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[Fishindude77]

Follow up on the pumpkin harvest. Total pick was 689 near as we could count.
Kept a few for holiday decor, but otherwise gave every one of them away. Towards the end I was setting them out by the road with a "free pumpkins" sign and that got rid of the last of them.
Took the sign down today and we are out of the pumpkin business for this year. Hope we made a bunch of kids happy.

[crazyliblady]

Possible win for California residents but probably only chump change and not worth my time.

How do they know how much to give back to you? I ask because I am guessing to do this, you would have to document what you spent on gas. Do any of us actually keep gas purchase receipts for 8 years or more?

[QuarterMillionMan]

Fast & easy to register in 1 minute.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Possible win for California residents but probably only chump change and not worth my time.

[james.hendrickson]

I got up this morning, checked my accounts and saw I had $20 in dividend payments hit the accounts. Its nice to wake up in the morning and have $.

[Fishindude77]

Wow, bumper crop of pumpkins !
We always put out a big pumpkin patch behind the house to share with friends & neighbors. Started picking this morning and thus far have picked about 300 and looks like we're only about about halfway there. Had to take a break, it's hard physical work.
A nice range of the traditional Jacko lantern size from about 10" diameter up to 18" diameter, bunch of the white ornamentals and a couple dozen Atlantic Giants, biggest of which is about 36" tall and probably 100 lbs or more.

Lucked out and had ideal growing conditions this year with rains almost weekly. Also put up a temporary fence which kept the deer out for the most part.

Should make a lot of kids happy.
Makes us feel good giving them away too.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

had 35 more items to consignment and i donated another 5 bags of stuff

[disneysteve]

As I'm sure many of you do, when some of my clothing gets stained or worn out they become "bum around" items that I just wear around the house, to work in the yard, or to clean the garage. The issue I've run into recently is that all of my bum around pants are pretty shot, even for that purpose. The knees are ripped, the crotch seams are opening. They're just beyond even yard work condition, which my daughter keeps ribbing me about.

We went to Goodwill earlier today and I managed to find one pair of khakis in my size that actually fit. Plus they were the color of the week so they were $3 instead of the $6.99 they were marked. One existing pair will get trashed and replaced by those. I need several more so I'll keep looking as I'm in thrift shops regularly. I did buy a pair a month or two ago but when I got home they didn't fit and I didn't realize at the time that the store did have a 5-day return policy so I just re-donated them.

[james.hendrickson]

Just threatened to cancel HBO and got a $30 savings ($10 a month for 3 months) for staying on.

[james.hendrickson]

I called T Mobile - and got a less expensive plan with basically the same service for $15 less per month. On an annual basis, that's $180 saved.

[Fishindude77]

i finally got my family to unpack and clean their clothes. This weekend before school starts my goal is to not park in the garage and spend at least 4 hours on Saturday making DH and the kids go through everything in the garage. I cleaned a huge pile earlier this year but it didn't stick

I'm overdue to set a dumpster in the driveway, drag everything out of the shop, clean the place head to toe, dispose of a bunch of stuff, then put everything back neat and tidy.
Probably should do that every couple years.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

i finally got my family to unpack and clean their clothes. This weekend before school starts my goal is to not park in the garage and spend at least 4 hours on Saturday making DH and the kids go through everything in the garage. I cleaned a huge pile earlier this year but it didn't stick

[Fishindude77]

Just got back from a great fly in fishing trip to NW Ontario with three life long buddies.
Great weather, great fishing, a great lodge to stay at, nice people, good meals, awesome fresh walleye shore lunches every day, a couple giant pike were caught, hundreds of walleye caught, etc.

I'll call that a win.

[crazyliblady]

I paid off an extra 22 bucks towards my mortgage. Its a very small win, but still a win.

A couple of years ago, our mortgage payment actually went down by $5.30, but I kept paying the same payment. It seems to be having an effect on the balance, because 35% of the payment is now going to the principal. Woo-Hoo!

[crazyliblady]

I donated a bunch of stuff today, including a vacuum in working order, a scanner, a pipe stand, a couple of cigarette rollers, and a nylon loofah back scrubber. I like to take stuff like this to a local thrift store called the New to You and Reuse it Shop, because it benefits the community in multiple ways.