Christmas gift from ole joyful

17 years ago

Actually, it's a retread of the one that I've offered around here for the past four or so years.

But it's to be found over at the Kitchen Table forum, back around page 8 or 10 by now, I think, as it was dated around the day before Christmas or so.

And not many replies, so didn't get dragged back to the top much.

For those of you who've seen it before, there's an addition this year that some of you might find interesting.

It's claim is that it should save practitioners hundreds, more likely thousands, during their lifetime (unless they're old crocks like me).

Maybe I'll go over there and retread it (again!).

Hope you all have a great New Year.

ole joyful

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jasonmi7
17 years ago
Huh?
joyfulguy
Original Author
17 years ago
I've offered a Christmas "gift" (message) on these forums for several years.

This year I wrote it on a thread over on the Kitchen Table forum, about Christmas Day, so it'll be about page 8 or 10 now, as there are several pages per day written over there.

If you follow my suggestion, it should save you hundreds of dollars over a number of years, if you use it well.

Sorry if the earlier message was clear as mud.

Hope you all have a really great New Year.

ole joyful
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greg_h
17 years ago
Why not tell us what the message was?
Why allude to the fact that a thread exists and make us search for it? At least provide a link to the thread.

Personally, I'm not curious enough to go over to the Kitchen Table forum and wade through pages and pages of threads to find the one you are talking about.
joyfulguy
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17 years ago
greg,

When Spike ran things here, he took a dim view of copying identical items from one forum to another.

Possibly we can get away with it, these days.

But I guess I sort of got habits entrenched at an earlier time.

Somewhat similar to the (probably mythical) sign by a Prairie dirt road, which gets rather heavily rutted after a rain, "Pick your rut carefully - you'll be in it for the next ten miles!".

Make a list of all the friends, relatives, acquaintances you've known thru life, their phone, email, etc.

Plus their training, interests, work, skills and various other issues related to them.

When you need something, consult one of them who knows about that situation: most folks like to talk about things that they know about (and some of us like to talk about most anything).

Some of them may be able to help you find the product or service that you need at a better price, that'll give you better service, e.g. mechanics who know which engines in which cars have given trouble, etc.

Add to the database as more information comes along.

It should save you hundreds, possibly thousands, during your lifetime.

I'd plsanned to go to the Kitchen Table and add another message, which would bring the post to the top of page one again (moves about 2 pages per day) but haven't done it yet.

Hope that you have a really fine New Year.

ole joyful

P.S. On the other hand ... you could go back to look for a former year's post, on a slow-moving forum, as the message might still be there. I posted it on different forms in successive years.

o j
joyfulguy
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17 years ago
Page 1 on KT.

o j
joyfulguy
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17 years ago
As of Sun aft. Jan 7, about p. 6 on KT.

o j

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