Posts By Carter

My Grandfather and Real Estate

Just a warning: This is very much a rambling post I learned a lot from my Grandfather. He taught me about the way things were and ought to be. He was someone that had a heart of gold (stories of him delivering food to needy people or elderly that couldn't leave their homes in winter - with no prompting or reward, it was just the right thing to do), he fought in World War 2 as a B-17E Pilot but never spoke too much about it. Oh he loved his WWII movies though! Always watching them. He even set up a mock cockpit and taught me how to fly one when I was a kid. I don't remember much on…

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Make a Custom Cigar Box

If you've been following along for a while, you know that I love cigars. I also enjoy all the little extras that go along with cigars. Cutters, lighters, ash-trays, and travel containers. I decided to take one of my travel containers, called a "herf-a-dor": First internet search brought me up this: https://www.cigarsinternational.com/p/herf-a-dor-travel-humidor-travel-cases/1437456/ I removed all the foam and cut up some of my old cedar cigar boxes and created this: I love the uniqueness of it. I'll toss in a few cigars for a get together along with my cutter and lighter. Maybe a broveda pack (62%) if I plan on the cigars staying in there for more than a day This was quite easy to do and for those…

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What’s with all the Non-Prime Amazon Prime Lately?

Ordering for Christmas this past week. Bought a bunch of items that were prime. I don't get it in two days, I get it in two weeks. The heck?Just so you know I'm not pulling your leg. I ordered this for my kid:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BE5CT8U/Record player that has blue tooth so it can go to her speaker. Great!Amazon prime! Two days! Great! Right?Well, I got it in two days... But I ordered it three weeks ago!!! So what the actual Amazon prime. Why do I have prime anyhow? I'm pretty sure I'm going to not renew my prime. I don't see the point anymore nor do I really need to have something in two days. Apparently they think I can wait, and…

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The Chicken Wrangler

There is this construction site just down the road where a new home is being erected.  Apparently some fine upstanding citizen decided that that was a perfect place to dump a flock of chickens.  A kind neighbor alerted me to them as he saw them and thought they were mine and they just got loose. My birds were safely tucked away inside their coop. So I spent a very rainy Sunday day rounding up chickens. Now for those folks who have never had to round up chickens, it is akin to herding kittens with a broom.  They all scatter and you're lucky to get just one. I was eventually able to get five out of the six.  I spent far…

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Why is there a Motorcycle in the House?

A while back I saw a post on an instagram feed where this guy put a motorcycle on his mantle above his fireplace.  To be fair, it was really on top of the stone work, all lit up and looked like a bachelor pad any guy would love to own. I asked my wife how come we don't have my motorcycle inside as I walked around the house looking for a place to put it.  To no one's surprise, she said in a diplomatic way that it probably wouldn't be the best idea. Dejected but not deterred, I went about my day. Well today I asked again...  I didn't get no either.  Of course she wasn't home and on a…

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Thanksgiving in Bermuda

Last year my wife and I traveled to Bermuda and absolutely loved it during the off season.  We stayed for almost a week but left the day before Thanksgiving to have dinner back home with family.  We've been going out to dinner at nice restaurants for many years but last year was the end of that with bad experiences on year after another all culminating to the prior year being our last. My wife and I, with the helpful prodding of our daughter, convinced my parents to come with us to Bermuda this year and stay through Thanksgiving.  We had no idea where we were going to eat or exactly do, but we knew we would have a good time…

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Easiest way to make extra money is to not spend it

Right now I'm going through my monthly bills and getting rid of all the things I just don't use anymore.Audible: $23.00 a month (ouch)Magazine subscriptions: $2.00 to $4.00 a month, but added up to $23.00 totalHome Phone: $44.50 a month - and I don't use it. Ever. Goodbye verizon.Cable TV: I was paying $82 a month, cancelled it, got directvnow for only $35 a month. Instant savings, have the same channels.Do you have other monthly fees such as spotify and you're not using it? Pandora maybe?Do you have a monthly gym membership you just keep in the hopes you're going to use it?Heck, I called my security company for an upgrade (ADT) as I've had the same system for 11…

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