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Rat & mice poison
I'm so confused that I just need to be pointed in the right direction. A friend has mice in her house and she wants to get rid of them. She lives alone with no kids and no pet. She isn't going to set...
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sluggish remote control
Have any of you noticed that your remote control, for a tv or whatever, doesn't work at first, if you haven't used it for a day or two? I keep thinking the batteries have died, but after a couple...
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OT antique implement
I saw an odd looking antique implement at a local auction a jaw crusher that had me searching the web for a description : the good old days .. :-) John T.
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What are these straps? Or are they straps?
This house is not for sale now, iiuc, but it still has a listing on various real estate webpages: don't understand picture 17 of 24, or picture 22. Someone has taken the lid of of the toilet tank in...
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Electric Vehicle Future
This affects housing indirectly if the EVs create a super demand for copper. I worked with aluminum wire but it was direct burial in fields. I don't remember if AL wiring was tried for houses.
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OT Gas Prices are falling
Gas prices in my area (MS) have been $2.89 for the past two weeks, slow to go below that after steadily falling a nickel or a dime every week or less over the past couple of months. I see that Houston...
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How long can ou leave furniture on the curb?
NextDoor is a swamp, that sucks you in like quicksand is alleged to do. Tonight someone complained that two couches are on the grass between the sidewalk and the curb, (This is a nice middle-class...
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OT. Light Bulb Supper
California has had _two_, count them again, _two_ cases of rolling blackouts due to a shortage of generation in the last quarter century, the first was caused by crooked power companies gaming...
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Fall Decor
For the married guys: <> It's that time of year again when our wives, intoxicated by the powerful and mysterious aroma of pumpkin spice, break out the autumn decor and transform your home into a...
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I Sure Hope There's A GFCI
SWMBO and I are planning for next month's Fall Foliage tour through New England. We just booked a cottage in Bar Harbor Maine. The kitchenette makes me just a tad nervous. Water, electricity and...
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OT: For ONLY $1000 !!!!
Hi All, I had to quote this here: 2021 IRS Instructions for form 1040 page 27: *Partially Taxable Pensions and Annuities * Enter the total pension or annuity pay- ments (from Form 1099-R, box 1) on...
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FY, hard to shop for faucet handle
FYI -- don't complain if you find this post boring. You've been warned -- I've had more time to look for a handle for my 8-point!!!! washing machine faucets. For a while I thought no one had them. But...
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Electronic Rifle
Ever wonder where TASER came from? The Thomas A Swift Electronic Rifle foremost notice is Swift's invention of the electric rifle, a gun which fires bolts of electricity. The electric rifle can be...
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LED replacement for 18 inch fluorescent
I've been replacing fluorescents with LED direct wire as bulbs or ballasts fail, I'm nearly at the end of the process. But this one in the bathroom is an 18 inch. F15T8, one tube each side of the...
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dead outdoor receptacle
I have a receptacle on the back deck of my house which doesn't work. It used to work fine but now it doesn't. There is only one cable coming to it. The wires appear to be 12 AWG, but the black/white...
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