Bestwifeever
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Most Pleasurable 40 bucks or less
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on the way to the outer banks theres a microbrewey and farm called the weeping radish. All in was $60 for 2dinners, a flight of 9 beers, plus 2 pints. Great service, great German food and beer!
I like 3 and 6! We go to our saucer every Sunday for $3.50 NC beers and dinner. With the AHA discount, that's under $40.
Filling up the gas tank in my motorcycle (Victory Crossroad) and going for a ride in my beautiful NorCal area with buddies or buddies and our wives. We always go to great little restaurants in small remote towns (70-100 miles from home).
We "ride to eat, eat to ride"
We "ride to eat, eat to ride"
Sarah in SC
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Live music at small concert venues featuring lesser known artists. I'd rather get tickets to see a band closeup, than 3x as much to sit in an auditorium (or larger) to see the bigger acts.
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- A 45 minute group dancing lesson for 2 (American foxtrot most recently), which also includes 'free' entrance to the three hour open, social dancing that immediately follows. At $15 pp, free parking, that still leaves $10, which we often finish on the way home with a stop for frozen yogurt at Yogurtland.
- Oodles of sans-alcohol pleasant little ethnic restaurants around us where we can dine for about $20, assuming we stick with water, which we usually do.
- Trader Joes picnic lunch at the beach. $20 for salad and dessert fixin's and about the same to park.
- Early morning run at the beach, when free parking is ample, then breakfast on the pier afterward ($20 'dry', $25 if we each order coffee)
- University tickets to almost any event held at their Performing Arts Center. Plus, we get a student discount for being members of the university's Lifelong Learning program.
- Umpteen Groupon offerings for breakfast or lunch at 'nicer' restaurants, or dinner at a slightly less glamorous tier of restaurants. It's always fun to try someplace new. Before Groupon we were definitely in a rut, but have broken out quite nicely since they came on the scene.
- Oodles of sans-alcohol pleasant little ethnic restaurants around us where we can dine for about $20, assuming we stick with water, which we usually do.
- Trader Joes picnic lunch at the beach. $20 for salad and dessert fixin's and about the same to park.
- Early morning run at the beach, when free parking is ample, then breakfast on the pier afterward ($20 'dry', $25 if we each order coffee)
- University tickets to almost any event held at their Performing Arts Center. Plus, we get a student discount for being members of the university's Lifelong Learning program.
- Umpteen Groupon offerings for breakfast or lunch at 'nicer' restaurants, or dinner at a slightly less glamorous tier of restaurants. It's always fun to try someplace new. Before Groupon we were definitely in a rut, but have broken out quite nicely since they came on the scene.
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daylatedollarshort
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I like to redecorate a bit now and then and buy a few new to me things, at least every few decades or so. The vase worked out so well I am seriously thinking of replacing the lava lamps and lime green shag rugs next.
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I like to redecorate a bit now and then and buy a few new to me things, at least every few decades or so. The vase worked out so well I am seriously thinking of replacing the lava lamps and lime green shag rugs next.
But they look so good with your avocado-colored appliances! (just joking!)
But they look so good with your avocado-colored appliances! (just joking!)
You mean... those are out of style now?
Really - at one time I did own a house with avocado green appliances. And a shag rug in the family room.
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Heck, I only spent $15 to see Sturgill Simpson the other week! And I got to see my beloved pedal steel player last night for only $12!
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When I purchased my house in 1999 it came with appliances, including a washing machine (harvest gold) and a stove (avocado green). Both were perfectly functional, and my guess is they were original to the house, which was built in 1971. I replaced them a couple of years later.
When I asked the realtor why all the bedroom doors in the house had such a large gap between the bottom of the door and the floor, he explained it was because they had to close over the shag carpeting which had been ripped up when the house was put on the market.
The harvest gold and avocado green were hideous colors, but I'd be willing to bet my nice white appliances which replaced them won't last 30 years!
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When I purchased my house in 1999 it came with appliances, including a washing machine (harvest gold) and a stove (avocado green). Both were perfectly functional, and my guess is they were original to the house, which was built in 1971. I replaced them a couple of years later.
When I asked the realtor why all the bedroom doors in the house had such a large gap between the bottom of the door and the floor, he explained it was because they had to close over the shag carpeting which had been ripped up when the house was put on the market.
The harvest gold and avocado green were hideous colors, but I'd be willing to bet my nice white appliances which replaced them won't last 30 years!
Believe it or not, many of those old, colored appliances had removable panels in case you wanted another color. Some even came with a few different colored panels stacked together.
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They are back as Golden Mist ad Mint Julep. Retro is cool now:
Retro kitchen colors like harvest gold, avocado, poppy and orange - from Viking - Retro Renovation
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Believe it or not, many of those old, colored appliances had removable panels in case you wanted another color. Some even came with a few different colored panels stacked together.
If only I had known that!
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Wouldn't you know it! I'll never be one of the cool kids!
Maybe it's just my computer, but the first two colors don't appear to be nearly as awful as the old colors (although I think the orange and red are hideous).
MooreBonds
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LOL - my 2002 Ford Explorer had an exterior color of "Harvest Gold"! Never knew that was originally an appliance color!
Some of the local casinos have morning poker tournaments that fall within that price range; Oceans11's 'buy-in' is $30. A couple of hours spent chatting with mostly agreeable people, a chance to exercise your brain; and sometimes, you get to go home with a profit!
Bestwifeever
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Darn, I don't think those colors are available any more--we will all have to wait for the retro retro versions.
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I get daily reading enjoyment from my $15/month digital subscription to the NYT.
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MY <$40 pleasure happens when my local beer distributor puts the craft beer on sale, for various reasons. Sometimes it is just getting old and there is some rule about selling old beer (maybe the brewer insists they sell it before it's too old). And sometimes I think just not enough people like the particular style, or the brewer is unknown, or the container is ugly, whatever.
But the result is that I can get $40 cases of craft beer for $20 to $25 every now and then. And I do stock up.
But the result is that I can get $40 cases of craft beer for $20 to $25 every now and then.
And I do stock up.
freebird5825
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Something like this ? Circa 1977, still in great shape and nice and fuzzy on the footsies.
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Yes, very much like that only more yellow and some black than orange. The walls were yellow and I think the curtains were too.
