Posted on 10/11/2016 1:45:08 PM PDT by pabianice
Most plugs in the modern world are solid sealed plastic. Outlets can be rewired, plugs can’t. Best you can do with plugs is replace the whole cord, but on a lot of things you can’t even do that, you can’t get to where the cord connects.
That’s funny!
You cut the bad plug off and put a new one on. Every hardware store sells them for about a buck.
We live too far out for pizza delivery and I only do monthly grocery trips.
So right you are. Why order those boxes and still have to cook them? Crazy. If I’m having to cook anyway, why should I spend 2-3 or more time$ more for a delivered box when everything that’s needed for one of their meals is already on hand?
Blue Apron’s Pan-Seared Chicken with Roasted Honeynut Squash & Apple - yep, have every ingredient and could make it for a fraction of the price.
Crispy Catfish with Yellow Curry & Bird’s Eye Chile Sauce - I’d have to walk about 30 feet down to the river to catch a fresher catfish than what would be in the box and gather the greens from the garden. Now, that tablespoon of ponzu sauce would have to be substituted for soy sauce, a drizzle of lemon and maybe some homemade orange zest for kicks. My cost would be pennies.
Caramelized Onion & Kale Quiches with Frisée & Pear Salad - A homemade pie crust is a no brainer. Can’t stand goat cheese so would sub a different cheese. I could ask the neighbor for a dropped pear or use an apple already on hand. My cost would be around $1 for an entire bowl of salad and a whole 9” quiche.
Ha, their $9.99/serving rice, pasta, pizza and soup dinners are what is made from leftovers around here. Sure, they have to make a profit but they can make it off silly city folk. It’s doubtful many of these companies will be in business 5 years from now since brick and mortar groceries now do the shopping for you and take outs are so much easier.
That would be rewiring the cord. Maybe I’m being over literal because in my time at McDonalds I actually rewired the plugs (those big toasters plugs that can be disassembled) and even had some old home appliances with plugs that can be taken apart. To me at least rewiring the plug means you start and end with the same plug that has been disassembled and reassembled.
Why did they do that? I know they run a different style of plug than we do, and they run 230 volts.
My daughter particularly likes when I do things on the car. My wife’s minivan would eat headlight bulbs. It would burn them out two or three over a years time and then go several years with no issues. My daughter would help me change them and got so good at it I would remove the rear casing to reach the bulb and she would reach right in there with her small hands and take the old bulb out and pop in the new one and secure it. Anytime a tail/brake light burns out on our vehicles she grabs my drill from the work bench and off we go with the replacement bulbs.
The simple task of gutting a toilet is something I make them watch and tell them this $7 part and ten minutes will save you $100+ from a plumbers repair call, pay attention. They know how to change out filter on the HVAC and clean the coils and suction out the drain lines. Just simple things. I make the boys watch how to change the oil on the tractor, drop the deck and grease it and clean the air filters. Again just simple things that save you money in the long run.
My Dad made me and my brothers watch and do everything in regards to repairs and his words were the same as yours, pay attention this will save you a lot of money when you are grown.
We helped him with pluming and electrical issues, hand dug water lines over 100 yards, cleaned fence rows, repair electrical motors, cut grass, haul coal buckets, clean fire place ash etc... and then when we would eat supper we would finish up and he would say all right hit the kitchen, one wash, one rinse and dry and one put away dishes and wipe table down and woe unto you if you wiped crumbs into the floor, they went into your hand or paper towel and then into the trash.
Mom made us vacuum, wash and dry clothes, do dishes and fold them, scrub toilets and clean showers,. My wife has our boys and daughter doing the same things. She told the oldest son’s fiance I have been training him to live on his own and not be heathen in his cleanliness, take advantage of it if you marry him!
My son would help me a little bit at work or around the house, but I never thought him very handy. When he went off to college I gave him some basic tools to go along with the Leatherman he had.
One day on Facebook some girl had posted about my son: “Jack fixed my closet door with a binder clip and a screw he pulled off of my desk - my hero!” (I was both shocked and proud!)
If you laid all of the feminists end to end, it would be the best thing that ever happened to them.
Yeah, and three days to loosen the flywheel gland nut.
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