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re: Appliances - Throw Away

Posted by Queen on 4/9/24 at 7:20 pm
[quote]I'm convinced either the house was built on an old graveyard and is haunted or there is an electrical gremlin, some kind of power fluctuation that is damaging the circuit boards. As an added note, I replaced light bulbs in the house weekly. Those GE light bulbs that say they are good for 13 y...
Vaccines the mother gets while pregnant can help protect the baby until he/she can get them after birth, it's not just for you. As others have said, tdap is really important. Pertussis is very dangerous for an infant. My OB recommended, and I took, tdap and flu vaccines during all four of my preg...
[quote]Someone stole my identity several years ago and the first clue was we got several items mailed to our address that we didn't order.[/quote] My identity got stolen and a similar thing happened. They opened credit cards in my name and the first clue was I got a random item shipped to me. I c...
Just had to put down my 16-year-old cat. [quote]random vocalization at night lately[/quote] Mine started this. Best guess was night vision was failing or that she had started to fall into dementia. Dementia would make sense because the cat also started to let the kids hold her a lot and never...

re: Attic Fan Vent - anyone cover it up?

Posted by Queen on 8/12/23 at 12:05 pm
You’ve gotten a lot of good answers. We had one of these prior to renovating the house. (House was old, not a shred of insulation anywhere in it, so in our case the attic fan was not the biggest problem for our energy bills.) We took it out and turned the hole into a pull-down ladder. Previously...

re: Slot load blu ray player for kids

Posted by Queen on 6/11/23 at 8:22 pm
This seems a lot more tech-intense than I am capable of! I don’t have a dedicated laptop to commit to the cause. Am I reading too much into this? I don’t have the tv yet, leaning toward a Roku setup for them. ...

Slot load blu ray player for kids

Posted by Queen on 6/11/23 at 2:33 pm
Moving to a new house and the kids will have a playroom upstairs. I am OK with them having a tv with apps I have set up for them, but we also have a good number of physical DVDs and blu rays. The TV will be mounted to the wall, and there is no space for a table underneath due to a closet door be...

re: Post Medicare Age Drugs

Posted by Queen on 4/25/23 at 8:13 pm
Look into a membership pharmacy that will operate outside insurance or otherwise offer special pricing. You’ll likely need to find one in your state, but basically you pay a membership fee and get your drugs at a low cost or free (depending on the med). Walgreens and Kroger both have prescriptio...
[quote]I should clear up some the fact that he does not SLEEP with a blanket or in his boppy pillow, we sometimes just put him in it with a blanket to fall asleep. [/quote] Lots of good suggestions in this thread, but one thing I will say is don’t put him to sleep somewhere then move him. Part of...
Does your wife work? I ask because when a kid is sick enough to have to miss school/daycare, that burden 99% of the time falls on me. If it’s something I can treat and shorten (like strep or an ear infection), I like to know so I don’t have to figure out extra days unnecessarily. That obviously ...

re: Anybody here own a Honda Odyssey?

Posted by Queen on 3/4/23 at 12:51 pm
:lol: Other option is “too much shaggin’ had to get a wagon.” ...

re: Anybody here own a Honda Odyssey?

Posted by Queen on 3/4/23 at 12:34 pm
Disclaimer haven’t read this entire thread. But after a lifetime of swearing I’d never drive a minivan…I drive an Odyssey. It isn’t the only van we looked at, but some of its exclusive features are things I could not live without. One of those things is the middle row seats that slide side to si...

re: IPad/Iphone imessage questions

Posted by Queen on 2/27/23 at 10:09 am
I assume you have disabled message forwarding on your iPad? ...
[quote]Hopefully society doesn’t just pivot to accepting user agreements that give up all of our privacy rights anyway, as we tend to do every time convenience meets privacy concerns.[/quote] The convenience here has nothing to do with patients though (unless you just like ads targeted to you). I...
[quote]He turns 7 in April. [/quote] So not the youngest, but not so much older that being held back would be a huge problem. Certainly check for learning disabilities or other issues that might impact his performance, but don't brush off the advice of the school with regard to repeating a grade...
Don't be afraid to hold back. Better to do it early as others have said. And this might be the first year for this teacher, but it's not her first day. She's seeing your kid struggle in a way that, apparently, most other students are not. And the administration would need to agree with her for t...
Get a second opinion if you need one, but depending on your issue you may not be able to put off surgery for long. I know someone who put hers off for rotator cuff. But she was already in pain and had stopped using the arm/shoulder the same way to deal with that. By the time she did get the surg...
[quote]Look into Libby app... You get the books through local libraries, so sometimes there's a wait for what you want. That's the biggest drawback[/quote] Some libraries also have Hoopla, which offers instant downloads and no waiting. Also a 21-day checkout vs. 14 with Libby. I have both and ...
[quote]We should be putting these things on top of buildings and homes, not building giant solar farms. [/quote] Why ISN'T this a thing? What's the roof of Walmart or the mall doing that it can't be leased to these people instead of open land? I would think something like a mall would jump at th...
[quote]TikTok advertising[/quote] Still in its relative infancy. TikTok today is what FB was when it first started opening up to everyone. The organic reach is really high, and advertising is not super pervasive. Users really like it. As an advertiser, it’s pretty expensive relative to the oth...