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08-03-2018, 02:22 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Berkeley, Denver, CO, USA
Posts: 1,406
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11mm combination wrench.
I had 6-17, except for 11
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08-03-2018, 04:58 PM
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#2362
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,514
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08-03-2018, 05:32 PM
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#2363
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Limerick
Posts: 5,655
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Two games. Scrabble and Sequence. DW wants to beat...play me. I never win.
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08-03-2018, 06:05 PM
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#2364
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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Was all set to order some sprinkler parts from Amazon, but got curious and did an internet search and found the parts significantly cheaper elsewhere, even after shipping. I need to do that more often.
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08-03-2018, 06:12 PM
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#2365
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 11
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motorcycle battery
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08-03-2018, 11:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
Posts: 8,765
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A bunch of hand tools. A plier set, a screwdriver set, and a few folding utility knives. I'm going to get rid of all my mismatched, bent, blunt, and generally effed up tools and start with good quality matched stuff. We've got a ton of Amazon points and I thought I would use them to upgrade. I've got a few major storage projects to do in the next month or so, and I'm going in style.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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DW and I - FIREd at 50 (7/06), living off assets
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08-12-2018, 01:20 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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This looks like a nifty little gizmo for those who (like me) seem to be getting older and driftier as the years pass by. It turns off the power at a socket after 30 minutes, so if you leave a small appliance plugged in by accident it is less likely to burn the house down. 15 amps, 125 V.
I would never totally depend on something like this, and would still use a timer and unplug, but hey, belt-and-suspenders.... And besides, it's cheap!
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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08-12-2018, 02:35 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Mid-Atlantic
Posts: 2,676
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I love my Kasa TP-Link switch...which I did get at Amazon! You have to use your phone to control it, and it does require a little setup, but it can do exactly what the 30-minute switch does with a couple of taps (see screenshot), and it also replaces those old dial timers, plus you can set it to turn on and off randomly a few times (so it looks like someone is home) between, say, 6pm and 10pm.
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08-12-2018, 02:37 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,596
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A toilet flange repair kit. My remodel has encountered a snag. The old flange is cracked where the toilet bolts go.
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08-12-2018, 02:55 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 14,328
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Circuit breakers. I'm replacing my old Federal Pacific service panel with a Siemens model. Washington State has adopted the latest National Electric Code which means I have to buy hundreds of dollars of arc fault circuit breakers to bring it up to the new code. I'm also installing a generator interlock which will allow me to plug in my generator and power any circuit in the house. My neighbor is a retired electrician and he is hand holding with me to make sure it passes inspection the first time.
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08-12-2018, 05:20 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
Posts: 11,447
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I ordered new wine glasses on Amazon and when they arrived I did not like them so I went to return them and they refunded me but told me to keep them so what to do with these wine glasses .
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08-13-2018, 07:00 AM
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#2372
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
Posts: 8,765
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Moemg
I ordered new wine glasses on Amazon and when they arrived I did not like them so I went to return them and they refunded me but told me to keep them so what to do with these wine glasses .
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Know anyone with a birthday or wedding coming up? If not, freecycle.
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DW and I - FIREd at 50 (7/06), living off assets
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08-23-2018, 04:09 PM
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#2373
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,021
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A new flexible 50 amp power cord for the camper. The heavy duty (and heavy!) cord that came with the RV has a plastic casing that gets very stiff in cold weather, making it difficult to coil for storage. On our trip to Colorado last fall I pulled a muscle in my shoulder wrestling with the dang thing. No more!
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Numbers is hard
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08-23-2018, 04:18 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
In the interests of "Blow that Dough", I ordered a $2.99 stick-on digital car clock. It had TERRIBLE reviews but for $2.99, might as well try it. It's coming from China and will take 3 weeks to get here.
I'm probably going to stick it on the tile wall in my bathroom.
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I ordered this on 7/26, and it is still not here. It was shipped via Malaysia Post on 7/27, with no tracking information beyond that although it is supposed to arrive sometime between August 16th and September 7th. If I want to inquire I have to contact the seller half a world away.
Remind me never to order from them again! I should have paid more to get something shipped within the US. Oh well.
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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08-23-2018, 04:23 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,340
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Two yellow toner cartridges for the printer. DW prints a chart about every day that has a lot of yellow bands in it, so the printer uses more yellow than any other color.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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08-23-2018, 04:53 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Severn
Posts: 947
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4 buckets of UTZ pork rinds (to get the free shipping). They came in today. They make a great replacement for breadcrumbs if you put them through a food processor. Ground porkrinds, onion, garlic, cinnamon coated fried/baked chicken breasts are awesome!
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08-23-2018, 05:27 PM
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#2377
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,065
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrencewendall
4 buckets of UTZ pork rinds (to get the free shipping). They came in today. They make a great replacement for breadcrumbs if you put them through a food processor. Ground porkrinds, onion, garlic, cinnamon coated fried/baked chicken breasts are awesome!
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What ?? Recipe please.....
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08-23-2018, 05:52 PM
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#2378
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 2,511
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pickle ball paddle and hidden gutter hangers
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08-23-2018, 07:06 PM
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#2379
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 23,036
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LEM stainless steel food dehydrator. We are getting far too many tomatoes coming in to eat them all fresh before they spoil.
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Living an analog life in the Digital Age.
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08-23-2018, 07:54 PM
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#2380
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,727
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24 cans of dog food (high end stuff):
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