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Comments (254)I suggest that for the pile of complexity known as an induction cooktop or induction range (only the cooktop is induction), that the price of the unit be considered a rental cost. Factory warranty is typically for only one year without a warranty extension. With a warranty extension divide by 5 for a yearly rental cost when you have a 5-year warranty, and by larger values if the warranty can be extended further (warranty costs add to purchase price). My Frigidaire cooktop is running OK at 8 years with warranty extensions so my yearly "rental" has dropped to under $250 (guessing). So Maxim 1 is to buy warranty extensions for pricey, reliability-challenged appliances, and if such an appliance fails after the warranty ends just replace it. Maxim 2 is that price analysis should be combined with an evaluation of warranty costs (should be inversely proportional to reliability) to choose a unit where the imputed yearly rental is affordable....See MoreMy Take on Karen has changed. This video helped. And Mansplaining.
Comments (18)Take heart. The world is changing. I think we are improving in our ability to recognize our mutual humanity, not our differences. I'm (slightly) Pre-WWII. My MIL and an aunt-by-marriage never missed an opportunity to disparage black people. The aunt, a native of Missouri, had one sneering term, 'Nigras'. As a child, I couldn't understand why my DM shushed when I intended to help someone walking ahead of us on a Chicago street, calling out, "Mommy, that cleaning lady dropped her glove!" The only black women I knew were 'the help'. Public transit was filled with black faces coming out of the city to the suburbs in the mornings and returning to the city in the afternoon. I clearly remember driving from Chicago to Florida one winter as a child, passing chain gangs in Georgia -- white men on horseback with rifles, overseeing dozens of black men laboring in the sun.n chains. We once stayed overnight in an antebellum home with a Confederate flag at the door. The owner, in 'reduced circumstances', didn't try to contain her contempt for black people...or us Yankees. (The memory is like something out of Tennessee Williams!) I can't remember seeing people of color on TV until a groundbreaking drama, "Julia" introduced us to a family no different from any other, aside from being black. Now we have a wide variety of 'colors' and 'persuasions' -- in dramas, comedies, and, importantly, in positions of authority and trust. I'm not saying there isn't a LOT of room for change, but I'm encouraged. Could this horrible pandemic serve a larger purpose? Could we Love One Another?...See MoreCovid on the brain
Comments (23)~~~ I don't think you can assume the country has become lax because of a parking lot with cars. I go out regularly to grocery, hardware, drug store, hair salon and once in a while to a regular store. I've never encountered any kind of crowds, everyone is wearing a mask and everyone is keeping their distance.~~~ I hate disagreeing but that's being lax. Very lax. From the CDC about running essential errands when everyone is wearing a mask. Disinfect the shopping cart, use disinfecting wipes if available. Do not touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands. Only touch products that you plan to purchase, if possible. We all touch our nose and eyes so many times a day we don't even notice we're doing it. Who touched the apple before you picked it up? Can you imagine how many fresh germs are on the door you open, or the products you might buy? Does your hairdresser stand right over your head? I've lost count how many times I've read or heard someone say, "He/she had no idea how they caught Covid because they always wore a mask." And then the person died. Joanie, scoot over, I rarely leave the house except to go to a drivce through maybe twice a month for something. I do the ordering of groceries online and DH picks them up and gets to stay in the car while the worker load the food. Other than missing my family, I kind of like being home, but I'm a homebody by nature and need my alone time to exist....See MoreAndersen windows - any immediate alternative?
Comments (293)Many, if not most, of the issues with purchasing through a box store, is that you are purchasing through a box store. You rarely get experts in the field working there. The person staffing the desk could have sold light bulbs the week before. Even if they figured out the quoting system, there is still the ordering system that has to interface with the manufacturer electronically. If you don't know how to do that, the order never gets into the manufacturer's production que. That has happened way more times that you want to know for special order merchandise! Something with a 30 day lead time turned into 7 months, becuase the original order was never transmitted properly. And no one looked deep into the details. They just saw it as "on order", and that was that....See More- 5 years ago
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