale that I did okay at, at least I broke even between the books I sold (and didn't have to ship!) and the books I bought.
As a buyer, I prefer Buy It Now, but as a seller, I think the Buy It Now things tend to sell faster because of the time element - you can't just put it on your watch list indefinitely because the auction will end. But the caveat to that is that auction items will end up being relisted more often if they don't sell, and that could add up if you are paying insertation fees.
Ebay allows people to make an offer if you allow it, and I do. You can also make counter offers. I've had two offers, they were both lower than I wanted to accept, I made counter offers, and neither were accepted. One was such a lowball offer I don't regret making the counter offer, but the other wasn't too bad, and I wish I had taken it. All this to say, it seems like people are not inclined to accept counter offers. The one that I got such a lowball offer on sold the very next day for the asking price.
I have sold an older Saxon set on Ebay, and my Rod and Staff books have languished, as has my BJU set.
I do sell things in sets if I have a whole or partial set, and those do seem to sell well, though my experience is very limited. I also list things in lots (related books, but not a set, per se, like two of the History of US books, or several Liberty Press books), and sets seem more attractive to buyers than lots. Both sets and Lots are convenient to me, though, since I have to do less packaging and shipping.
I do wish I'd listed earlier in the summer, since I think previous posters are right, by now almost everyone has their curriculum chosen and the buyers you get are just making last minute changes.
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Things I've really wished my library had: Life of Fred, BOB books, Story of the World books
Things I'm glad my library has: A set of the History of US books by Joy Hakim, many Dear America novels, many classic Newberry titles, lots of the "Who was...?" series of biographies, the "What Does Your ___ Grader Need to Know?" series, Homeschooling Your Struggling Learner (checked out more than once), books and historical novels on the history of my state
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I'm not an expert and I've only homeschool 3 years, so take this for what it is worth. ☺ The only spelling rule i have a conscious grasp of is the one about i before e except after c, and I spell pretty well. If she is a natural speller, her grasp of it is probably a subconscious grasp of the rules, which will continue to develop as she gets more experience with more words, and specific difficult spellings. I wouldn't worry about it.
FTR, DR is not exactly a natural speller. I teach her spelling, and various curricula have mentioned rules to greater and lesser degrees, but she never seems to internalize them. She learns individual words and doesn't generalize the rules well. But she's not a terrible speller.
Frozen quilt and pillow Updated: She loved it!
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Beautiful work! In no way does that look “like a seven year old made it”!
Every project is a learning experience, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t good work. You should be proud of it!