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The "I feel awesome today" thread.
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Think of it this way choux, if they got under twenty it would mean they need someone to protect them from the child horde. You could even pay a local group of them to attack and completely impress your date with how many you take out.
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And we got a new car. Yay! My wife's busted-ass fluid-leaking rusty-bumper broken-engine-mount Kia has been replaced by a shiny new Toyota. Hooray for DINK.
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A Prius. We test-drove about eight different ones, because it turns out that the inverter in the electrical system makes a high-pitched whine when it's charging the battery. The loudness and occurence of the whine varies with the individual vehicle, though, so we ended up picking our car by the sound it made.
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Nice. I don't know about the whole inverter business, but in terms of general engine noise, my roommate's Prius is terrifyingly quiet.
Also, per his example, when you're driving up a hill and need to push the button to switch from eco to power mode, you should shout "PUNCH IT, CHEWIE" and have your passenger do the honors. -
Wait, you mean it doesn't say to do that in the owner's manual? That's an oversight.
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DON'T EAT IT! IT'S POISON!
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I had a particularly nice steak on a oak platter today. I get re-hungry just thinking about it.
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It's definitely the gelatin, as I just fed him cheese and apple stuffed chicken.
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what's the problem with gelatin?
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Wiki said:
Gelatin is a mixture of peptides and proteins produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the skin, boiled crushed bones, connective tissues, organs and some intestines of animals such as domesticated cattle, chicken, and pigs.
I can't eat something that contains gelatin without thinking about this. -
I fail to see the problem here.
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I can't stand to each the bloody things either.
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Mmm Chicago dogs. Also if jello were bad for me then why would Bill Cosby tell me to eat it?
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So Yakov, that means you've never been to Dirty Frank's?
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That's on the To Do list, then.
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Bit out of the way, but worlds greatest hotdogs here:
http://www.yelp.com.au/biz/klauss-wurst-haus-german-hot-dogs-victor-harbor
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You have equity to leverage, though, and historically you had some awesome opportunities for capital/home improvement sort of deductions, but that's basically gone.
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I disagree. Not only is it an investment it's also the place you live.
Been renting while our house is being built and I can see the benefits of renting (ie getting leaky taps fixed and also not worrying about hot water systems breaking down), but I also would rather own my rectangle of dirt and the box upon it.
Different of course if you're living inner city without kids though. -
Yeah, in the city, very rarely do you own the land. I blame that investment angle for why rent/houses cost so damn much around here. It feels like far less people buy a house to be a home than they do to make an eventual profit. I will never understand how every other object you purchase in your life devalues over time but houses exponentially increase... Then again, I'm a complete moron when it comes to economics so whatever.
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The expectation that the value will increase over time isn't the same thing as "thinking of it as an investment".
You're right that there are people who genuinely do expect to make a profit out of purchasing a single property, and this is the source of a lot of inflationary pressure on housing prices.
"I will never understand how every other object you purchase in your life devalues over time..."
Because it's cheaper to throw a blender away and buy a new one than it is to replace the gears and motors and blades and gaskets so that your blender stays the same quality as when you bought it. On the other hand, if your pipes corrode, it's generally cheaper to buy new pipes than it is to buy a new house. -
"A car purchased in the North East nearly halves before it's a year old."
A commodity car which is built in the thousands, sure. Something like a Lamborghini is not going to depreciate a whole lot. I realize that I'm changing my story somewhat, but my point is that if there are vast numbers of something and it's easy to make more, then any one example of that thing is not going to hold its value because I can always get a brand-new one easily. If there is a limited number and it's hard to make more, then that thing is more likely to maintain its value (or, at least maintain its purchase price--inflation over time will make that purchase price be "worth" less money.) And, due to the nature of physics, houses are very definitely limited in number and hard to reproduce, as you may have noticed the last time you tried to build a house in the same place that one already was.
