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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • It really depends on the ratio of pennies and nickles to quarters and dimes. I helped my father in law sort a jar of coins he had collected from his parking lot at work, I estimated like $150-200 but there were almost 50% quarters and dimes and it turned out to be nearly $1000.

    Interestingly, quarters and dimes have about the same value per weight. As in a pound of quarters has the same dollar value as a pound of dimes. You could weigh the jar and get a min max estimate and know it’s somewhere between if it was all quarters or all pennies




  • I’m currently 36 miles from the closest, it’s worth a trip at least twice a month for me. You just gotta plan ahead a little more and stock up for less frequent trips. One thing I like doing is getting a travel size version of house hold cleaning stuff like dish or laundry soap to use as the thing to refill from the giant Costco jugs instead of lugging a gallon of soap every time.

    Another non Costco tip is don’t use dishwasher or laundry pods, even being cheaper from Costco, they’re super overpriced for the same ingredients as a box of powder that you can get generic from any grocery store.







  • I worked for a guy who referred to it as “layoff by attrition” who essentially explained that they only have a couple heads over what they predicted based on production volume, and they know the conditions at the plant aren’t nice to be in, 95° F and 50% through most of the summer in a stamping and welding shop. So instead of a tiny layoff or firing people they just wait until the people who won’t put up with the conditions on the floor take care of it themselves.