I’ve decided I don’t like our new washer/dryer combo. It makes things super wrinkled and now I have several chiffon type shirts that are a wrinkled mess. I don’t want to iron them all and am lazy and don’t have time for that. I’m thinking about dampening them and drying with wrinkle release dryer sheet. Think it will work?
Also if you’re thinking about getting the combo unit, don’t. I think we will buy a new dryer and just use it as a washing machine except for loads that don’t matter as much like towels and kids clothes.
My donut client brought us a big box of donuts when she picked up payroll and told me she put extra cake sprinkle donuts in since she knew they were my favorite. I don't need to be eating donuts but oh they taste so good. I've been offering them to clients all morning and no takers.
Post by supertrooper1 on Feb 5, 2020 14:41:42 GMT -5
My financial advisor asked me to sign a document. First, I had to ask him where it was on the website. Once I found it, I tried to download it on my phone but it wouldn't open so I could print it. I had to open it on my work computer, but that isn't hooked up to my printer so I had to email it to myself to print it. I finally opened it on my phone but now my printer won't print the form. I wish I could just e-sign it.
DD now needs braces, at a cost of $4700. DH is miffed that he found a car that is too good of a deal to pass up and I won't go for it. It is $7000. That is not the back up, beater car that I was talking about. No to agreeing to $12000 in one day.
DD's teeth are not bad. Even to the ortho. Just a very minor gap, and some gum trimming and she will only wear them 6-12 months. Most people wouldn't even fix it and the bite is good. She got in the car and cried because she was so happy and "he is going to fix everything that bothered me." So....I am paying $4700.
Thank goodness DS is a boy. All he had to hear the dentist say was, "he's probably fine, unless there is something you all are worried about" and he was all PEACE OUT. No braces for him.
sandandsea , we only got a combo machine when we were in a teeny tiny NYC apartment otherwise I would have them separate. It takes a long time for the load, and didn't get cat hair out of our clothes. I miss it though because then we had to fight people for the washers and the new place we moved into. The new rental didn't allow washers.
This might be worse than a first world problem. It's snowing and my commute is going to be bad. I also had a bad commute yesterday morning because an idiot ambulance driver (no sick passengers luckily) ran into a car that was stopped on the shoulder. There was no reason for the ambulance to be on the shoulder especially since they were heading back to the hospital from which they originated and had no passengers/ no siren going and no call for emergency medical help.
I was also going to post about new my commute. It's only between 7-10 minutes longer (so between 25-30 minutes instead of around 20), but that means when I need to leave early to get the kids, I have to factor in at least 10 more minutes.
sandandsea I bought a steamer (like the kind that has a tall pole on which you can hang your clothes) and it works much better than an iron, especially for chiffon type items. Maybe a temp solution until you get a new machine?
mommyatty, you know what a cake sprinkle donut is. For some reason around here, they think only 6 year olds like them. But they are the best donut in the history of donuts.
My financial advisor asked me to sign a document. First, I had to ask him where it was on the website. Once I found it, I tried to download it on my phone but it wouldn't open so I could print it. I had to open it on my work computer, but that isn't hooked up to my printer so I had to email it to myself to print it. I finally opened it on my phone but now my printer won't print the form. I wish I could just e-sign it.
k3am, yep my favorite donut in the world. I really like them with white frosting and chocolate sprinkles. Our local shop even gets fancy and does holiday sprinkle cake donuts. So V-day will be pink frosting and red/white sprinkles and Halloween was orange frosting with black bats. Yes I like my donuts a little too much. mommyatty, think eating cake in your had with no fork. Plus it isn't a yeasted dough as those upset my stomach for some reason.
186momx, blasphemy. They MUST have white frosting and rainbow sprinkles. None of that holiday schenanigans and certainly not chocolate. The Valentine one is mildly acceptable as long as the frosting is just pink and not strawberry.
But honestly, I'm not sure I even want to post here any more, knowing that people like you are here.. it makes me question the sanity of everyone here.
Our local donut shop also does the holiday ones as well, but they always make sure to have a selection of them done the right way for purists like me.
k3am, I'm ROTFL... luckily my donut shop only does the holiday stuff on the holiday and I very seldom go in and buy donuts. Why buy when they deliver them to me on payroll days. I agree chocolate frosting yuck and no flavored frosting! I just ate the last tradition cake donut in the box for breakfast. Also no chocolate cake donuts...those are just gross, ugh.
I'm so sad DD has converted from cake donuts to chocolate bars. Her reason is that they are bigger, humph.
sandandsea I bought a steamer (like the kind that has a tall pole on which you can hang your clothes) and it works much better than an iron, especially for chiffon type items. Maybe a temp solution until you get a new machine?
Yes this seems like too much effort. And at this point it’s like 10 shirts so it feels overwhelming.
We have regular washer/ dryers, but this is where I admit that I buy all non wrinkle materials, and never iron my clothes like ever. The only reason I have ironed at all in the last lets say 5 years is for DD's iron on GS patches. And I could send them out to be sewn for .50 a patch so maybe I'm doing that wrong anyway.
There is a local church fair here every summer. The only reason I go is to get some cake donuts. We order a dozen to eat immediately and a dozen to take home. They cook and frost them in front of you. And yes, k3am, you can make requests so you can get white frosting with rainbow sprinkles if you desire. Only they are not called sprinkles around here - they are called jimmies.
I don't know what those church ladies do, but their donuts are fantastic!
First of all, flavored donut frosting is amazing, if we are talking about the totally fake strawberry pink frosting from Dunkin Donuts.
Second of all, this donut thread is breaking my heart. I have yet to find a great gluten free donut shop near me and the ones in the freezer section at the grocery store just aren't the same. As a total coffee addict, I used to eat A LOT of secret donuts from the drive thru when I was able to eat gluten. I miss those days. My wallet and my pants do not.
On the topic of donuts, I am not really a fan, except that I do like a long john. However, the shop down the block from me that has a line out the door most mornings has a maple, bacon donut. Now that didn't sound good, but it is amazing. Maple flavored frosting on a long donut with bacon pieces.
twinmomma I like some of the flavored frostings.. BUT NOT ON A RAINBOW SPRINKLED CAKE DONUT. It is perfect and must not be messed with.
As a rule, I don’t buy donuts because I like them a little too much. I only have them when DH buys them as a treat for the kids, and most of the time they’d rather make pancakes.
My confession is that I don’t love pancakes. I’ll tolerate them if I can put peanut butter on them before adding syrup, but I don’t want them twice a week like my family does.
k3am, I don't love pancakes either. I do like eggs like eggs benedict but eggs make me bloated (and milk does too). It is sad I can't enjoy breakfast foods. I do use almond milk typically because I'm sure I am lactose intolerant.
I updated my iPhone on Friday. It completely bricked it, like no apps could find a server, including Safari. I had to reset to factory settings. Got everything back to normal until this morning when it decided my password to unlock the phone wasn’t my password. I called Apple. They couldn’t get it to go into Recovery mode, and since I had stupidly downloaded Catalina to my Mac, there’s no longer an iTunes, so you can’t force it. They sent me to Best Buy. The closest service center. They had to erase my phone and then had no flipping idea how to reload anything. I couldn’t get to my iCloud backup since I didn’t have the password my phone had magically reset itself to. When I got home, I managed to get to a week old backup. Some of my pics were saved, but not all of them. And when I got home, I requested Apple call me back again. They said it would be 2 minutes. 7 hrs later, I’m still waiting.
My financial advisor asked me to sign a document. First, I had to ask him where it was on the website. Once I found it, I tried to download it on my phone but it wouldn't open so I could print it. I had to open it on my work computer, but that isn't hooked up to my printer so I had to email it to myself to print it. I finally opened it on my phone but now my printer won't print the form. I wish I could just e-sign it.
This is one of the reasons I love my financial advisor so much. She would print the actual paper, put a sticky that says “sign here” and send it in the mail to me with a self addressed stamped envelope. I love her!
Update. I added a wet wash rag with the dried wrinkle clothes and a Wrinkle release dryer sheet and ran it for 20 mins. It helped all the shirts so I won’t have to iron.
FWP: DH's parents have held on to all of his toys since he was a kid, apparently. Brillo trains, an electric train set, etc. And now they're slowly being unloaded into my house. Big, bulky, no where to store them. DH is adamant that "these things are worth a lot of money." Sure, antique toys in great condition can be worth money, but... your toys were VERY used. They're drawn on, dirty, missing pieces and/or broken. How do I get these things out of my house!?!?
k3am, I feel for you. DH inherited tons of old comics, books, toys, etc. from his dad. They are all in the garage. I had him get the comics appraised and it is almost $1000 and they guy told him he has a buyer now for a good chunk of them but old comics are not appreciating much as the clientele is decreasing. They are all still in the garage all 6 totes. I'm at a loss on how to get him to purge. I didn't even know his dad had these. We also have all of his great-grandma's crystal and china in a huge cabinet in our spare room. Again DH can't part with any of it but we can't use it either because it might break. I'm planning on boxing it up after tax season and storing it in the attic so we can have more space in the house.
I have the preemie cabbage patch doll all dressed in white that has never been open that I got when I was born in 1983. Last time I looked a few years ago it was valued at $1500 but it is mint conditioned.
Post by greenmonkey1 on Feb 10, 2020 13:24:13 GMT -5
k3am My inlaws are similar and DH is also strangely sentimental. Just yesterday he took a baseball bat (just a plain wooden one, nothing antique or otherwise special) to store at his parents because "he has lots of memories of it from when he was a kid". If only I had remembered to donate that last week!
I give my DH a date as to when he has to deal with that kind of stuff - sell, store in a reasonable place in the house, etc - before I donate/sell them myself. It is a largely successful method.