#for ten dollars

[singlethread]

Hehehehe I got a Nintendo gift card today

[foldingfittedsheets]

Mattresses, unbeknownst to many, are a lot like cars. Every year new ones roll out, they’re always tweaking and innovating and you’ll never find the same one you loved decades ago when buying a new one.

Where I sold mattresses had a three month return or exchange program for this reason. New beds take a while to break in, and they’re a big expense. Your body is used to the old one. So we made sure people were loving it. If a bed got returned we’d take it back, sanitize and clean it, then sell it again on clearance.

To sell these we always had to disclose what clearance meant to customers, and they had to sign that they knew what they were getting. (FYI, not every company is as… forthright about the used bed situation)

In clearance we had beds that were floor models, we had returns, and more rarely we had old models whose line had been discontinued. These clearance beds were always final sale, so a bed could only be sold twice.

Now, the manager at the store I was working at had realized a vital fact. Clearance beds in the warehouse didn’t sell, especially old models that salespeople weren’t familiar with. And even more especially in odd sizes, like twin extra longs. So he set up a split king on the showroom floor to exhibit clearance beds, pulling all those forgotten twin extra longs out onto the showroom.

Almost all of these were brand new discontinued models. Beds I’d never learned in training were exhumed to be displayed. The manufacturers had moved on to new lines and they’d been left behind. Why would he take such in interest in selling old stock, you might wonder? Because we made double commission on the sales margin of clearance beds, and if we’d had a bed long enough they dropped the cost in the system so it was a fucking cash cow to sell these. Even with huge discounts the commissions were wonderful so it was a win win.

When I got started I was jazzed about this program, I was so on board to sell weird old brand new beds and make a ton of money. I had a wonderful older couple come in, looking for a split king adjustable set. This was a white whale sale.

The current clearance models on the floor were a latex mattress that was brand new despite being of an age to start first grade, and a tempurpedic floor model. The couple laid down and it was like magic. They each loved the bed they’d laid down on. They wanted to buy the whole shebang.

I. Was. Thrilled. I told them about the clearance program and what that meant, and they weren’t bothered in the least. I wrote up the sale then dashed into the back, fizzing with excitement to tell my manager what I’d done.

“You sold the death bed?!” He asked in delight.

I pulled up short, my smile freezing in place. “What…?”

“Didn’t you check the notes?”

I hesitated for a long beat then slowly shook my head. You see, dear reader, all beds had a personal history. Every clearance bed had logs written up by the person who took the return, as well as warehouse crew after sanitizing. It helped us know what to expect when selling them. “Wasn’t it just a floor model? You said it was a floor model…”

He slowly shook his head. I checked the notes.

It turned out, it had been sold as a floor model. The first time. But the company had made an exception and taken it back as a return two months later. Why? Because it’s owner had passed away.

I stared at the computer in horror and my manager shrugged. “They signed the clearance form. Technically it was a floor model.”

“We know for a fact that a man died in that bed!”

“What they don’t know can’t haunt them,” he said philosophically.

The man came back a week later for more sheets, utterly delighted to tell me how well they were sleeping. I clamped my teeth down around the secret of the deathbed, choosing to let them love their new bed without the stigma. Only one person would be haunted by that deathbed, and it was me.

[wellnesscard]

#summer

[tiffycat]

pov youve been starkly reminded that your friend was raised rich

based off a real thing that continually occurs with my bsf

[communistkenobi]

students in the social sciences can’t explain it either lol. “people in this country see no merit in studying any subject that cannot go on a resume” that’s because they go to school to get a job! I wonder what larger structural factors contribute to this widespread relationship people have to higher education. maybe this guy can use his big beautiful humanities degree to explain it to us

[cecoeur]

[anoant]

The Dave-verse

[mystique-peach]

Dog Days: Book of Mythos

Fantasy, character driven, atmospheric. Read the Ao3 tags. Here's the cover.

Except to show off #The Writing

He’s small enough that he can duck up into the rafters. They’re thin planks of wood, one of which fell to the ground and broken through one of the old corner tables that had been left abandoned  She, on the other hand, is tall enough that she has to duck under the doorframe to get into the room. There’s a sword dangling loosely in her hand, something he personally thinks is hard not to notice with some amount of immediacy. Actually- There are three, if he’s counting right. One in hand, two strapped to her back. Though he can’t see any other weapons at a glance, he presumes, of course, that she probably has more. On the whole, he thinks it’s good to assume people willing to carry around three swords are willing to carry around three swords and a knife. It seemed a little excessive, if you asked him. Three swords and all that. Exactly what kind of threat did she think she was walking into?  The biggest one - that being, the one she’s currently holding, is so well-polished that it shines when the light hits it. It’s bent at an angle. He finds that odd. He can’t imagine what purpose the bend in it serves, but weapons had never exactly been his “Thing.” (Not that he had many “things” that humans would consider worthwhile knowledge to begin with.)

Mwah Mwah 💋💋

[digitaloffshoot]

Hi everyone… my commissions are open indefinitely, because bills came out of nowhere and now our savings are cut down again, after over a month without any income.

We were unemployed in august, and then sick for weeks in September, and we are pretty bad with budgeting, so we have had to scrape by for a little bit.

I can draw anything that is Safe For Work you ask me to, from upwards of $10…

Digital drawings and traditional drawings will cost the same. If you want me to draw multiple characters, or a larger scene, we can discuss prices further, but for the most part, $10 will cover a single character drawing and simple background! I love to draw for you guys, because you give me such good ideas, and this is a good chance to help us out…

We can draw you, your OCs, your friends, pets, favorite cartoon or tv / movie character, animal, anything you want! Thank you so much….

DM @inkpalace, our main account, to commission us! Thank you…

[badolmen]

Ten Dollar Tuesdays!

$10 isn't much - it might not even be enough for your favorite streaming subscription or morning coffee. Why not donate $10 for one of the following campaigns!

If you cannot donate this Tuesday, please reblog so this post reaches someone who can.

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[elodieunderglass]

Do you have more Moby Dick: Modern Translation chapters anywhere that certain interested parties (me and everyone with taste) could read?

In reference to this translation of Moby Dick into insufferable modern idiom, in which Ishmael is suddenly shown up in a startling light as a person we’ve actually met and knew well but didn’t really like:

I’m sorry, I haven’t written any more of that! After chapter 1’s mad rush of energy, the book tackles more tricky, boring and unfunny content, including passages that are just uncomfortably problematic in any time; and, like, entire chapters about listening to a church sermon.

A line translation (and that is mostly a very faithful line translation! The only thing I regret not doing was perfectly capturing the fart joke!) apparently has a lot of educational value, and helps to reframe the whole novel. That’s worthy work! But i simply wouldn’t want to do a line translation on the next few chapters. My brain is picking daisies instead, already. I would say: “sorry, I’m abridging this for my own mental health. You’re eligible for a free refund.” In which case the educational value is negligible (you can just read the plot summary online. There’s a really big whale in it.)

Anyone else who wants to take a stab at it (FROM HELL’S HEART) would be welcome and I’ll gladly promote your efforts. It’s just. I am going

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- come here let me measure your head

[achingly-shy]

now that you're here, please consider reading the rest of this post and supporting my friend asmaa and her family in palestine!!!! those things that we may need more of every so often are critically important to asmaa's family, so please consider helping them.

asmaa is a 19-year-old student of computer engineering from gaza who dreamed of making a difference through work as a computer engineer after the conclusion of her schooling. however, her dreams have been disrupted by the war and bombardment, and her and her family desperately need our help!!!

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please please please consider donating to their campaign, or at the very least, please follow asmaa at @asmaamajed2 to keep up with her posts. i know there’s a lot going on with the us election results, but it’s important that we don’t forget about palestinians now more than ever. asmaa wanted me to make this post to boost her story, so please reblog reblog reblog to spread the word!!!!

[ierofrnkk]

fanning myself and saying my prayers

[meowmeowuchiha]

Okay so because the search function on this site is busted I had to use Google to find the post and took a screenshot of it but

This is hilarious enough, but OP did not get the correct conversion rate. I don't know how they got what they did, but I found the actual conversion rate. I wasn't meaning to, it was just a happy accident during research for a fic. But I found this.

1 ryō is 10 yen. So you multiply that 35 million by ten, and you get 350 million. Like so.

So then I ran that 350 million through a currency converter from yen to usd and

IT'S NOT 500K AFTER PARTIES

IT IS FUCKING 2.4 MILLION

WHAT ARE THEY GETTING WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO SPEND THAT MUCH FUCKIN MONEY

HIDAN

HIDAN EXPLAIN THIS SHIT

[genericminecraftpotato]

doing crafty things (knitting, crochet, sewing, etc) is so awesome actually because the other day i was at a craft fair with my friend and this one stall was selling a sweatshirt with granny squares and i casually pointed it out to my friend and the woman running the shop was so excited that i (a young person) even knew what that was and i don’t know where i was going with this but i think it’s really cool when i get to connect with people i don’t know and will never see again over little things like granny squares or sweaters or just the act of creating things to create

[pancakeke]

other department leads dogpiled my boss in a leader meeting to say our department is ~untrustworthy~ by citing 1 legitimate mistake we made so I'm going through records and listing all the recent shit these guys have done that is flagrantly not allowed and also checking their internal communications jira to note any issues they were fully aware of but chose not to communicate to us so they could hide their mistakes rather than resolving them. die.