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tuyop posted:Any moneysaving tips for my anticipated 50+ days off in December-January? I guess a ski trip to Maine is out of the question. If you have that many consecutive days off the obvious choice is to get a part-time/seasonal job and put that money toward debt. Put vacations out of your mind right now, it will only make the process harder.
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2011 21:04 |
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 05:16 |
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tuyop posted:I think that you're correct. And I'm sorry. I didn't expect the transition to be this emotionally charged for me. Fate has hosed you over and there's nothing you can do about it. Feeling anger, pain, injustice makes perfect sense. I understand. However, there are two points I want to make. One is that you shouldn't let your feelings turn into bitterness and bile. Your feeling of superiority over the "lesser people" (including your own girlfriend!) is repulsive. Hey buddy: you aren't going to become what you've been training to be. Get it through your head. You are one of the lesser people now [even though you are still insanely privileged to even have the choices that you do have]. You had your chance, you failed through no fault of your own, now suck it up and make the best of it. Being stubborn and bitter will get you nowhere. Secondly, look at this pragmatically: I promise that swallowing your pride and doing your stint as a computer janitor (for a sweet wage, no less) will be much more comfortable than having no job, no prospects, and an additional 50k in debt. For god's sake man, option 1 is a raise! How can you turn that down when the alternatives are so positively apocalyptic? Do you know how many people would tear out your entrails for a guaranteed job that pays $5,000/month? A lot. I think the other two people who responded have been too harsh. You need some time to assimilate how your life has changed, get out your anger. But then you're going to realize that life doesn't always break the way you planned, and that you're lucky that you even have such a generous contingency plan to fall back on. A lot of people get sick, get fired, and loving die because they can't pay for health care (in the US). You got injured and are getting a 25% raise. It could have been a lot worse.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2012 08:07 |
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Fraternite posted:Yeah, because God knows you can "afford" to pay more over a longer time instead of paying less by paying it off faster. But listen, don't you see how much cheaper it is to pay $100 a month for 10 years than to pay $300 a month for two years? Basic finance man, look it up sometime.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2012 01:41 |
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Devian666 posted:You seem to be missing some critical information. It he ends up owning the car outright he will probably end up driving it into a lake, or it will otherwise explode or cost him an unreasonable amount of money. If he gets rids of the car his gf will still have a car so they still have a car where needed. They only have one car between them. They can't and shouldn't sell it. Can't because if you sell an upside-down car the remainder of the loan becomes payable immediately. Shouldn't because you can live without a car in Brooklyn but not in the arctic deathscape of darkest Canada.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2012 05:53 |
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tuyop posted:These are valid concerns. If you don't know anything about your market then it doesn't matter how economical the production of basil is. You've been talking about profit without even knowing anything about basil except your costs. What is the existing supply? Is there demand? What kind of business model would you sell your basil under? What are the costs of that model? This idea can't even be called half-assed. Quarter-assed as best.
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2012 21:02 |
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tuyop posted:Aquaponics isn't hydroponics. It's like, aquaculture as well. So we'd have a tank of minnows with tubes taking the fish-fertilized water (bacteria turn the ammonia into nitatratss) into the grow trough, with plants floating on foam rafts. The plants clean the nitrates from the water and the water is returned to the fish by gravity. It sounds like a neat hobby. It sounds like a terrible business proposition. Like something out of a cartoon. Tuyop and Toeshoes' Basil and Tilapia Emporium. You haven't said what you'll do with the fish. Or how much it costs to feed them.
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2012 22:28 |
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It's unclear with the bolding and capitalization of BASIL whether we're talking about weed at this point but if we are really talking about basil there has been no discussion of demand. Who is going to buy this poo poo? If you had a kilo of fresh basil right now would you be able to sell it before it went bad? All the basil in the world will be useless if you have no way of getting it into the hands of basil-wanters. If BASIL is your super-clever code for weed then good luck with your idiotic criminal enterprise.
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2012 03:24 |
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tuyop posted:Closets are used to store things that you aren't using. This seems kind of silly, really. If you're not using some things, why do you own so many of them that you need a whole other room dedicated to storing them? Absolutely, this is why I only own one shirt, one pair of pants and one pair of underwear. Don't let these closet-normative clowns lead you down a path of materialism.
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2012 00:34 |
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 05:16 |
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I dunno, ingesting untested, unapproved powders straight from china seems like a really, really good idea to me.
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2012 03:59 |