My Recent Online Purchases - What Were Yours?

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  1. Martin Alonzo

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    My daughter would love to sell it when she is done giving it away Ha Ha
    She has high hopes of being the next millionaire but her heart is to big and she ends up giving all she makes to her friends.
     
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    I completely understand.

    Good for her!
     
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    Today -a day earlier- I received the lock.
     
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    I recently bought two pair of pants, a mouse for my computer, nine books, and today I bought
    a harmonica and two pair of replacement reeds to repair a couple of harmonicas.
     
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    I had never heard of Amazon's price protection policy. I took a look because I buy so much there, and then I came across articles saying that Amazon "ended that policy"...but those articles range in date from May 2016 to February 2021!!!

    Has this sort of come & gone and returned over the years? The articles also said that Amazon never officially published this policy, even while it was in effect. And everything I've read says you have to request the refund, unless you belong to those services that automatically track & manage this stuff for you and then take a cut of the savings.

    I'm not doubting you, I'm very curious. The info is all over the place, with nothing on Amazon's website (not that I expected to find it there.) I bought a sous vide machine not long ago and it's one of those things that periodically gets marked down by $50 with no announcement or fanfare (I read about this in the Comments area), and then the price just goes back up. I caught it during a "lowered price" window because I kept checking on it, but never gave any thought to Amazon covering me.

    Thanks!
     
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  6. Silvia Benoit

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    I see is a different lock.....
     
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  7. Don Alaska

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    I just bought a medical manual for disaster situations. It is 500+ pages of very interesting information. If there are any preppers on the forum with medical training, or children and grandchildren (or their own) who have medical issues, it is a good book to have.

    book
     
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    I had started reading about this stuff. Some of the prepper forums discuss meds & antibiotics you can buy for critters without a script but are find for human use.
     
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    Yeah, vet meds are generally fine for humans, although some of the vet-only stuff has not been tested for human use and dosages are not available. This book goes much further than just meds, however. I have a grandson who is a type-1 diabetic and I have wondered what could be done for him should the supply of insulin be interrupted. This book states that insulin doesn't "go bad" as it ages, it simply loses potency, and suggests supplementing insulin past expiration with Metformin, a drug generally used for type-2 diabetics. The book states that Metformin makes insulin more effective, thus compensating somewhat for decreased potency and may help, at least for the short term.

    Not everyone is able to start IVs, give injections, suture wounds, etc., but with a little forethought, maybe you could get through. Hurricane Katrina was one of the reasons the book was written, as thousands needed help, help was not coming, and many (I think almost half) of the first-responders stayed home to care for their own families and were not available to help others. Of course, forethought on the part of the governor and the mayor could have avoided almost all that suffering, but it proved that we can't always rely on others in a pinch. If the "pandemic" had been a bad one instead of one that caused more impact from government action than from the disease itself, it would have been another example. I don't know what the reaction would have been had this been a really bad pandemic.
     
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  10. Beth Gallagher

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    I ordered some "do-rags" from Amazon; now I can style it as a biker chick or babushka. :D
     
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    Make sure to take a poll before getting a Tramp Stamp, m'kay?
     
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  12. Beth Gallagher

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    I understand that I will get tatooed for radiation, is that a thing? :D
     
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    Really? Man, they leave no shred unshredded.

    Do they still sell those cheap temporary tattoos we used to get when we were kids? Sounds like it's time to plant a surprise.
     
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  14. Beth Gallagher

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    Apparently they place "dots" to map the area. Once an area has been radiated, it isn't supposed to be done again. Also, they try to keep away from the heart and lungs as much as possible. I will know more about that later.
     
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    Interesting. I did not know that.

    Are the dots permanent?
     
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