– Go in at the end of the month
– Buy the model of the year right before the model for the next year comes out (dealers get desperate to sell the old models)
– Refuse to put any money down. Say that if they ask you to put down money, you’ll leave
– Seriously. If they ask you to put down money say you need to go and walk out
– If there’s another dealership nearby, tell them that you’re walking there right after you leave
– If a deal seems unfair but you really like the car, tell them you’re going to another dealership and leave. Chances are, they’ll call back the next day with a better deal
– If possible, after the first call wait till the last few days of the month and they’ll likely call again with an even better deal
– Look around for family and friends that need a car. If you buy more than one car from the same dealership you’ll get a much better deal
– If a family member/friend is looking for a used car while you’re looking for a new car or vice versa, still get the used car from the same dealership
– If you decide to buy a new car after a few years, trade in the old car and buy a new one from the same dealership. Companies appreciate loyalty and will likely offer you a lower price
UPDATED
(My dad went to college for finance, more specifically he looked a lot at stocks and how to sell things for a maximum profit. He learned it from the perspective of the company but it also works in his advantage)
– When you walk into a dealership, the salesperson will immediately “be your friend”. They’ll act like it’s you and them against dealership – Sometimes a salesperson will offer to talk to the manager. This does not mean anything. Chances are, they’re going to have small talk for a few minutes and come back out – Carefully consider the usefulness of an extended warranty. You’re losing money unless there’s an accident or issue soon after you buy the car – This wasn’t so clear before, but you’re still going to have to pay a down payment. What you should refuse is a securing payment – The securing payment is a psychological trick. You feel more tied to the company so you’re more likely to buy from them – You’re extremely more likely to buy at the last place you go, but with the securing payment you’re less likely to go to another dealership due to a sense of commitment – A salesperson may say it’s a limited time deal. Most times, unless this is the last of that years model, or it’s a special event, the deal is not going away and will still be there if you decide to go back. It’s not necessarily a deal breaker, but you should be suspicious if it’s said to you – Save money by asking to buy the floor model. There’s no mileage on it, but it’s worth less because people have sat in it – Or, ask to buy the demo if you’re willing to buy a car with some mileage. The depreciation of the price is usually worth it – Each can get you a few thousand dollars off due to the fact that it is technically not a “new” car anymore – Always look at the websites and play around with the build a car, payment calculators, or anything other offered features. Make sure when you’re using it you look at the down payment and the number of months that you will be paying for the car over – Try to not buy a really obscure model because the trade in value will be lower – Get the maximum down payment you can afford to lower the interest cost – Look for a crash rating test. A 5 is going to get good trade in value, and is much safer
(This was written in NY so there might be exceptions in other states or countries)
Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:
OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–
There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! 🙂
OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???
“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”
I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT
NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU.
Also:
Dear ______:
Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future].
My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.
should it be an email? or like a physical letter?
email, you want to send it within a few hours at max after the interview if you can so it’s fresh in their mind who you are.
Confirmed! I interviewed for a job right after arriving in NY. The interview went incredibly well, and I went home and immediately wrote a thank you letter and put it in the mail. I had a super good feeling about this interview.
I didn’t get the job.
However, a few weeks later, I was called in to interview with another editor in the same company, and I did get that job. I found out later from the initial editor (the one who didn’t hire me) that he had planned to offer me the job, but since I didn’t follow up with a thank you letter, he assumed I didn’t really want it. He offered the job to another contender–but when he got my letter in the mail shortly after the offer had already been made, he went to HR and gave me a glowing recommendation. It was based on that recommendation that I got called in for the second interview.
So: send an email thank you immediately (same day!) after the interview. If you’re feeling extra, go ahead and send a written one too. OR go immediately to a coffee shop, write the letter, and return to the office and give it to the secretary.
Either way, those letters are important.
Pro tip: If you really want HR to develop a personal interest in your application, publicly thank them on linkedin. Just make a short post telling your network about how X recruiter really went above and beyond to make you feel welcome, or about how be accommodating and professional they were, or whatever. Make sure to use the mention feature so they’ll get a notification and see it.
Flattery will get you everywhere… and public flattery that might make its way back to their manager, doubly so.
Obligatory plug for one of FreePrintable.net’s sites: ThankYouLetter.ws. They have a whole section with interview thank you letter templates, and a page with specific tips for interview thank you letters. (There are also tons of other letter templates if you browse around a bit.)
I’ll try! Yeah this was my Major and Compelling Problem with the latest comic, that everyone sounded the same, and you couldn’t tell the difference from character to character (to me, they all sounded like Jack, but that’s my own character read and the comic got funny to me when I just thought of it as Jack just retelling the story the way he remembers it and Lena being like “I ‘ave never sounded like that, ever, in my life.”)
Steve Smith of Cambridge, Massachusetts contacted Ars and Gillula after our recent article
about how the US Senate vote to eliminate ISP privacy rules affects
users and what Internet users can do to hide their browsing history.
He’s a subscriber to this new browser pollution approach.
“Perhaps more constructively than using a VPN or Tor, fill up your
monthly bandwidth allotment with data pollution,” Smith wrote to us.
“You’re already paying for the bandwidth, so use it all if your ISP is
going to sell your private data. This has the dual benefits of obscuring
your actual browsing habits, and, if enough people adopt this practice,
discouraging ISPs from selling private data.
“I’ve written a Python class to do this for my household—it crawls
for links it finds using random word searches—and have shared the code,”
he continued. Smith’s code is available on GitHub.
Internet users often have to worry about data caps, but Smith set the
default rate to use 50GB a month, or about five percent of a 1TB data
cap.
Smith’s “ISP Data Pollution” project isn’t the only such effort. For instance, there’s a project called “RuinMyHistory” that opens a popup window that cycles through different websites and a browser plugin called Noiszy designed to “create meaningless Web data” by visiting various websites. […]
@thoughtfulproxy and I talked about food, and easy and healthy recipes. So now I wanna share some of my thoughts on fast and tasty cooking. Also I wanna add, even though I am a high-carb, fruit and veggie lover, I am writing this while a pound of french fries are in the oven- so whether or not you deem my recipes below as ~healthy~ is up to you! 😀
First off: Eating a salad with meals makes SUCH a big difference in my experience! It doesn’t have to be a big bowl, it can also be a carrot or a few cucumber sticks with hummus if you are into that. My pro tip: wash the whole salad at once and keep it in a tightly wrapped plastic bag in your fridge. This way you will only have to grab it everytime you have a full meal or want a fresh snack. Have tomatoes in stock, especially the small tasty ones, they will make u wanna eat those greens with more delight. Also, a tasty vinegar. But then again: If you can’t have salads for whatever reason (yes, tiredness/laziness is a reason!), just roll with it, be gentle to yourself.
An awesome salad sauce that itself is already a salad, and can be a dip too: blend half an avocado, a tomato, a thick slice of cucumber, vinegar, salt, pepper. If it’s too thick, instead of adding water or oil, add more cucumber and/or tomato, it increases the water content AND adds more of the ‘healthy stuff’! I love this sauce, it’s so delicious!
Make your cooked veggies delicious too with the right seasoning. Steamed or stir-fried veggies can be yum, or very boring. Here’s an easy and tasty sauce: soysauce, sugar/stevia, chili. Add a little water if you use sugar since it won’t dissolve in the salty soysauce. You want it creamy? Add tahini. You want to give it a stronger taste? Add onions and garlic, deglaze with a vinegar/sour component of your choice.
If you are cooking something and it just won’t taste that good no matter how much seasoning you throw at it, keep in mind the secret of tasty cooking: Add something sweet and/or something sour. You can deglaze stir-fried onions with lemon juice and have both tastes at the same time. I typically use rice vinegar + stevia, because it’s easy to keep in stock. The sweet component can be just anything, go wild! Try a few drops of maple syrup along with chili, salt and pepper. Or try a small blended date with soysauce and chili. Or add a piece of chocolate to your hot chili. Experiment with grated ginger, it’s fruity and hot at the same time.
Seriously, I’ve been cooking every day for over ten years, but understanding the sweet/sour components made my cooking improve so much. I cook low fat and low salt, since those things don’t feel good for me (unless I eat french fries like today :D). Sweet components: lemon and grapefruit have sour components too, their juice is perfect to deglaze. Mango is yum in currys, a small date can add a neutral tasting sweetness since it’s not so fruity. Tomatos are fruits too! A thick tomato paste also brings a lot of umami taste. Very ripe bananas in pancake dough are a delicious ingredient if you don’t wanna use eggs. Jam or dried berries can be used in gravy. Sour components: There are so many different vinegars to try! Balsamic vinegar can be very sweet at times, rice vinegar adds a very ‘round’ and mild taste. My new favorite is bread drink that is also incredibly fruity. Besides that, lemons etc have already been mentioned. Worcester sauce has a lot of vinegar too, just like ketchup. You wonder why ketchup tastes so good? The sweet and sour components plus umami!
@thoughtfulproxy, you said you like asparagus. Here’s a japanese recipe that is far less fatty than the (german) traditional way of eating asparagus (which would be lots of melted butter/white sauce, smoked ham, omelette and potatos). Here’s the recipe: stir-fry asparagus, grated garlic and ginger. Add vegetable stock, sugar/stevia, sake(just any vinegar will do), salt, pepper, a little bit of starch (stir it up in a cup with cold water. warm water makes the sauce not smooth). Eat short grain rice with it, if you wanna stick to the japanese style, but I think any rice would do, or even pasta.
Texture! This part is often overlooked by home cooks (like myself). The texture of our food is important for how it tastes. You can steam a sweetpotato, and it will become mush. You can also stir-fry a sweetpotato and it has a little of this crispy crunch to it. Which way you like it, is your thing, but before you decide you don’t like a vegetable, try to prepare it with a different texture! Many people tend to overcook vegetables, so experiment with the cooking time as well!
You can eat the same thing for days. Honestly, you are not gonna die. If you find a seasoning/sauce that you like, prepare all sorts of vegetables with it. Or, the other way round, prepare the same veggies with different sauces as much as you like. In the beginning I felt compelled to eat different stuff every day and it was exhausting. That is not necessary, you won’t die of malnutrition just because you eat veggies and potatoes every day.
Eat with joy. Can’t enjoy your meal? Then it’s not good for you. Forcing yourself is not healthy, no matter how healthy the food is for your body, it is unhealthy for your mind. Prepare and eat your food with joy, your feelings about your food are part of your nutrition too! And if you don’t have the energy to feel positive, allow yourself that. Not everyday can be full of joy, especially if you cook everyday or have to learn the skills in the first place.
Thanks Kimbureh!!!!! I’mma tag this so I can find it in the future!!
So I don’t know about you, but I’m often frustrated by the ridiculous smallness of girls’ pockets. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to shove my cellphone in there – come on, pants companies! So what I started doing was making myself pocket extenders. I’ve done this several times, for pants and shorts. It’s great.
I just got this pair of jeans, so I thought I’d show you how to do it. I kind of feel like it just hasn’t occurred to some of you that this is an option, so maybe now it will. All you need is your pants, some fabric (I just took a random piece from a scrap bin), a needle, and some thread (thread doesn’t even need to match the fabric since literally no one will see it).
See? Ridiculous. Like, half a cellphone, or only 2.5″. Useless.
So turn those inside out to expose the pockets.
Figure out how big you want your pockets to actually be. I kinda go by whatever looks like might be right. I didn’t
really measure them. Fold the fabric in half, so you have a pocket, and
then fold it in half again so you can have two equal ones.
Try to get the edges to line up enough, pin it in place, then sew up the sides! Are your stitches crazy uneven and wonky looking? Doesn’t matter; nobody’s going to see it. These are in the inside of your pants. The only thing that matters is that it holds up. So I double-did the corners, since those tend to get the most stress.
Cut open the bottom of the existing pockets.
Pin it in place, then sew around, joining the new pocket to the old pocket. I did this by keeping my hand on the inside, so I wouldn’t accidentally sew through the other side. Again, I reinforced the corners, and didn’t worry about what it actually looks like. Then I turned it in side out to make sure the inside was all joined properly.
Yay all done! And the pockets are so much bigger now!
Whaaaat I can fit my entire phone and entire hand and probably something else now, are girls’ pockets even allowed to do that?! Heck yeah they are.
There’s a website where you can learn ASL on your own and it is free and the woman on there, her name is Rochelle Barlow, she runs the site and she actually is a homeschool teacher and teaches ASL. I am passing this on to you guys cause most people on here is open-minded. Well, whoever of y’all reads this will possibly ignore this but if you are a curious george like me and wants to learn ASL she’s your gal.
Rochelle has a free program called Learn ASL in 31 days, currently I am on day 10ish or 12, (idk I’m on learning my numbers currently) but I believe this site will help people that are either curious about ASL and just wants to learn, or actually is Deaf but can’t afford to going to actual class or something, or just hard of hearing.
I am truly in love with learning with Rochelle, she isn’t those interpreters that will talk while she signs, (and I’ve searched through Youtube how to sign but the person talking will distract me and I would get confused) and it is all in video which is a good thing. I found her through Youtube, that’s where she has all her videos. Just check out her site. You’ll like it.
For all there is to hate about Trump, I’m much more scared of a President Cruz than a President Trump.
Why? Just curious.
Bottom line is that Trump wants attention. Cruz wants power. Trump is an entertainer. Cruz is a master politician who believes petulance is a political ideology. Of every Republican in the field, Cruz is most steadfast in his ultra-conservative beliefs and will never bend or meet for compromise.
Trump craves attention and will always put himself above policies. Cruz is incredibly methodical and is always playing the long game to accomplish his policy goals. Yes, Trump is far more likely to accidentally set off an international incident, but Cruz in power will strangle this country and bring it to its knees before he allows it to become something he doesn’t agree with.
I cannot stress how evangelical Ted Cruz is. If he wins this election, it will be on the backs of the religious right.
He wants constitutional amendment to make SCOTUS judges have retention elections so he can boot off justices like Kennedy who become more liberal over time.
He’s willing to shut down the federal government instead of allowing any funding of Planned Parenthood.
He wants to ban birth control including IUD and morning after pill
He did actually shutdown the federal government because he doesn’t like Obamacare.
The next president will probably nominate 4 justices to the Supreme Court. (1 Conservative, 2 Liberals, 1 Swing) Cruz will not consider any nominees who have a hint of moderate in them. This could easily lead to a 7-2 Supreme Court decision outlawing abortion, ending Obamacare, or abolishing affirmative action or civil rights protections.
The reason Trump will never scare me as much as Cruz is that Ted Cruz is brilliant, he is a true political organizer and mastermind. He’s skillfuly united faith circles all over the US and will ride a wave all the way into South Carolina.
And just to prove my point. Look at the Tea Party. It’s a tiny segment of American politics, but the power it carries is because of Ted Fucking Cruz. When met with something he didn’t like, he SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT as a freshman Senator! A FRESHMAN! Imagine him with real executive power.
ok that is terrifying holy shit he’s a dark lord or something??
It’s pretty common for people to use disability metaphors like “That guy is crazy!” or “This weather is so bipolar” without giving it a second thought. It’s important to realize how these words and metaphors can affect people with disabilities and perpetuate stigmas surrounding mental health. If you’ve never thought about the impact these words can have, you’re in luck because this chart provides some common disability metaphors and easy alternatives!
ps. Special thanks to m-arkiplier for inspiring me to create this graphic! (and for his permission to use his post) For more info on why it’s important to be conscious of the metaphors we use, check out this HuffPost article ”10 Reasons to Give Up Ableist Language.”
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