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Groucho Marx once famously remarked that he found TV very educational. Whenever someone would turn it on, he’d leave the room and go read a book.
where do I begin?
I thought the thread was about me, too.
in case anyone would like to invite us, the fresh chicken eggs are mighty tasty.
any bus, a good set of earplugs, and a good book. When are we leaving.
I like to bring some produce from my garden, or fresh eggs from the chickens. In the early spring I bring forced daffodils or hyacinths or tulips that I planted int he fall and forced in the springtime.
I keep getting invited back.
how I miss voting for that man. It felt so good.
very few actually – they really don’t have that option in residential real estate, barring an unfixable problem with the building or title, or a borrower losing a job. Other than that, a closing may be postponed, but is rarely cancelled.
A small exception was when the credit crisis struck in 2007 or 08, and all the rules changed instantly, and no one knew what was what.
my dear aunt had a solution to the problem.
She would give out Fig Newtons. After a few years, she had a reputation, and no one would come to her house.
http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_main/defaultnew.asp?lng=2 is the correct hyperlink.
There is a poll you can vote on on this page.
Dr. David Applebaum seems to have a big lead.
you call that living?
shaving more often will decrease your risk of stroke, heart attack and lung cancer, too, for reasons yet unknown:
d. a. Boulevard?
Sandy Koufax
yes, Ben Torah, I favored stamps with a value between $0.20 and $0.40. Yes, I did a lot of licking, but I saved a lot of money. Postage was the major cost of my business.
does she do it by choice, or by necessity. I know people who are seeking to simplify their lives, and reduce their footprint, who do some of those same things.
Dear helpful, they are all my brothers and sisters, regardless of whether they are Jewish or not.
they are still our brothers and sisters, and all are children of Hashem.
on Ebay, you can buy sheets of postage stamps for 3/4 of their face value. Stamp collecting isn’t as popular as it was in the old days.
I had a business once where our largest cost was postage. This saved me a lot of money.
dear Tzippi,
The coupons I buy are not internet coupons, but rather coupons found and clipped from newspapers and magazines, and collected, then sold on ebay.
The Heinz Ketchup example was an expensive one, since those are popular coupons, but I generally get coupons for $.10 – $.20 each for Pasta, laundry detergent, eggs, etc.
I am fortunate enough to live near a supermarket that doubles coupons up to $0.99. I also have a large basement that is quite cold in the winter, so I can store a lot of this stuff.
That said, I still save thousands per year on groceries, with two teenaged boys with huge appetites.
Hey, how do you get the Sunday paper for less than $1/week?
My own personal secret, which I learned from my mother, is to combine coupons, coupon doubling, sales and rebates to get the best price on the food items we use most commonly. Now, with resources like eBay, I have improved upon my dear mother’s methods.
Here’s how it works for groceries and personal care products:
Say your family uses a lot of ketchup.
Go on ebay and search for heinz ketchup coupons.
Buy 20 of them for about $6.00.
Wait til Heinz Ketchup goes on sale at your local supermarket. This week, at mine, they are 2 big bottles for $5.
Buy about 20 bottles of Ketchup. $2.50 per bottle – $1.50 off per doubled coupon – – net cost $1.35 per bottle, about 1/3 of regular price.
I do this on shampoo, eggs, cereal, yogurt, spaghetti, salsa and many other items. I recently got brand name baby shampoo for $0.75 per bottle. I have enough to last me several years in the basement.
Of course, you need a lot of storage space if you buy this way, but the prices end up being 1/2 to 1/3 of the regular prices. Do this for your top 10 or 20 items, and you will end up saving thousands each year.
I would like to brag briefly: Once, I went shopping and got a large bag of groceries, and they PAID ME $8. This was the perfect storm combo of coupons, doubled coupons, sale and a manufacturer’s mail-in rebate. It doesn’t happen that often, so it’s sort of the hole-in-one of guerilla shopping.
the nice thing about minhagim are that there are so many nice ones to choose from.
Dear BenTorah, I think it has been proven to be more effective to reward yourself when you do accomplish something.
I used to work at home, and at the end of the day had to go out to the post office. When everything was mailed, I would reward myself with a small piece of chocolate from the pharmacy. This worked very well, and after a while, I was finished an hour earlier.
The other thing that helps me when laziness strikes, which is most of the time, is to assume an action position. Usually I work sitting down, but on days when lazy threatens to overtake me, I work standing up at my fireplace, writing on the mantel.
It does work — you get more action done in action positions than in passive positions.
If they do, I may have a few to donate. They’re not the fastest machines in the world, but they do work.
As one of two brothers who were as close in age as your two sons, I grew up always fighting with my brother. Don’t worry, the punching and wrestling will end shortly before the boys become grandfathers. I think that’s normal for boys.
A friend who was a child psychiatrist said that living in a household with only boys is akin to living with untrained monkeys.
If you have a girl, she will have a moderating effect on the boy.
My mother got us a dog, and we teased the dog, who loved to be teased, rather than teasing our brother.
The dog was also a pacifist, so she would start barking at us when we fought with each other. In order to have a decent fight, we would have to stop, take the dog to another room, and close the door on her. By the time we were ready to resume our fight, we had forgotten what we were fighting about, and would resume our normal activity.
we used amigos, they advertise on YWN, last year in Israel. We were very pleased.
you will get my diet coke from me only by prying it from my cold, dead fingers.
I am almost sure that it began in my dear grandparents’ apartments in The Bronx.
My dear wife honored the last Shabbos by making an astoundingly delicious Pumpkin-Ginger soup, featuring the fruits of the season. I am almost positive that none of my grandparents would have minded, even though they started that chicken soup minhag thing.
also by Alan Sherman, who suffered from a lifelong weight problem,
“Hail to thee, Fat Person” not sung to any particular tune.
I would like to explain how it came to pass that I got fat.
Ladies and gentlemen, I got fat as a public service.
When I was a child, my mother said to me,
“Clean the plate, because children are starving in Europe.”
And I might point out that that was years before the Marshall Plan was ever heard of.
So I would clean the plate, four, five, six times a day.
Because somehow I felt that that would keep the children from starving in Europe.
But I was wrong. They kept starving. And I got fat.
So I would like to say to every one of you who is either skinny
or in some other way normal–
When you walk out on the street, and you see a fat person,
Do not scoff at that fat person. Oh no!
Take off your hat. Hold it over your heart.
Lift your chin up high. And in a proud, happy voice say to him,
“Hail to thee, fat person!
You kept us out of war!”
“I’m called Little Butterball,” to the tune of I’m called Little Buttercup from Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore.
Lyrics, also, by Alan Sherman. Subject: Fat
I’m called Little Butterball,
Dear Little Butterball,
‘Though I could never tell why.
My calories mount.
My cholesterol count
Is as high as an elephant’s eye.
They told me to diet.
I promised I’d try it,
Yet somehow my weight would not budge.
Each Metrecal cookie
To me tasted ookie,
So I covered it with hot fudge.
I ate watercresses,
And other such messes,
And pushed all my favorites aside.
I said to the caterers,
“No more mashed potaterers,
Just baked, and hash browned, and french fried.”
I sing this sad song
‘Cause my diet went wrong,
‘Though I honestly tried to pay heed.
I don’t care how high
Is an elephant’s eye,
But an elephant’s rear I don’t need!
oops! sorry, I read wrong. I thought it was for Jew of the last century.
scream! works for me.
My municipality does not allow me to keep a cow on my property.
Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax.
again and again and again.
what! Meatballs and Spaghetti isn’t a Shabbos food? Now he tells me.
You can get great value at Costco.
My own personal secret, which I learned from my mother, is to combine coupons, coupon doubling, sales and rebates to get the best price on the food items we use most commonly. Now, with resources like eBay, I have improved upon my dear mother’s methods.
Here’s how it works:
Say your family uses a lot of ketchup.
Go on ebay and search for heinz ketchup coupons.
Buy 20 of them for about $6.00.
Wait til Heinz Ketchup goes on sale at your local supermarket. This week, at mine, they are 2 big bottles for $5.
Buy about 20 bottles of Ketchup. $2.50 per bottle – $1.50 off per doubled coupon – – net cost $1.35 per bottle, about 1/3 of regular price.
I do this on shampoo, eggs, cereal, yogurt, spaghetti, salsa and many other items. I recently got brand name baby shampoo for $0.75 per bottle. I have enough to last me several years in the basement.
Of course, you need a lot of storage space if you buy this way, but the prices end up being way lower than Costco.
I would like to brag briefly: Once, I went shopping and got a large bag of groceries, and they PAID ME $8. This was the perfect storm combo of coupons, doubled coupons, sale and a manufacturer’s mail-in rebate. It doesn’t happen that often, so it’s sort of the hole-in-one of guerilla shopping.
200,000 miles is the new 100,000 miles
We just replaced a 13-year old (*happy bar mitzvah*) Subarau with an 8 year old Subaru with the same mileage.
So much depends on the maintenance and use of the car. Most of today’s engines and drive trains are built superbly, and should last at least 200,000 miles. Many other things, such as electronic controls for windows and door locks, go with age, regardless of the mileage.
1. FEELAHWFUL (n.) Indigestion from eating Israeli street food, especially falafel.
2. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with
Yiddish expressions.
apropos of Shticky Guy’s contribution:
1. Cohenstoga Wagon – a heavy vehicle used by Jewish pioneers wearing castoff Roman garments.
2. Talisman – Owner of the religious supply store.
3. Kuwait-watchers: a group favoring oil-price reduction.
4. Jew Bidin’ – standing at the door of the synagogue, waiting for a minyan.
5. Fear Kashas – Buckwheatophobia.
6. Mitz-Rayim – New Rayim flavored juice, popular in Israel now
7. Diane Nu – Young woman who is always asking, “Wuzzup?”
to ensure that one never has to fight with a stranger?
When I was a teenager, and antisemitism was for more common in the mainstream, every Succoth, someone in my home town would lodge a complaint against some poor jew in my town, that he had built a structure in his yard that did not meet building codes.
The town always took these complaints seriously, and these cases would end up in municipal court.
The judge, himself a Jew, who was as wise and funny as Judge Judy, or any of her ilk, would always lecture the poor fellow very sternly, and order him to remove the structure within a week’s time, or there would be dire consequences.
Meatball-Fudge Ripple.
Mint Chocolate Chip – a favorite of mine since childhood.
yes, Oomis, but there would be no harm in telling him she is a knockout.
If a bridegroom should ask you if his bride is pretty, you may lie, no matter how bad she looks. To tell the truth would diminish his joy, and in this case, you should lie. I suppose the same is true if your wife should ask you if she looks fat.
The same is true with any nonrefunduable acquisition. You should rave about the wonderful house your cousin just bought, no matter whether it was a good purchase on his part.
Wow! that must be a world record. I remember when it took nine months per baby!
On a more serious and heartfelt note:
MAZAL TOV!
Sometimes the small things make the biggest chesed impact. Through the efforts of tens of thousands of people over many years, my wife (then 13) and her family left the Soviet Union in 1973.
Since they had no close relations here, they were settled in America by the Jewish Community of their new city. Yes, they had a nice apartment, some spending money, and assistance in getting a job. But what started her mother weeping in gratitude?
The chicken in the refrigerator.
I, too, have been the recipient of many, many kindnesses, it would be hard to choose the biggest one.
While I was reading cantoresq, oomis and wolf’s postings, I was reminded of a big one that I hadn’t thought about in a long while.
My father died when I was nine years old, leaving my mother, my brother (age six) and me.
That summer, my parents’ friends got some money together to send my brother and me to summer camp. They also got my mother a job at the camp office, so we wouldn’t be far apart.
I am always very touched and grateful when I think of this particular kindness.
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so would Davening Ladies.