Carson Dyle
Diamond Member
- Jul 2, 2012
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Go have a look at sears.com. I think you'll be surprised. You probably still remember it circa 1958.
BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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I wish it was as good as it was in yesteryear. Nowadays everything is cheap junk made in China.
Carson Dyle
Diamond Member
- Jul 2, 2012
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Again... check out what they carry on their site. Among the power tools: Dewalt, Makita, Milwaukee.
Geekbabe
Moderator Emeritus<br>Elite Member
I got a lot of sweaters that I love, a new hand made scarf, home baked goodies, lots of cool gifts for my cats including a cat tree.
It was a good year, plenty of love surrounding me & I was well enough to enjoy the day, eat & be merry
It was a good year, plenty of love surrounding me & I was well enough to enjoy the day, eat & be merry
mikeymikec
Lifer
- May 19, 2011
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2-3 years ago I asked for book suggestions (preference scifi) and the accompanying book, so my parents-in-law got me a bible (they know I'm not even vaguely religious despite Catholic upbringing). Inside was a note:
"I know you like science fiction stories. This book is full of them, but the best part is that they're all true!". The rest of the note involved them trying to pique my interest in this book.
"I know you like science fiction stories. This book is full of them, but the best part is that they're all true!". The rest of the note involved them trying to pique my interest in this book.
BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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yeah, I shop there from time to time for tools and stuff, but Craftsman quality has declined to the point where it's not much better than the other "Made in China" junk...like Kobalt or Husky...and their prices on "name brand" tools is usually higher than HD or Lowes. I know I can cash the gift card out at Amazon...but will lose about 15% of its value if I do...so I'm still shopping Sears...for now.
Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
- Feb 14, 2004
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It may have just been old. I know the vanilla ones are pretty good. I've had some chocolate ones that were pretty dry in the past, so maybe it just was on the shelf too long. But you're right, in theory the banana one should have been pretty dang good!
child of wonder
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- Aug 31, 2006
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Worst was a huge amount of gifts we received from my 68 year old mother in law.
Since my father in law passed away of prostate cancer in 2004, my mother in law has gone totally off the rails batshit insane. She has refused to work, let two of her adult children live at home and leech off the $140k in life insurance money she got, and not even 3 days had passed before she went to online dating websites to find a new man.
Not surprisingly, she was defrauded of thousands of dollars by internet mystery men that claimed to love her but needed her to transfer some money here or there. Eventually she made a surprise trip to Idaho, met one of these men in real life, and returned to declare she was engaged, was selling her house, and moving to Idaho to be with him. We soon discovered this man had been married 4 times previously and all his ex-wives had nothing but terrible things to say about him.
My wife, the youngest of the three kids, begged and pleaded with her mother to not make these mistakes as each arose. The eldest child, my wife's half sister who herself is a pathetic, miserable failure at life, always encouraged my mother in law to "follow her heart" and "do what makes her happy." She followed the eldest's advice with predictable results.
As we expected, this new husband took my mother in law for a ride straight to financial ruin. He took the equity in her home and bought himself a new pickup. Convinced her to take out loans and then spent the money on himself. He was verbally abusive. She eventually left him and divorced, only to return and remarry him less than a year later.
Through all of this, my wife and I were the only voices of reason which only earned us scorn.
After she finally divorced this human parasite for good (he later accidentally killed himself in an insurance scam by purposefully blowing up his house by causing a natural gas leak and hiding in a refrigerator Indiana Jones style) she continued to make mistakes with her finances and routinely asked my wife and I for money. We refused to flat out throw money at her and instead offered to help her sell things she didn't need, find a job, or look for ways to reduce her monthly expenses. This was met only with anger. One time she wrote a long letter to my wife explaining that was betraying her father's dying wish to "take care of her" after he was gone. Another time she used the fact that my wife was molested by the mother in law's father as ammunition in an argument.
Oddly enough, my mother in law received a $50,000 settlement 4 months ago because her father (the child molester) was exposed to asbestos and there were funds for surviving children she wasn't aware of. My wife's older sister convinced my mother in law to "loan" her almost half of it to pay off payday loans and purchase a trailer home.
At a small Christmas gathering we find that the mother in law has spent nearly $2,000 on our family in gifts ranging from Red Lobster gift cards, a George Foreman outdoor grill, nail files, under shirts, $10 knife sets from Sam's Club, etc. to "make up" for previous holidays where she couldn't buy us much. We find out through my brother in law she has literally SPENT EVERY LAST DIME SHE HAS on these gifts and intends to leave the senior living income based apartment my wife vetted, toured, applied her for, paid her late rent on previous apartment to ensure that would not prevent her application from being accepted, etc., a $300/mo apartment, all utilities and laundry included, to moving into the dumpy trailer home with the eldest, pathetic sister instead.
Accepting these gifts feels awful. Even though we never asked for them nor want them, it feels terrible to have them, but we couldn't bring ourselves to flat out refuse them. Instead we'll return and sell what we can and have the brother in law somehow get the money to her in secret. Meanwhile, we expect the eldest sister to use the fact that the mother in law is living with her as a bargaining chip to ask us for money in the future. After all, if she can't pay her bills "mom will get thrown on the street!" Besides, we're just evil rich people anyway who have money falling out of our ears because we chose to make something of ourselves after being dumb kids that got pregnant not once but twice 16 years ago by putting ourselves through college, making good decisions, taking some risks, and getting ourselves to where we are today. But because the rest of the family made poor choices they are owed our success.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Since my father in law passed away of prostate cancer in 2004, my mother in law has gone totally off the rails batshit insane. She has refused to work, let two of her adult children live at home and leech off the $140k in life insurance money she got, and not even 3 days had passed before she went to online dating websites to find a new man.
Not surprisingly, she was defrauded of thousands of dollars by internet mystery men that claimed to love her but needed her to transfer some money here or there. Eventually she made a surprise trip to Idaho, met one of these men in real life, and returned to declare she was engaged, was selling her house, and moving to Idaho to be with him. We soon discovered this man had been married 4 times previously and all his ex-wives had nothing but terrible things to say about him.
My wife, the youngest of the three kids, begged and pleaded with her mother to not make these mistakes as each arose. The eldest child, my wife's half sister who herself is a pathetic, miserable failure at life, always encouraged my mother in law to "follow her heart" and "do what makes her happy." She followed the eldest's advice with predictable results.
As we expected, this new husband took my mother in law for a ride straight to financial ruin. He took the equity in her home and bought himself a new pickup. Convinced her to take out loans and then spent the money on himself. He was verbally abusive. She eventually left him and divorced, only to return and remarry him less than a year later.
Through all of this, my wife and I were the only voices of reason which only earned us scorn.
After she finally divorced this human parasite for good (he later accidentally killed himself in an insurance scam by purposefully blowing up his house by causing a natural gas leak and hiding in a refrigerator Indiana Jones style) she continued to make mistakes with her finances and routinely asked my wife and I for money. We refused to flat out throw money at her and instead offered to help her sell things she didn't need, find a job, or look for ways to reduce her monthly expenses. This was met only with anger. One time she wrote a long letter to my wife explaining that was betraying her father's dying wish to "take care of her" after he was gone. Another time she used the fact that my wife was molested by the mother in law's father as ammunition in an argument.
Oddly enough, my mother in law received a $50,000 settlement 4 months ago because her father (the child molester) was exposed to asbestos and there were funds for surviving children she wasn't aware of. My wife's older sister convinced my mother in law to "loan" her almost half of it to pay off payday loans and purchase a trailer home.
At a small Christmas gathering we find that the mother in law has spent nearly $2,000 on our family in gifts ranging from Red Lobster gift cards, a George Foreman outdoor grill, nail files, under shirts, $10 knife sets from Sam's Club, etc. to "make up" for previous holidays where she couldn't buy us much. We find out through my brother in law she has literally SPENT EVERY LAST DIME SHE HAS on these gifts and intends to leave the senior living income based apartment my wife vetted, toured, applied her for, paid her late rent on previous apartment to ensure that would not prevent her application from being accepted, etc., a $300/mo apartment, all utilities and laundry included, to moving into the dumpy trailer home with the eldest, pathetic sister instead.
Accepting these gifts feels awful. Even though we never asked for them nor want them, it feels terrible to have them, but we couldn't bring ourselves to flat out refuse them. Instead we'll return and sell what we can and have the brother in law somehow get the money to her in secret. Meanwhile, we expect the eldest sister to use the fact that the mother in law is living with her as a bargaining chip to ask us for money in the future. After all, if she can't pay her bills "mom will get thrown on the street!" Besides, we're just evil rich people anyway who have money falling out of our ears because we chose to make something of ourselves after being dumb kids that got pregnant not once but twice 16 years ago by putting ourselves through college, making good decisions, taking some risks, and getting ourselves to where we are today. But because the rest of the family made poor choices they are owed our success.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
madoka
Diamond Member
- Jun 22, 2004
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Aw man, now you're going to make me buy all the flavors to test that theory. It looks like it's a lot cheaper buying from their website than from Amazon.
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Fritzo
Lifer
- Jan 3, 2001
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Cappuccino
Diamond Member
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Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
- Feb 14, 2004
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I bet fresh ones would be amazing. I got a box of fresh Twinkies once & they were heavenly. Totally different than the regular spongy ones that have been sitting on the shelf forever!
Raduque
Lifer
- Aug 22, 2004
- 13,140
- 138
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Kobalt at least has an awesome warranty. Lifetime no questions asked replacement. Run over your hammer drill at a jobsite with a truck? Take it into any Lowe's in the country and have it replaced right then and there. Same with any Kobolt socket, wrench, hammer, ratchet, etc.
A buddy of mine found out yesterday that he got herpes... from his wife of 9 years. A gift that lasts a lifetime.
highland145
Lifer
- Oct 12, 2009
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BurnItDwn
Lifer
- Oct 10, 1999
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Some kind of plastic "put this plastic garbage under your tire and you will get traction" devices. (there are 2 of them in the set.) My wagon has 4 drive wheels, my wife's SUV has 4 drive wheels. If any of us manages to get our car stuck, a piece of plastic is not going to help.
highland145
Lifer
- Oct 12, 2009
- 43,973
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Ha, you did the deed? Grats. Somehow I missed it or you didn't post.
Where's she at? Let me give her a big ATOT hug and smooch.
No wonder you dissed us (me).....
Says every $10 ho. :colbert;
Be glad I didn't say $2....and...you did not deny tapping at the door....
:colbert;^2
Ha, you did the deed? Grats. Somehow I missed it or you didn't post.
Where's she at? Let me give her a big ATOT hug and smooch.
No wonder you dissed us (me).....
I'd give her a much better welcome!
Says every $10 ho. :colbert;
Be glad I didn't say $2....and...you did not deny tapping at the door....
:colbert;^2
Hey! I charge far more than $10 and I still get my sammiches made correctly even if their husbands don't
I hear that even men with faithful wifes still can't get their sammiches right.
highland145
Lifer
- Oct 12, 2009
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BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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So you did...ATOT
Shiiii are you Akly's twin?
but can he dance like Alky?
BrianManahan wins the internet for that...
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