Another site for Tshirts... Ink Hound

Ink Hound has been around since November and slowly becoming popular amongst the Tshirt crowd. The site is taking ongoing submissions of artwork for shirts and baseball caps and based on voting and comments on the site. The winners get published and the items sold for one week. The artist gets $2 for every item sold during the week and retains ownership of their art at the end of the sale. Currently there is about 30 shirts and less than 20 hats up for vote. Joining the site is free but if you like any of the items for sale its gonna cost about $12 for a shirt and $16 for a hat. They also have long sleeve shirts and hoodies for sale of the current worker.

Mysoti... A cool place for intersting Tshirts

Mysoti is a place where artists can upload their work and have it sold to the world. Setting up an account is easy. Being a good artist and having something people want can be the hard part. Boredom Relief does have an account and will be uploading to the site hopefully on a regular basis. Currently, you can check out Limes! a shirt based on a line from Austin Powers. Can you guess who said the original line? Leave a post and let me know you think it was.

What is Your Weekly Grocery Budget?

I just read an article on people that are getting by on $25 a week per person. This comes to about $3.50 a day. On Friday's I usually don't take my lunch and lunch this past Friday cost me $5. I would have blown 20% of my weeks budget. Now my wife and I have been paring down our budget over the recent months and have our budget of $150 for the both of us per week that includes a $20 each personal spend on what we want, such as my lunch on Friday. I just went shopping today for this coming week and spent $112. To some this may seem like a lot and to others this may not seem like much at all. For us its about right for a family of 2 with 3 dogs (forgot to mention them). If I take out the dog food from this weeks bill, its more like $88. This comes to about $6.30 per day per person for all meals. No matter what your weekly bills for food are, there are some simple ways to keep them down. The easiest is just decrease the number of times you go out to eat. The average family eats out 2 times or more a week. The second is to clip coupons which is again a no brainer. But one of the best thing you can do, is to pre plan your meals before going shopping. By doing this, you decrease, if not completely remove, the purchasing of things that do not get used in that weeks meals. Those impulse buys can balloon a grocery bill very quickly. Another thing, which is hard for me to do, is to learn to take left overs for lunch the next day. This allows you to increase the amount spent on dinner because the next days lunch is free. And of course, there is always the buying in bulk. This works well for frozen foods and foods that keep. For a family of 2, like us, fresh ingredients are not an easy thing to buy in bulk but for larger families this could be different. The thing is that no mater what you are doing now, I bet there are a few ways that you can decrease your grocery bill even if you think you are doing well now already.

Digital Television and its Delay

Is it me, or do others see the digital television delays as a big joke. I understand that there are a lot of people that are not ready for the change over. However, lets look at the situation. The change was supposed to happen years ago. They delayed it then because the TV stations around the country were not ready. Now that all (most all) the stations are ready, the new hand up is that the population is not ready. Why you ask? Its simple, because no one in our government looks at a situation until its already to late for decisions to make sense. When this whole mess started years ago, the only people that were familiar with it were videophiles that are not going to be affected by the change over because they have the latest technology. Then as HD took off on cable and satellite over the recent past, more people who are not going to be affected upgraded their televisions. The people left out are people that only rely on over the air programing. These same people are the ones that unless someone brought it to their attention would not know of the change. Only recently have local TV stations been running tests and short term blackouts. This caused a influx in phone calls by people that were confused. Go figure. Even with the lack of planing and push, the governments plan of offering coupons for converter boxes that will allow people with analog TVs to still get their programing ran out of money to support its own program. Again do to the poor planning. I know that a good number of the coupons that were requested were done so by people that will not need them because they already are on cable or satellite. So what is going to happen? We will get another delay, this time until June. Then, nothing will happen until June gets closer and the cycle will continue.

This could have all been avoided by better planning.