I saw them today at Vons. $2.43 for a tin.
Here ya go. Their business model is essentially to do reasonably-priced, reasonable-quality bookshelves in all sorts of shapes and sizes. They have a line specifically for paperbacks.
I dunno. I don’t think I’d pay that much just for pine.
Now if you want really cheap: the eight shelf storage tower. It has adjustable shelves.
Sunshine Pickled Peach halves produced by Margaret Holmes. They consistently sell out a couple of weeks after the new year. Then I am sad.
I work in an auto-parts store. We sell standard thread SAE flare nuts in a ten pack bag. You want to make a brake line just the right size, you have the ISO flaring tool, a spool of tubing, all you need are the fittings.
Help. M10x1.0 to fit 4.62 MM tubing. Would also love to find M11x1.5, M13x?
Any EuroDoper Gearheads here?
Thank you.
Found the cord! The bead shop suggestion worked. The first couple of bead shops I looked in had the exact same things I saw in the craft stores (hemp string, leather thongs), but finally I found a place that sold satin cord. I got three yards of royal blue cord for only a dollar 
I also bought a bunch of little metal crimp-on things to add an attachment point for the cross. A dozen of those for another dollar. All I need to do is cut the cord to length and use pliers to add the metal bit, and I’m set. It’ll be much nicer than the cord I have now, too, which has a rope-like texture. In case anyone’s wondering, I wanted blue cord because the cross has some blue details on it, and the blue cord picks up on that.
Still, that was a lot of trouble to find something which I thought would be easy!
Actually, I’m looking for something deeper. Basically, I’d like to find a rectangular end table, with a drawer on the front (narrower) side. Also, Ikea’s designs tend to be a bit spartan for my tastes, although their Hemnes series is nice.
Try the supermarket. You’d be amazed at the selection. It’s a holdover from the olden days. It’ll be near shoe polish. (Aisle 5 prior to 1994 at the Cape Ann Supermarket in Ipswich MA. I’ve found them in other locations as well, more recently.)
I tried. I don’t believe they had the right sizes. ANyway, I used this rant elsewhere and was informed by a friend she could get laces - official laces for my official jump boots - from her No-Go station.
That and I’m thinking of ordering a new pair of Docs anyway, if I can afford them.
Dried kaffir lime leaves, a staple for Thai cooking, used to be available in very large bags for a couple of bucks. Last time I checked, there was one company online that sold smallish bags and the shipping was more than the leaves. I see that there’s now another with somewhat better rates, but it’s still nowhere near as cheap as a couple of bucks for a big bag. I’ve searched in my region and can only find frozen lime leaves, which is not what I want.
My community south of Seattle has become increasingly ethnic in the last few years. I’m sure I saw Kaffir lime leaves in one of the stores here. Probably Saar’s, which means they should be pretty cheap. I could look in the next few days and let you know. I could check out a few of the Asian markets here too.
I’ve been looking for good yogurt covered raisins for quite a while. Fred Meyer has two or three brands (Brach’s, is one of them) but they’re not up to what I want. Walgreen’s had the best but they stopped carrying that brand a few years ago. I went to Trader Joe’s today figuring this would be right up their alley. There were chocolate covered raisins, nuts and other stuff but not a single yogurt covered anything. Sigh. Chocolate just doesn’t agree with my taste buds, no matter how much my brain wishes it would. Yogurt is yum, though!
I’ve been trying to find chow chow pickles for TikkiDad for quite a while too. They’re sweet pickles packed in a mustard sauce. (I understand that in some parts of the country, plenty of peppers are used but they’re not what I’m looking for.) Farman’s used to make them but then they sold out to a conglomerate and the chow chows were dropped. Every once in a great while you can find a jar in a specialty shop but they come with a hefty price tag. One of my sisters got him a jar of them made by Cross and Blackwell, I believe, a year or two ago and he still hasn’t eaten them because he’s saving them for just the right time. Darn it! A man should be able eat chow chows whenever he pleases!
umm, I think any calculator with trig functions (the buttons labelled tan, cos, sin, which are used for angles) can do this. Angles are measured just like time, except that we call them degrees,not hours.
60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour/degree.
A jar of Mixed Fruit jelly from Smuckers. Walmart, Jewel, Dominicks… None of them carry it around Lake County, IL.
Umm, who’s we, oh condescending one? Why’nt you take a flying leap?
There’s a little store that I stumbled into that’s about 4 doors down from the Mongolian Barbeque in Ann Arbor that sells greeting cards with vintage photos on the front and (very often) hilarious things on the inside.
Yah ma. She has refused to sew anything for me for since I was a teen. She helped look at times. The last time I tried her machine I had a spring jacket with no pockets, but the loose seem was fixed. I’m not worried about them any longer. The redecorating bit I wanted new ones for, is in need of a complete refurbish again. A room can get badly used in ten years.
For the calulator that does time, it’s not the same as angles. I have a Casio that does much more, and cost more when bought. Time functions can be converted with a button push between 12 or 24 hour format, and can give days also, though not all likely do. It’s easy for somebody that has to add up work hours. Don’t ask where to get this 27 year old marvel. Yes it’s old and it’s still perfect for my uses.
For cording in the future religous stores sometimes sells it.
You can’t go to the store and get the selection of shoe laces, you could thirty years ago. The laces came in many variations, and the sizes sequenced by 2 inch lengths. Now you end up with too long of laces and a style you don’t want to get the right color.
Well, it won’t be as cheap as $8, but Calculated Industries has products in the $40-$50 dollar range (and you can get their models elsewhere online rather than the manufacturer for less).
They have one called ScheduleCalc that does every type of time calculation you can think of including days between calendar dates, as well as the hour/minute/second thing.
And they have other special calculators for doing contracting work, airplane pilot calculations, etc.
Bookcases that will match the color of my current coffee/end table set. I bought the coffee table from some lady out of the classifieds where I work six years ago, and I stumbled upon a set of end tables that matched it perfectly a couple years later. It’s a very dark glossy red finish, not bright red, kind of a maroony red. Target used to have bookcases in a close enough color, I got one for Christmas a couple years ago, but alas, my inlaws apparently got the very last one ever. A couple weeks ago, I saw one in the right color, but I hated the style, so I didn’t get it. I changed my mind and went back, and it was gone. Grrr. I could probably find what I want if I went to some actual furniture stores instead of Target and similar, but alas, I can only afford the cheap stuff right now. Ikea has absolutely nothing in the color I want, I’ve checked.
Kiwi-strawberry Crystal Light. I recently moved to NC from Chicago, and none of the stores here seem to carry it. Or at least none of the ones I shop at. I have one container that I brought with me when I moved, and I’m hoarding it.
most good sporting goods stores have “Paracord”, parachute cord, comes in a few different thicknesses, and should be pretty cheap for a short length