#pennypincher

[dblakeslee]

I found my favorite bank. I felt right at home. My friend Ebenezer Scrooge used to work here. The #Tightwad Bank was originally opened in the town of the same name in 1984 as an offshoot of a larger institution, realizing the impact its name could have. However, after an initial period of success, a large deal fell through and the bank fell into decline, further suffering from multiple robberies in the 1990s. By 2006, the bank had shuttered its doors, only to open for a few more years before COVID-19 hit. #scrooge #banking #cheapskate #pennypincher #missouri (at Tightwad, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cme8GijvjFT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sakurailady]

Both worth watching 😄👍 #movie #movies #movienight #movielist🎦 #movierecommendation #readyplayerone #pennypincher https://www.instagram.com/p/CjNRcAoDipx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[azazelsazaleas]

Me in the 1990s watching Jurassic Park: It's a cautionary tale about science gone too far

Me in the 2020s watching Jurassic Park: It's a cautionary tale about capitalism

[roromir]

This is really hard.

I started a GoFundMe to help us make ends meet while we put all of our resources toward our mortgage.

I am swallowing my pride and asking for help. We are struggling. We have to put all of our income toward our mortgage to stay in our home. I started a GoFundMe to help us make ends meet while we dedicate our money to the house this month. I never thought I would need to crowdfund to keep a roof over our heads, but things have snowballed since my job change a year ago. Now I am tracking,…

[cyancherub]

dad!aki would always be the one to pack and carry the diaper bag LKDKL

[diabetesinsider]

By the each...

...or buy the pound. Check out how the pricing is figured when buying produce. These eggplants were both set at the same price per each but the larger one is the better value when priced this way. There is half again as much vegetable in buying the larger instead of the smaller when they're priced this way. If they're priced by the pound, it's a wash - the larger or smaller is the same value. Think about this the next time you're perusing the produce aisles...

Photo: Left eggplant 12 7/8 oz. vs. right eggplant 7 5/8 oz.

When I’m not experimenting in the kitchen, I’m sewing cotton canvas pocketed work aprons for my online shop - www.etsy.com/shop/topdrawerthreads .

Or I’m pairing upcycled yarns to knit into warm winter hats and scarves for my other shop - www.etsy.com/shop/topdraweryarns.

My daughter’s have an online shop - www.etsy.com/shop/yesdesigns - where they hand make and sell pocket knickers for fun and frolic.

My older daughter has an online shop - www.etsy.com/shop/wildwovenwomen - where she works upcycled yarns into knit eye-catching striped afghans and scarves.

[telltalebatman]

my father collecting character flaws like

[theprayingteacher]

#Finances (Non-Taxable) #TaxTime

It’s our favorite or not so favorite time or year. As we wait for W-2 and W-4 and I-9 and so many more- it’s definitely NOT the night before #Christmas when all through the house (everything is a mess and people are crazed) not a creature was stirring (coffee pot is on overtime by now) not even a mouse…. (Probably not true….) As #luck would have it (I actually don’t believe in luck- I believe in…

[spencersarc]

Hands up. Who’s feeling the pinch? The temps are dropping, the heating has gone on (limited here) the lights are on more than they are off as it gets darker. And the cooker is making more dinner as we replace salads, picnics & bbqs for stews, warm dinners and jacket spuds. Christmas is also looming around the corner. But what ya gonna do? Well just recently I’ve been earning some extra money by selling our unwanted clothes, toys, books, etc. Not only is this great for decluttering but it also gives you a bit of extra cash. You can sell on Facebook market place, eBay, vinted, or head out to a car boot sale like I did. Have a rummage though your things and see what you could let go of to make a bit of extra cash. #mineymindset #resilience #mumlife #motherhood #mumof4 #energycrisis #selling -#vinted #carbootsale #frugal #pennypinching #budgeting -#budgetlife #organisingthechaos #declutter https://www.instagram.com/p/CjR9IwpMMNk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[clatterbane]

While I am evidently on a ranting roll tonight, it also really fucking bothered me that the new endocrinologist that I happened to see for a routine yearly diabetes check-in a few weeks back, after the last one moved? She apparently decided that as essentially an ethnic minority of one here, I look weird enough that it might well be pathological.

(I would probably feel a little different about it if she weren't also from anothet ethnic minority--albeit one that is MUCH more common locally and in this country at large. It doesn't hit quite the same that way, but I still found it pretty damned offensive.)

It also didn't help that my basic build helped get me treated like garbage so much under the NHS--with definite racial undertones at times. I would just as soon never hear a single word about my meat form again, which is not very directly relevant to the issue I have come in over, and in a non-fatphobic way.

But yeah, I have ended up looking like a lot of my mother's family in middle age. If one of the thinner versions these days.

Shitty crop of me with my mom, 20 years and at least 50 lbs. ago.

We have big kinda flat faces with barrel chests and big shoulders--and our arms and legs also turn skinnier-looking by comparison to the big old torso as we get older. No matter how much meat is over it (and I am still fairly scrawny now!), you are still gonna be mostly shoulders and a ribcage which is NOT dainty. Mr. C half-laughingly backed me up that half my family is just Like This, and he hasn't even seen all the extended clan together.

And the (very) extended family resemblance kinda goes farther than that. (Thus the ethnic part being very fucking relevant.) I don't always necessarily like it, but that's just how we're made.

So yeah, that new endo decided to send me to be tested for Cushing's Syndrome, entirely based on eyeballing.

Look, it's me! Go off, I guess.

(She also asked some pointed questions like whether my freakishly skinny arms made it difficult to wheel myself around in the chair. Erm, NOPE, not at all. Absolutely no symptoms other than striking her as Wrong Looking. She also recorded in the notes which I can see online, that I was getting less exercise than I said I was--very possibly mentally filtering my actual answer through that Freakish Twig Limb perception.)

What gets me even worse is that I DO totally coincidentally have experience with Cushing's, from when I got that pituitary tumor in my teens. She knew nothing about this when she brought the subject up out of the blue.

As the first medical professional to ever do so over the past 30-odd years, I might add. Nobody who has actually been aware of that history has triggered on it either.

Cushing's is very noticeable and very hard to live with! I got extremely sick, gained like 80 lbs. over a year from it, and developed the actual corticosteroid moonface then! Nobody much wanted to listen to me at the time, likely mostly because AFAB teenager! But, I do know very well what that fucking feels like!

But yeah, that thankfully got fixed and I haven't experienced symptoms for like 30 years. That whole experience was also very freaking traumatic, which is probably not helping my reaction now with it getting brought back up so bizarrely and unexpectedly. (Also, could I somehow be secretly Very Sick now without realizing it?! I do very much rationally doubt it, but doubt still keeps nagging at me.)

I guess I had better play along for now. In a way, it is good to see another demonstration that they don't seem to do the same kind of foolish pennypinching here as under the NHS. They will refer you for whatever testing they think is necessary, even if that sometimes includes a labwork wild goose chase based on some terrible assumptions! I would rather have them be thorough, even when it's dumb as hell and kinda insulting.

I am indeed pretty confident that I just look like a middle-aged $SURNAME from another freaking continent, who is also recovering from malnutrition and still pretty scrawny. (Which the doc was aware of.) I am also still feeling some kind of way about this fact setting off weird alarm bells in some new doctor that I am stuck dealing with for the foreseeable future.

I could easily make some of my own unflattering speculations based on her appearance, which was very different from my own. Sorta Marfanoid, with buggy eyes possibly indicating thyroid issues? (Maybe there's also some wider ethnic thing going on there too, for all I know. I have seen a lot more folks from her part of the world than basically anyone here has from mine!)

But yeah, that really really would not go over too well. And it's not my place either.

[petalruesimblr]

Heartland Community Center

Download Link: Sim File Share | MTS (for approval)

Description:

HCC is a vibrant hub of activity nestled in the heart of the neighborhood. Sign up for our diverse range of classes and workshops including art, music, writing, sculpting and soccer. We also offer convenient shower facilities, nursery and function room complete with buffet catering options that is perfect for gatherings available for reservations only. Staffed by dedicated volunteers, the HCC is your go-to destination for personal growth and community connection. Join us today!

Details:

Price: 109,851 Lot Size: 30x20 Version: 1.42 Store Content: None CC Used: 2 (Coffee Machine and the base needed for the Coffee Machine by ATS3) ⚠️Not included in the download Packs Needed: The Sims 3, Ambitions, Generation, Late Night and Seasons File Type: Package

This took me a while to finish because I had to make some last-minute changes to a few rooms and remove a few ideas that were already present in other community lots. This is also my first attempt at a modern build, so I kept second-guessing if it looked okay or not and wasn't entirely satisfied with some aspects, which took a longer time to complete.

Click on the Keep Reading below for more information and pictures on this lot.

I decided to create a community center that focuses on skill improvement, especially for those sims who may not have the means to acquire the necessary objects for skill-building.

There is an on-site nursery where parents can leave their children, complete with a custom playpen for toddlers to prevent wandering and toys to keep them occupied while also increasing their logic and music skills. Additionally, there's a 'pretend' changing area for toddlers or you can replace the counters with a Dirty No More Changing And Bathing Station from The Sims 3 Store, if preferred.

I placed bookcases containing toddler books in the nursery and skill books in the small library.

There is also a function room with a Buffet Table if ever they get hungry and unfortunately this lot can't be used for destination, birthday or campaign parties due to the lot is set as "Visitors Allowed". However, you can change the lot type if you'd like to host a party here to any of the following lots stated in this Wiki here.

You can also change the Soccer Goal to a Rim Rockin' Basketball Hoop from the The Sims 3 Store if you like that one better, I made sure that their sizes fit in that area.

Outside:

Soccer Goal

Bike racks

Decent parking

Basement:

4 Shower rooms

4 Lockers

4 Toilet Stalls

4 Sinks and counters

8 Mirrors

2 Laundry Basket

Free Towels

1st Floor:

Reception/Waiting area

Nursery: Custom Play Pen, Toys, Custom Changing And Bathing Station, Summer By The Sea Shelf Bookcase, TV

Small Library: The Book Corral and Penningway Bookshelfs, few couches

2nd Floor:

Art Room: 3 Artsy Easels

Sculpting Room: 2 Pedestrian Sculpting Stations

Music Room: Marvin Beats Drum Kit, 4 Sonaflux Guitars, 1 Shibata String Bass, Prudence Pennypincher's Portable Piano

Computer Room: 4 computers

Function Room: 1 Great Eats' Recycled Consumables Buffet Table, Balloons, 8 dining chairs and 2 dining tables, 1 Public Sounds Stereo, Get Up, Get Down Dance Floor

[ahollowyear]

Everyone plz admire my commitment to pennypinching.

[askthestans]

Dear Stanley Pines. Do your remember people's reactions toward Ford when he was shown to public with you for the first time? How does people in Gravity Falls think about him?

Stanley: Well, we already talked about Wendy in another post. She basically didn't care, which was kinda expected. Can't get that girl to care about anything, honestly.

Soos mostly stayed away from Ford for my sake, at first. Said Ford didn’t appreciate me enough, and told ‘im right to his face that he was lucky to have me as a family member, ‘cause not everyone has family that sticks around and works that hard to make up for their mistakes like I did.

Eventually Soos and Ford got along. I mean, now the kid makes Stanfiction with him as the main character, which is as puke-worthy as it sounds. By the end of last Summer, he grew to respect Ford, but he was not a Ford fan at all for a while.

Not sure if you've noticed, but Soos and I have a rather... complex relationship. He’s extremely loyal to me. I s’pose I should feel grateful, but it’s a little weird, honestly.

Stanford: Stan, we talked about this when we were on the Stan-O-War. It’s quite obvious that Soos looks up to you as a fath-

Stanley: Boss! He looks up to me as the world’s greatest former boss! D-don’t listen to Sixer, here. Ain’t nothin’ between me and Soos but a serious, coldhearted manager-employee relationship!

Stanford: Stanley, he left your room here completely untouched after he took ownership of the Shack. When we got back, he knocked over everyone - including Melody - out of the way to hug you and wouldn’t let go for an hour.

Stanley: See? I’m the best boss he’s ever had.

Stanford: He emailed you every day while we were out at sea, sometimes multiple times, asking you for life advice and telling you how much he missed you, with attached pictures of himself in your Mr. Mystery outfit and how proud he was to wear it. Never mind the fact that he emailed me every day, too, to ask me to make sure you were happy and came back home safe.

That’s not even accounting for how he’s planning on naming his firstborn son after you-

Stanley: Stanley is a common, classy name. There’s no relation whatsoever- Stanford: Stanley...

Stanley: What!? Soos had some actual taste for once in his life, is all I’m sayin’! Who said I cried when he told me he was namin’ his son Stanley!? I didn’t feel a heartwrenching ache in my chest for days afterwards, neither! Not at all!

Stanford: *Pulls out a camera. On it is a set of photos of Stan standing on the deck of the Stan-O-War II, a doofy grin on his face, eyes puffy from what must have been hours of tears, with the look of a man who finally feels emotionally fulfilled for the first time in his life.* Photo evidence, Stanley- Stanley: *Snatches camera from Ford and vigorously deletes them. Afterwards, he gives Ford a betrayed look.*

Stanford: *Chuckles and snatches the camera back.* Not to mention, the extra hour you spent at the store the other day debating between buying a baby blanket and bottles and toys, then - you of all people, Mr. Cheapskate Pennypinch McScrooge himself - bought all of them and more, then proceeded to grin the entire time we spent in the checkout and during the drive home. You even started crying aga-

Stanley: ANYWAYS! How’d the rest of the town react to Ford? Let’s talk about that instead! That’s far more interesting than mine and Soos’ completely boring manager-employee relationship.

Ford, talk about yourself! It’s your favorite thing to do, right? Tell ‘em how everyone in this hickdump town reacted to the mind-blowin’, plot twisty return of Stanford Filbrick Pines.

*Stan grabs the camera back again and furiously scrolls through all the pictures and videos, making sure none of them contain any incriminating content of him deeply caring about Soos. Most are a mix of very symmetrical, magazine-worthy pictures taken by Ford of supernatural creatures, landscapes, and the two Stan twins bonding, plus blurry shots or clips taken by Stan of random things like Ford getting chased by a werepanther, or Ford drunk off his ass while trying to slurringly explain why vampires are factually not sparkly and hot, but a few are targets for Stan’s deletion fury.

Except one. It’s of him, probably taken by Ford when Stan didn’t notice. He’s also drunk in this video, but unlike Ford - who can’t shut up and goes on angry, barely coherent rants when he’s got liquor in him, as if speaking to some invisible college lecture class (complete with wobbly chalkboard diagrams or bar napkin graphs) - Stan is a sappy, happy drunk.

He’s sitting at their table in the Stan-O-War II, a beer sloshing in widely gesturing hand, rambling about how Soos deserves better. The video jitters as Stan forces Ford into a hug, telling him that that’s exactly how he’s going to hug Soos when they get back, and that even though he never had kids, he considers Soos... well, close enough to it, and that Soos kept him company all those years. Without him, Stan would have been a much sadder, lonelier man, and he owes Soos his life.

Stan smiles at that one as Ford explains an answer to the asker’s question. He’s not gonna delete that one. Maybe one day... no, he probably won’t show that to Soos. Or will he? Ugh...

Stanford: Before I got lost in the portal, most of the town hadn’t seen me much, if at all. And Stan and I look alike enough that, when I left and he took my identity, most didn’t know better. Except Fiddleford. But Fiddleford was...

*Ford looks guilty.* Well, his memory was not in the best shape, is all I’ll say. Of course, the townsfolk eventually saw Stan and I together, side-by-side, after Weirdmageddon ended and everything had calmed down. That was the moment we got reactions...

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Pacifica: Hey, why is Stan suddenly hot now?

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Candy: Improvement of Stan?

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Gideon: My oh my, who knew that the genius behind the journals was none other than the long lost twin and great uncle of my mortal enemies all along?

*Eye twitches.* I haven’t forgiven you for the way you write sentences, Stanford Pines. I almost died multiple times because o' your knack for placin' warnings not to do somethin’ on pages after you’ve already said to do them. That should have been my first hint that the Author was from the stupid Pines family!

Dipper: Wait, Journal 2 has sentences written like that, too?

Stanford: Just how many children were running around with my journals!? Also, I ran out of room to write!

Gideon: And you’ve run out of time to atone for your mistakes, Stanford Pines.

*After this point, Ford was sent countless curses in the mail with the return address matching the Gravity Falls maximum security prison. Even when he and Stan were on the Stan-O’-War II away from any mailboxes, they’d get sent the occasional demon or poltergeist visitor as well. Ford easily dispelled or exorcised most of these, but being woken in the middle of the night on the dark ocean with some horrific monster breathing into Ford and Stan’s faces was not easy to deal with. Ford eventually beat an answer out of them as to who kept sending their ilk, and started redirecting some back to the sender. This occult summoning war continues to this day.

Stan tried to convince Ford that a good broom to the face was all it took to get Gideon to scurry off, but Ford only put his hand on Stan’s shoulder, sighed, looked down for a while...

And then he said, “Stanley, I write sentences perfectly, and I will summon the entirety of the multiverse’s worst horrors upon that child to prove my point.”

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Grenda: Teach me your deep voiced ways, Cave Johnson!

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Lazy Susan: Hey there, handsome! Hey! I tried to date your brother, but he said it couldn’t work out because of all my cats. Are you a cat person? You seem like a cat person. Maybe you could come over and meet all of them? Oh, I bet Mr. Cat Face would love you! What do you say, Stanford? Wait, Stanley, why are you dragging your brother away from me? You don’t think he’d like my cats?

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Sheriff Blubs: You mean to tell me that your brother was impersonating you all this time? So Stanford Pines did not, in fact, commit the largest list of felonies in Gravity Falls’ history?

Stanford: Yes. That is precisely what I’m saying. And Stanley’s technically legally dead. So Stanley Pines didn’t commit them either, nor should any law enforcement ever come after him again. You got it?

*Durland and Blubs glance at each other, looking disbelieving, but then Blubs glances at Ford again. Ford is glaring at them both with his trench coat opened, showing a gleaming assortment of knives, sci-fi weaponry, and Earth guns.*

Sheriff Blubs: Can’t argue with that logic!

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Reginald: Now that we're finally alone, again, far away from Gravity Falls in this romantic, sunset sea cove off the coast of Japan... Rosanna, there's a burning question which my heart longs to ask of you.

Rosanna: Oh, Reginald!

Distant Voice: Hey, other humans!

*A boat named the Stan-O’-War II pulls up to theirs.*

Stanford: *Battered, covered with green blood, a large kaiju baby tied down on the ship’s deck behind him.* Want to hear a joke? Here goes... My ex-eldritch cult from Dimension 8]2M still miss me...but their aim is getting better!

...

Their aim is getting better!

...

See, it's-it's funny because soul-bonding, ritualistic pacts are terrible!

*Reginald and Rosanna turn to each other, stare into each other’s eyes without a blink for far too long, then jump overboard, never to be seen again.*

[sergle]

I’m not even sure why I’m looking for a bedframe Right Now seeing as how I’m trying to pennypinch

[cyancherub]

I cant stop pennypincher aki is giving me life: he times how long you’re in the shower

IM SCREAMING hes pounding on the door like 'u have been in there for 10 minutes and 45 seconds what stage of the shower are u on' the poor man is tearing his hair out over his water bill