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cpurcell said:
Underwear? Bah! I got a robe, who needs underwear.

Why are my neighbors always rude to me? Is it because I don't have curtains in the living room?
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Their fault for looking! The wife and I never put up curtains in our first house and clothing was optional most of the time :D
 
Who has traded a vehicle in that they still owed on for a vehicle worth more? I'm looking at trading my pickup in on a newer one and still owe about $21,000. NADA says clean trade in value for mine is $23,500 and they are asking $28,500 for the one I'm looking at. I probably wouldn't even consider trading beings I still owe so much, but I've had my pickup in to try get something fixed 4 times under warranty, but they still haven't fixed it and its really starting to piss me off. The problem is cold weather related and its starting to warm up here, so now they won't even be able to diagnose it because it is too warm and next winter it won't be covered by warranty. The newer pickup has a LOT more options too and it well under what NADA says it should be selling for and it only has 6,800 miles. Anyways, I'm trying to figure out what to expect to have to fork over to make the trade happen. Ideally I would like to just come up with the money to pay for it myself and not have to involve extending my loan.
 
I have done it.... But.... You end up being upside down and owing more on the new vehicle than its worth.


......Thank god for GAP insurance... Which has payed off a good portion of the vehicles i have owned.
 
worldwood said:
I have done it.... But.... You end up being upside down and owing more on the new vehicle than its worth.


......Thank god for GAP insurance... Which has payed off a good portion of the vehicles i have owned.
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I'm kinda figuring that it will end up being more than I want to spend.
 
ac700wildcat said:
Who has traded a vehicle in that they still owed on for a vehicle worth more? I'm looking at trading my pickup in on a newer one and still owe about $21,000. NADA says clean trade in value for mine is $23,500 and they are asking $28,500 for the one I'm looking at. I probably wouldn't even consider trading beings I still owe so much, but I've had my pickup in to try get something fixed 4 times under warranty, but they still haven't fixed it and its really starting to piss me off. The problem is cold weather related and its starting to warm up here, so now they won't even be able to diagnose it because it is too warm and next winter it won't be covered by warranty. The newer pickup has a LOT more options too and it well under what NADA says it should be selling for and it only has 6,800 miles. Anyways, I'm trying to figure out what to expect to have to fork over to make the trade happen. Ideally I would like to just come up with the money to pay for it myself and not have to involve extending my loan.
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That's why I don't finance anything anymore. I don't really care for late-model vehicles anyway so I just pay cash for older ones I can work on myself or isn't terribly expensive to have worked on.
 
bigghoss said:
That's why I don't finance anything anymore. I don't really care for late-model vehicles anyway so I just pay cash for older ones I can work on myself or isn't terribly expensive to have worked on.
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I've had plenty of older vehicles that I could work on myself. It was nice to be able to do that, but then a pain at times too. Having repairs that cost half of what the vehicles were worth got old. I figured that beings I had straightened my finances out and was doing well, that I should buy something newer that I wouldn't have so many troubles with.
 
ac700wildcat said:
I've had plenty of older vehicles that I could work on myself. It was nice to be able to do that, but then a pain at times too. Having repairs that cost half of what the vehicles were worth got old. I figured that beings I had straightened my finances out and was doing well, that I should buy something newer that I wouldn't have so many troubles with.
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I don't have any useful advice, just a vaguely related anecdote:
We recently traded a just-paid-off 2006 Wrangler-X for a 2002 Lexus RX300 with nearly twice the miles. It was an even swap, value-for-value, plus some transaction costs plus a bit for an extended warranty. Yeah, I did have to put $1000 into it to fix an ABS and exhaust problem, but damn if the thing isn't running better than the Jeep, is more comfortable, more secure, more spacious, fully-featured, and gets about 22% better gas mileage. Of course it's not a manual, but ya can't get everything for 'free'.
 
Morning all... last night I realized I have a sty in my right eye, before I went to bed I started getting a sore throat, and I woke up 3 times last night to throw up.. hell of a night. So far feeling OK this morning. Had a good workout, but getting tired of the faucet my right eye has become.. My coworker has become George Lopez and keeps asking me "why you crying?"

at least there is coffee..
 
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Oh man.... I'm glad I missed this one on Big Chris's sale thread or else my wallet would be in trouble.
 
LeeBower said:
Morning all... last night I realized I have a sty in my right eye, before I went to bed I started getting a sore throat, and I woke up 3 times last night to throw up.. hell of a night. So far feeling OK this morning. Had a good workout, but getting tired of the faucet my right eye has become.. My coworker has become George Lopez and keeps asking me "why you crying?"

at least there is coffee..
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I'll tell you what I tell everyone; if you pop that sty, it will feel a lot better. Yeah, it's scary to have tweezers near your eyeball, blah blah blah, but it feels better.
 
DerekH said:
I'll tell you what I tell everyone; if you pop that sty, it will feel a lot better. Yeah, it's scary to have tweezers near your eyeball, blah blah blah, but it feels better.
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Might feel better . . . but it just is not the correct thing to do. From a Google search on how to treat a sty . . .

"Two big don’ts when treating a stye:

Never squeeze a stye. Most of the time you’re just spreading the infection. Since eyelid tissue is so loose, that’s awfully easy to do, and you’ll have a much bigger mess on your hands.
Never poke a stye with a needle. Some patients I see just can’t seem to help themselves. For every bump or swollen spot, they just have to poke it with a needle. And when that makes the area about ten times worse, they come to see me."

Hesitate to disagree with our illustrious MODERATOR, but sometimes you just gotta' . . . :rolleyes:
 
DerekH said:
I'll tell you what I tell everyone; if you pop that sty, it will feel a lot better. Yeah, it's scary to have tweezers near your eyeball, blah blah blah, but it feels better.
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I kept a hot compress on it for about an hour and tried to pop it, but it didn't want to burst and I was crying a river out of that eye by the time I stopped trying.. I read up on the internet and washed my eye out with baby shampoo 3 times and it seems to have helped a lot.. It isn't as sore as it was yesterday.
 
ralphtt said:
Might feel better . . . but it just is not the correct thing to do. From a Google search on how to treat a sty . . .

"Two big don’ts when treating a stye:

Never squeeze a stye. Most of the time you’re just spreading the infection. Since eyelid tissue is so loose, that’s awfully easy to do, and you’ll have a much bigger mess on your hands.
Never poke a stye with a needle. Some patients I see just can’t seem to help themselves. For every bump or swollen spot, they just have to poke it with a needle. And when that makes the area about ten times worse, they come to see me."

Hesitate to disagree with our illustrious MODERATOR, but sometimes you just gotta' . . . :rolleyes:
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You can disagree all you like, I've done this every time I've had one over the course of the last five years or so. Pop, rinse eye really well, enjoy almost complete/instant relief. Fancy internet doctor might have different ideas about it, but it has never once spread further or made anything worse for me.
 
DerekH said:
You can disagree all you like, I've done this every time I've had one over the course of the last five years or so. Pop, rinse eye really well, enjoy almost complete/instant relief. Fancy internet doctor might have different ideas about it, but it has never once spread further or made anything worse for me.
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To be fair Derek, your a bit of a mutant soo, it might not work for everyone the same way ..lol
 
Got the condor golok, the Deimos knife from giedymin doesnt fit the sheath though... Its just a little too thick and wide. Length is good though HAHA

Golok is pretty cool though. Quite a bit lighter than the deimos. Even though they are about the same length, they feel so very different in the hand. The golok sheath is excellent. Wish it would of fit, it looks great.

Looks like im going to have to stick to the cardboard scabbard/case thingy i made for now.
 
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worldwood said:
Looks like im going to have to stick to the cardboard scabbard/case thingy i made for now.
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When I get desperate I'll go to the local fabric store and get some cheep leather scraps. Its not heavy enough for sheaths but does in a bind ;) at $1 per square foot it will hold until I get or make something nicer.
 
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