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Crazy Ground Meat Savings Tip from Aldi

I stopped buying beef a long time ago, but the other day, I was in Aldi and craving a hamburger, so I looked at their ground meat. Their 73/27 was $5.xx a pound and their 80/20 was 6.19. You have to buy big packs of this to get that price. I spied some burger patties, and took a look at them. 80/20, approximately 1.4 lbs. for $4.99/lb. WHAT?? I looked at the package carefully, and saw no fillers, so I bought them, put them up individually and used two for burgers and broke the other two up to put into chili or spaghetti sauce. It cooked up just like the regular 80/20, and was $1.20/lb cheaper.

I don't know, maybe it's a lesser quality meat, but I couldn't tell the difference. I was delicious.

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u/nobodycares65 — 3 days ago

How do I get rid of the sidebars when reading group messages after viewing all groups & choosing one?

Windows 11
When I pull up all my groups, especially, then click on one, there is an enormous sidebar on the left hand side of my screen. How do I get rid of it? I'm visually impaired, so making the screen smaller isn't an option. TIA

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u/nobodycares65 — 7 days ago
▲ 12 r/GNV

Traffic Accident

I got into a traffic accident and got a ticket. In my home state, you can go to court and ask them to reduce the fine if no one was hurt. Do they do that here, or is the fine just what it is?
How does the driving school work? It says you have to pay a fine and court costs.
I have extremely low income, and I just don't have the money to pay this fine. Is there anything I can do?

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u/nobodycares65 — 25 days ago

Amazonica "Polly" problem

This has always been the last of my Alocasias to emerge in the spring, but this year, it doesn't seem to want to emerge at all. I dug up all the corms and found a ton of babies, but the main corm has started to rot. I cut off all the rot, soaked it in peroxide, then planted all of them in new soil in a new pot.

Here it is the end of July, and they are just starting to come up. It had rained a lot, so I put it under an overhang on the front porch so it wouldn't get as wet, but still, only two corms have sprouted, the main one and one larger corm. By this time, it's usually gorgeous and I'm transplanting babies.

To top it all off, I had a volunteer sprout up in another pot and it's doing better than the rest.

I don't know what to do. I've had this plant since the early 2000's. I had it planted in the ground when I lived further south in Florida, but now it's in a clay pot, outdoors all summer until it does down in the fall, then I bring it inside for the winter so it doesn't freeze.

On the other hand, my Corazon is gorgeous, biggest leaves it's ever had.

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u/nobodycares65 — 27 days ago
▲ 39 r/GNV

Latest GRU confusing change

I got the newsletter today, and it says they are no longer going to be charging wastewater fees or garbage fees on your utility bill, but it will go on property taxes.

I live in an apartment complex and I pay for my water, including the wastewater portion. If it's going on property taxes, it will then go to complex owners, and common sense says they will be jacking up rents to cover it. How much, who knows, but it may not be proportionate to the actual amount of water you use.

Also, this pretty much applies to all rental properties. I'm sure owners are not going to like having to pay for your garbage and wastewater fees for rental houses, and the slumlords around town will definitely be gouging renters to make a few more bucks off of this.

Please tell me that they have taken this into consideration, and what they are doing to mitigate this.

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u/nobodycares65 — 28 days ago

Amazonica "Polly" problem

This has always been the last of my Alocasias to emerge in the spring, but this year, it doesn't seem to want to emerge at all. I dug up all the corms and found a ton of babies, but the main corm has started to rot. I cut off all the rot, soaked it in peroxide, then planted all of them in new soil in a new pot.

Here it is the end of July, and they are just starting to come up. It had rained a lot, so I put it under an overhang on the front porch so it wouldn't get as wet, but still, only two corms have sprouted, the main one and one larger corm. By this time, it's usually gorgeous and I'm transplanting babies.

To top it all off, I had a volunteer sprout up in another pot and it's doing better than the rest.

I don't know what to do. I've had this plant since the early 2000's. I had it planted in the ground when I lived further south in Florida, but now it's in a clay pot, outdoors all summer until it does down in the fall, then I bring it inside for the winter so it doesn't freeze.

On the other hand, my Corazon is gorgeous, biggest leaves it's ever had.

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u/nobodycares65 — 28 days ago
▲ 1 r/GNV

Need a stylist for a wig

I bought a wig online and I love the style, but it needs thinning and bangs cut. I have no idea how to do this. I watched YT videos but it just doesn't look that easy to me.

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u/nobodycares65 — 2 months ago

REQUEST: old women's clothes you're going to throw out or give away

The larger sizes the better. I'm starting to make my own clothes, but fabric is so expensive, that I'm looking for used clothes to remake or use as fabric. Also want to make a quilt with the scraps/leftovers. I can pick up if not too far away, or meet you somewhere in Gainesville. I prefer to meet in a public place for safety reasons. I'm on the SW side, close to Butler Plaza off of 34th street. TIA!

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u/nobodycares65 — 2 months ago
▲ 31 r/GNV

Just read this, and wanted to get others' opinions. I'm against it. Like it says in the article, nobody trusts the county commission not to sell of the properties to developers once it has them, because they've done that before.

It was also mentioned that if school district properties were in neighborhoods, that nobody wants a homeless shelter in their neighborhood.

My opinion is that if you're going to use them to help solve homelessness, why not just renovate them into studio apartments, like a lot of cities have done, and use them to house the elderly and disabled homeless at the 30% of their income rate the same as HUD does? That way, we could work with state and federal governments and get grants for the renovations and upkeep/staffing. That way, the school district would have less financial liability..

But then again, what's to stop the school district from selling off those properties to developers? I'm not up on the legality of that agency's ownership of the buildings, and who can sell them.

https://alachuachronicle.com/alachua-county-commission-asks-school-board-to-review-underutilized-and-vacant-facilities-to-address-homelessness-sbac-chair-says-hes-against-that-completely/

u/nobodycares65 — 4 months ago