It makes me sad to see all of the dead trees curbside. DH keeps telling me to just let it go but it still seems like such a huge waste to me.
does your town not turn them to mulch?
ours does, so it's not like they get wasted...just re-purposed.
I think it is the cutting down of them in the first place more so than being repurposed. I could go on and on but my opinion would be even more and more unpopular.
It makes me sad to see all of the dead trees curbside. DH keeps telling me to just let it go but it still seems like such a huge waste to me.
does your town not turn them to mulch?
ours does, so it's not like they get wasted...just re-purposed.
same here.
i'm pretty earth loving crunchy, but the christmas tree business doesn't phase me. it's self sustaining - cut one, plant one (or more). quite honestly, i prefer that to all those plastic fake trees that eventually end up in land fills.
When I married DH, he had very close to seven figures of non-mortgage/SL debt (and a mortgage and SLs).
What was this debt from?
But holy wow on getting to positive net worth from there!
DH went from being very poor most of his life, to working a few years and paying for college completely by himself, to making $250-300+K per year as an independent consultant. He had no examples of how to manage money when making more than barely needed to survive and he never paid attention to things like interest rates and late fees. He didn't have health ins and had a couple major health care expenses, he took out personnel loans to cover the expenses vs just paying the bills and paid the min balance each month. Oh, he screwed up on his taxes one year and ignored the notices for a while so the fees/penalties piled on top. Then he took a more than 60% pay cut to become a Fed. And didn't adjust his life style/spending/expensive hobby until I got control of his finances.
And, no, I had no clue of what his true finances were like until we married (but neither did he really, it's not like he lied to me or hid info from me). And, yes, I did briefly consider divorce over it, but mainly because it took him a few months to really readjust his habits and I wasn't willing to be financially linked if he wasn't willing to fix truly things.
ours does, so it's not like they get wasted...just re-purposed.
same here.
i'm pretty earth loving crunchy, but the christmas tree business doesn't phase me. it's self sustaining - cut one, plant one (or more). quite honestly, i prefer that to all those plastic fake trees that eventually end up in land fills.
Ditto this.
From a blog post I did years ago (back when I blogged HA!) Artificial trees: * made with plastic (i.e. petroleum products) * eventually will have to be disposed of, and will never break down * likely made in China, with the carbon footprint that comes from shipping across the sea and to your store * collect dust in the attic/basement over the years
Real trees: * Likely grown fairly close by - at least in this country * Christmas tree farming is fairly low-impact, often on land that can't grown anything else (at least the farms I am familiar with in the NC mountains) * When a tree is cut down, another one is planted in its place * Christmas tree farms are often small-scale farms * Live tree sales are often fund raisers for local non-profit groups * After Christmas, the trees can be mulched by your local municipality or left in a corner of your backyard to compost naturally and provide shelter for wildlife. * The just smell so much better!
I just spent $100 on perfume. Not MM. I smell gooood, though.
I spent well over $1k this month on random shit for myself. Probably closer to $2k. I couldn't even tell you what I got. Cash only spending freeze starts tomorrow.
Oooh, what did you buy? More Pink Sugar?
No more pink sugar :-p My H is meh about it. He loves the way Versace Bright Crystal smells, so I got this set:
Reading about someone with almost $1 million in consumer debt makes me want to go spend money. My $6000 debt doesn't seem so bad.
This is actually one reason why I don't post specifics often. It is all relative. When I was single, underpaid, only had ~$200 left a month after non-variable expenses (and I didn't even have cable or home Internet service or a cell phone so couldn't cut those), and had ~$8000 in cc debt, I felt I was in a worse place than I do now. And while it took less time and money overall, it was much harder emotionally to pay down.
In my area you can donate real Christmas trees to the department of natural resources, they place them in lakes, something about he fish habitat.
My flameworthy is that I said some mean and nasty things to DH's family this morning, it wasn't my place to say anything but I did. I feel bad for not feeling bad, if that makes sense.
New Year's Eve here is literally THE WORST. And I'm not exaggerating at all.
Yeah, it's never all that great.
I'm stressing because we bought tickets to a $50 per person event tonight, and I didn't realize until later that it doesn't start until 9:30. Which means we have to eat dinner/do something ahead of time. I agreed to go out to get a couple of sushi rolls with DH ahead of time, now he's saying he's going to be too hungry and we're going to want more than 2 rolls. So that's going to probably be at least another $50, plus we'll likely need to take a cab home. We really can't afford a $200 evening out right now, like, at all. Makes me not even want to go but we're going with other people and I feel like it's too late to back out.
Sorry ,that probably wasn't the point of this thread.
New Year's Eve here is literally THE WORST. And I'm not exaggerating at all.
Yeah, it's never all that great.
I'm stressing because we bought tickets to a $50 per person event tonight, and I didn't realize until later that it doesn't start until 9:30. Which means we have to eat dinner/do something ahead of time. I agreed to go out to get a couple of sushi rolls with DH ahead of time, now he's saying he's going to be too hungry and we're going to want more than 2 rolls. So that's going to probably be at least another $50, plus we'll likely need to take a cab home. We really can't afford a $200 evening out right now, like, at all. Makes me not even want to go but we're going with other people and I feel like it's too late to back out.
Sorry ,that probably wasn't the point of this thread.
Can you eat dinner at home? Or are you meeting friends early?
NYE night is definitely the worst. We were supposed to go to a bar tonight with friends but waited too long and tickets sold out (our friends bought them earlier before we committed).
I'm not that upset because cabs are a mess and we just discovered the best way to celebrate the new year with friends... $5 burgers and $4 bells pints for a boozy lunch! I am tipsy and ready to head home in comfy loungewear to sip hypnotiq on my warm couch!
I like The Outback and Texas Roadhouse. I think the difference between the steaks there and fancy steakhouses is negligible.
My H would strongly disagree. I don't eat meat so I don't know re: taste, but they sure look different. And nicer steaks that I have seen him eat can be cut with a butter knife. You can't do that at Outback.
I find that the cut is usually thicker at the nicer steakhouses and I am a fan of the herbed butter that's usually served with them, but I haven't found the filets to be much more tender or flavorful. At least not enough to justify the price difference. Maybe I'm ordering the wrong cut of beef.
Post by flymetothemoon on Dec 31, 2012 17:54:53 GMT -5
My new ipad mini is going to be delayed until Wednesday because UPS sucks ass! They claim they attempted delivery (no you didn't, two people were home, our driveway sensors didn't go off, you didn't leave an info notice, and we checked with the neighbors) and then I just got an update after calling again and was told the person who requested urgent redelivery before lied to me about it and didn't make the request.
So now I can't play with my combo Christmas/bday present. I know, I know, FWP. The real loser in all of this, my horse, because I couldn't get out there to visit him (thanks UPS) and my guests are coming in a few minutes. Yes, I'm a horrible horse-mom. Yes, I'll seriously be making it up to him tomorrow.
I'm stressing because we bought tickets to a $50 per person event tonight, and I didn't realize until later that it doesn't start until 9:30. Which means we have to eat dinner/do something ahead of time. I agreed to go out to get a couple of sushi rolls with DH ahead of time, now he's saying he's going to be too hungry and we're going to want more than 2 rolls. So that's going to probably be at least another $50, plus we'll likely need to take a cab home. We really can't afford a $200 evening out right now, like, at all. Makes me not even want to go but we're going with other people and I feel like it's too late to back out.
Sorry ,that probably wasn't the point of this thread.
Can you eat dinner at home? Or are you meeting friends early?
We're meeting people early, and some of them aren't joining us later at the $50pp party so we kind of have to see them for dinner if we'll see them at all.
Hopefully it will be fun anyway I also hate my outfit, lol.
Post by orangeblossom on Dec 31, 2012 20:08:51 GMT -5
Not flammable (well I guess it could be), but certainly dumb and costly as hell. I went to check-in for my flight tomorrow, only to discover it was for January 2nd, not January 1st. Duh. Fortunately, they had one seat left for tomorrow, my previously cheap ticket was now much more and I'm $212 poorer.