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[1kluckychik]

 A friend of mine is flying and feeling the effects of your storm right now. I had no idea it was supposed to be that bad! We are right now forecast for 1 inch of snow, so with your Spring Snow Math, seems like I'll be getting about 4 feet. 

Ah well, this time of year it melts fast. 

Anyone else starting seeds? I have to start my tomatoes this weekend but I got my peppers started and some early cold stuff (bulb onions, cabbages, celery). Do you do anything special to start them? What do you use as a mix? I use a (patent pending) combo of organic Jiffy starter, peat moss, vermiculite and lobster compost. Lobster compost is something I have only seen up here, but it's compost made with the shells of lobster from our processing plants. My plants love it. I have a seed starting area with grow lights on a timer and heat mats and a fan. It works pretty well. Once it gets warmer I have a cold frame outside to transfer them to. 

We have blooms on our tomatoes

 

[1kluckychik]

We sprout our seeds in wet paper towels, inside quart ziplock bags, inside black plastic trash bags, placed on the top of our clothes dryer. When they sprout, we transfer the sprouts to an 8oz styrofoam cup filled with old red worm bedding (starts with spagnum peat moss). Works pretty well for us

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We have blooms on our tomatoes

The Slocombs?

I have snow on the ground.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We sprout our seeds in wet paper towels, inside quart ziplock bags, inside black plastic trash bags, placed on the top of our clothes dryer. When they sprout, we transfer the sprouts to an 8oz styrofoam cup filled with old red worm bedding (starts with spagnum peat moss). Works pretty well for us

I have a similar sprouting method - except instead of trashbags I wrap them in a towel and they go in the seed box. Saves on dirt and cups since not everything sprouts... this way you know it is viable before you waste time/effort/money.

 

[1kluckychik]

The Slocombs?

I have snow on the ground. 

The slocombs arent blooming yet.
The "early girl" are blooming now.
We also have teeny tiny baby strawberries

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You'll be complaining about the heat in a month.

Then starts my glory days.

 

[1kluckychik]

 You'll be complaining about the heat in a month. 

Then starts my glory days. 

Nah. We have a pool lol

 

[1kluckychik]

Pm us if u need any seeds. We have toooooo many.

 

[bruceha2000]

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Or presidential candidates that raid their retirement accounts (thereby not only paying taxes on it but also a 10% penalty) to buy an $80K boat.

Alaskan I am with you. Though I wouldn't eat shoes. My grandfather always said IF you don't have the money, you don't buy anything. He didn't believe in credit cards SO, thanks to that I have NO credit history. I thought I was being good when everyone else was running up huge credit card debt. House insurance, etc, is several times higher because I don't have that all important history. Fortunately for some - college kids get bombarded with credit cards. My son had a credit card, checking/savings account etc. with no history and I have always paid my bills and have O.

You can have a credit card and NOT be in debt as long as you pay it off monthly. Just treat it as you do cash. If you don't have the cash to pay for it, don't put it on the credit card. And if you do, put the cash away so you don't hit the end of the billing period without enough money to pay it. People that get in trouble (barring catastrophes) are the ones who buy stuff they don't need and can't afford. Then they don't pay it off and the bill gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Credit card interest rates are practically usury.

And any utility bill in your name is also a credit history. The phone is in DD1's name for that reason but the money comes from our account.

My eldest did turn down a drivers liscence. He said, " the insurance will cost a bunch of money, it is better if we wait until I need to drive" Good boy, and the right attitude, what do we need, and what can we get by without.

My girls are 23 and (nearly) 21. Both got their licenses last July. Never had any interest in driving. Our insurance for the 2 cars went up to over $2K a year because of their ages. And that includes the good student discount the younger one got. And it doesn't matter that she is attending college out of state with no access to a car 8 months of the year because she "could drive someone else's car at school".

I, for one, am happy they didn't get their licenses at 16 like "normal people". Saved a bundle. NO insurance increase while they are driving on a Learner's Permit.

Is car insurance individual there? Here it covers a car with any driver.

Have to pay for all "regular" drivers. But if a friend needed to use the car for a day, they would be covered.

However, in addition to the insurance cost per car, you also get billed per liscenced driver that is in your household. And of course, a boy under the age of 25 is a giant addition to the bill.

As are girls. Didn't used to be that way. Cost a bunch to have me insured on my Mother's car when I got my license in CA 44 years ago. Cost ZIP for both of my sisters.

Guess which ONE of us never damaged the car.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Nah. We have a pool lol