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Comments (11)GE is a decent choice HP. I can live with that. Thanks for that suggestion. Segesta - it never even occurred to me to Craigslist the appliances I purchase now, later on. Fantastic idea. At least I'd get something for them down the road. And yes, I do hope that a couple of years from now I'll be able to spring for the better stuff. Part of the problem also is my partner has been out of work for a long time (darn economy) and right now the burden of everything is on me. Once he's back employed, and I get my tax credits from the purchase of the house and things settle down with the renovations I'll have a better idea if I can splurge a little bit. On a bright note - at least he's been available to supervise what's going on during construction :) Right now, saving a few thousand on the appliances, counters, and other items which can be swapped out easily is the extra for the overage on electrical and plumbing. I'm hoping not to cut the cabinetry as that can't be changed as easily....See MoreBest, Worst, & Decent online buying experiences so far...
Comments (6)Wow. Sorry to hijack the thread - that fixture really is impressive, but I can't imagine spending that much money on one fixture. Heck, I can't even imagine having so much money that I could even contemplate spending that much money on one fixture - and I wouldn't consider myself poor. More power to you, I guess. Literally. ;-) In all honesty I can't recommend an online retailer for lighting. For my infrequent replacements and upgrades, I generally trade with a large local electrical supply house, one that serves quite a few of the pros around here. Their fixtures are probably what you'd call utilitarian, but they seem to be of pretty decent quality at reasonable prices. As another thread here suggests, I've seen some truly amazing deals at garage sales and thrift stores. I guess I'm in the minority here, but I don't worry too much about having the latest fashions in lighting. I'll watch this thread for more ideas....See MoreAre ANY of the grocery store dog foods decent ?
Comments (68)One of the reasons that Whole Dog Journal will not put a dog food on their "approved" list without the manufacturer freely giving out the name of the manufacturing plant when asked by a legitimate inquiry is that such full disclosure helps guard against the kind of accident that occurred in 2007. Many of the small dog food companies have their foods made at plants that manufacture for many different companies. Knowing that the precise ingredients that the individual manufacturer specified for their food were used in the manufacture of it is part of the trust that small companies must have in these "batch" manufacturing plants. At least one pet food plant used ingredients not specified by the pet food manufacturers whose food they were making, according to Wikipedia's article on Protein Adulteration in China Having the name of the plant that manufactures your food easy to look up in case of a food contamination event allows consumers to decide whether to buy other foods made at that plant. Given all of that work that WDJ does to get this info for us, it is pretty obvious that the plants that are making these foods are right here in the US and Canada. The protein supplement that was imported from China was criminally poisoned with the addition of melamine plastic in 2006 and 2007 and there is evidence that there was a similar outbreak in 2005 (see the Wikipedia link below). Chinese companies who participated in this in 2006 and 2007 that poisoned our pets were not immediately sanctioned, and the milk industry went on to commit horrific poisoning of baby formula and milk products in China that was not discovered until May 2008 and not made public until August or September. Milk products from China shipped all over the world were found to have melamine in them even into 2009. From Wikipedia: "Two people were executed, one given a suspended death penalty, three people receiving life imprisonment, two receiving 15-year jail terms,[6] and seven local government officials, as well as the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), being fired or forced to resign. Yes, all that had to do with the poisoning of babies and others who drank the milk in China. It only came to light because a New Zealand affiliate of the Chinese milk company kept insisting that something was wrong and had to be investigated. Melamine can be manufactured from urea (a concentrated part of urine), coal, and other sources. Urea and other nitrogen sources are added to the feed of ruminants (multi-stomach animals, animals who chew a cud) to increase the nitrogen level because they can get protein's nutrition from these non-food sources due to their unique digestive processes. THAT is how melamine started being put into food - the waste from making it was used in cattle feed. when it was made from urea. A crude way to measure how much protein is in a food is to measure the nitrogen level. Melamine, urea, and some other non-foods increase the nitrogen level without adding to the nutritional level (except for ruminant feed). So now, they have to use more sophisticated testing methods to test foods for animals and people. Because people cannot be trusted, in capitalist or socialist countries, not to poison each other for profit or to make their expected output! This all goes back to my sneaking feeling that this planet can only healthily sustain a very tiny fraction of the people we have living here. If we can't eat whole foods, or feed whole foods to our meat livestock and pets, then we are going to have this kind of thing happen. I have been discussing the need to change our diets to "no processed foods" with my fellow chronically ill friends online. Most of us had no children. It is turning out that this is a good thing....See MoreWhere to find decent wall clocks that don't cost an arm and a leg?
Comments (38)The problem with wall clocks is that so many of them do not keep accurate time. Even fairly expensive ones. We have a lovely wood 24" wall clock that requires a ladder and strong arms during time changes. It is currently 8 minutes "off" and ready for the "fall back". I have gone through a dozen $60-100 clocks that got returned, or tossed in a corner, because they would lose 5 minutes every week. They make me crazy! My goal is to convert to high-quality time-keepers throughout the house and be done it. So far, I have been able to afford "one"==but it is a start!...See Moreczarinalex
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