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The promised riches and rewards have been repossessed by the king months ago except for the shipping and would unlikely to be reintroduced since the king apparently thinks this program is past its intended prime. Buying less than 12 things a year makes it a losing proposition unless you buy off of morningsave too (eg do the math). If you are not rich enough for the prestige of an icon then drop. I will be doing so at the end of next the renewal month for those reasons - was going to do so at the end of this renewal time but then bought something for my sister for birthday or christmas so now can’t get a refund for the current month.
@Kidsandliz canceling at any time is but one of many features we’ve grandfathered in. In all seriousness, this is a stupid frivolous thing to subscribe to.
@snapster Actually it’s the most sane thing that one can spend money for here for the most part. Plus you get a nifty badge. You never came across with a secret handshake or a code though.
@snapster I do agree it isn’t cost effective if you don’t buy enough. Earlier on I bought it when I bought and then let it drop if I remembered to cancel. Doing the math for me I need to let it drop and the end of the next renewal period (I just bought something for my sister so might as well get next month free just in case and then drop the last day of that period) because now meh comes out ahead instead of me (especially since I haven’t bought anything on morning save to even use that 10% off).
But if this is frivolous, then why charge $2 to be able to post on morningsave? Seems to me that gets you even fewer benefits.
@sammydog01 Oh - didn’t realize it includes free shipping. So we should have that here on “regular” meh too! Unless like was here it is just a teaser to hook people and then will go away once things are built up.
@Kidsandliz I heard that there was some sort of VMP replacement in the works for Meh, perhaps similar to the $2/month membership at MorningSave and future Checkout.org storefronts. I don’t know if that’s still coming, though. Maybe @snapster and the rest of the Mediocre crew did the math and found out that there wasn’t a significant difference in Meh sales between people who had to pay $5 for shipping and VMPs?
We just canceled Sling and Hulu. My wife asked what the $5 reoccurring mediocre charge was… I didn’t really have a great explanation, so it might be next.
@Yoda_Daenerys Yes. Yes @Yoda_Daenerys some of them are. But I’m getting ready to move is my excuse. Some, like the ball-in-cup toys, are Christmas presents. But, the bidet, that I sorely need, is still in the damn box.
@therealjrn ok, i am going to check back with you 60 days after you move
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@Yoda_Daenerys Well, that’s very fair! No sense installing it here now…the move should happen within 60 days…so I have 120 days? Sweet!
Christmas gift exclusion I hope? I also bought TWO of those foam alphabets things (still counted as one order). They were shipped in the retail box. Thanks meh, for putting shipping labels on my Grandchildren’s presents!
@therealjrn it seems you are much more organized than i am, i just have this intimidating pile of boxes in the corner of my basement that my spouse keeps asking me about
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@therealjrn For me and my purchasing record it is stacked in favor of meh. Sounds like for you it is a win - no contest. LOL.
I was going to cancel and then there was the marathon day of stuff where I bought 2 very cheap things (well presents and a fuko). Now I am $5 ahead. Still, I am not buying enough to keep it once this month goes buy if I don’t buy anything… sigh. I liked it better when you could buy VMP with a purchase and then cancel, then buy it back with the next purchase. Then I either broke even or came out ahead.
I’ve saved $1.70 because of VMP since February. Five purchases since I’ve joined, would have purchased them all even if I wasn’t a VMP.
$1.70 savings came from the April 1st morning save sales (10% off orders).
if i am going to dump vmp, and some other aMeh.rican or Meh.xican Meh.tizen wanted to pick it up?
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@Yoda_Daenerys A legacy VMP? I wonder what the secondary market would be for something like that… You know they aren’t making any more…hmm. That might be an interesting special auction item, I doubt @snapster would allow such frivolousness.
@therealjrn it would be very difficult for @snapster to realize it was happening - the legacy VMP transfer.
Since the only way to make it happen without his blessing would be a user to user direct and full handover of the legacy account from the original holder to the new holder.
Wouldn’t that be fun to see the personality shift of comments in the forums?
If any arguments are left over after all switches have been processed, they become the cow′s message.
If the command is invoked as /cowthink then the cow will think its message instead of saying it.
Options:
-b “Borg”, uses == for the cow′s eyes.
-d “Dead”, uses XX, plus a descending U to represent an extruded tongue.
-g “Greedy”, uses $ for the cow′s eyes.
-p “Paranoid”, uses @@ for the cow′s eyes.
-s “Stoned”, uses ** to represent bloodshot eyes, plus a descending U to represent an extruded tongue.
-t “Tired”, uses – for the cow′s eyes.
-w “Wired”, uses OO for the cow′s eyes.
-y “Youthful”, uses … to represent smaller eyes.
-e Manually specifies the cow′s eye-type. [default: “oo”]
-T Manually specifies the cow′s tongue shape. [default: " "]
-h Display this help message.
-f Specifies a cow picture file (“cowfile”) to use. [default: “default”]
-l List all cowfiles available.
I have made 22 purchases this year, so VMP is well worth it to me. Meh has saved me $80 on shipping and my X-mas shopping for this year is almost done.
@PyxienTX i have 273 orders in 1091 days, exactly 1 out of every 4 days at midnight tonight.
i think we’ve got a proble…
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My debit card & corresponding bank account were recently compromised. Was kind of a fun thing to puzzle through except for the reconciling missing moneys. But regardless it meant that the card info meh had was no longer extant. I figured I could pry at the staff to forgive my VMP sins, but I just… don’t see it making monetary sense. I guess @snapster has said as much and probably thinks the hangers-on are nuts. I almost hung on. But I just can’t see it.
the $1 snake was almost a buy, until i thought of it as a $6 buy
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Thanks to multiple quantity orders, VMP is doing well for me. I’ll question the membership if I don’t order anything by November. But since Morningsave exists, I should be able to find something.
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@Yoda_Daenerys I bought a mist machine from MorningSave (my first purchase from that site) and got sad because I couldn’t share my unique order name like I can here.
@Kidsandliz Over on the MorningSave forum, they don’t have individual product threads. So one would have to generate one’s own topic thread for a given purchase.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@RedOak I try to get my Christmas and birthdays shopping done throughout the year…but dag nabbit I sometimes forget that I’ve already have grandchild X’s gift. lol Bonus gift for them!
@therealjrn a tip, once I (finally) acknowledged my memory capacity issues were resulting in the same excess gift bounty…
At the start of the year, I create a simple list of all the folks we are likely to buy gifts for. Christmas section and Bday section.
Then throughout the year I populate that list as we find amazing deals.
Makes it easy once the day arrives. Assuming we’ve stashed the gift in the usual spot!
The list also has a general/unassigned/emergency gift section at the top.
With each gift record, I include the price paid, the source, and the buy date.
In order to be useful, the list must be with you on your smartphone. I happen to keep my brain overflow info in a pretty powerful, but certainly not perfect, app called Evernote. You can access your notes from just about any environment as long as you have Internet, including a web browser.
@therealjrn the Google world is tempting but my paranoia causes me to spread our digital footprint across several places.
It was disappointing to see Google buy Waze a couple years ago.
And Google really is highly talented at building the ugliest, most unfriendly user interfaces on the planet.
In this way they are similar to Toyota - “we’ll build the ugliest and most boring vehicles in the industry… and you’ll buy them anyway because they don’t break” (in Google’s case… “because they’re free and integrated”).
@RedOak@therealjrn don’t be fooled by the whole “i’ve bought enough to justify, blah, blah, blah, Meh. VMP, free shipping, blaaaappity, blah, blah, some “V” BADGE…”
try this approach:
a) was i looking for this before i clicked Meh.?
b) do i need this, or is it just a good deal?
c) if i had to pay $5 shipping, would i go ahead and buy it (or 3 of it anyway)?
d) if i decide i don’t “need” it anymore, what’s the garage sale value of this junk?
e) what was that last poem i read?
@dmlivezeyPeople without VMP badges say stuff like you just said.
But I’ll oblige you:
a) Hell yes, I look at all the deals–and some are a hard pass–but I still click the meh button–smart man that Ruttledge.
b) Arguably, none of us “needs” any of this shit–especially me–but if I enjoy it, can afford it, and I perceive it as a value–why not? It’s my money.
c) You caught me there, Homer. DOH! Two recent examples–the one (1) disposable grill & three (3) beer-making kits…but I will use both, probably in unison at some point. But if shipping had been $5 each for the kits…I don’t know…and it wasn’t…click. I definitely would not have bought the grill for an additional 50% shipping on top on the sawbuck that heap of junk quality import cost.
d) No, I don’t think about garage selling anything. I usually donate any things I find myself not using.
e) I usually don’t read poetry. I find most poetry quite pretentious and sophomoric. But I did get a 4.0 grade in my college Comp II classes. If you mean the limericks and haiku found on the forum, they can be amusing.
But I will admit, I guess if you took away the VMP from me, it would give me pause.
@therealjrn some people without badges have badges and say stuff like that too
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VMP was for chumps with cash to blow. Seriously, did the VMP grant you all a fuko of your own? Do you really need, hell, want bluetooth speakers? Heck, even Prime is not worth it for some because the local box stores are running items noticeably cheaper than Amazon. So for those, do you want to pay for the luxury of doorstep delivery or the convenience of going and getting it now? That’s a much harder decision than VMP.
@TheMonkeyKing I consider my AMZN Prime membership more of an entertainment purchase than a discount shipping subscription. Prime now has music and books for free too.
So what if I’m a “chump” with cash to blow? Whatcha gonna do about it? I’ve worked my ass off to get to where I am and I sure don’t need to bond with the sweaty throngs down at Bob’s Big Box store to buy my light bulbs and toilet paper.
@sammydog01 or to any kid sport game - softball, in my opinion was the worst. You could die of old age before they go through 10 kids batting on one side (all balls) so they can switch which team is up to bat. I was beyond happy when my kid dropped that after 6th grade.
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@Barney reasoning you call it? whew-owie, garsh, i’ll be dan-fangled
let me put it this weigh - that “K” is worth more to me than many of the items i have purchased here
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@Yoda_Daenerys Oh…yeah I did. But I ordered pretty late in the day. I don’t think they ever ran out. tHumperchick convinced me they would be ideal to give to surly teenagers (and up, in some cases) that show up without a costume and try to look menacing at my door on Halloween. Did you want some?
Just a reminder:
https://mediocre.com/forum/topics/last-chance-to-join-vmp-is-closed-to-new-members-after-this-month
@Thumperchick
/youtube marx brothers party of the first part
@Thumperchick it is finished
The promised riches and rewards have been repossessed by the king months ago except for the shipping and would unlikely to be reintroduced since the king apparently thinks this program is past its intended prime. Buying less than 12 things a year makes it a losing proposition unless you buy off of morningsave too (eg do the math). If you are not rich enough for the prestige of an icon then drop. I will be doing so at the end of next the renewal month for those reasons - was going to do so at the end of this renewal time but then bought something for my sister for birthday or christmas so now can’t get a refund for the current month.
@Kidsandliz oh the temptation to let it charge and then see if i can resist buying for long enough for a refund
@Kidsandliz canceling at any time is but one of many features we’ve grandfathered in. In all seriousness, this is a stupid frivolous thing to subscribe to.
@snapster Actually it’s the most sane thing that one can spend money for here for the most part. Plus you get a nifty badge. You never came across with a secret handshake or a code though.
@snapster I do agree it isn’t cost effective if you don’t buy enough. Earlier on I bought it when I bought and then let it drop if I remembered to cancel. Doing the math for me I need to let it drop and the end of the next renewal period (I just bought something for my sister so might as well get next month free just in case and then drop the last day of that period) because now meh comes out ahead instead of me (especially since I haven’t bought anything on morning save to even use that 10% off).
But if this is frivolous, then why charge $2 to be able to post on morningsave? Seems to me that gets you even fewer benefits.
@Kidsandliz That’s also frivolous but the subject is VMP.
@Kidsandliz That $2 includes free shipping so you could say it’s a better deal.
@sammydog01 but just on morningsave, VMP transcends all that mediocre
@snapster Frivolous? Maybe. Regardless of how much it saves or costs me, I like supporting this community.
@sammydog01 Oh - didn’t realize it includes free shipping. So we should have that here on “regular” meh too! Unless like was here it is just a teaser to hook people and then will go away once things are built up.
@Kidsandliz I heard that there was some sort of VMP replacement in the works for Meh, perhaps similar to the $2/month membership at MorningSave and future Checkout.org storefronts. I don’t know if that’s still coming, though. Maybe @snapster and the rest of the Mediocre crew did the math and found out that there wasn’t a significant difference in Meh sales between people who had to pay $5 for shipping and VMPs?
@snapster Hey, it gives me a (minimally-effective) second chance at Fukos I miss by seconds. That’s something.
We just canceled Sling and Hulu. My wife asked what the $5 reoccurring mediocre charge was… I didn’t really have a great explanation, so it might be next.
@medz At least you still have that fancy K.
@medz @sammydog01 the fancy ‘K’ rules! We don’t get the VMP badge… we don’t need no steenkeeng VMP badge
@duodec
/image why not both?
@medz Sling ended up being such a complete waste, we dropped it after a few months. Hulu we are still fairly reliant on.
@sammydog01 exactly why I let VMP go long ago. Haven’t bought anything since. I still look nearly every day but well…MEH
@thismyusername Meh.be these lyrics were based on shakespeare?
@thismyusername, this indecision’s bugging me…
Holy shit, I have like 27 orders since the beginning of the year. Frivolous? yeah, some have been VMP bait, but still…
I guess I’m keeping it for now.
Plus two orders at Morningsave.
@therealjrn are any of those still in unopened boxes?
@Yoda_Daenerys Yes. Yes @Yoda_Daenerys some of them are. But I’m getting ready to move is my excuse. Some, like the ball-in-cup toys, are Christmas presents. But, the bidet, that I sorely need, is still in the damn box.
@therealjrn ok, i am going to check back with you 60 days after you move
@Yoda_Daenerys Well, that’s very fair! No sense installing it here now…the move should happen within 60 days…so I have 120 days? Sweet!
Christmas gift exclusion I hope? I also bought TWO of those foam alphabets things (still counted as one order). They were shipped in the retail box. Thanks meh, for putting shipping labels on my Grandchildren’s presents!
@therealjrn it seems you are much more organized than i am, i just have this intimidating pile of boxes in the corner of my basement that my spouse keeps asking me about
@Yoda_Daenerys Heh. I don’t have a basement. But I have a two-car garage that I can only fit one car into.
I’m questioning your choice of verbiage there…
@haydesigner No need to question, I meant every word.
@therealjrn “the bidet, that I sorely need” TMI!
@therealjrn Perhaps use the $5 savings from cancelling VMP to buy softer TP as well.
KuoH
@therealjrn For me and my purchasing record it is stacked in favor of meh. Sounds like for you it is a win - no contest. LOL.
I was going to cancel and then there was the marathon day of stuff where I bought 2 very cheap things (well presents and a fuko). Now I am $5 ahead. Still, I am not buying enough to keep it once this month goes buy if I don’t buy anything… sigh. I liked it better when you could buy VMP with a purchase and then cancel, then buy it back with the next purchase. Then I either broke even or came out ahead.
I’ve saved $1.70 because of VMP since February. Five purchases since I’ve joined, would have purchased them all even if I wasn’t a VMP.
$1.70 savings came from the April 1st morning save sales (10% off orders).
So worth it? meh.
if i am going to dump vmp, and some other aMeh.rican or Meh.xican Meh.tizen wanted to pick it up?
@Yoda_Daenerys A legacy VMP? I wonder what the secondary market would be for something like that… You know they aren’t making any more…hmm. That might be an interesting special auction item, I doubt @snapster would allow such frivolousness.
@therealjrn the price will probably go up just like ethereum, that’d be my guess
/youtube afternoon delight
@therealjrn it would be very difficult for @snapster to realize it was happening - the legacy VMP transfer.
Since the only way to make it happen without his blessing would be a user to user direct and full handover of the legacy account from the original holder to the new holder.
Wouldn’t that be fun to see the personality shift of comments in the forums?
@Yoda_Daenerys
You could try to sell it on eBay or craigslist and see what happened.
@RedOak i’ve been told i have no personality, so it might be like a divide by zero error, and then…
@f00l my guess:
/youtube nothing from nothing leaves nothing
@Yoda_Daenerys
I’d say, rather, you possibly sometimes possess a “divide by zero” personality.
@f00l
@Yoda_Daenerys Whoa east texas
@Yoda_Daenerys
@cranky1950
@Yoda_Daenerys
@f00l said:
Of someone told me that I had such a personality, and they knew what they were saying, I’d be honored.
It was intended as a compliment.
@f00l thx for confirming, i thought so
@RedOak Well no then they could later, after the transfer, do a use name change
@Kidsandliz oh, the name change would come before the transfer
but no attempts at contact on this front, so it’ll just die a natural death
@Yoda_Daenerys Kosh, is that you?
@blaineg
@Yoda_Daenerys “The world implodes” ASCII graphic up there looks like a Vorlon to me.
@blaineg honestly, i can’t recall which that one is (butt my butt will definitely remember telebears, ewe)
COWFILES: beavis.zen bong bud-frogs bunny cheese cower daemon default doge elephant-in-snake elephant eyes flaming-sheep ghostbusters goat head-in hedgehog hellokitty kiss kitty koala kosh luke-koala mech-and-cow meow milk moofasa moose mutilated ren satanic sheep skeleton small squirrel stimpy supermilker surgery telebears tux vader-koala vader www
Usage: /cowsay [-e eye_string] [-f cowfile] [-h] [-l] [-T tongue_string] [-bdgpstwy] “text”
If any arguments are left over after all switches have been processed, they become the cow′s message.
If the command is invoked as /cowthink then the cow will think its message instead of saying it.
Options:
-b “Borg”, uses == for the cow′s eyes.
-d “Dead”, uses XX, plus a descending U to represent an extruded tongue.
-g “Greedy”, uses $ for the cow′s eyes.
-p “Paranoid”, uses @@ for the cow′s eyes.
-s “Stoned”, uses ** to represent bloodshot eyes, plus a descending U to represent an extruded tongue.
-t “Tired”, uses – for the cow′s eyes.
-w “Wired”, uses OO for the cow′s eyes.
-y “Youthful”, uses … to represent smaller eyes.
-e Manually specifies the cow′s eye-type. [default: “oo”]
-T Manually specifies the cow′s tongue shape. [default: " "]
-h Display this help message.
-f Specifies a cow picture file (“cowfile”) to use. [default: “default”]
-l List all cowfiles available.
looks like kosh is the weiner
I have made 22 purchases this year, so VMP is well worth it to me. Meh has saved me $80 on shipping and my X-mas shopping for this year is almost done.
@PyxienTX Nicely done!
@PyxienTX i have 273 orders in 1091 days, exactly 1 out of every 4 days at midnight tonight.
i think we’ve got a proble…
/youtube space oddity
@Yoda_Daenerys I’d be afraid to know how much that cost.
@RiotDemon so would my spouse, so mumms the word
I am crazy to keep VMP. And yet for some stupid reason, I do. It goes against my cheapass Scot blood.
In contrast to the early promo-pricing/startup sweet deals days, I now tend to buy at most a single item per month.
And I don’t get the:
… line of thinking. This is a commercial enterprise that happens to leverage a community as its engine. I’m not a sucker, just stupid.
@RedOak
support the community for kiva Meh.be, for Meh.,
/youtube not so much
@RedOak
Ahoy, matey!
@RedOak
/youtube space oddity richard hadfield
@Yoda_Daenerys
That one’s almost as awesome as the original.
And then
@f00l i love that song. not sure if i’d seen that video before
My debit card & corresponding bank account were recently compromised. Was kind of a fun thing to puzzle through except for the reconciling missing moneys. But regardless it meant that the card info meh had was no longer extant. I figured I could pry at the staff to forgive my VMP sins, but I just… don’t see it making monetary sense. I guess @snapster has said as much and probably thinks the hangers-on are nuts. I almost hung on. But I just can’t see it.
@brhfl
temptation to the 15th power, VMP just billed today
the $1 snake was almost a buy, until i thought of it as a $6 buy
i faltered on the Fuku click-bait, but…
I’m glad I hung on till the meh-rathon, but I suspect I get rid of it soon.
/giphy drop it like its hot
@MrGlass
@Yoda_Daenerys Well if I do cancel this month I certainly went out with a bang. Even got a fuko
@MrGlass good deal, glad you got one, i tried on the vmp fuko but timed out. now i can still cancel my vmp if i refrain from buying.
It’ll sound silly, but I’m generally too lazy to cancel mine
@modtuc82
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Daenerys: “Yes. All men must die, but we are not men.”
2016: 17 purchases.
2017 (so far) : 11 purchases.
Thanks to multiple quantity orders, VMP is doing well for me. I’ll question the membership if I don’t order anything by November. But since Morningsave exists, I should be able to find something.
@JT954 don’t hurt yourself straining so hard to find a thing only to satisfy the VMP monster!
@JT954
hello, my name is yoda_daenerys
i’m a shopaholic
it’s been 14 days since my last purchase
and hear my story…
@Yoda_Daenerys Hmm so I take it woot was the starter drug and introduced you to me
th… perhaps you need to switch to the Dollar Tree?@Yoda_Daenerys Hi Yoda. have you heard of the church of mart? We are filled every Saturday Wal-to-Wal.
@kidsandliz @therealjrn is there a membership fee?
@Yoda_Daenerys Only if you count having to eat an Edwards chocolate pie piece each time you enter.
@Kidsandliz
after nearly 60 days of shopriety, i fell off the wagon hyperactive-quilled-moon
/image hyperactive quilled moon
/giphy hyperactive quilled moon
/youtube hyperactive quilled moon
@Yoda_Daenerys Thanks for sharing, keep coming back!
@therealjrn
@Yoda_Daenerys
@snapster do your worst, i can survive (it)
/youtube flashdance i will survive
Bought one of the bullet cameras as a future gift for my brother-in-law. That brings me to December until I question my VMP membership status.
@JT954
@Yoda_Daenerys I bought a mist machine from MorningSave (my first purchase from that site) and got sad because I couldn’t share my unique order name like I can here.
With that purchase, VMP is good until next year.
@JT954 Sure you can share it - just copy/paste it there or here or both.
@JT954 Easy-peasy Here’s my MS order number from that screwdriver/wine opener thing:
/giphy legible-wishful-idea
@Kidsandliz Over on the MorningSave forum, they don’t have individual product threads. So one would have to generate one’s own topic thread for a given purchase.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Very well.
/giphy unkind-quiet-rail
@JT954
40 VMP & MS purchases so far in 2017…
I think I’m all set until March of 2020.
@therealjrn
/giphy vindication.
For some of us, pure stupidity is enough.
@therealjrn
@Yoda_Daenerys
@therealjrn you might have a problem.
@snapster is asking if you can submit a DNA sample for his reproduction lab experiment.
@RedOak Ha! And that of four grandchildren, a daughter, a son-in-law and a new home I’m buying for? wait, do houses have DNA?
@therealjrn
@RedOak
@snapster
@Dave
Perhaps some of the Woot/Mediocre persons are Time Lords.
Perhaps they set out to create the likely to VMP and the not likely to VMP human groups as raw material controls for a nefarious experiment.
Hello, Overlords! Nice Lab!
@therealjrn we have four children, half of them out of the nest. They appear to plan families of their own so grands for us might not be far off.
It would be interesting to know how much family/extended family size impacts meh buys.
@RedOak I try to get my Christmas and birthdays shopping done throughout the year…but dag nabbit I sometimes forget that I’ve already have grandchild X’s gift. lol Bonus gift for them!
@therealjrn a tip, once I (finally) acknowledged my memory capacity issues were resulting in the same excess gift bounty…
At the start of the year, I create a simple list of all the folks we are likely to buy gifts for. Christmas section and Bday section.
Then throughout the year I populate that list as we find amazing deals.
Makes it easy once the day arrives. Assuming we’ve stashed the gift in the usual spot!
The list also has a general/unassigned/emergency gift section at the top.
With each gift record, I include the price paid, the source, and the buy date.
In order to be useful, the list must be with you on your smartphone. I happen to keep my brain overflow info in a pretty powerful, but certainly not perfect, app called Evernote. You can access your notes from just about any environment as long as you have Internet, including a web browser.
@RedOak Nice! Great idea, I already use Google Keep for personal and work notes…hm…I shall implement this procedure forthwith.
@therealjrn the Google world is tempting but my paranoia causes me to spread our digital footprint across several places.
It was disappointing to see Google buy Waze a couple years ago.
And Google really is highly talented at building the ugliest, most unfriendly user interfaces on the planet.
In this way they are similar to Toyota - “we’ll build the ugliest and most boring vehicles in the industry… and you’ll buy them anyway because they don’t break” (in Google’s case… “because they’re free and integrated”).
@RedOak @therealjrn don’t be fooled by the whole “i’ve bought enough to justify, blah, blah, blah, Meh. VMP, free shipping, blaaaappity, blah, blah, some “V” BADGE…”
try this approach:
a) was i looking for this before i clicked Meh.?
b) do i need this, or is it just a good deal?
c) if i had to pay $5 shipping, would i go ahead and buy it (or 3 of it anyway)?
d) if i decide i don’t “need” it anymore, what’s the garage sale value of this junk?
e) what was that last poem i read?
@dmlivezey People without VMP badges say stuff like you just said.
But I’ll oblige you:
a) Hell yes, I look at all the deals–and some are a hard pass–but I still click the meh button–smart man that Ruttledge.
b) Arguably, none of us “needs” any of this shit–especially me–but if I enjoy it, can afford it, and I perceive it as a value–why not? It’s my money.
c) You caught me there, Homer. DOH! Two recent examples–the one (1) disposable grill & three (3) beer-making kits…but I will use both, probably in unison at some point. But if shipping had been $5 each for the kits…I don’t know…and it wasn’t…click. I definitely would not have bought the grill for an additional 50% shipping on top on the sawbuck that
heap of junkquality import cost.d) No, I don’t think about garage selling anything. I usually donate any things I find myself not using.
e) I usually don’t read poetry. I find most poetry quite pretentious and sophomoric. But I did get a 4.0 grade in my college Comp II classes. If you mean the limericks and haiku found on the forum, they can be amusing.
But I will admit, I guess if you took away the VMP from me, it would give me pause.
@therealjrn some people without badges have badges and say stuff like that too
@Yoda_Daenerys
Posted above but I thought you all should see it!
@mydrivec Not posted above but I thought y’all should see it.
Not posted above but I thought you all should see it.
VMP was for chumps with cash to blow. Seriously, did the VMP grant you all a fuko of your own? Do you really need, hell, want bluetooth speakers? Heck, even Prime is not worth it for some because the local box stores are running items noticeably cheaper than Amazon. So for those, do you want to pay for the luxury of doorstep delivery or the convenience of going and getting it now? That’s a much harder decision than VMP.
@TheMonkeyKing Prime gives me movies and TV shows I can download and watch off-line. Have you ever been to a swim meet? It’s a nice thing to have.
@TheMonkeyKing I consider my AMZN Prime membership more of an entertainment purchase than a discount shipping subscription. Prime now has music and books for free too.
So what if I’m a “chump” with cash to blow? Whatcha gonna do about it? I’ve worked my ass off to get to where I am and I sure don’t need to bond with the sweaty throngs down at Bob’s Big Box store to buy my light bulbs and toilet paper.
@sammydog01 or to any kid sport game - softball, in my opinion was the worst. You could die of old age before they go through 10 kids batting on one side (all balls) so they can switch which team is up to bat. I was beyond happy when my kid dropped that after 6th grade.
I’ve never questioned my VMP status.
I also have a fairly active Patreon account. I give money to strangers who entertain me. Meh entertains me, and doesn’t want much, so MONEY!
(Still, I never have landed a fuko. I just want to hit it once. Just once…)
@wishlish
@wishlish Many have said that of Annette Funicello.
@springsteen is that fuku talk?
now where’s my 5 dolla
@Yoda_Daenerys
@Yoda_Daenerys it takes a week or 3 for the $5 vmp refund to kick in(as long as you didnt buy anything since the last renewal)
@communistjack thx commiejohn
@Yoda_Daenerys Do you feel naked without your VMP?
@Barney well, speaking thruthfully…
is your “K” for sale?
/giphy k for sale
/youtube kay four sail
@Yoda_Daenerys My K would cost you a lot more than $5. I did a lot of begging and shedding of a tear or two to get it.
@Barney ok, name your price
if your price is < 2x my best offer, or if your price is > 1/3x my lowest offer, you can call me 4 times, and if ewe oar write, than weiner!!!
@Yoda_Daenerys As usual, your reasoning has just gone right over my head. Nope, I guess I’ll just keep my K; it’s so purty.
@Barney reasoning you call it? whew-owie, garsh, i’ll be dan-fangled
let me put it this weigh - that “K” is worth more to me than many of the items i have purchased here
@Yoda_Daenerys
Candy Corn
@therealjrn did you change your mind and get it at the 4pm EDT VMP sale?
@Yoda_Daenerys Oh…yeah I did. But I ordered pretty late in the day. I don’t think they ever ran out. tHumperchick convinced me they would be ideal to give to surly teenagers (and up, in some cases) that show up without a costume and try to look menacing at my door on Halloween. Did you want some?
@Yoda_Daenerys You could of ordered up to Midnight. "Deal ended 8/11/2017 12am ET. "
@therealjrn no
@therealjrn
/youtube ok go
@Yoda_Daenerys That video is amazing.
@sammydog01 they have more cool ones
/youtube this too shall pass ok go
Is we still mollycoddling people over this shit?
@cranky1950
You is cranky.
Will meh ever introduce a replacement for VMP? ever? I just can’t bring myself to spend $5 on shipping for a $8-$10 or even $15 item.
@twz let’s check
/8ball “Will meh ever introduce a replacement for VMP? ever?”
Concentrate and ask again
@Yoda_Daenerys @twz Based on the evidence the correct answer is “empty promises”.