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Post by kritter on Apr 14, 2022 16:47:39 GMT
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Post by val2525 on Apr 14, 2022 17:32:49 GMT
Whoever makes up these "national (insert whatever) day" obviously lives in a warmer climate. Temps the next 7 days here range from 43 to 64 for highs and too brrr cold at night to be digging let alone planting a garden. At least we're getting another break in the rain. Colder than yesterday, but at least the sun's out. Need to go to a couple places and hope stores aren't very busy so I can get what I need and get back home. Your climate is perfect for bulb flowers like iris, daffodils, hyacynth and tulips. Warmer climates can't grow those flowers unless they refrigerate the bulbs over the winter, then plant them in the spring. Sunny and 84 here today. We'll be in the mid 90's over the weekend. Bleah. I guess Spring is over. OTOH, the wildflowers are blooming and they're really pretty. You see them all over the place here, in the road medians, empty lots, edges of people's backyards, etc.
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Post by kritter on Apr 14, 2022 17:39:30 GMT
Yes, fairly decent display for a dry spring. Last year the wildflowers went crazy with all the rain. Pretty much all my plants from last year are leafing out.
Still waiting to see if the white bougainvillea in front are coming back. The white ones seem to have the hardest time after a freeze.
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Post by val2525 on Apr 14, 2022 17:43:42 GMT
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Post by allikat on Apr 14, 2022 17:55:04 GMT
Massage was great decided I am going to treat myself to one every 2 weeks for a while. Life Insurance sent me an email this morning that said they are still needing medical records from one doctor who did nothing but administer a covid test, they had him at the wrong location...no wonder they cannot get the records. And then the wanted a nurses medical records who attended his colonoscopy in 2017. I looped my lawyer in on the email and all of a sudden my rep says he has all the information he needs and he sent it for final review, lol. Hopefully that will be one more thing off my list. I was out working in yard it is 81 here today, I was moving rocks around I have a big garden around my pond that I am going to make into a rock garden with less plants and more rocks because it is a weedy mess right now. Weeded my second driveway lol, it is made of crush and run, now I know why my husband loved Roundup. It looks like rain is coming now. I have the whole house open and airing until the rain starts. Dogsitting my granddog tomorrow until Saturday, she is the sweetest but busiest pupper. Here she took her bed apart while DS and fiancee were at the grocery store, lol.
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Post by jesmelric on Apr 14, 2022 18:03:54 GMT
Massage was great decided I am going to treat myself to one every 2 weeks for a while. Life Insurance sent me an email this morning that said they are still needing medical records from one doctor who did nothing but administer a covid test, they had him at the wrong location...no wonder they cannot get the records. And then the wanted a nurses medical records who attended his colonoscopy in 2017. I looped my lawyer in on the email and all of a sudden my rep says he has all the information he needs and he sent it for final review, lol. Hopefully that will be one more thing off my list. I was out working in yard it is 81 here today, I was moving rocks around I have a big garden around my pond that I am going to make into a rock garden with less plants and more rocks because it is a weedy mess right now. Weeded my second driveway lol, it is made of crush and run, now I know why my husband loved Roundup. It looks like rain is coming now. I have the whole house open and airing until the rain starts. Dogsitting my granddog tomorrow until Saturday, she is the sweetest but busiest pupper. Here she took her bed apart while DS and fiancee were at the grocery store, lol. Oh goodness, she sure did take that bed apart lol.
The rock garden sounds like it will be very nice, but a lot of work. The part of the backyard on the side of our house is always so weedy. DH put a bunch of crushed rocks there but the weeds are relentless. We were cooler and drier this morning and I had my house open and airing too
It's nice to have a bit of cool weather, who knows if we'll get any more for a long while. DS is coming for steak night before they move off outside the city. They had planned to move at the end of May but have moved it to the end of this month. I hope it will work out well for them, but I have my concerns. I guess a mom never stops worrying even after they are well grown.
Youngest DD is off tomorrow and we are planning a backyard picnic. I am looking forward to it but am always a bit on edge because she is quite temperamental
Sunday she is coming for Easter and my sister will bring mom, hopefully the turkey and everything will turn out well.
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Post by labbypaws on Apr 14, 2022 19:30:27 GMT
We are in the 80's ahead of the big storm coming through any time now. Then the cooldown.
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Post by labbypaws on Apr 14, 2022 19:42:58 GMT
Dogsitting my granddog tomorrow until Saturday, she is the sweetest but busiest pupper. Here she took her bed apart while DS and fiancee were at the grocery store, lol. LOL. I have had a few pups do that!
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Post by val2525 on Apr 15, 2022 0:45:33 GMT
If you have an area you want to remove vegetation from, and don't plan to plant anything there for a while (like a rock garden), you can use saltwater. It kills most plants but you won't be able to plant new stuff where you used the saltwater without some new top soil. We're down to crunch time at the office. I did a quick return for myself, to ensure I didn't owe last year and then will file an extension on Monday. I'm still missing a few minor things for my return. We had a client who reported "repairs" of $40,000+ vs the usual $600-$800 they had in prior years. So that raised a flag. After giving us several answers that just generated more questions from us, they finally admitted the "repairs" were for the parents personal home. *sigh* Gotta admit, though, stuff like this is what keeps accounting and tax from being totally boring
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Post by allikat on Apr 15, 2022 11:55:44 GMT
I still laugh at one of our very wealthy clients that took pictures of all of his donations to charity including his used tighty whites, lol. You are right it is the ridiculous that keeps it interesting. I had several pages of pictures of one pair at a time come in with his tax paperwork.
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Post by sunsetpainter on Apr 15, 2022 13:26:37 GMT
Made it through the bad wind storm yesterday with minimal damage to the trees, mainly a few big dead branches down. Just missed being bonked on the head by one that fell down just where I was standing 10 seconds before. But mainly just a bunch of messy little sticks to clean up.
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Post by staytuned on Apr 15, 2022 14:20:31 GMT
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Post by staytuned on Apr 15, 2022 17:10:39 GMT
I still laugh at one of our very wealthy clients that took pictures of all of his donations to charity including his used tighty whites, lol. You are right it is the ridiculous that keeps it interesting. I had several pages of pictures of one pair at a time come in with his tax paperwork. People like him are one reason gloves were worn processing clothing when I worked at GW. NOBODY wants to buy used underwear, whether it's clean or not, and trust me, we came across sadly too many pairs that had stains nobody other than the perpetrator should have seen let alone had to dispose of because for whatever deranged reason they thought it was o.k. to donate. Call this a PSA to ask people to stop donating filthy/torn/stinky/worn out clothing/bedding, shoes that are filthy/worn out/falling apart, broken/chipped dish/glassware, rusty/nonworking appliances/electronics or ratty furniture. If it looks like trash, it belongs in the trash. Save your undies for cleaning or washing the car and if you're too lazy to wash a pair of pee/poop/blood stained underwear or sheets, throw them out instead of donating.
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Post by val2525 on Apr 15, 2022 17:17:06 GMT
I still laugh at one of our very wealthy clients that took pictures of all of his donations to charity including his used tighty whites, lol. You are right it is the ridiculous that keeps it interesting. I had several pages of pictures of one pair at a time come in with his tax paperwork. We haven't had one send pics yet (thank goodness). One of my favorites was the guy who tried to claim a lunchtime dating service membership as "advertising and promotions". He said he was an attorney and he used the lunch dates to get clients. We asked how many clients had he gotten from the dates? Answer - zilch. No deduction for you, dude! He also couldn't understand how we knew what it was since the name didn't exactly give it away. It probably didn't help him that I'd heard an ad for the dating service on the radio the day before
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Post by val2525 on Apr 15, 2022 17:19:27 GMT
I still laugh at one of our very wealthy clients that took pictures of all of his donations to charity including his used tighty whites, lol. You are right it is the ridiculous that keeps it interesting. I had several pages of pictures of one pair at a time come in with his tax paperwork. People like him are one reason gloves were worn processing clothing when I worked at GW. NOBODY wants to buy used underwear, whether it's clean or not, and trust me, we came across sadly too many pairs that had stains nobody other than the perpetrator should have seen let alone had to dispose of because for whatever deranged reason they thought it was o.k. to donate. Call this a PSA to ask people to stop donating filthy/torn/stinky/worn out clothing/bedding, shoes that are filthy/worn out/falling apart, broken/chipped dish/glassware, rusty/nonworking appliances/electronics or ratty furniture. If it looks like trash, it belongs in the trash. Save your undies for cleaning or washing the car and if you're too lazy to wash a pair of pee/poop/blood stained underwear or sheets, throw them out instead of donating.
The people who donate crap like that are only donating for the tax deduction. My mom was bad about that. She didn't give a damn, she just wanted the donation credit. Sad part was she never had enough to itemize and her tax preparer always took the standard deduction. I finally just started having her load it up in my car and I told her I'd drop it by GW on my way to wherever I was going. I put it straight into the GW dumpster.
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Post by frakinfashion on Apr 15, 2022 17:32:26 GMT
I still laugh at one of our very wealthy clients that took pictures of all of his donations to charity including his used tighty whites, lol. You are right it is the ridiculous that keeps it interesting. I had several pages of pictures of one pair at a time come in with his tax paperwork. Tax time is fun for some! Memorializing your underwear is its own reward!
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Post by kritter on Apr 15, 2022 18:20:02 GMT
I worked in donations in my church thrift shop many years ago and I think it is not always about the tax deduction. I would get comments like "I hate to just throw it away because somebody may be able to use it."
One of my neighbors was going through a rented storage room that she inherited from a relative that had not been in this country for over 40 years. She couldn't throw boxes of used clothes and shoes along with other hoarded stuff into the dumpster because maybe homeless people could use it. She was still taking all this crap to Goodwill after I told her that GW didn't want it. I even pointed out that not many homeless people are shopping at GW.
She wasn't after any kind of tax deduction; she just couldn't throw it away because somebody down on their luck with nothing to their name maybe could use it. Maybe it is a generational thing that back in the day we never threw anything away because somebody may be able to use it. I find myself thinking along those lines at times but not when it comes to used underwear.
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Post by staytuned on Apr 15, 2022 19:05:21 GMT
I worked in donations in my church thrift shop many years ago and I think it is not always about the tax deduction. I would get comments like "I hate to just throw it away because somebody may be able to use it." One of my neighbors was going through a rented storage room that she inherited from a relative that had not been in this country for over 40 years. She couldn't throw boxes of used clothes and shoes along with other hoarded stuff into the dumpster because maybe homeless people could use it. She was still taking all this crap to Goodwill after I told her that GW didn't want it. I even pointed out that not many homeless people are shopping at GW. She wasn't after any kind of tax deduction; she just couldn't throw it away because somebody down on their luck with nothing to their name maybe could use it. Maybe it is a generational thing that back in the day we never threw anything away because somebody may be able to use it. I find myself thinking along those lines at times but not when it comes to used underwear.
MIL thinks homeless people shop thrift stores, too. She's still getting rid of stuff and DH goes through the boxes and winds up tossing at least half in the dumpster. Our all time favorite is an old blue 60s suitcase that had a hole on one side the size of a bowling ball she thought someone could still use.
It's also the "I just want to get rid of stuff and let someone else deal with it" mentality. Too many donors are also under the impression we had resources or time to wash their dirty clothing or fix broken stuff. We had a running joke about giving the elves the broken (item) who were behind the wall of washers and dryers.
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Post by val2525 on Apr 16, 2022 1:35:06 GMT
My mom was donating clothing with mold and mildew on it. Broken dishes and furniture. None of it was usable. She'd stored clothes out in the back yard in a shed that was not climate controlled. If she had stored the old clothes indoors, it would have been worth a nice $$ on eBay as it was vintage 60s and some absolutely gorgeous pieces. But covered in mold and mildew? No way.
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Post by RetroMonde on Apr 16, 2022 17:17:05 GMT
We sent the entire contents of my stepmoms small house to the dump because it was all mousy and there was NO WAY I was gonna take time to wash it (it was all sadly out-dated but not vintage/cool yet). I'll bet that most of the folks that send crap to various thrift stores have never shopped at one in their life. Being a bins shopper I've seen a glimpse of what the GW folks see every day- it's pretty ugly!
I'm nearing the finish line on our taxes- they look like I'd expected. I'll finish today and let em sit till tomorrow or Monday to see whether I think of anything else I forgot- like yesterday when I suddenly remembered to check Posh (hardly sold there last year). Then I remembered to check Etsy for a 1099-K (my shop was only open part of the year and I didn't sell much so I wasn't expecting one).
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Post by denise15601 on Apr 17, 2022 2:11:03 GMT
The 48 Hours show tonight about the dentist who allegedly killed his wife, had an office in my city. Wondering how many area people went to him as a dentist?? TG, not me.
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Post by Shirley U Geste on Apr 17, 2022 3:08:17 GMT
I think I'm going to go into a sugar coma.
The Easter Bunny left a bag full of these on my door & they are SOOOOO good.
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Post by staytuned on Apr 17, 2022 13:23:05 GMT
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Post by labbypaws on Apr 17, 2022 14:26:49 GMT
Happy Easter to those who celebrate. A regular straight pay workday for me.
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Post by Shirley U Geste on Apr 17, 2022 16:41:46 GMT
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Post by kritter on Apr 17, 2022 17:30:07 GMT
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