How cool is this? I learned it from Carol:
Then later you pop the whole thing in the garden!
This came from Backyard Diva’s facebook page.
Month: March 2012
Sharp Idea
I learned, from Ruth, that you can sharpen your scissors by cutting through aluminum foil.
It’s really as easy as that, but if you want the long version, it’s here, with some other steps: How to Sharpen Scissors
National Cash Mob Day is Saturday March 24 / Concord NH 2 PM
I learned, from NHPR’s Word of Mouth, that there will be a Cash Mob in Concord on Saturday at 2 PM. And that is just when I’ll be in downtown Concord!
I learned that a Cash Mob is an event organized via social media in which shoppers descend on one area with cash in hand. The Cash Mob blog says: “The general idea is to encourage people to go into small, local businesses and spend their money, en masse, to give the business owner a little bit of economic stimulus.”
You can learn more about the Concord event and the overall movement, here: Concord to Welcome a Cash Mob.
Keep on Truckin’….
I learned all these things about renting a truck.
You may remember that I learned last year that a U-Haul guaranteed reservation means nothing. Specifically, it means that they guarantee that they won’t raise the rate when you pick up the truck, but it in no way implies that there will be a truck to pick up! It turns out that Budget has the same system. I asked Budget “Then what’s the difference?”. “The price”, Zach the Budget Guy told me. And boy, what a difference!
So I learned:
- Ryder trucks are only local, so it’s just U-Haul and Budget
- Budget rental trucks are roughly half the price of U-Haul, for the same thing!
- You can request features (a third seat, for example), but you won’t know if you get it until the truck arrives at the pickup spot, usually a day before your reservation
- Even if you think you know what you are getting (a newish truck with an input jack for mp3/iPod), there may be a last minute switch to “or not”. Ours was due to a Check Engine light. The next truck was older and had no such gadgetry.
- Bring your own padlock. If you are like us, you have a stack of them. Why buy yet another?
- Bring your own GPS (but you already figured that out)
Steve is the one who drove the whole Eastern Seaboard in 2.5 days – Steve, what did I forget?
Think Inside the Box
Kat taught me this: When you pack a box for moving, consider what the box was originally designed to hold, and pack accordingly. So you don’t pack a box made to hold padded envelopes (for painful example, she learned) with your heavy dishes.
Fortunately, my parents taught me to get all my boxes from the liquor store. Those babies are sturdy!
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