Shirt.Woot

kenney9226 wrote:okay. There's at least two of us who agree on that.

Make that three. Except for a house and a car, have the money first, then buy. And, actually, we've bought a couple cars with cash.
Only use a credit card in an emergency. Now, there's a novel idea.

Oops. Good morning everyone.

Off to run errands. Post office, Target, Staples, credit union.

pooflady wrote:Make that three. Except for a house and a car, have the money first, then buy. And, actually, we've bought a couple cars with cash.
Only use a credit card in an emergency. Now, there's a novel idea.

I"ll be #4. Though... we use our credit card all the time, but we pay it off monthly. Husband is more of a saver than I am, so we balance each other out fairly well.

krapposelli wrote:I"ll be #4. Though... we use our credit card all the time, but we pay it off monthly. Husband is more of a saver than I am, so we balance each other out fairly well.

wow. credit cards being used for their intended purposes!

WHat I am waiting for is for Countrywide to send me a letter saying "Mr. 9226, you have been such a nice guy and have always paid your mortgage on time, we want to thank you for sticking with us during our time of being scraped over the hot coals, and we have, as our way of saying thank you, refinanced your mortgage at no cost to you at a much lower rate without extending the length of your remaining mortgage."

I can still dream, right?

Daj, is your son graduating this year?
http://www.handhelditems.com/slingshot-2008-graduation-flying-monkey-limited-edition-p-7752.html

kenney9226 wrote:wow. credit cards being used for their intended purposes!

WHat I am waiting for is for Countrywide to send me a letter saying "Mr. 9226, you have been such a nice guy and have always paid your mortgage on time, we want to thank you for sticking with us during our time of being scraped over the hot coals, and we have, as our way of saying thank you, refinanced your mortgage at no cost to you at a much lower rate without extending the length of your remaining mortgage."

I can still dream, right?

That ain't a dream; that's a hallucination!!!

daj59 wrote:Too cute! He's graduating next year...2009. Maybe they'll have one for next year. Thanks for thinking of me!

Ahh, I knew it was sometime soon, but I wasn't sure when.

kenney9226 wrote:wow. credit cards being used for their intended purposes!

WHat I am waiting for is for Countrywide to send me a letter saying "Mr. 9226, you have been such a nice guy and have always paid your mortgage on time, we want to thank you for sticking with us during our time of being scraped over the hot coals, and we have, as our way of saying thank you, refinanced your mortgage at no cost to you at a much lower rate without extending the length of your remaining mortgage."

I can still dream, right?

I want one of those letters too!!! Where do I sign up?

FenStar wrote:Ahh, I knew it was sometime soon, but I wasn't sure when.

My monkeys and my tv are on the truck for delivery today!

krapposelli wrote:I"ll be #4. Though... we use our credit card all the time, but we pay it off monthly. Husband is more of a saver than I am, so we balance each other out fairly well.

It's the same way at my house!

kenney9226 wrote:wow. credit cards being used for their intended purposes!

Mr. Kneny,

the intended purpose of credit cards is to make money for the issuers of said cards.

We use credit cards to buy gas at Costco, among other things. The annual "cash" back is a bonus.

Charges are paid back in full at the end of the month.

Morning all.

Make me #5 or whatever number we are up to. I don't even own a house, because when Orc and I went to buy something there was nothing in a price range that would give us a fixed rate mortgage, and we ended up passing on the whole mess. As for credit cards, emergencies and plane tickets/rental cars (because you can't get those things without them). I do understanding the charging things to build credit (which I think is a stupid way to prove you are financially responsible), and have helped my sister do that - she had the cash to buy a laptop, but I co-signed a credit card for her so she could "build credit". Of course, now my sister has a house. . . .hmmmmm.

KtCallista wrote:Morning all.

Make me #5 or whatever number we are up to. I don't even own a house, because when Orc and I went to buy something there was nothing in a price range that would give us a fixed rate mortgage, and we ended up passing on the whole mess. As for credit cards, emergencies and plane tickets/rental cars (because you can't get those things without them). I do understanding the charging things to build credit (which I think is a stupid way to prove you are financially responsible), and have helped my sister do that - she had the cash to buy a laptop, but I co-signed a credit card for her so she could "build credit". Of course, now my sister has a house. . . .hmmmmm.

Ms. KtC,

For your sake, I hope she didn't use that credit card to buy the house!!!

dontwantaname wrote:Is woot messed up, or is it me? It is slow.

It's messed up

I wonder what they're "fixing?"

Hi y'all.

AZGman wrote:I wonder what they're "fixing?"

Basketball playoff games, either college or pro.

AZGman wrote:It's messed up

I am slow...

dontwantaname wrote:No, that wouldn't mess us up.

Ms. Name,

Well ExcuUUUUuuuuuuuuUUUUse me, Ms. Programming Guru.

Not that anyone on this thread cares, but I guess Mr. Wonderstew's threshold for entering the Derby is somewhere between $500.01 and $1,000.

dontwantaname wrote:The interesting part is the government is encouraging crazy spending.
They don't encourage saving at all.
But then they will be shocked when nobody has money to retire and need more social services when they get old.

Ms. Name,

Spending now helps the economy now, makes people happy and gets them reelected. Nobody cares about the future, when many of the politicians will be dead anyway.

dontwantaname wrote:He is back?

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=12769

edit: also

wonderstew wrote:

How's the deadline work with these things?

dontwantaname wrote:The interesting part is the government is encouraging crazy spending.
They don't encourage saving at all.
But then they will be shocked when nobody has money to retire and need more social services when they get old.

So it's generally agreed by many in this thread that we're financially responsible, or at least smart enough to know where to draw the line.

Now I have another question before I go off to a meeting: We can enter the shirt derby, right, and send over a shirt design and a shirt detail image, right, and they can be jpg, png, or gif images right? I know the "no gradients in the thumbnail" rule, but have I missed the "no animated gif thumbnail images" this entire time? How much trouble will I get myself in if I try doing that later this week? Now that I have those things figured out to a small degree, I think I could hook one of those animated gif images up to an entry here...

And I like Mr. stew's entry. There's lots of people in the little cars, but just the one in the big red SUV. ANd I like the colors.

kenney9226 wrote:Now I have another question before I go off to a meeting: We can enter the shirt derby, right, and send over a shirt design and a shirt detail image, right, and they can be jpg, png, or gif images right? I know the "no gradients in the thumbnail" rule, but have I missed the "no animated gif thumbnail images" this entire time? How much trouble will I get myself in if I try doing that later this week? Now that I have those things figured out to a small degree, I think I could hook one of those animated gif images up to an entry here...

Mr. Kneny,

You'd probably be better served posting this in the Derby thread or even the Cyberpub, but I thought woot converted everything to .jpg, which I think doesn't support animations. You could try, though, and prove me wrong (not difficult to do, really).

kenney9226 wrote:So it's generally agreed by many in this thread that we're financially responsible, or at least smart enough to know where to draw the line.

Mr. Kneny,

I seem to draw the line at buying anything from woot. Or at least waffling so much that it's sold out before I decide to buy.

no1 wrote:Mr. Kneny,

You'd probably be better served posting this in the Derby thread or even the Cyberpub, but I thought woot converted everything to .jpg, which I think doesn't support animations. You could try, though, and prove me wrong (not difficult to do, really).

Well a big thanks to no one, then!