I’m reminded of the time long ago when I played a round of golf and mislaid an iron club out on the course. When I got back to the clubhouse I overheard the pro talking to a man who’d found my club, telling him that if no one showed up to claim it, he could have it. The guy, noting that it was from a really cheap set, said “Nah”. 
My good lady wife is down with Covid, she has had a couple of days in bed feeling like crap, the doc proscribed some plaxlovid , apparently completely covered by our insurance, but the insurance company needs to spend time making absolutely sure they are not paying out one more cent than they need to, so it will be a couple of days of letters back and forth from doctor to insurance whilst she feels like crap. Fortunately blood ox and breathing is ok at the moment.
Then despite her staying in our bedroom our youngest ( also autistic which never helps where being sick) has come down with it as well . Yay.
They were all vaxed up except for the last omnicron one and were off to get that sorted this weekend . I already had it as I had a bunch of work travel back in oct/nov.
Well I’ll be doing my best nurse impression over the next few days.
I don’t have asthma myself but my husband and toddler do. It is the worst. And my husband is stubborn and won’t go to the doctor about it. Sometimes, I want to throttle him. If he suffocates because he couldn’t be bothered to go to the doctor to get his steroids refilled, I’ll bring him back from the dead just to kill him again.
But on to important things - I think my daughter might have a UTI. I feel terrible for not realizing it might be that sooner. She’s started wetting the bed again after a long period of being night trained. I thought the clonidine she takes for sleep was knocking her out too much but then someone was like “Hey, when a sudden change in bathroom habits happens, make sure its not an infection.” The girl says it doesn’t hurt right now but I’ll be taking her to urgent care tonight.
Good luck - you’re supposed to initiate the treatment within 5 days of diagnoses . . .
I put my bins out in the lane once a week for collection. If I don’t bring them in right away, someone comes along and puts a single bag of garbage into my recycling bin, and one into my green bin. Never more, but every time. Who is doing this? More importantly, why are they doing this? Other people leave their bins out 24 / 7 / 365, and they don’t seem to have random garbage deposited. I live in the middle of a block a couple of blocks up from a main road in a pedestrian-unfrienly neighbourhood, so there isn’t tons of foot traffic.
If I have space in the can and you need to throw something out, fine—who cares. But don’t make me crawl into the green bin to rescue your plastic crap.
Put a camera on it. Maybe you can borrow from a friend?
I suspect it’s one of the elderly Chinese ladies who wander the lanes, so that even if I knew for sure, all I could do would be to catch them in the act and shout 不好! which is the limit of my Chinese.
Has anyone noticed how modern ornament hooks all seem to be either green plastic, or brass wire that comes in a fanciful curlicue shape? Neither type works particularly well. What happened to the old fashioned kind, that was a simple length of wire with a small hook for the ornament at the bottom, and a large hook for the tree branch at the top? Those were simple and they worked so well.
We’ve been making our own from a spool of wire, but it still puzzles me why such a good product was discontinued. What were they thinking? It can’t be due to cost; those brass curlicue hooks have to be more expensive to make than the old ones. And the green plastic hooks would be cheaper if they followed the same pattern as the old metal wire hooks, but they don’t.
They were thinking that they could wrest more money from your wallet. One year, when I needed more of the simple kind and couldn’t find them anywhere, I used re-bent paper clips. It worked well and they were sturdy.
Who invented this thing of last chance to buy?
It wasn’t a thing when I was young, but now most stores have a rack of stuff they can’t sell, and yet are unwilling to offer any discount whatsoever.
I guess it’s good if it’s about reducing clothing waste? </naive>
But the number of times I see a bunch of items set aside with bright stickers on them, and think it’s a sale rack and…nope. No discount here.
Unexpectedly stuck with no car this weekend. Luckily there’s nothing I absolutely need it for, but I sure have a lot of errands that need running.
Not disagreeing with you, but I don’t understand what you’re ranting about. A bit more background perhaps?
Ah. I considered writing “…in the UK” but figured it must be an international thing. But I guess not.
So, many physical stores in the UK have items marked as “last chance to buy”.
At a glance, or far enough away, they look like sales items: a number of odd items, with prominent marking like this:
…but usually there is no discount. It’s mostly clothes stores that do this, but also home decor and occasionally others.
I guess the idea is: “These items were so popular, we only have a few left! Last chance to get the latest fad trend!”
and not “We’re struggling to sell these and will have to bin them. Want to pay us full price?”
Thank you. I understand perfectly now.
There are certainly various scammy US marketing tactics intended to create an artificial sense of shortage or of urgency.
But I’ve not seen “last chance to buy” on the remnant odd-sized crap that didn’t sell by end of season. That’s just rude of them.
OTOH …
There are stores whose entire stock in trade is “We buy remnants and last-season merchandise from many other high- and low-quality retailers for cheap and pass those savings on to you. There is nothing on our shelves that is routinely available for re-stock; when it’s gone it’s gone.” With the come-on pitch being “Stop by every week to see what’s new, but don’t delay; the good stuff goes fast.”
So in effect it’s a second-hand store for new merchandise. Here’s one example of the breed; there are plenty more in the USA:
These stores are in effect one giant “Last Chance to Buy!” come-on.
Wow, I sometimes forget how many people HAVE to have a car. I lent my car to my kid for a year and found that I got by fine without it. Got it back, it mostly sat in front of our house, then I totaled it a couple of months ago.
Getting along fine without it, even though it’s getting snowy, and these old bones get chilly biking in 20ºAmerican.
(Oh, I do wish I had a car when I visit my mom, which means hike or bike to a bus stop, city bus to interstate bus station, then a Lyft from the closest station to my mom’s place.)
See, when we bought a house, it was important that we live within walking/biking distance of Stuff. In a one-mile radius, there’s a food store, a co-op, a bookstore, a CD/LP shop, coffee joints, a bank, many ethnicities of restaurants, and a library. Oh, and an arboretum, a zoo, a park and a lake.
(Wow, I should appreciate all this more!)
But I have friends who I never brag about this to. They canNOT leave their house without getting in their car. They chose bigger houses in the 'burbs, and got a lot more space than we did… but with nowhere to go to that isn’t miles away. Even if one of them just needs coffee…
Sorry, needscoffee, I’m sure you’re in a bind while the errands pile up.
@LSLGuy
Most famous of those must be TJ Maxx though, right?
(or as it’s called here in England: TK Maxx)
I don’t think of TJ Maxx as second-run stuff. It’s shite for folks aspiring to the middle class, but AFAIK they’re not buying that shite as unsold overage from other retailers.
Interestingly, one of my friends here is a retired guy who owned a business selling wholesale schlock to the TJ MAxx’s of the world. Made a damn solid living from it. Not yachts-and-personal-jets money, but in his 80s they still travel high end a LOT.
A previous company I worked for sold gourmet food items to them. TJMXX were surprisingly particular about the quality requirements. I don’t hesitate to buy food items from there anymore.
Yeah, I’m not actually that inconvenienced, as I can walk to the grocery store, Walgreens, 7-Eleven, a couple restaurants, etc. But I need to pick up some very large packages that are 2 bus rides away, and weekends are when I have time to do it.