If I could find a Television shirt at Urban Outfitters I'd buy it regardless. Where else you gonna find one but online?

The place I bought it. A part T-Shirt part paraphenelia shop on the street next to a college campus and bordered by a record store and a coffee shop.

Caved and bought Count Von Count. I have no shame.

http://i.imgur.com/rktqvDTl.jpg

Mad respect.

Is that baby's first tear gas grenade?

So cute - just in time for Halloween.

:laughing:

My niece and I share a love of birds, so I ordered these for her: Audubon plush birds with authentic chirping and singing.


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Do you go around photographing different birds?

Don't photograph them myself but I do love reading about them and seeing them in natural habitats. I have a couple CDs of bird calls that I love to listen to.

innerspaceboy back with more fun finds!

I got a call this afternoon from my favorite record dealer who had recently found his first-hand collection of hundreds of band buttons from the late 60s to the early 80s.

He'd thought of me instantly and had hand-picked potential favorites for me to peruse.

I've been commissioning custom pinback buttons of my favorite obscuro artists for years but this is an entirely next-level experience!

He'll have more for me next week. What a blast!

https://i.imgur.com/nA6kDQVh.jpg

Just arrived in the post from England - My very own Oblique Strategies deck! This is a real milestone for me. I've wanted a set of these for most of my adult life.

http://i.imgur.com/1UT1kKgl.jpg

I wanted one of those... you know... 1970s commercial floor sweepers that every office building has kicking around in the back? These buggers:

http://i.imgur.com/rbmeoWtm.png

(Tacky 70s rug sold separately)

None of those fancy new "removable pads" you have to replace every damn time you use it... just a no-frills dual brush manual sweeper for floors and oriental rugs.

BAM

http://i.imgur.com/1n8pDFim.jpg?1

Best-selling non-electric by miles on both eBay and Amazon. Hundreds of 5-star ratings from customers who use it for dog hair, cat hair, back hair... whatever you've got.

$24 and free shipping. See? I can buy NEW goods every now and then!

Why don't you just get a vacuum cleaner like normal peo-... oh right.

What I want to know is how he affords all this ****. IIRC, he is pretty much skating the poverty line in terms of take-home income.

Quite right. Early on I made sure to hone my deal-scoring skills as a survival tactic.

I'm in the lowest tax bracket above poverty. And I've had to support both myself and my wife through a year of her unemployment.

Still, to my advantage:

1. I've never in my life owned a credit card. If I couldn't afford it, I didn't buy it.

2. I have near perfect credit for having paid all bills on time for 25 years.

3. I'm paying off my college loans in full this Feb and will be 100% debt free (mortgage aside)

4. I tossed out my car ~10 years ago(?) so I save a fortune on car payments, gas, maintenance, and insurance by working and living within 1 mile of my door.

5. I tossed out my TV in 1999 so I don't have to deal with a cable bill.

6. I budgeted $1,900 this year for music and have kept just under that limit.

7. And was able to buy a beautiful home built in 1924 with all its original hardwood flooring and gumwood trim intact, with a new gas fireplace, new hot water, new roof, new energy windows, new electrical, 24 free LED 12-year bulbs for all sockets, and the city came in and performed blow-in insulation at all levels for free and delivered a brand new fridge as a free upgrade.

8. And I keep a spare 5-7k in the bank at all times for emergencies.

Paycheck to paycheck is a tough gig, but I live quite comfortably in spite of it.

Okay. Things are making sense now.

I hear ya on several of those points. My wife and I have no credit card debt. Anything we buy with a credit card, we pay off as soon as the bill comes in.

We paid off our student loans within the ten-year span after graduation. We have only a mortgage, but that is cheaper than renting by $300 a month!

We have no car. Not necessary.

We have no TV or smartphones. We just pay for our ISP, which is $60 a month.

I keep $20k in the bank at all times, in case of emergency.

Totally read that as $20 and was like "wow we're more alike than I thought."

Could I have your bank pins and card numbers just so I know you're telling the truth?

It's a pretty mediocre position to brag about. :) Just demonstrating that a household income of $20,000 a year is quite comfortable given the right circumstances.

Frugality and sense will get you far in life. :)

Another thing: we stopped going out to eat so much. That shit's expensive, especially here in Japan. I used to go out with colleagues twice a week at lunch. Now I take a packed lunch from home...a bento, if you will.

I wish more people would realize how not broke they would be if they learned how to cook instead of eating out all the time.

I don't know how to cook nor do I eat out. I've ate chicken burgers and fries for supper almost two weeks in a row now.

Here's how to cook.

1: Find a recipe that you have all the appropriate dishes to cook it with
2: Follow the recipe
3: Yum
4: Cleanup (optional)

If only I could find a recipe that requires just chicken burgers and french fries...

Literally thousands of dollars a year saved.

It's how I was able to afford craft beer in college.

Well obviously you're supposed to conjure up the food out of nothingness with the poem of the ancients to comply with whatever recipe you're using.

I agree completely. I avoid fast food like the plague and make one dining out exception - a lovely greek diner a short walk from my home. Everyone there knows me by name. I go there alone on Saturday mornings with my Chromebook and my research to get some writing done, or instead opt for a Sunday brunch in the company of friends. Either way, I walk out paying $6 for a meal, so I feel it's a worthwhile exception to the rule.

This is why you don't get pussy. Selfish asshole.

:laughing:

Put the fries on the burger. Bam. Recipe.

Listen buddy, if I ever used nor irl I would have killed myself by now.

¿Qué?

Wow.

That joke







Me

It took me a minute and I had to go back and check your previous post, but I got it eventually.

Idk wtf your trying to say, Ki.

What does the part of the sentence I quoted mean?

Derp.

Batlord ahead of the game. Still a ****ty joke though.

Derp was my mor.

I thought you were making fun of me for using the word nor :( Now I see the joke was a little but funnier than that but still not all that great 6/10