Stella
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Yes, it’s run by the state. They can do targeted donations. I’ve seen that before when I’ve renewed my membership.

You just reminded me I could donate to the WI Historical Society and designate my donation to the maritime preservation program - I already volunteer...

I do have to admit jp’s Christmas pants sound awesome!

I thought he meant the Mariah Carey song!

I like instrumental stuff. I have a couple of albums of Christmas music that is lute, guitar, and Celtic harp. Awesome. I also enjoy stuff like the...

That’s looks wonderful.

Yikes. So sorry to hear. What a mess.

I got a nice box of different types of bite size brownies from the customer whose hot air freight shipments I worked on every day of Thanksgiving...

I went with Lenovo after a friend’s IT guy hubby suggested Lenovo and walked me through options. I was really proud of myself for realizing I needed...

My 2015 MacBook which essentially died earlier this year was an Air. It was great. I replaced it with a mid-level Windows Lenovo laptop as I didn’t...

Reallly wondering if we’re going to get a bonus this year. Last year was the first one I got one. It just shows up in your bank account around...

The Every Dollar experiment was a dumpster fire. I budget per paycheck. I always have. Budgeting for the month with money I don’t have yet just...

Yes the water heater was replaced. Just for my unit.

He was showing signs of taking his time with it Monday. He was out of town for the holiday. I told him I was very tired of having to heat water on...

I finally have hot water again. Yay!

Check out the Amazon Basics LED. Forget how much I paid, but they’re working fine.

Jp, I know - I’m the same way with stuff magically showing up at my front door!

Well, I discovered my water heater wasn’t working on Thanksgiving morning. At least I wasn’t hosting a dinner! I heated up a kettle full of water and...

Why is it almost impossible? Can’t find what you want in store?

Roger, I’m with you on online shopping. Love it.

Went by Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL this morning. It’s at the intersection of two freeways and exits were all jammed. The mall lots I could see...

Hope it works out.

Have you made it clear to son that there will not be a repeat of Thanksgiving?

Yes, it’s going to get replaced on Monday. It’s 16-17 years old.

I have NO hot water. Discovered it when I got up today. Was fine yesterday morning before work. Leaking from vent valve on top. Looks like it has to...

I’m going to my goddaughter’s maternal grandparents’ for dinner. I’ve known them for years. They always host. I’m taking Brie and crackers and a...

I’ve thrown in a a few dollars sometimes over the years when people were short, if it was a senior or mother with young kids. Case by case basis. You...

Posted on local BN group about often being told to donate food to food pantries instead of people on the group getting it. Turns out that is again BN...

I never agreed with her politics, but she appeared to be a good and decent person. I agree Jimmy will probably follow soon.

I have NO late payments at all.

Someone had suggested a half and half approach to laying down my debt. I’m going to give that a try. The 30th paycheck is when I pay on cc with...

IL, if your food pantry asked for the cake mixes, that’s one thing. If they didn’t want them and you still insisted on donating them, not good.

I see people on FB all the time who want to give cake mixes and frosting, for example, to a food pantry at the holidays. They don’t get that the food...

Absolutely fed up with customers who have urgent air freight shipments they pay mega dollars for freight on, yet they cannot get us the correct...

Buy Nothing is the current free group thing. I think most of the groups exist on FB. They’re very specific for your area. I don’t even know how much...

Buy Nothing group they come and pick it up from me. I don’t go hauling stuff due to my knees. I also love when people try to volunteer my time or...

Just posted some tomato soup I’m giving away on local Buy Nothing group. Have to watch how much acid I have. People commented I could take it to X...

Just posted two electric heaters, small bottles of OJ, regular/decaf instant coffee, and some tea I had too much of on local Buy Nothing group. Also...

I just got home from shopping. I was asked to bring a cherry pie for Thanksgiving. Aldi had no cherry in the baked goods section and no frozen ones....

Haha! Big small. Love it.

Haha. Yep.

If you don’t mind Amazon, that’s where I get a lot of my tea. Much better selection and better prices than the local grocery.

You need WRITTEN approval. And a text isn’t sufficient. Has to be via email. HR clarified today that when I WFH two months ago due to the car issues,...

Roobios tea is from South Africa. It’s a lovely dark red color. Totally herbal but it’s very substantial. So if you don’t like herbal much as I...

I love tea. Tried Republic of Tea Earl Greyer last year and fell in love with it. Also got some Roobios. Their holiday teas look great and I got a...

Spent this morning listening to the Ramsey podcasts. He’s not on them at all. Not bad.

Aldi is based in Germany. I’m told the German locations are very similar size wise. A lot of grocery stores are just too big. I appreciate the lack...

I’m exempt. I don’t get paid anything for weekends or OT. To be honest, OT is rare and the weekend stuff depends on what shipments there are. I can...

I had my spicy Moroccan shrimp Sunday and yesterday. So yummy and takes only 5 minutes.

Someone is home sick and can’t reach manager to get the written permission. They clarified today that a text is not accepted as “written permission.”...

I love the Ask A Manger website. Someone put me onto it a few months ago. I did send this in as a question, but doubt it will get published.

I’m exempt. I went over the IL Dept of Labor website has no option for reporting this before the fact. It’s only after the fact.

Bird flu is still apparently something of an issue.

I want to listen to more than music at work and I’ve discovered podcasts. I’ve just downloaded the Dave Ramsey show, local radio stuff, and some BBC...

Thanks for your service!

Just ordered several boxes of Republic of Tea holiday tea assortments for gifts. Goddaughter’s mom and grandmother who always host at the holidays,...

I’m sure they probably do. I think Family Dollar and Dollar Tree merged. Or at least I think that’s what I heard.