This is stupid. But socks and underwear. All new socks and underwear.

I love throwing out all my old ragged socks and having a bunch of brand new pairs in the drawer.

That's called failure to check your blind spot. I've driven a pickup for over a decade and never not been able to see when a vehicle is next to me if I physically turn and check my blind spot. Though we are promoting people becoming more lazy with this as most new cars just do this for you. In my newer work vehicle, the side mirrors have an orange indicator turn on when someone's hanging in your blind spot.

So much this. I reconnected with my dad after 10 years. We both can be stubborn. And all it took was sending an email. It took some time and things were a little awkward at first. But since, we've really made amends. He attended my wedding and now it's to the point where we visit one another a handful of times a year. We talk on the phone at least monthly and text often. I'm really glad I decided to send that email that day. Can't imagine if I hadn't.

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I agree with much of this. Though, I've been here for a couple months now (only just made an account) and I've noticed as the posts have become a bit more diverse. The commie stuff is a little wack/comical but eh - I like my commies out in the open and proud of who they are.

Vac sealer. Bulk.

I understand, for alot of people living in apartments or room sharing situations this is difficult. But, taking advantage of sales and utilizing a vac sealer can go a long way.

If you don't mind pork, it can be extremely budget friendly and is a good source of protein. Here in Canada it can sometimes get to $2 or under a pound for pork chops or shoulder. Same with whole chickens or dark meat cuts.

When this happens. I often buy $30-60+ worth, take it home, portion it to family meal size and vac seal/date/label it.

After doing this for a while, even with beef products. My chest freezer slowly fills up and eventually, we get to the point where we don't buy much meat during our weekly grocery visit, unless of course, I see a really good meat deal.

In addition, learning to process and prepare you're own meat products like sausage, burgers, raviolis, meat balls, jerky can also go a very long way. My family doesn't buy any frozen processed crap meat products. We do everything from scratch, and it's soooo much better. Last year I bought pork shoulders only on sale and kept them in the freezer. I would only buy under $2 a pound. I ended up making around 50 pounds of sausage (Italian and brats) that sausage lasted us almost 10 months.

That's odd, mine actually has a "moist" mode. It has a little cavity where any juice that get sucked up go. You just have to empty it often if you're doing alot of meats that are juicy. As for soups, I do one of two methods, freeze over night in a Tupperware, then remove from Tupperware and Vac seal or ill just let it cool and vac seal, which might leave a small air gap, but I haven't notice it effect the soup like it does meat.

We are down to Netflix in my household. That was from having prime, crave and Disney at one point. Even Netflix is close to getting the chop, but my wife enjoys it enough. That said, I'm an audiophile and listen to more Spotify and traditional radio (I know I'm a loser, listening to a.m. talk radio and public broadcasting). I just rather listen to stuff while also getting stuff done than sitting on a couch these days.

If you have decent freezer space, there's no excuse to not use a vac sealer. I have so many friends that constantly complain about meat prices but don't take advantage of buying meat on sale in bulk. With a vac sealer, you can really get ahead. Also processing and preparing your own meat products (burgers, sausage).

We also vac seal soups and broths!

Also, on the topic of slow cookers, while not $50 and under, a ninja foodi is a pressure/slow cooker and air fryer combo. I literally use mine everyday. It gets more use than my microwave or stove.

I used to work in the waste sector - been to a lot of dumps. Let me tell ya, public sector dumps were literal dumpster fires compared to their private counter parts. Inefficient. Years behind in technology. Weighted down by nepotism and typical government employees.

It was such a relief when I knew I was assigned to a private sector dump where things just fucking worked because people just let it work.

There's definitely an interesting demographic around here. I've been dog piled by tankies who don't like my opinion, but it's to be expected. I don't mind it. As long as my comments aren't deleted, I can take the downvotes.

Fucking Amen. I can't believe, especially non-religious people, still commit this barbaric and unnecessary act. But some people are still under the quaker influenced thinking that circumcision means cleaner, both my mother in law and my step mother think it's "gross" to leave a child uncircumcised, with my mother in law going as far as to say "it just looks bad".

Cool, she basically admitted she's down to mutilate babies to satisfy a completely unreasonable aesthetic preference.

I worked in a dump for years. Wife eventually told me to stop bringing crap home.

Best yield was a Nintendo ds in a case with 8 games. STILL HAD BATTERY LIFE!

Lmaooo. Yeah okay.

While doing nothing is good for some, I'm sure many are like myself and feel better keeping busy or at least doing things I feel are semi productive.

My wife can watch TV her whole day off. I can barely sit for an hour and watch something these days, I'd rather clean and listen to a podcast, read or at the minimum - play some vidya.

WHAT YEAR IS IT!

SO THATS WHAT THOSE ARE FOR! I bet making a omlette on one is much easier too.

Sadly, I'm genuinely shocked at how many people have said things like "I got nothing to hide" when it comes to even basic intrusion of privacy by governments. It's that kind of thinking that makes authorities think such actions like this should be tolerated.

I was in highscool, nearly 20 years ago. Damn, now I feel old.

We live on acreage and our heating is essentially free thanks to the wood stove. I mean I spend probably $50 a year on gas for the wood splitter preparing wood, which I don't mind at all when I hear about people's hydro or gas bills in the winter. I also love the smell. It smells like home.