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My Planet.. the end.

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A few more chuckles from Mary Roach before I put this book to bed.

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My husband does not moisturize, though at times I wish he would.

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As you know I have a spouse who enjoys filling our kitchen with overpriced gadgets…. so I totally get this. Though thankfully no $345 pentolas have crossed our doorstep.

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Touchless trash cans with sensor eyes? Please don’t tell my husband.

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Preach sister! My spouse never ever uses coins but has them stashed everywhere. In the den closet, in every vehicle cubbyhole, and yes in jars on the bedroom floor.

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Though he prefers pickle to sauerkraut.

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40 thoughts on “My Planet.. the end.”

  1. I’m at a loss about the male species “moisturizing” because all of the men in my family just….didn’t, until the last couple of years. My boys being younger they caught onto the moisturizing for men faze. Look a trash can with batteries that can lift its motion sensor lid is about as good as a dishwasher in my kitchen. I’d rather do it myself or with a foot pedal operated lid, why give the bots another gadget to overtake us with? Unless that pot or whatever it is can cook on its own and clean up after itself, I will never pay $345 for a single pot/pan. I too have jars of coins on my kitchen counter, but they are old vases I’ve put to good use. The last time I took the overflowing vases (3 of them) full of coins to the coin machine, I left with about $512! 😉

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  2. Great post, let’s take this one piece at a time. Skincare? It has become a thing in my life. All those years of pimple-free teenage life have come home for me, so now I’m keeping Noxzema in business. I might as well have had the zits in high school, for all the good my pristine beautiful skin did me.
    I know my way around the kitchen. Still, for some reason, the pentola has escaped my notice. At $345, I’m willing to let that be the one that got away.
    An electronic touchless trash can is just a little too anal retentive for me.
    I have a small wooden bowl on my desk that collects change. Every so often, Cathy will collect it and transfer it to a tin on her dresser that once contained Whitman’s chocolates. Later today, I will be taking the contents of that tin to the coin changer, where I will convert it into an Amazon gift card, which I will then convert into a 3D printer. Much better than walking around every day with a pocket full of Yankee shrapnel. I think coins are soon to be a think of the past, which upsets me a bit as a coin collector. https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipMs8I_M79hCj1MC6sx30t2fjbnMEscMC393EmMa
    Cathy and I spent two and a half hours in a big antique mall a few months back and this is what I bought. Not bad, huh? Thanks for a lovely post, stalk ya later.

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      1. I have problems with this. There’s a live link showing up in my comment so… If not, it’s an 1867 three cent nickel. It’s a strange little coin, about the size of a dime and made of silver, which begs the question “Why is it a nickel?

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      2. Good questions, but even more important, since when is a nickel only worth 3 cents? This is the first time in my life I have heard of a 3 cent coin, which sounds about as useless as a three dollar bill.

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      3. The UK had a three penny coin, twelve sides and made of brass, up until 1970, when they converted to a decimal currency instead of pounds, shillings and pence. At that time, a pound was worth 240 pence, and the three penny coin and the sixpence fit the pattern. After the change, there were half penny, penny, two pence, five pence, ten pence and fifty pence coins, with one hundred pence to the pound.
        Three cents? couldn’t say, probably something to do with the reconstruction era economy. They did have silver nickels, worth five cents, in 1943 through 1945, because nickel was a valuable strategic material. They’re great because they look just like all the rest of the nickels from 1938 forward, and then after the war up until 2004, so there are plenty of them around. They don’t command much of a premium but the thrill of the hunt is worth something in and of itself. Hope you’re staying warm, dude.

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      4. As well as can be, thanks for asking.
        So, I take it the Three Penny Opera entrance fee could be paid with just one coin, rarher than the 3 the name suggests. How disappointing!

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      5. It’s a cool little coin, though. It has a portcullis on the reverse, which I don’t exactly understand, but I like it. American commemoratives are very cool, but most of the everyday pocket change is pretty boring. Euros are awesome. They’re good all over Europe, so you find different ones everywhere you go. It’s a great example of how you can cram a whole lot of culture into a relatively small place.

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      1. Weirdo? Moi? Likely. Change bringing change: If you can sneak that out and trade it in for a visa gift card you could probably cover a few lunches, just don’t let him take it into the crap repository, er, antique store.

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  3. Interesting. I don’t think there is an issue with men wanting to take care of their appearance but I do take exception to the “age defying” expectation of these products and their often exorbitant costs. I do feel equality in the ranges is important in terms of opportunity to buy products for either gender though, and find the PROTECTOR 💪 label quite amusing …

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      1. I would get a pedicure if I thought I could live with myself after subjecting some poor Vietnamese girl, who never did anything to me, to my horrible disgusting feet. Belt sander it is.

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      4. “I must be cruel, only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.” Maybe I should go get that pedicure. I could take some pics of the process and post them up. You think you can’t sleep now… Yeah, and that Hamlet quote works OK for the basement hoard mitigation effort as well. Good luck.

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      5. Bad beginning and worse end? That describes our basement perfectly.
        As fur ousting your pedicure, I wouldn’t recommend it. The kind of followers that will attract are better left under their rocks.

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  6. Moisturizing? I use hand cream occasionally in winter to moisturize my hands, but only when they really need it.
    Gail is totally in charge of kitchen stuff. We shop together, but she knows what she wants, or needs. When I cook, I use the basics. A pot with a lid, a frying pan, or two, and an oven rack. Gadgets hold no appeal for me.
    Coins go to homeless people. I used to be homeless. I appreciated every coin I was given! (Hint! Hint,) In Canada coins include Loonies ($1) and Twoonies ($2), because it is bills that are disappearring, although pennies are a thing of the past. Coin collecters are not an endangered species in Canada, yet. They are even talking about a $5 coin, but what will we call them, Fynx? (I hope they engrave a lynx on the back!). So far no one has bothered to counterfeit daily use coins, and they outlast bills by centuries.
    Trash cans: I open the lid, deposit the detritus, close the lid, and walk away. But then, we have a fancy piece of furniture to hold the gsrbage bag in, made especially for this purpose. No one knows it is a garbage can unless they lift the lid. (It was a gift from Gail’s woodworking uncle.)

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      1. Coins only need to be made occasionally. Bills need to be made every few years. Coins are cheaper in the long run.
        And you are right about credit cards, which are alright if you pay them off in full every month. But shit happens, and one month you cannot pay in full. And the next month is worse. The interrst charges make it so you are paying double the price of the item bought in a short prriod of time. Cash will make a recovery. If humsnity survives.

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      2. We paid off and cut up all our credit cards years ago. It felt great but after we paid off the house and cars we were debt free which the credit bureau didn’t like. You’d think they’d reward financial responsibility but it’s just the opposite. Our scores tanked and I had to get a stupid card to raise the scores back up. I charge one thing a year and pay it off the next month just to stay in the 800’s. It’s stupid.

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      3. They don’t make money off responsible people! If you pay off your carc every month you are useless to them.
        But I have to ask? If you don’t use credit, why worry about a credit score?

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      4. I guess it’s just the principle. 850 is a perfect credit score and almost impossible to get. We used to have 841 and it pissed me off they dropped us to 725 when we were debt free. I’ve gotten it back up but the whole paradigm is just wrong.

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  7. I collected a bunch of Canadian coins when I visited B.C. much too long ago. I really like Loonies and Twonies for the way they’re made. I got a cool commemorative set of dollar coins featuring famous chiefs of the first nations. The exchange rate, +/- $.68 US/$1.00 Canadian, made coin shopping a lot of fun.

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