Stella
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You will find this very interesting on the tariffs. https://www.cato.org/commentary/welcome-tariff-complexity-hell

Article said he was able to keep the cost down to $350K because he essentially did a huge amount of interior work himself. He is an avid metal worker...

Not sure if you can read this. The New Yorker doesn’t have gift article options like the Times. This is about Americans leaving for the Netherlands...

Plague times broke a lot of people, IMO. I went out to breakfast today with a friend after this morning's church service for St Nicholas Day....

I have no issues keeping track of my stuff. And passkeys instead of passwords are great. You can use device passcode instead of biometrics if...

Ships from the US is what you want. No tariff hassle since it’s already here.

Found my lost sock! It was hiding inside of a shirt and fell out when I shook it this morning! LOL

Rosa, some sellers don’t have their systems set up to tell you about tariffs. That’s all ok the buyer. So expect separate bill.

Flexport is a very large freight forwarder/customs broker. They have an excellent tariff calculator. https://tariffs.flexport.com/

Where they made in Turkey? If so, 15% flat rate. Country of origin (manufacture) counts, not where something ships from. NYT has an excellent...

Some shippers are covering the duties. And it’s tariffs, not tarrifs.

Good! Just say no! If you can’t source it within the US, don’t buy it.

Good article on duty now being charged on formerly de minimis shipments. ...

Thanks, so do I! These are $20/pair socks!

I looked - my missing sock wasn't there! When I did laundry last night, I put my socks in a small zippered lingerie laundry bag. Didn't lose a sock...

I just bought two pairs of Smart Wool socks for the winter. Wore one pair and went to wear the second pair the next day. One sock was missing. Bought...

Yep, we want to see the bulldog!

Back up here to about $3.15 at the stations near work (cheaper than by home which is within Crook County). Nearly $3.50 near home.

Nope. That went away mid 2010s. Online shopping means the good deals are before BF.

The old style Black Friday fist fights at the stores has gone away. Done in by online shopping.

Good. You need to be forbidden from it anyway.

That would be fun.

That’s great to hear!

I was feeling lazy yesterday so I got a big container of fried rice from Panda Express. Half last night and the other half tonight.

Chicago talked Whole Foods into opening a store in an all black neighborhood, Englewood, which is not a nice place. The store only lasted six years....

This isn't business related, just personal/church stuff. But even then, if you didn't want to be bothered by work emails late, silence your...

I was implying that they’re going to lose money massively. It’s not like there’s a huge margin they would be able to cut in order to make things...

This website I mentioned has a different format for Kindle. Also, Kindle app and Kindle are two different things. I’ve never been successful at...

An update to my rant in the post above. I was at a church women’s group meeting today and one of the women who is demanding people only contact her...

The new NY mayor elect was talking about city run grocery stores to make things more affordable for residents. The thing is, grocers have a very slim...

That AI is wrong. The Marines were founded in 1775!

We have just about the highest gas taxes here in the US in IL. I paid $3.03 for regular unleaded on the way home tonight. A few stations closer to...

I don’t watch much TV, but I streamed the first episode of Ken Burn’s The American Revolution on PBS. It was really good. Everyone can stream through...

The first thing to consider is if the country you want to move to will even take you. I’ve seen many say they want to move to Canada, and Canada is...

Dude, you're all talk and no action. I literally cannot take anything you say seriously.

People who go to extreme lengths with the times you’re “allowed” to contact them. I have multiple friends who’ve posted on social media that you can...

Very nice!

PayPal isn’t set up for paying at a store. It’s online purchases.

When you are at the checkout, how are you paying? Venmo and PayPal aren’t set up for point of sale use. Apple Pay and Google Pay are. So you’ve got...

Something like 80% of US purchases are cashless.

Canada got rid of pennies more than a decade ago. They survived. I see a notice about pennies when I go through the drive thru at McD for my...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/dining/snap-recipients-government-shutdown.html Interesting article on how SNAP amounts were determined and are...

Congrats.