#i need to eat but at what cost (monetarily and timely)

[whitesunlars]

the frequency of needing to food shop because you eat food and therefore deplete what you previously bought and need to restock............being an adult is a nightmare

#i need to eat but at what cost (monetarily and timely) #melissa's life

[thesquidkid]

I was the match and you were the rock

This was supposed to be a very different fic, but Things We Lost In The Fire by Bastille came on, and this was born (also I listened to the song on repeat, so there may be some lyrics scattered around 😂)

It is also quite sad (at least I have tears in my eyes writing it), so I guess sorry? Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy it! 😂 (Also on ao3)

Oh and there might be spoilers for the finale? With everything happening with the airstream.

Michael was sitting on the ground, back against his truck, in the middle of the junkyard, looking at his trailer go up in flames. All the people he cared about were besides him, Alex sitting on his right, rubbing his thigh. He had his arm around the other man, the two of them mourning the airstream and all the moments shared.

But more than just memories with Alex, the trailer held Michael’s life for over a decade. He knew the others were sad, but overall they all shared the same sense of joy - Jones was no more a threat. And as much as Michael wanted to celebrate, he also mentally counted how much everything would cost to replace, if he could live with Alex until he found a solution, how many other vehicles had been touched, how deep in debt Sanders Auto would be in.

“Out.” Sanders said, not leaving any place for discussion. He was standing, leaning against Michael’s truck, his leg touching Michael’s shoulder, a comforting presence.

When Michael had fallen to the ground seeing the flames, Sanders had kept standing, head high. But deep down, he was in a similar state to Michael - teary eye(s) and wet cheek(s), calculating the loss of money, the loss of small sentimental value. Because even if there wasn’t much in the airstream, it was all Michael’s, and Sanders had grown used to it being there, was even attached to the poor thing.

This is why he was asking everyone to leave. They didn’t belong in this place, and didn't understand what was truly happening. They wanted to celebrate the win against Jones - as they should - but they didn’t feel the same loss that Michael did.

Michael didn’t even register Sanders’ word, didn’t even hear the cars leaving, his ears still ringing from the explosion. He had gone into the airstream, to try to save anything, but it was too late, most of the inside had burnt down already, the outside shell starting to melt.

I will burn down everything you care about, Jones had said when they defeated him. At first, Michael didn’t understand. Alex was standing next to him, seemingly not on fire, Isobel and Max in a similar state. He even checked in with Sanders, called the old man to make sure he was okay, when the explosion happened. Michael had driven as fast as he could, rushing to the airstream, Alex shouting after him.

He didn’t see Alex running after him, forgetting for a moment that Michael was fireproof. It was only when Alex grabbed Michael’s hand inside the airstream, that Michael registered the dangerousity of Alex being here. Using his powers, he had pushed Alex out of there, but that didn’t stop both of them to still be coughing and Alex’s prosthetic needing to be replaced.

But neither of those things were at the front of Alex’s mind in that instant. Sitting on the ground, his leg in front of him, still hot from the fire, coughing once in a while, his only focus was Michael. Michael was okay, physically. The flames hadn’t burned him, and the coughing had stopped after a while. Emotionally, on the other hand, he knew that Michael was not okay. Even if he couldn’t fully understand how much the airstream meant to Michael, he knew that he was hurting, and wanted nothing more than to be there to comfort his boyfriend.

And so he stayed. When Sanders told the others to go, he looked up to the older man, who was only looking at the flames. He wondered if he should leave the two to be alone, to mourn, to check the damage, but he also knew that he was not going to leave Michael’s side for a few days, especially not after what happened with Jones.

The firefighters came, eventually. By then, nothing could be saved. Luckily, Michael had used his powers to push the remaining cars and various other inflammable objects present in the junkyard to the side.

When the firefighters left, having checked Alex, Michael and Sanders and advising them to go get checked out at the hospital, the three men were alone, the airstream’s creaking cutting through the night.

“You should head home,” Michael whispered to Alex, his eyes never leaving the airstream, “you need to rest your leg, I’ll join you in a bit.” He turned his head to meet Alex, who could see all the desperation, the sadness and the anger present in those golden eyes.

“You’re sure?” Alex asked, even though he already knew the answer.

Michael nodded, turning back to the airstream with a sniff. “We need to check for what can be covered by insurance, and what we’ll lose,” Sanders said with a gruff, turning his back to the airstream for the first time since the explosion.

Michael wiped his cheeks and turned around, facing Alex properly, who was sitting on the bed of the truck. From where he stood, Michael could see the airstream from the corner of his eye, could smell the burnt metal, could hear the cracks. He took Alex’s hands in his, “I’ll be home in a bit,” he said, his voice breaking, “I just need -” he went on in a sobb, dropping his head into Alex’s shoulder, who put his hand to Michael’s hair, in a comforting gesture.

It broke Alex’s heart to see this, to see Michael be so desperate, so lost, in such pain. “You need to make a list of what burned down,” Alex finished, knowing that this was important to Michael, both financially, and sentimentally. Who knew if Sanders Auto would even recover from such havoc. Alex just knew that he would do everything he could so that Michael wasn’t alone.

Michael sniffed into Alex’s shoulder, breaking Alex’s heart a little more, before standing up. He wiped his face with his hand, and breathed deeply, his hands still holding onto Alex’s.

Alex drove back home, putting his leg through one last painful challenge, before taking it off as soon as he sat on his couch, before texting Michael to let him know he had made it safe and sound.

Examining the prosthetic under a proper light, he could see that it was crooked, parts of it having melted in the heat. His stump was bright red and swollen, he made his way to the bathroom and warmed himself a bath, setting an alarm clock to get out of the water.

When the alarm rang, he dried himself and got dressed for bed, each step made with a wince. After taking two painkillers, he made his way to his bed, falling asleep as soon as he was under the covers.

He woke up when he felt a warm body slide next to him under the covers. When he opened his eyes, he saw Michael, curls still wet from the shower he had just taken, eyes still puffy. Alex scooted closer to Michael, wrapping him in his arms. They could talk in the morning, about Jones, about the airstream and the junkyard, but right now, both needed the rest and the comfort of each other.

In the morning, when Michael woke up, he found himself in an empty bed. He got out with a smile, eyes still puffy from the night before, but not crying anymore (not that he had any tears left in the first place), and walked to Alex’s living room, where he could hear some noise.

Getting closer, he could hear Alex on the phone, finishing up a conversation, “Yeah okay, I will, thanks.” He was sitting on the couch, his leg propped up on top of a pillow, the prosthetic off. On the table were laying a jar of cometquiles spread and some flying sauce-cakes, making Michael chuckle, remembering the last time those were on that exact table.

“Arthuro called and asked what you wanted, he heard about -” Alex said, going off at the end, not wanting to say it, but knowing that they needed to talk about it, the explosion.

“How’s your knee?” Michael asked instead, taking a cake and sitting next to Alex, worry clear on his face. The airstream was gone, the damage already caused at the junkyard, he and Sanders had already talked about their next possible moves, right now the only thing he could act on was Alex. Whether it was a massage, fixing the prosthetic, anything Alex needed, wanted.

“It has known better days,” Alex answered, leaning his head on Michael’s shoulder while he ate. They were silent for a few minutes, Michael enjoying breakfast, Alex texting Kyle about his leg. Once Michael finished eating, he spoke up.

“So, uh, we made a list?” Michael started, hesitantly. “Of all the things we lost in the fire. A few cars were touched, so that’s gonna cost a lot with the clients. Hopefully we can get insurance, but I don’t think that’ll be enough. There’s also a lot of old junk that burnt, which sucks since we wanted to sort through it and melt the metal parts together. Now it’s just a bunch of useless shit, so we’ll have to throw that out. We’ll also need to replace the heavy tools, a lot of them are melted or burnt. So all in all, the bill is high.”

He sighed, “Too high,” he added at the end, a whisper, as if saying the words at louf would make them more real. After the pandemic, the junkyard was slowly building itself back up monetarily, but they still weren’t out of the red. And the explosion only made things harder.

Alex rubbed his hand up and down Michael’s back, listening in silence, being a comforting presence. One Michael finished speaking, Alex talked, voice low, testing the waters if Michael wasn’t ready to talk about it now.

“Did you make a list for the airstream?” he asked, full of concern.

Michael nodded, and suddenly it was as if the dam had broken. When last night Michael was mostly in shock, he was fully sobbing, turning to Alex, who held him tight in the embrace.

“I lost -” Michael sobbed, “I lost everything, Alex.”

Alex held him, tried to make him feel calmer. Except, this was all new territory, seeing Michael brake like that, Alex had never witnessed it. Like everyone else, anger was mostly the emotion he had attributed to Michael in the past. And that anger was still there, now, sobbing into Alex’s chest. Except it was controlled, and surrounded by sadness and pain, that Alex didn’t need to be psychic to feel.

Before, Alex might have taken Michael’s comment personally, told him that he didn’t lose everything, that Alex was still there. But this was past Alex, present Alex knew that Michael had built his life in that airstream, it was his first real home, the first safe place that was his and his only. Because where the truck was technically speaking the first thing Michael owned, the trailer was the first object he built from the ground up.

So yes, Michael had lost everything. Everything he owned, everything he built, the countless drawings and projects that scattered the walls of the airstream and the entire bunker, the photographs he kept hidden in a box.

Where people would see a piece of trash, some place that was unsanitary and dirty, some place that wouldn’t be comfortable to live in, Michael had seen a home for many years. And as much as Alex was Michael’s home, nothing could replace the airstream.

“I know,” Alex whispered into Michael’s hair, “I’m sorry”.

The two stayed in that position for a while, until Alex’s phone rang. Michael stood straight, wiped his eyes and his nose, and grabbed another cake, while Alex talked to Eduardo, giving a fast review of what happened with the Lockhart machine, but keeping it vague enough to not out Dallas.

“Seriously,” Alex laughed out after hanging up, “the Valenti’s need to stop calling me.” At Michael’s confused raised eyebrow, he continued, “I was talking to Kyle earlier, he was worried about my leg, telling me not to put it under pressure. As if I couldn’t make that decision myself. And now, Eduardo is giving me a week off, to, I quote, ‘rest’. I am a grown ass man, I can do that myself!”

Michael giggled at that, turning into a laugh. “What?” Alex asked with a smile, not understanding what was funny.

“Babe,” Michael said, leaning close, “you do need people to tell you to rest.” He kissed Alex’s cheek as the other man chuckled, “That’s fair,” Alex replied, turning to look at Michael.

He was not yet in a good state, his eyes were still puffy and red, his cheeks beard the path of dried tears, his curls were all over the place, and his eyes were still heartbreaking. The sadness and the pain were clear in them.

But when Alex looked deep into Michael’s eyes, he could see that it was going to be okay. That Michael would hurt, for a long time even, and it would be hard to recover financially, but Michael’s eyes had something in them that he had desperately tried to get rid of. Hope.

And that was enough for Alex to believe that they were going to be okay. That Michael was going to be okay. The fight wasn’t over. The other’s may not be fighting Jones anymore, but Michael and Alex weren't done. In more ways than once.

They still had to deal with the damages in the junkyard. Help Sanders with his auto shop. And deal with their personal fears, Michael’s fears about his father.

The fire had destroyed Michael’s home, but from the ashes, a new one was being built.

#i made myself cry with my own fic lmao #and when i mean it was supposed to be different #i had planned a fic where the pod squad is happy alive and hugs #and i ended up with michael crying #i blame it all on the song #michael guerin #alex manes #walt sanders #rnm fic #rnm spoilers #again idk if it really counts as spoilers? #im gonna assume so to be on the safe side #thesquidkid writes

[kariachi]

Okay, so now I’ve gotta get to work finding shit out for trainers, because I’m apparently horribly self-destructive. The problem is here’s where I have to figure out the one big thing- just how much does it cost for the standard person to live in the pokemon world, and the corollary- how much does it cost a wandering trainer to live in the pokemon world?

(To read the first post on this topic, focusing on contests and coordinators, start here)

Okay, so, given Pokemon Centers appear to be free I think we can assume the pokemon world has free healthcare (I should hope we’d get free healthcare before free vet care) so we don’t have to worry about that.  There’s also free board at them, but I’ve been running with the assumption that it’s for people with trainers licenses (which are probably common, honestly, given kids can get them, they’re probably cheap to get but less so to renew) and the accommodations are probably pretty barebones. Still, you don’t really see people going around without homes, and with pokemon the costs of construction are probably lower. We still have the filthy rich, but they seem less filthy rich than we have to deal with (I don’t think we’ve seen a billionaire yet in pokemon, I could be wrong) so mayhaps this free healthcare is because the fuckers are actually getting taxed properly.

So, healthcare probably isn’t a thing and housing is probably cheaper (we see a lot of people in apartments, but maintaining the environment is a big deal in this world so it makes sense people would build up and have multi-family homes rather than spread out). Food bills are probably higher for most households, if just because most people have pokemon and those things gotta eat. like I can’t help but think a Houndoom probably eats more than a similarly-sized dog, ya know? Though there’s still the question of availability. One would expect food to be easy to come by, given all the benefits pokemon bring and how quickly things like berries grow, how much Miltank produce, but then we’ve got Jesse’s backstory... I don’t know.

Public transportation also seems to be free, at least for trainers, which re can probably tie back into the whole ‘they actually tax their rich’ thing.

So, I think for this I am going to base numbers off a family budget calculator I have bookmarked (you’d be amazed how often it comes in handy), looking at a single adult with no children living in a mid-range area to get my baseline, then removing things like transportation and healthcare from the costs while adding to the food bill to account for pokemon. We’ll assume the average for the pokemon is half the food expenses of the owners, because we want to feed our friends well and the variety of species means a wide range of needs (an Aron eating metal is not going to be fed as cheaply as an Arcanine with pokechow).

So, going by those numbers, our estimated cost of living for a single, childless adult is $20-25k a year in the pokemon world. Of course numbers will vary, but we’re not here to get so deep we’re gnawing seagrass so we’ll just take that as our baseline. Which means hey! Our second friend from the contests income post was doing better than expected! Still not enough to live off of alone, but definitely a good way to making a decent living.

Of course we still have to worry about the cost of living for a wandering trainer though. They’re going to have more pokemon who are more active, and be more active themselves, so we’ll just straight double the food budget from what just the trainer alone would need. Plus they’re going to need the extra supplies of pokeballs and potions and the like- first aid needs are going to be huge. But they don’t have household expenses, which should help them a fair bit.

I’m using thru-hike costs as a baseline here, since hiking seems to be the major method of travel for these things, so individuals unable to do long hikes for one reason or another are likely to have very different numbers. I won’t go into them here but think longer travel times, differences in gear needed (if you’re in a wheelchair and trying for the ‘authentic’ experience the gear needed is going to be much different and probably more expensive), or even simply more time spent in town while taking vehicular transport around the place. Though even still it’s annoying because does anybody have a good average cost dear fuck. Some people recommend $1,000 a month as a minimum, some $700, some as high as $2,000, and these of course are all including things our trainers don’t need and missing our additional pokemon feeding budget.

We also need to account for various factors that thru-hikers don’t generally deal with. For instance, in areas with things like snow trainers are likely to spend a good portion of the year in town, with free rooms and healthcare but higher expenses, while they wait for weather you can safely travel in.

$1,000 seems to be a good average, and we can easily slot things like extra trainer gear into the budget space normally reserved for hotel stays. We still need to add in the pokemon feeding budget, and account for things like extra time in town due to seasonal changes though. So we’ll bump that number up to, say, $1,700, which is high but allows for these things. This means that our estimated cost of living for a wandering trainer is about $20,400. So the low end of the cot of living we already put down, and it could go higher or lower depending on the needs of the individual (someone with only one pokemon who doesn’t have to worry about weather will be spending less than someone with health concerns who lives somewhere it snows six months out of the year) but it’s a solid average to have.

Now, though, we need to work out how much they can expect to make from their profession, and for that we’re going to have to figure out the most consistent source of income for a wandering trainer- gym battle winnings. They have an advantage over the coordinators here. They may have to sleep in tents a lot, but they also don’t have to pay an entrance fee to try to make money.

First up we need to find out how much one earns from beating a gym, monetarily. The games have a whole set-up, but ti’s very much set on the whole gaming scale and we’re working beyond that. Instead we’re going to average the prize money from a game and call that the standard. We’ll be using my favorite region, Johto, and my favorite games in the regions, Heart Gold and Soul Silver, because I’m biased and I can.

(1560 + 1800 + 2280 + 2760 + 3720 + 4200 + 4080 + 4920) / 8 = 3,165 which I think we can safely round up to $3,200 per gym.

Now, if we assume that one can hit eight gyms a year, 3200*8 = $25,600 in gym winnings a year. Which not only would cover their expenses but also give them some wiggle room. Heck, even if they can’t hit all eight in a year (though it should be doable, I can’t imagine most regions take more time to traverse than the US would and nine months to cross it on foot is more than doable) even just getting six gets them most of the way to their expenses covered, and this isn’t even counting prize money for battling other trainers, or selling items found along trails as we see trainers do in canon.

Heck, a person could probably make some nice coin just getting a team of pokemon with Pickup and selling what they find, especially since when you’re out hiking those items are less likely to be potions and antidotes and more likely to be berries, mushrooms, and nice rocks.

But fuck, while I’m here I probably ought to do something with that whole ‘prize money from battling other trainers’ things, shouldn’t I? It’s kind’ve a big part of the whole mess... We’ll do that, then move onto the League Championships and how much money I think is probably earned for that mess.

The problem with working the trainer prize money out is that in-game mechanics aren’t really any help here. So, we’re going to have to work shit out for ourselves and because I do have limits on how difficult I want to make things for myself- shocking, I know- I’m going to say that the number varies from battle to battle and trainer to trainer. Custom dictates a minimum amount of money you can give to a trainer who’s beaten you (the cost of a potion, about $5) but otherwise it’s figured out by the trainers themselves. Upon agreeing to battle the trainers will negotiate a prize, normally never more than $1,000 but sometimes you find an obnoxious rich guy you know you can take and, well. As a result income from battling other trainers can vary wildly, but one can make some decent pocket change that way. Just don’t pick on the little kids.

Now, onto the League. This one’s gonna get the same treatment as the contests

Pokemon League Championships (Entry Fee: $250 + 8 badges from within the region)

1st: $9,000 + League Cup + League Champion title

2nd: $5,000

3rd: $3,000

4th: $2,500

5th: $2,000

6th: $1,500

7th: $1,000

8th: $500

This may seem rather low if you’ve also looked at the numbers for contests, but entry is also... not easier but certainly something more likely to be obtained. It’s not fair, but little in life ever is, really. As it stands the league otherwise functions the same as the Grand Festival- each region’s requires a certain number of prizes already won to prove one’s place and this requirement must be repeated for each. If you enter a Grand Festival or Pokemon League Championship than the ribbons or badges you use to do so will be registered and cannot be used for the same purpose again. You’ll have to re-earn them to have another go.

Most wandering trainers don’t bother, only going through a region once or twice before moving on to the next. It’s the balance between the two professions. You may never make a living being a coordinator, but you can have a stable home if you so wish. A wandering trainer will be able to make a living off their work, but as the name implies to do so they have to stay on the move, always searching for that next challenge.

But, if that’s the life you want, is that really a bad thing?

#pokemon trainer income math #fucking pokemon trainers #pokemon worldbuilding

[jiydiridbadmli-blog]

Men, Women, Sex and Money

On the off chance that you need to begin an exceptional, enthusiastic discussion between the sexes simply raise the subject of sex or cash. In the event that you need to cut down the house consolidate sex and cash into one subject and perceive what number of couples leave talking. At an ongoing gathering of girlfriends we let our hair down and spoke transparently about sex and cash. Here is the thing that a couple of my friends needed to state:

Tiesha: "I was remaining at a bus station and a man in a vehicle passed by me a couple of times before getting the nerve to approach me for my telephone number. He pulled up to the check and shouted, 'Hello child, you got a man?' I said yes and I am upbeat in my relationship so please continue driving. The person at that point stated, 'Your man is clearly not on his j-o-b, otherwise you wouldn't be remaining at this bus station.' He began to dismiss for all to hear at that point turned. I was humiliated and that truly harmed me. Many individuals judge a man by how much cash he makes or the sort of material things that he claims. I believe that this kind of reasoning is out of line in such a case that it was not for my boyfriend I wouldn't have anybody to help with my little girl.

What makes my boyfriend much more uncommon is that my little girl is from a past relationship. He isn't committed to deal with her, yet every morning he prepares breakfast and makes lunch for her. He gets her from school and encourages her with schoolwork. I work all day as a medical attendant's guide in a recuperating home and go to class full-an ideal opportunity to become an anesthesiologist. At the point when I get back home from work, the house is perfect and my supper is on the table. My boyfriend hasn't worked in close to 12 months because of a physical issue. Without his help there is no chance I could complete school and work the hours I have to excel. My friends and family consistently offer minimal terrible comments about my boyfriend not having any cash, however I can't pay them to keep my little girl."

Tona: I must be consistent with myself. I realize this may sound appalling or materialistic yet a man must have some "cheddar." If he doesn't have cash I have no requirement for him. I figure a man ought to consistently give a lady cash particularly on the off chance that she is laying down with him. It takes cash for a lady to keep her hair and nails done. Consider the cost of make-up and ladylike items and have you valued contraception pills of late? It's costly being a lady. The lady must have her inner parts pulled out on account of an undesirable pregnancy and more terrible yet, who needs to convey the child for nine months and nearly bite the dust having the infant - the lady.

I think any lady who lets a man lay-up on her, suck in her warmth and eat her food without budgetary remuneration is being utilized. Consider it. Men go to strip clubs and offer cash to girls just to take a gander at it! This is America. On the off chance that a man regards a lady she won't need to approach him for cash, he'll simply offer it to her since he needs to see his lady hold herself in a specific way. In the event that a man doesn't have cash to provide for a lady that he as far as anyone knows love, he shouldn't anticipate sex, since he can't bear the cost of the outcomes.

Kara: I couldn't care less what any lady says; I think it is inconceivable for any man to be sexually loyal. For whatever length of time that he regards me and doesn't display his prostitute in my face I can manage his treachery. For whatever length of time that he brings his check home to me, there is food on the table, the children have what they need, and the entirety of my fundamental needs are met; generally I can be upbeat.

My mother was a teenager with five youngsters. We were taken from her since she couldn't appropriately accommodate us. I watched her fall all through affection, however we were as yet five hungry children. My mother once let an as of late separated from man live with us and he gave his ex and kids a large portion of his cash while he gave my mother void guarantees. At the point when he no longer needed to pay youngster bolster he left my mother. Men are not quite the same as women. A man can engage in sexual relations with a lady and not care what her last name is. I think men are vastly improved at isolating sex from adoration. In any case, when a man gives a lady his cash, something he has buckled down for, I think this implies he truly cares and it's not only a sexual fascination.

Cash decides an individual's personal satisfaction, and let's be honest; it takes two-earnings just to keep your head above water. I am not saying that a lady shouldn't enable a man to out on the off chance that he needs assistance or pay for a date each now and, at that point, however on the off chance that he doesn't have cash to provide for a lady, she is burning through her time by laying down with him. It's anything but difficult to track down a man to engage in sexual relations with - that is all most men need. To me, when a man is keen on monetarily helping a lady, he is telling her that he truly adores her.

[colbyjacksmack]

Random question: but how much money do you think Sam and Colby (and the rest of their current friend group) make? They have what looks to be fancy, newer apartments and I know ad revenue can suck. But it’s something I’ve always wanted to know.

Sam and Colby specifically paid out the ass to get their felonies dropped. Like, I’m going to assume about a years worth of what they get paid. They also now employ a full time lawyer as well as pay Reggie enough for him to live on his own. Their apartments aren’t actually that fancy. The building is full of people like them.

A tell-tale sign that they don’t make as much as people want to assume is that they still take promotion jobs. Colby said in Elias’ stream that he doesn’t like taking them and they he doesn’t care if none of his fans click the links or play the games he “promotes”. It’s just a way to supliment his income.

Yes they make enough to be comfortable. They both own some expensive jewelry and clothes, but a lot of their clothes are given to them by brands.

Some of their friends are JUST NOW quitting their day jobs because their videos can pay the rent. This isn’t a KSI, Paul brothers, Shane Dawson situation. They’re still frugal about a lot. They still fly economy and eat leftovers and opt out of trips with their friends because they aren’t worth the cost.

In the end, your choice to support them monetarily should be based on your WANT to own their merch or your WANT to pay 5 bucks a month to watch a podcast. Never stress about spending money on them because you think they need it.

#colby brock #sam and colby #jake webber #mikes dead

[dewabet365th1-blog]

Newspapers Can Make Revenue On the net

          You are not able to try to eat internet site sights for food. Should you have almost any questions concerning exactly where in addition to tips on how to work with เว็บแทงบอล, you are able to email us in the webpage. American newspapers are acquiring that out the hard way as their disastrous choice centered on the "facts and facts should be no price tag" mantra to give their written written content away on their web net web sites has led to failure. Even though this has probably been only a minor variable in the demise just lately of the Rocky Mountain Information, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Tucson Citizen and the comatose economical state of numerous other papers, it has switch out to be a superb motivator. Now, momentum is developing the other way ... as an option of sitting again and wistfully hoping that a significant range of pageviews would make a wish for marketing, which hasn't took area, publishers are actively looking at a assortment of procedures to make funds on the web. "For a large amount of many years, I have been nervous that so numerous newspapers experimented with employing to price tag for entry to their brand names and information and facts in 1 medium ... print ... while providing it absent in a further medium, on line," suggests previous Wall Avenue Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz. "This professional the unintended consequence of signaling to readers that the benefit was a whole lot fewer on-line. Newspaper publishers hoped that on line advertising would be more than enough to assist their digital features and devoid of a doubt hoped that it would be the development motor for the total information franchise, print and on line. Alas, on-line advertising and marketing and marketing only grew to the trees, not to the sky. "Now, with on the world wide web advertising in cyclical drop, info publishers of all varieties ... newspapers and journals but also on the internet-only facts firms ... see that it can be genuinely tough to steerage a information and facts part with only the marketing revenue stream." Of the a assortment of pay back again options, the most probable to get widespread use in the future of journalism is ... SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which prolonged has been the only sizable metro paper to expense for its online site, can make guests fork out $4.ninety five a thirty day period. Supplied that that is about sixteen cents a performing working day, we may say it is definitely considerably way far too lessen. We would make it a wonderful spherical amount, straightforward to attempt to bear in mind ... $twenty a thirty day period of time. That ideally would produce in a sizeable quantity of income of earnings. But desire what you will need to price tag to survive ... in this sense, a newspaper will appear to be more like a publication with a slender scope but an viewers keen to help it. Generally are not numerous newsletters thriving? Membership has the benefit of staying acquainted ... just as you subscribe to obtain newspapers and publications, you would subscribe to purchase accessibility to on the web information. Crovitz ... who is recognized for turning the Journal close to monetarily and creating its shell out out web internet site to a great deal far more than just just one million subscribers, the most effective these forms of effort and hard work in the earth ... expects the membership approach to conduct the biggest: "Folks nowadays want full accessibility to their favorite makers with no the will need of being challenged continuously to make buying conclusions." In executing so, he seasoned the preceding giggle about his critics. "Above the yrs, there ended up times when folks predicted that viewers would rarely at any time shell out to entry news on the net," he suggests. "By the time the Wall Road Journal On the net crossed the a particular person million paying out subscriber mark, the critics quieted down." He would make the considerable level that when it costs a newspaper earnings to insert a print subscriber, it fees quite minor or extremely very little to insert an on the world wide web subscriber. "The profitability of on-line subscription earnings is exceptionally, truly attention-grabbing. Keep in brain that in distinction to with print subscriptions, which include shopping for considerably additional newsprint, together with press capability and functioning with vans and trains to source the newspaper, in the circumstance of electronic products the incremental rate is almost $, creating the profitability large."  

[lurzigignhourz-blog]

Stress and The Sexes

"Stress, you need to discuss pressure? You have no clue what stress is. What I need to manage each day at work, so I can put nourishment on the table, keep us in a spot to live and bear the cost of our vehicles, garments and life, is killing me! You were unable to deal with one day of my degree of stress." He says.

"I'd prefer to see you attempt to do all the things that I do regularly. You do not understand! I maintain my business keep the house up, cook for you and the children, run the children around and manage our families. You do NONE of that. The sum total of what you have is work and would never manage all the various things I need to do regularly!" She says.

Are some of you thinking, "Has he been keeping an eye on us?" No, it's not you, it's everything of us. We as a whole arrangement with these kind of issues with our noteworthy others. What we as a whole need is a superior personal satisfaction. Buckling down, exceptionally hard, and getting yourself all worried, isn't what life or business enterprise is about. The greater part of us don't manage pressure well and it isn't useful for any of us or our friends and family. If it's not too much trouble recollect my center way of thinking of being a Business Owner: "Your business exists to give you the lifestyle you want." That implies that we have to comprehend what we want and we need to enjoy the excursion to arriving. In the event that achievement if "last accomplishment" and that is the point at which you will enjoy your prosperity, at that point you are passing up all the delights of the victories you have en route. You don't need your excursion to make more pressure.

Allow's first to characterize, "more worry." There are two implications to "additional" in this unique circumstance. More can mean number of stressors or it can mean degree of stress, regardless of what number of stressors exist.

Women and Stress

In one of the examination considers we saw, (Polaris Marketing Research) women announced monetary issues, absence of time, family issues, everyday environment and relationship issues as causing them stress. When in doubt women will in general arrangement with a bigger number of stressors than men. Women have stressors, for example, kids, family action coordinations, family unit management, cooking, shopping, spouse, sex, life. What's fascinating is in spite of the fact that women manage more stressors they likewise will in general be better at dealing with their pressure. Women will talk over their issues with their friends, they bound to rest, tune in to music, surf the Internet, mingle, read a book, or eat their top choice 'comfort nourishments.' Researchers from UCLA broke down information from many natural and behavioral investigations (both human and creature), they inferred that females were bound to manage worry by "tending and befriending" - that is, supporting people around them and contacting others.

Men and Stress

Men said that work was their principle stressor. Men's best 6 stressors are: work, work, work, wife, wife, wife. (Men are not exactly sure which is more stressful...however, "Glad wife, cheerful life" is our aphorism.) So this means women will in general have increasingly fluctuated duty yet men feel a more prominent need give (monetarily) and keep themselves exclusively centered around making a few bucks. As far as alleviating pressure, men were altogether higher in just a single classification, (and indeed, this is humiliating) playing computer games. Men will go off without anyone else to their pressure mitigating action of decision. At the point when stress get the chance's to be a lot of their "battle or flight" reaction kicks in. Inverse of the "tend and befriend" methodology, referenced previously. (So for what reason can't people manage everything well under occasions of pressure?)

Men, Women and Stress

Be that as it may, the two people appraised, "watching TV" as their main reliever of stress. People various responses to stress may be something beyond a fascinating perception; it could represent contrasts in their life span and health. "Women enjoy a more prominent life hope than men," says Shelley E. Taylor, PhD, a teacher of brain science at UCLA and lead creator of the investigation. "One explanation might be that the tend-and-befriend framework shields them from a portion of the harming impacts of pressure." Not great men of honor, not great.

Hormone's May Be To Blame

Researchers found that all signs point to a great extent to oxytocin, a hormone that advances both maternal and social conduct and improves unwinding, as the key factor behind the sex distinction.

At the point when confronted with pressure, the body discharges various hormones, says Redford Williams, MD, chief of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Duke University in Durham, N.C. A portion of these hormones, prominently cortisol and adrenaline, raise circulatory strain and cholesterol levels and stifle the safe framework, putting "regularly focused on" individuals at more serious hazard for everything from colds to malignant growth to coronary illness. Some examination additionally recommends that steady, long haul presentation to stress can prompt weight gain on account of raised cortisol levels.

At first, women have a similar reaction to worry as men, leaving them to some degree powerless against cortisol and adrenaline. In any case, at that point women additionally start emitting oxytocin from the pituitary organ, which assists scale with support the creation of cortisol and adrenaline, limiting their unsafe impacts.

[thegoodhausfrau]

Valentine

Best gift I’ve ever received? I could never pick just one... The way I work is that I treasure everything forever and I like small things over many years, never one grand gift. I’ll pick three physical things even though my favorite gift is actually “extra special warm fuzzy feels” which often are monetarily free, they just cost a little of your time and brain power to put a little thought into your words and sweet gestures. At least I think that’s my favorite. Been awhile...

1. Entertainment.

I’m sent Amazon boxes full of entertainment on occasion. Those pics are from several years ago, some of the first goodies I’d ever gotten. Somebody liked me enough to send me things? What? I’ve never felt so special. Video games, movies, tv series, and cookbooks are definitely an awesome gift. They say “may you never be bored and I hope you eat something tasty.”

2. My wardrobe.

85% of it at least has been gifted to me. Without this wardrobe I would be dressing in rags, completely styleless, and lack any confidence in social situations. Pants, shorts, t-shirts, dresses, lingerie, swimsuits, and shoes? I look better because of these things. All my favorite pieces were gifts.

3. This plug.

I call it Big Red and it’s a big deal for a few reasons. I haven’t used it in awhile, but I think it’s time. Maybe. I need the right mood and that hasn’t been a thing for reasons, but I’m always optimistic that mood will come back around.

#ask me #thegoodhausfrau

[moneyhack-blog1]

5 Simple Strategies for How to Save Money This Year

Cash doesn't come simple, and sadly, neither does getting it. Regardless of whether it's a past-due bill or a heap of understudy credit obligation, the vast majority of us need to fight with monetary issues every day

What's more, our reserve funds rates are looking entirely terrible. Toward the finish of a year ago, the individual investment funds rate in America dropped to simply 2.4 percent, its most minimal level in over 10 years. With financial issues like compensation stagnation and an unstable securities exchange, individuals may be less disposed to spare, however sparing is as yet significant.

There are a lot of techniques, methodologies, and general guidelines to assist you with arriving at your cash objectives. All things considered, the entirety of the choices may be overpowering — maybe you don't have the foggiest idea where to begin. Try not to stress, we have you secured. The following are five of the least difficult however best procedures for how to set aside cash, as indicated by the specialists.

1. Track your spending

First of all. On the off chance that you need to set aside more cash and spend less of it, you need to know where that cash is going in any case. Web based planning apparatuses like Mint, You Need a Budget, or Personal Capital make it simple to follow your spending.

"Having that sort of visual preview of where you stand monetarily can fill in as a ground-breaking in-the-minute gut check when asking yourself inquiries like, 'Would i be able to manage the cost of it?' or 'Is this buy going to carry me closer to or push me further from my objectives?'" says individual money master Stefanie O'Connell.

At the point when you see every one of your buys in one spot, it's a lot simpler to assess where you stand monetarily. You can likewise observe precisely how your past choices have carried you to where you are today, O'Connell includes. For instance, you most likely have an inclination you eat out something over the top, however when you see exactly the amount you're going through on eateries consistently, that number can be a persuading eye-opener. "We can likewise utilize it as a measure going ahead," O'Connell says, "to keep tabs on our development as we start actualizing great money related propensities, such as expanding reserve funds and settling obligation."

2. Pay off obligation with the snowball technique

On the off chance that you will probably at last escape obligation this year, you're as of now in good shape — when you take care of your obligation, you free up your cash for money related objectives. There are two essential methodologies for kicking obligation: take care of your most noteworthy loan fee obligations first, or pay off your littler adjusts first. While the previous bodes well numerically, study after investigation shows that organizing your littlest adjusts, otherwise called the "snowball technique," is the best.

The snowball strategy was advanced by budgetary master Dave Ramsey. Rundown your obligations as indicated by balance, at that point handle the littlest parity first while you make least installments on every single other obligation. When your littlest parity obligation is paid off, utilize the cash you were throwing at that obligation to take care of the following littlest obligation, while making least installments on the others, etc, etc until you at long last arrive at obligation opportunity. The thought is, the point at which you've taken care of an obligation, you feel roused and ground-breaking, which gives you the energy to continue onward. Furthermore, as per the information, similar to this examination distributed in the Journal of Consumer Research, it works. Individuals are bound to stay with their obligation result objectives when utilizing the snowball strategy.

There's a proviso, however. One scientist said that the strategy works best "to the degree that a shopper's obligation accounts have comparative financing costs." Let's say one of your obligations has a somewhat higher parity than another, yet a greatly higher loan fee. All things considered, it bodes well to concentrate on the higher-loan fee obligation. Be intelligent about how you approach your obligation, yet recall: Personal money is mental, and snappy monetary successes can be an integral asset.

3. Pay yourself first

"PYF. Pay yourself first," proposes Samuel Rad, a guaranteed budgetary organizer and teacher at UCLA. "This is the possibility of continually removing a piece of your check and setting it aside before you burn through cash on different things." It's a simple to execute, on the grounds that you can robotize it. Set up a repetitive exchange from your checking to your investment account each payday. Regardless of whether it's simply $20 a check, odds are, you won't miss that cash however you will be charmingly astonished at your reserve funds after some time. "The PYF technique likewise guarantees that you don't wind up with 'more month left toward the finish of the cash,'" Rad says.

We've all been there: You get paid, go eat sushi, purchase that new top you need, and go out to see the films, just to acknowledge you probably won't have the option to take care of your vehicle protection tab this month. At the point when you pay yourself first, you don't have this issue. Most bill suppliers have programmed charge pay, and you can regularly assign a day every month you need that bill paid. Your vehicle protection bill is as of now paid, so your optional assets are constrained. As a rule, the thought is to ensure your spending needs are dealt with before you get an opportunity to spend that cash on less significant stuff (no offense to sushi).

4. Focus on a 10 percent reserve funds rate

In case you don't know the amount you ought to be sparing each month, focus on the 10 percent dependable guideline. "On the off chance that you normally spare 10 percent of your pay, regardless of the amount you procure, you will consistently have the certainty of realizing you are living inside your methods," recommends Carla Dearing, CEO of Sum180, a monetary health administration.

It's a ballpark number, so don't feel terrible in the event that you don't exactly meet that objective. Simply focus on 10 percent. What's more, in the event that you find that you need to spare much more, you can generally change this rate later. As Dearing calls attention to, it's ideal to consolidate this standard with the Pay Yourself First strategy. "In the event that this appears to be excessively troublesome, set up programmed bank moves for the start of consistently. By doing this, cash you have reserved to spare is moved from your checking to your bank account before you get an opportunity to spend it on something different," she says. "Consider sparing 10 percent as the manner in which you enable yourself to make progressing interests in your money related wellbeing, after quite a long time after year."

5. Attempt a no-go through month

Cash difficulties are fun since they transform great monetary propensities into a game. "Kick off your reserve funds battle with a no-go through month," recommends Dearing. "It's basic: Commit to a 30-day time of spending ONLY on necessities. Walk or bicycle to wherever as opposed to driving, take lunch to work each day, grasp free stimulation alternatives, such as investigating nearby stops." And in the event that you trip up, don't get disheartened. The objective is zero, however the general thought is to just go through less and spare some additional money.

The activity can likewise assist you with reconsidering a significant number of your costs and conceivably spend all the more carefully later on. "Not exclusively will you set aside a ton of cash during this one-month time span, you may end up reexamining old ways of managing money through and through and choosing you favor your very own inventive, minimal effort choices," Dearing says. "This activity can have a major effect in your own monetary record." Visit here if you are looking for more information.

[nyruratchet]

Time...

“...Why you punish me?”

So, I explained last time the situation regarding the creation of my music...monetarily. But let me explain and expand on how my time is utilized on a monthly basis.

If I haven’t made it clear, I hate my job. But here’s the thing, it’s flexible (for the most part), has benefits: (insurance, free-ish air travel, scheduled pay increases). Cons: passengers are allowed to treat crew like shit, always working with new people (that you may not mesh well with), anyone you try establishing a relationship with has pre-conceived notions/little to no faith you will ever be around, pay SUCKS until you get REALLY senior (7+), and...more, but I digress. But that flexible schedule, albeit limited, has afforded me the ability to work on music; until it doesn't. 

See, I was getting “comfortable” in my work situation a few years ago until certain a situation beyond my control forced me into deep debt, bad credit, and deeper depression. In order to fix all of this, money is needed. How do u get money? Work more. More work leads to more depression and sometimes health issues. So, I’ve been stuck in this seamlessly endless cycle of paycheck to paycheck living. And my desire and NEED to work on my music has not helped it (as explained in the previous blog post). Every time I get a bit more money, it goes to my craft. 

See, after you put all that money into creating art, you have to then put it OUT there. And in the case of a performer, you need to do live performances. That is a whole other situation in itself. There are lots avenues to get live performance experience. Open mics, concert showcases, live cabaret/karaoke bars, etc. Guess what THEY ALL COST MONEY. But not only money, LOTS of excess time is involved. 

This past spring, I was dragged into a showcase by my producer friend (who I’m partially in love with but he’s straight...but that’s another story). In order to do a showcase, you have to apply for acceptance. Applications involve you submitting current work and having a worthy social media following (which you have had to spend constant time building). Once you fill out the application, send the files and info, PAY your entry fee ($25) and receive your acceptance, you then have to sell tickets. Yes, how do they get people to come to the showcase? By having YOU bring them. And if you cannot find people to buy your tickets, all of those tickets come out of YOUR pocket. So, I was given 25 tickets to sell (last minute mind you); 25 tickets to sell at $20 bucks each. So, if I don't sell them, I owe the company $500 dollars. Yup, that’s correct. In order for me to perform my original content on their stage, I needed to make sure they got their $525 and help them get people in the venue so that they buy drinks at the bar (which we were given ZERO drink tickets for). Now before stepping on stage, you don’t get a sound check. So, you show up early before everyone to check in and simply check they have your correct music file(s) then wait...and wait...and wait. But your music has to be edited within their restrictions (this means more studio time. Remember, studio time =more $$...just making sure ur following me. Too many times you’ll hear big recording artists talking about how they have just sat in studios for hours creating a song from scratch. Yeah, only if you are signed to major label is this a thing! But anyway...back to the showcase.) 

Needless to say, I did everything I needed to. But I had some help since I asked to do this last minute and told them UP FRONT they would have had to get that unsold ticket money from me in blood. I landed from working a redeye the day before, got a nap in, did my vocal exercises in my car on my way to New Jersey, checked in and sat there. Since some people didn't show up on TIME, I was abruptly grabbed from drinking my whiskey at the bar and told “YOU’RE ON NEXT!”  Being the seasoned professional that I am, took that shot to the head, said “Actually, that’s not my slot...but ok, I’m ready.” NO SOUND CHECK, NEVER given TIME on the stage beforehand...I went on. Sung my ass off with a standing ovation from the judges. Then, went back to drinking with my friends who were in shock because they had never heard me really sing live. Then I had sit for HOURS while mediocre “rappers” and “singers” rapped over pre-recordings of their own vocals. Finally, they were ready to announce the winners. I won that sucker.

But what did I win? ...A promise to be put into another show... *DICK FACE*  No money to recoup what I just spent getting to this moment. No free promotion on social media to help me and my art. NO, some bullshit. So, I took the experience fore what it was and cut my losses. I got some exposure and was able to test out an unreleased song...but besides that. Nothing but wasted time and effort. I left there feeling somewhere between elation and disappointment. Not to mention, I was exhausted; I had done all this after working my full time job, and had to work again the next day. So all I had time to do was drive home and sleep. 

“Like a wave bashing into the shore...

Since this, I have had some money issues and mental health issues, so I have just barely been able to work on music. On my days off, I have to sleep and get back in the groove of being a real person instead of a redeye zombie. Then when I’m feeling slightly normal, I’m back to work...it is a vicious, irritating, restraining cycle. I’ve tried working shorter flights so I’m home more; nope, the pairings (schedules) for those flights work you in a way that leaves you feeling raped. My company will build a pairing with a duty time of 27hrs and only pay you for 15-17 of those hours. DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. Then on top of that, your rest time at the hotel is set to 11hrs...WTF?? 

Let me explain this for those of you with normal jobs. On these pairings, you are schedule to work a number of flights each day. So, 3 day pairing means you work 3-4 flights each day and have 2 layovers. Now lets say FLIGHT time is 1.5-2.5 hrs each (8-12hrs). Then you land from your final flight for day one. We’re usually delayed at our carrier...honestly, rarely on time. So, you have minimum rest at 11hrs. BUT, before you can leave the aircraft we have to get all passengers off the plane, CLEAN the seats, wait on our shuttle which is probably late if your pilots are sucky human beings and haven’t called ahead to make sure they’re there (Pilots aren’t required to clean; just us lowly peasants). So, by the time you get to the hotel, down to 10hrs. If you get there and rooms are ready, great. IF NOT, another 20-30 min or longer. But, lets say you’re down to 9.5hrs now. Get to your room. Hopefully your key works, air/heat works, no one is already in you room (yes...it happens all the time), room already cleaned, no bed bugs, and you aren’t by a noisy ice machine/elevator. You then have to shower and eat. Let’s say you get all that done in an hour. You now have 8.5 hrs to sleep...BUT WAIT, the van is scheduled to pick you up from the hotel 45 min to an hour before you are supposed to report at the airport and you need to be dressed and ready to make that van. So instead of 8.5hrs, you actually have 7hrs at best to sleep and pop outta bed, get dressed and properly ready to do the shit show all over again; all the while, knowing they are really only paying you for the time you spend on the aircraft, AFTER THE DOOR IS CLOSED AND THE BRAKE IS RELEASED. Time before like boarding, checks, delays? nope...no pay. Just us waisting our fucking time. Literally.

Why, is this? cuz everyone does it is the answer. That is how all airlines do it, so you have no leg to stand on. Got a union, the company retaliates like a reprimanded toddler. Now as I said before, once you get to be a super senior in your company and can choose what you want to work, when you want to work, in the position you want to work, getting $40/hr at base hours and a crazy amount for premium (overtime) hour, etc. the job is GOLDEN. (Unless that company gets purchased/merged.) But for a young person/flight attendant in debt, living in NYC, with a high cost of living, life ain’t fun. I tried living in New Jersey for a lower cost; that came with its own issues. I’ve taken out loans, became a hermit to save money, worked holidays, etc. Dug my hole deeper is what I did. And I’m pretty good at setting goals and managing my time and getting things DONE. But for some fucking reason, life is not working in my favor. This job is not working for me. I see younger people coming up behind me doing LITTLE to no work, getting musical accolades with trash “music” (I know, matter of opinion...but really. C’mon now), young white/latino/asian twinks shaking their ass for anything that breathes and getting rich men to pay their bills or marry them, all the while telling me they just want my BBC or other racist BS like that (Yes, I have receipts) and I’m just like WTF AM I DOING WRONG?! Have I spent my time stupidly? 

And the most recent shit that really hurt my feelings: If any of you remember (to the three of you reading this lol), a few months ago I posted about help getting into bartending. Well, I had actually asked a friend in person before that about bartending and if he knew any directors who could do a music video. This “friend” told me “no, not really”. Didn’t know anything about that, he just does movies and short films (which I’ve donated to his kickstarters for btw...) but no one who he thinks does music videos. THEN, I asked this same “FRIEND” how much he would charge to be IN a music video, as I had a song (the one I won the showcase with) that he would be perfect for as it deals with subject matter he rallies for. I wanted to help his career out in turn by help my video out, because I’m ugly and having beautiful actors in my video would be a better sell (as again, I need this song to make money. He then tells me me, he’s not sure how much he would charge for that. SEVERAL MONTHS LATER...this bitch releases a music VIDEO to his NEW SINGLE about a SIMILAR SUBJECT!! Without promotion, he gets instant 2.2k hits on the video on youtube. MIND YOU, he would always be shy to sing around me and I told him, “you need to give yourself more credit. You have a beautiful voice.” Meanwhile, I’m asking for some knowledge from him, and he wouldn’t help me with ANYTHING. I have NEVER asked for a hand out. Just tell me where the door is, I will get in even if I have to pick the lock. But he not only pretended he didn’t know where the door was, he was holding the keys, had lock picks on the side and duplicates to share; But, for whatever reason...didn’t want to share that with me. Even though, I was going to include him in MY art without any thought and was willing to pay. Now, I have some thoughts on why he did this. But seeing as I’m on the verge of tears, I’ll end on that note.

...You wash away my dreams.”

[trekwiz]

Tossing this out there: fresh produce might be priced cheaper where you live, but a. that's dependent on living in a place where produce is ... produced, and b. it's cheaper as a whole only if you get exactly as much as you need. Unless you have the resources to pickle food ( which adds to the cost anyway ), you can't stock-up en masse on fresh produce to take advantage of cheap prices, since ... they'll just go bad really quickly. You really need a perfect storm for healthy foods to be cheap.

Your point “a.” mainly applies if one lives in a food desert--in those cases, yes, healthier food is a lot more expensive. However, that doesn’t generally apply to any place with access to a standard (not marketing-and-ignorance-based price gouge centers like Whole Foods) supermarket. Even when comparing to, say, McDonalds, the per-meal price of healthier foods made at home is noticeably lower.Your point “b.” however, goes into the second part of what I was saying: yes, it’s cheaper (monetarily) to buy as you need. That’s once or twice a week shopping, and not even generally tied to following the sales; if you buy produce in-season, it’s not as expensive as prepackaged meals and junk food. The price drops even more if you have time to follow and plan for store sales. However, just because it costs less money doesn’t necessarily make it accessible, because it’s more expensive in the time/energy category.More frequent trips to the store and prepping fresh food takes a lot of time and effort that someone with a low income may not have available. For example, there was a time where I was working night and day and had about an hour between jobs to eat dinner; frozen pierogies or chicken nuggets brought my meal price above what it would have cost if I were actually cooking for myself, but I just didn’t have the time available to cook fresh food. I would have saved money if I’d breaded the chicken myself, but it wasn’t possible with my work schedule. And even when I had the time, I was too tired to do it; I relied on quick trips to the store that allow me some time to unwind when I got home.Overall, my comment was to suggest that it’s a lot more nuanced of an issue than merely saying that eating healthier is more expensive. Pointing to the (monetary) expense is generally inaccurate, and it misses the larger barrier to healthier eating (time and energy). It also necessarily reduces other larger concerns (such as food deserts) to price, which doesn’t begin to capture its scope.

[comfortholddentures]

Can complete denture bring back your smile?

Is it true that you are considering getting dentures? Require a couple of moments and perused this article it will assist you with responding to a portion of the inquiries you might have before you settle on this significant choice.

If you want to get your smile back, then it is important for your teeth to be healthy. If some of your teeth are broken or damaged, then this is the right time to get them removed and you can take the help of denture. Nowadays denture is the best solution which increases the smile of your cousin by replacing your teeth with artificial teeth. You have many options available for denture, even if you can get it done by any one expert.

Will dentures fundamentally have an impact on how I look?

That is a decent inquiry since some dentures look like misleading teeth. Ensure you talk about this with your dentist to get affirmations that your dentures will be made at a respectable dental lab. The objective ought to be to make them resemble your normal teeth.

Free-fitting dentures can be miserable.

Any individual who has encountered this problem we let you know it will cause bothers in your regular day to day existence. Other than shaking around in your mouth eating can be a major problem.Gnawing into an apple is close to inconceivable. Going out to eat can be a humiliation since you can eat food varieties with a fork.Adding to your misery a portion of the food you are biting will stall out behind your dentures and you should pardon yourself to go to the restroom to flush them. Ensure you get a proper fit and you can stay away from a portion of these problems.

When will my dentures break down?

That will rely upon the consideration you give your dentures as the year progresses. In this day and time, a lot of dentures are made of plastic which makes them exceptionally simple to deal with. Even though they are plastic they resemble genuine teeth.

Try not to utilize a normal toothbrush to clean your dentures because it can make forests show up and accordingly abbreviate the existence of your new teeth. Utilize a brush intended for cleaning dentures and this will make your new arrangement of teeth will last numerous years.

Will I need to utilize that gooey stuff every day to hold my dental machine set up?

Not really. Some dentures can be connected with secures which will work hard of holding them set up. This will add to the cost.Assuming that you are doing a fractional it might perhaps be appended to the connecting teeth. Fit is vital and all dentists will tell you to come in on an intermittent premise to check your fit.

What amount will my new dentures cost?

This will be difficult to decide except if you plan a meeting with your dentist. You will be given a few choices and you should decide whether the choice you pick will fit into your financial plan.

What would be an ideal next step on the off chance that you don't have a dentist?

To ensure that you pick a reasonable dentist that accomplishes quality work. Modest dental work will just get you into problems up the street and over the long haul wind up setting you back more cash.

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Earnest & Young's Retirement Planning Quick Guide

Retirement is an unavoidable phase in life; however, with systematic and suitable planning, it does certainly not must be actually a feared period, but one to await! Quality and budget-friendly information are currently extensively accessible to help you as you prep for this phase of your life. Yes, gone are when one must pay for expensive retainers and consultants for advice-because retirement planning smooth items as well as books, economic planning personal digital assistants, and other resources are actually currently the latest trend in monetary planning for retirement. Among the very best, most functional books accessible on this subject region is Ernst & Young's Retirement Planning Guide.

From respected authors whose names signify know-how in the business of tax obligation and economic planning, the book outlines easy attainable as well as yet practical manual to acquire one's "aspiration retirement phase". Guide shows thorough hands-on resources as well as procedures that can easily help you consider your retirement properly, the concerns that require to be resolved, and aspects that may impact your plannings.

Many clients who read this manual have been wowed due to the information shown in the book, particularly on the pointers and also knowledge to obtain a monetarily protected lifestyle just before or after retirement. Visitors have actually commended the detailed analysis on using a financial planning personal digital assistant to identify what volume of cash requires to become conserved at particular factors in the retirement phase, considering a number of variables like life-expectancy inflation prices and its effect on income, and many more.

Likewise, the book includes in-depth dialogues on subject matters like 401k, insurance policy problems, social security, and others- concentrating on just how these things bear upon financial planning for retirement. Hands-on worksheets, tests, as well as hyperlinks to various other information associated with developing financial security coming from pre-retirement to post-retirement phase, are actually likewise supplied in guide. Similarly useful are the suggestions and dialogues offered on tactics to build-up a retirement fund and attend to concerns and worries that may adversely influence the planning handy. The ideas presented concerning exactly how to improve retirement income and retirement discounts are based on real financial situations and are actually user-friendly. By the end of each chapter, "Action Items" are actually likewise consisted of, which further takes full advantage of guide's usefulness. The streamlined presentation of each subject makes it possible for convenience in recognizing principles also for the non-accountants.

Really a valued drawback for folks who reside in the black regarding how to handle planning their retirement, Ernst & Young had delivered this useful and worthwhile quick guide. No surprise most of those who have actually gone through the book have actually measured it to be superb in conditions of effectiveness and practicality ... "Easy to read through", "practical", "comprehensive guide", "detailed", "highly advised" ... these are actually just some of the comments made through individuals regarding this publication ... A must-buy certainly not only for folks who are nearing retirement age, but likewise for folks that prefer to build-up their retirement savings early-and help their really loved ones do the exact same. Bring in the move to understand that dream retirement!

A Simple Retirement Planning Guide

If you consider all your actions in advance of time, there is actually no such thing as a big trouble in all parts in life. Planning depending on to others is certainly a really overwhelming activity that is actually if you are actually certainly not utilized to it however if you are actually consistently doing it after that you will not possess any kind of problem of whatever you require to intend in the future. A straightforward effort exerted today would be a hundred folds when it pays in the future and it is constantly an excellent feeling once you attain one thing of your really good planning approaches. There are plenty of factors or should we say measures that associates with planning yet discovering the general is enough for you to invite purchase to win the battle.

The initial thing that all seniors need to do is to identify the year or even the details grow older you invite purchase for you to get into or even to be involved in a semi-retirement planning or even possibly in the later side you are going to decide to possess it in a complete scale. In right here you will definitely must predict the size or the period of life that you are mosting likely to resign. You will have to go through some estimates in below that is to compute your present typical life-span. This will be the basis for your computation for the various other points you will need. You can easily recommend or check the average lifespan numbers or bodies to the mortality rating table of your sexual activity in some of the desks given through many insurance providers that are actually accessible in your area.

The next best point to perform is actually to note down or a minimum of to determine all other expenses or expenses that you will definitely be actually eating the following years of your life. This will definitely include the tertiary education and learning of your little ones, your goal vehicle or your goal residence as well as even a holiday spree that you are allocating in the near future along with your loved ones. Form this you will have the ability to approximate the proper financial quantum that you called for down the road.

Like every other financial research, capital would be a much better kind of analysis that you can easily trust. That need to possess an existing total assets of responsibilities and assets and a declaration analysis so that you can easily measure the things around you as well as you can easily possess a constant equilibrium of factors whenever there are actually changes. Constantly keep monitoring on all of your reports likewise because you will definitely establish your present position to your posture in the future.

This step would be a lot more on your financier's account. Since you will definitely be taking the threat once you will certainly put in to him or even her, you will need to recognize your clients. Because you will certainly have to recognize the various assets possibilities that are offered coming from the one you would want to commit and, you are going to some extent educate yourself. Constantly be actually planned for the risk of spending something to others. Normally search for the one that possesses a greater cost of profit for you.

The final would certainly be carrying out the insurance coverage requires for your analysis. This is actually really important considering that you will certainly never understand what will definitely happen for the future.

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When you put in for something in your future, these are actually just straightforward steps in purchase for you to be assisted. I may not say or guarantee you that this will be an effective one, but it may assist you in any ways you can.

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Top 10 Lifestyle Planning Questions For Baby Boomers

It is tied in with understanding what your qualities are and what you need to accomplish in your retirement years. In the event that you saw the film “The Bucket List” you will understand what I mean. In the event that you didn’t see it I suggest that you do. Life is more than cash and status. For some individuals it isn’t until they are moving toward retirement that they have the opportunity to consider what they have accomplished throughout everyday life and what they an incentive for the excess years that will give them fulfillment.

How Does Lifestyle Planning Differ From Normal Financial Planning?

Way of life Planning will be arranging how you need to live and what you esteem when you resign. For example, perhaps you never finished your professional education and might want to when you resign. Maybe you might want to become familiar with another instrument or travel.

Monetary Planning, then again is arranging monetarily for the future way of life you need in retirement. For some individuals the Global Financial Crisis has brought this into sharp core interest. Would you be able to manage the cost of the way of life you need? Will a trade off be required that expects you to work longer before retirement or procure some pay in retirement? The responses to the inquiries that you pose to yourself and your Lifestyle Planner and Financial Planner will decide your satisfaction over your retirement years.

The Top 10 Lifestyle Planning Questions for Baby Boomers

1. Where would you like to resign to? This is significant since, supposing that you live in a cool environment as of now yet you experience the ill effects of joint inflammation, you should decide to live in a spot with a gentle all year temperature to help your joint pain.

2. What sort of home would you like to live in? All in all, would you like to live in a condo, apartment, or stay in your family home. Will you require any changes to your home, for example, inclines or stroll in baths? Maybe scaling back your home will be a smart thought and let loose some capital for venture to help store your retirement.

3. How would you intend to invest your energy? Clearly, on the off chance that you have a companion or life accomplice, these sorts of choices will be made together. All things considered, you need to choose how you need to spend your retirement.

4. Would you like to travel? Provided that this is true, would you like to go via plane, vehicle, or RV? There are bunches of limits for retirement travel.

5. Would you like to gain proficiency with any new abilities? Assuming this is the case, make a rundown of those that you generally needed to learn, yet never got the opportunity.

6. What do you intend to do now and in retirement to remain solid and alarm? This may incorporate eating regimen, normal moderate exercise, taking spices, and nutrients.

7. Are there abilities you generally needed to master yet couldn’t during your functioning years? For instance, in the event that you generally needed to figure out how to play a piano, why not arrangement to take this up during your retirement years.

8. Do you have a diversion? Perhaps you generally needed to claim your own business, numerous individuals transform side interests into independent companies that helps supplement their retirement pay.

9. Would you like to work during your retirement years? Numerous individuals just need to appreciate existence with no work at all when they resign, yet for other people, the possibility of not working at all can cause uneasiness. In the event that you need to work, what would you like to do?

10. Might you want to start another vocation when you resign? Numerous years prior when the future was 70 years, nobody arranged doing a lot of when they resigned but to lounge around holding on to kick the bucket. Notwithstanding, today, individuals are living 90 + a long time are still intellectually sharp and sound. Accordingly, starting another vocation at age 65 is absolutely not incomprehensible and indeed, it is turning into the standard for some people born after WW2.

Why Lifestyle Planning will fill in significance

Way of life Planning will proceed to develop and be an indispensable viewpoint to children of post war America essentially in light of the fact that clinical advances have permitted individuals to anticipate a more drawn out life expectancy. Accordingly, arranging what you need to do when you resign, without respects to cash is energizing and it helps keep you zeroed in on a splendid and energizing future.

Also, Lifestyle Planning pushes you to put Financial Planning to the front in your considering your future on the grounds that, to do everything you need to do as you age, it requires cash. Along these lines, individuals are more persuaded with their funds when they understand the numerous parts of their life are still to come after retirement. Adjusting work and recreation, with low maintenance work to create some pay, won’t just be significant for some individuals, it will be fundamental.

Why customers ought to examine independent work

Independent work is an extraordinary method to acquire additional pay during retirement, yet additionally it is an approach to satisfy deep rooted dreams, which again is a fundamental piece of Lifestyle Planning. Independent work is controllable which makes it appealing as a Lifestyle Planning technique. A few group may have arranged their accounts well and may not need the additional cash from independent work, however it actually helps keep the brain sharp and gives you an every day reason. HoweverArticle Search, the Global Financial Crisis has seriously dissolved the investment funds of many people born after WW2 and independent work is a method of creating the advantageous pay that will assist them with accomplishing Lifestyle Planning dreams and get their qualities right

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A (long ass) guide to become a Friendly Tourist ™ in Lisbon

You know, I complain a lot about tourists and all and last night it got me thinking that there might be people out there reading these and wanting to visit Lisbon but feel self-conscious so I want to make one thing clear: we don’t hate tourists, we hate tourism as a phenomenon and the way it’s being dealt with. We also don’t hate tourists, we hate assholes. So I decided to put together a guide on how to become a friendly tourist in Lisbon.

- If you can, avoid AirBnB, although I understand for you guys it might be cheaper that way. But if you pick an Air BnB, chances are the home you’re staying in belonged to someone who got kicked out so you could stay there. So be fucking respectful. Don’t come home drunk at 3AM, don’t make any fucking noise at night. There might be children right upstairs and old people downstairs, so don’t do anything you wouldn’t want others to do to you. There are neighbors in that fucking building, people who have to go to work, so be fucking respectful. 

- Be fucking nice to every worker you come across. In Portugal, whether you’re at the checkout or having your order being taken by the waitress, when these workers approach you, you’re supposed to greet them. Say “good morning”, “good evening”, or just plain “hello”. Also, finish with please, always. If you don’t, I guarantee you, you won’t be treated differently because these people can’t risk their jobs, but you’ll be labeled a cunt. Like, it costs zero. You don’t just come up to someone and say “TWO COFFEES PLEASE”. AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT SAY GRACIAS.

- Don’t fucking expect people to speak your language, but they will fucking try, so don’t be a cunt about it. Here’s the thing: in the public schooling system, the average portuguese learns two languages. We are taught french and english and the majority of kids even takes a third language in high school. We understand spanish and italian enough to communicate. So we understand what you’re saying, but it doesn’t mean we can speak it. But are you really demanding that we, who already speak 3 languages, speak yours as well you fucking dildo? Also, by “we” I mean naturally the youngest generation. Older people? Not so much. People working in tourism offices are making an effort, they know way more than you and they’re not there to cater to your needs. If you see them struggling with your language, help them. Also, if you disrespect them while you’re asking for directions, I can assure you they’ll give you the wrong advice out of spite, and you deserved it.

- We’re not a tipping kind of country but: we appreciate tips. What I am saying is, any tip is extra money, so it’s welcomed, but we are not culturally taught to monetarily award someone for their good services, instead we praise them. If you do come from a country that tips a lot, you should know we don’t have a “tipping rule”. Even if you leave just a couple of coins, it’s appreciated. But if you don’t come from a tipping kind of country, don’t feel obligated to do it. What you can do is praise their work. Thank them for their kind service. Tell them they’ve made your experience better. That means a fucking lot when you work in tourism because usually yall just see us as punching bags.

- There’s a difference between Pastel de Natal and Pastel de Belém. Both are custard tarts, both have different recipes. The first one, the Nata, can be found in literally any café. The second, the Pastel de Belém, can only be found in their official factory in Belém, across the street from Jerónimos. When you get there, you will see that the queue is super fucking long but don’t worry, they’re used to it and they have an efficient system. I promise you won’t be there for longer then like, 7 minutes.

- Canned sardines are not traditional. I don’t know who came up with this bullshit but I can guarantee you it’s just marketing. Sardines ARE traditional, just NOT canned. Canned sardines were the cheap, canned food the poorest of the poor ate back during the dictatorship. Usually, a whole can was shared by a family. So it kinda makes me offended that a symbol of poverty is trending, but aigh. The sardines we do eat traditionally are roasted outside on a cooker, sort of like a barbecue. THOSE are traditional. (By the way, you want to eat THE ABSOLUTE BEST, take the ferry across the river and pick a restaurant in Cacilhas, I guarantee you that’s the best place to eat sardines).

- Just because you can see the fucking Christ right across the river, it doesn’t mean it’s right there and that you can just get there. I can’t believe I had to explain this several times to tourists, but that Christ is standing on a fucking cliff. You can take the ferry, sure, but it won’t take you there, like, this is basic knowledge, I’d assume. There’s a service that cost 20€ and lasts for 2h and it stops there for a long time, if you’re one to complain about it a lot, take that. If you don’t mind grabbing your own ass and going there yourself, take the ferry and then take the 101 Bus, last stop. 

- There are three ways to get to Belém: tram, train and bus. And yes, by foot is too fucking far. Like, 1h walk far. All of them will be super fucking crowded. You might get luckier with the buses, since for some reason tourists seem to avoid them. The queue in Cais do Sodré is going to be too fucking long, and I honestly do not care one fucking second that it’s an inconvenience for your vacation because we, who depend on it to go to work, take 2h for it as well. The tram is going to be crowded and it's going to take you some 45 minutes to get there on a very bad day. Live with it. That’s the reality of the city, and this is a reality YOU created by coming here en masse, not us. So don’t fucking complain that we don’t cater to your needs because, remember, your inconvenienced holiday means hundreds of portuguese people are getting late for work and taking 4h a day in public transportation. So again, I do not give one flying fuck.

- Tram 28 is a public transportation not meant for you. You, as a tourist, fucked it up, keep that in mind. If you want to ride the traditional trams, there’s a touristic service made specifically for you that works as a hop on hop off and it does a wider route than 28. My advice is take that one, it has no thieves and you can sit down, and it’s two different routes (green tram and red tram). But if you do want to take the public one, then my advice is: take the 12 instead. If you want to get on 28, begin the route from the starting point at Estrela. It will be calmer there. If you want to go to the castle, then no, the tram isn’t the only way. Bus number 727 stops right at its door and it’s usually super empty. Take that one.

- Saint Geroge’s Castle is completely fake. Not a fucking stone in there is real. There are real ruins there, of course, but they aren’t even of a castle, they’re of an “Alcazaba”, an administrative center back when the moors were in portugal. That’s why the neighborhood next to it is called “mouraria” - the moorish neighborhood. Yes, there was a castle there from the 14th century onwards, but very little was left of that. The whole thing you’re seeing? Completely rebuilt in the 20th century. It’s even fascist propaganda in a way.

- Tuk Tuk drivers don’t know shit of what they’re talking about. The chances of them making shit up for you are like, way higher than you can imagine. You can’t comprehend the bullshit I’ve caught them telling tourists, like the Lisbon Cathedral is from the 19th century. They’re not tour guides, they’re fucking drivers. The info they’re giving you is generic and easily obtained. they’re speaking to you as a portuguese person who knows their traditions, but they don’t usually know shit about history and art because they’re not required to. So if you get on a Tuk Tuk, keep that in mind and don’t demand too much from the driver. And also, chances are they’re bullshitting you. I know one Tuk Tuk driver who is an Art History graduate and masters degree and is a great tour guide, since he’s someone I trust a lot with the history of the city, so if you really want to get on one and be real about it, hit me up and I’ll hook you up with him.

- Don’t make a fuss about the supposed “drug dealers” selling weed in broad daylight in Baixa. First of all, literally everyone in the city except you, tourists, know that what they’re selling is not drugs, it’s bay leaf squished into a powder, and I have to give it to them, their scheme is pretty fucking brilliant because it’s prompted tourists to go to the police and complain that “the drugs this guy sold me aren’t real” lmao. But this is a situation that again partly resulted out of mass tourism. So shut the fuck up because I know damn well it would take me one day to find out where I could get high in your country. And also, me as a citizen can’t do shit about it (BECAUSE THOSE AREN’T DRUGS LOL).

- Don’t be fucking unpleasant about the homeless and the beggars. Fucking really? There’s a high level of poverty in here. We’ve been saying for years but if you choose to believe your Time Out articles, then that’s not my fault. But be fucking respectful. Life isn’t cheap here, and we’re having it hard. 

- Please understand, once and for all, that Fado is pretty normalized. Like, it’s fucking everywhere. Every goddamn souvenir shop you’ll walk into, it’s gonna be playing fado. Restaurants, cafés, a fucking cab, same thing. I know it’s been sold as the traditional song of the people, poor and desolate living in the streets of Alfama, but that’s not it anymore. It’s been classified as World Intangible Heritage which means an incredible effort is being made to preserve it, WHICH MEANS the amount of Fado singers has increased incredibly. So there is no “real fado experience” anymore. The real fado experience is either a) a concert, or b) a dimly lit restaurant with a guitar player and a lesser known singer. 

- Be careful how much you’re being charged by the taxi drivers. If possible, don’t take a cab at the airport. If you’re moving from point A to point B WITHIN the city, you shouldn’t be paying over 10€. The starting fee is NOT 20€, it’s 3,90€. There’s a little extra added if you call a cab (instead of finding one on the streets) or take it at night. If you can, install the app My TaxiApp, the drivers there are pretty honest. Or use Uber.

- Don’t get on the Hop On Hop Off buses. Personally, I can’t see what’s so appealing about these, but there are a lot of reasons why in Lisbon they don’t particularly work: 1) traffic. You’re gonna be stuck in traffic, it doesn’t matter what time of the day you got on. 2) The waiting period. It shouldn’t take more than 30 minutes for a new bus to come by, but with traffic, we don’t know, and I certainly can’t predict it, since I don’t have a fucking GPS in me. 3) The bus that goes to the Castle is much, much smaller and it fills up way quicker because double-decker buses don’t fucking fit those narrow streets. So chances are you’re gonna be there for a while waiting because they’ll keep coming full. Not my fucking problem. Take a walk instead. There’s a touristic bus called Caravel on Wheels which would be my advice for you. I worked for them, it’s a 1h45 long video tour. The audio is very well put together and explains the history of Lisbon incredibly well, and it has a shit ton of languages, and you can just ignore the goddamn video, trust me. The assistants are super nice and sweet and the driver is amazing. We made a huge effort to make sure you wouldn’t forget that experience, trust me. Also, it allows you to see the most important parts of the city and then decide what you want to see by yourself.

- Don’t disrespect the monuments. Don’t paint on walls. Don’t spit on fountains. Don’t lean on statues, don’t get close to statues, don’t even breathe on statues. Don’t fucking touch the paintings, the artworks, any fucking thing you find inside a museum. It sounds ludicrous that I have to point this out but you wouldn’t believe what I’ve seen.

- Mouraria, Alfama and Martim Moniz aren’t just the most traditional parts of Lisbon, they’re some of the most multicultural and poorest too. So don’t be a fucking racist asshole. There are indian, chinese, and sikh, among others, communities in there, including “illegal” mosques and chinese restaurants. Don’t be unpleasant to the locals. Don’t be disrespectful to the people who live there. The thing about the portuguese is we love tourists, we’re welcoming like that, IF you are nice. These people are happy to welcome you to their neighborhood, trust me, they are, but you gotta be respectful. 

- Avoid eating at Rua dos Correeiros. If you don’t know what street that is, it’s the only one in the entire fucking Lisbon where every fucking restaurant will have a guy holding a menu approaching you and BEGGING you to eat there, and I mean every single one. Most of those restaurants are most likely schemes and one in particular, Made in Correeiros, has made the news for convincing tourists to come in while holding a menu where they show prices ranging from 10 to 20€ and then inside suggest something that is at the end of the menu (but they will make sure you won’t see it) and it turns out a dish of salmon costs 500€. That whole street is made of shit like that and not a single one of them is traditional in the least, don’t let them convince you they are because they have a bitoque and bacalhau à brás, those are dishes that any portuguese with half a brain can cook, so walk away.

- Don’t be fucking rude to the bus drivers, and I mean every bus driver, whether it’s touristic bus or city bus, cause they are not required to speak your fucking language. There are a million different tourist offices where you can ask for help. Have your money ready when you enter the bus or recharge your Viva card at the subway. A bus fare is 1,80€ within any point in the city.

- And don’t be fucking rude to the vendors. They don’t control traffic. Especially resellers who don’t represent one company but rather sell several companies, don’t yell at them. They don’t control traffic and they don’t control the bus routes. Explain to them you are disappointed by the service and they will take a note and I can guarantee you they will inform the company about the delay/problem and will exchange your money. They don’t think any less of you and they understand you, as long as you’re nice about it.

- And don’t complain to them the city is disappointing! I don’t give a rat’s ass that Barcelona was more beautiful, go to fucking Barcelona and shut up.

- Don’t walk around with 100€ bills. Use 50€ bills for large purchases only. Most vendors aren’t even allowed to accept 100€ due to couterfit problems. Exchange your money at the appropriate place. Don’t fucking buy 3€ worth of fridge magnets with a 100€ bill like I’ve witnissed, come on. That’s common sense. 

- Things that ARE good, traditional souvenirs: porcelain magnets with sardines, tiles, bits of history and the black swallows you see everywhere. Bottles of wine, especially Port, too. Tawny being the best brand. Make sure it’s from Porto/Douro. The bags of salt if they come from Aveiro, otherwise I wouldn’t trust it. The famous red, green, blue or black scarves you see with floral motifs and fringes I guess can be considered traditional too, but be aware that 1) they’re mostly cheap imitations (the realest ones are really expensive) and 2) they’re traditional from way up north like, above Porto even. That’s a part of a very traditional outfit of a very specific region, linked to very specific traditions. Small portuguese guitars are pretty cute. Avoid the cork shit. Cork used to be our main export, now it isn’t and most of that crap I don’t even think it’s made here, it’s just a brand, but someone correct me if I’m wrong. Although the cork postcards are cute. Little stuff like notebooks, postcards and bookmarkers with Fado on it is cute too. A Vida Portuguesa is a store you’ll come across in Baixa that sells shit that looks cute and Art Neauveu-sy that recreates old stuff from the 40s and 50s.

- Things that aren’t traditional at all: canned sardines. Anything being sold on the streets. Certainly not the peruvian CDs on Terreiro do Passo.

- No, you won’t find random postmarks on the streets where you can slip in your postcards. There are a few, but are very scarce. There’s a post office in Restauradores, use that. You can usually buy stamps at any souvenir-looking shop or anything store that says “Casa da Sorte”.

- The green card you use for transportation is good for everything but you need to charge it either with money for all or in the appropriate machines that will give you the specific ticket you’re looking for. 

- If you walk inside ANY restaurant or whatever and ask for a cup of coffee, this is what you’ll get. If you want a larger coffee a bit watered down, ask for an abatanado. Or go to Starbucks. A garoto is a strong espresso with a bit of milk, served in an espresso cup. A galão is basically the same, but in a taller glass that will, for 99% of the time, look like this, and the milk is stirred until it forms foam, like a cappuccino without the chocolate. So be specific about what you want. Our coffee is very strong. Ask the waiters, they’re used to the confusion, don’t worry.

- Here’s an important thing to you if you’re stopping by during a cruise: no, you can’t fucking visit the whole city in one day. The city is way bigger than you’re thinking it is. You can’t see it all in 5h. So pick wisely. Here’s how to pick it: Oriente is the modern part of the city, the main attraction is the Aquarium (Oceanário). Belém is the historical part, where most of the main monuments are. Downtown Lisbon is the place you can walk to and discover by foot. If you’re strict on mobility, a Tuk Tuk is the perfect choice.

- Maybe this is kind of asking too much out of a tourist, but it would be great if you had any fucking clue what Lisbon even has. Don’t just stand in Rossio looking puzzled and ask me where the famous tiles are. You should at least know you’re thinking of fucking Porto, which is some 300km away. The worst question you can ask touristic vendors is “so what can you do in this city?” bitch I don’t know. Make your goddamn research. You like art? Here’s a list: Berardo Museum (contemporary). Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (from 14th to the 18th century and colonial art). Azulejo museum (those famous blue tiles). MAAT (contemporary art, also a nice overview of the city). Gulbenkian (antiquity to the 19th century and also a modern art center, a beautiful museum with amazing gardens). The Fado Museum. You want history? Here’s another list: anything in Belém, you don’t have to pay for the tickets even, the tower is not that interesting anyway and you can visit the church of Jerónimos for free, it’s the whole monastery complex you have to pay for. Church of São Roque for the prime example of baroque. The Lisbon cathedral. The Church of Saint Vincent. Estrela Basilica. Ajuda Palace. I don’t know what else, at the top of my head, these are probably the most important.

- The train to Sintra is in Rossio train station, which is NOT physically connected to the subway station. Stop asking me.

- Sintra, Cabo da Roca and Queluz are outside of Lisbon. Yes, you have to get on a train. I don’t care if it’s an inconvenience, I didn’t fucking build it.

- No, the beaches are not exactly in Lisbon. The ones that kinda are, you go to Cais do Sodré, you get on a train and get off at Oeiras or something. Ask someone there. The other ones are around Sintra or across the river. If you want to go across the river to Caparica, there’s a service that costs 10€, picks you up in the morning, takes you back in the afternoon. If you think that’s expensive and decide to go there on your own, then be prepared to pay a lot more and have the worst bus ride of your life. I’ve been riding TST buses my whole life, you have no idea the shit hole they are. Pay for quality, it’s worth it.

- No, you can’t get to Freeport by bus. It will take you too long and cost you a fortune. Pay 10€ for the shuttle. It’s way less than any other means.

- No, you can’t take a cab to Fátima. It’s 127km. Also, don’t take the train there. The train station is 30km away from the city. Take a bus. Rede Expresso is your friend. You can charge your fucking phone in that bus! Also you have wifi.

- Yes, you can walk around holding a cup or a bottle of beer on the streets, nobody cares. Just don’t litter. Throw that fucking thing in the garbage, don’t be a pig.

- No, the guys wearing a black outfit with a cape are not celebrating Hogwarts. That’s a joke someone started that caught on. I never actually thought people would believe it, yet here we are. They’re just university students getting drunk lmao. If you want cheap booze, follow them.

- Just overall be kind, don’t bump into people on the streets, don’t stall, smile and say thank you and good morning/evening/whatever. Remember: say obrigado if you’re a man, obrigada if you’re a woman. We don’t care that your portuguese is shit, we love that you tried and that you ask how we say things. We also don’t care that you’re actually speaking brasilian portuguese. We love that you went through the effort. 

- Portuguese people greet with a kiss on each cheek. A handshake is something more business-like. If you don’t like being touched, stay away and wave, we’ll get the message. But if you happen to meet an old lady, then you’re on your own, your cheeks are getting pinched, I can’t save you.

- We’re also incredibly loud. No, we’re not constantly fighting, we’re brutes towards each other. That’s how we show love. Don’t make a point of it.

- But remember: this city isn’t the hip, cheap, hot-spot you’ve been sold. It will look like that if you just wander around Baixa and Alfama and Mouraria, where mostly students and foreigners are. But that is not the reality. The “tradition” you’ve been sold, that supposedly lives in Alfama, practically doesn’t exist anymore. Any story that says “traditional” in it, I can guarantee you is not. The best restaurants are the corner tascas that smell of cooked potatoes and grilled beef. If the owner of a restaurant is fat, the restaurant is good, trust me this is a mnemonic that works. ‘

- Don’t act superior, don’t act like you know this city better because you’ve been here before or because you have portuguese friends. Or because you read this post lmao. Certainly, don’t walk up to tourist vendors and try to convince them YOU know more about traditions in their country than they do, like I’ve had people do with me. Cause you don’t lmao.

Add anything you might think is necessary and sorry for the long ass post

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