Not long ago (month or two) someone started a discussion about the cost of synthetic decking, and they were comparing real life to an article in Consumers Reports. My neighbor has decided he wants a deck, and is talking about how cheap the CR article says it will cost.
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I didn't see that thread, but on the topic -
Reader's digest just had an article on how contractors rip people off and how to avoid being taken to the cleaners.
It was VERY BAD ADVISE on nearly half of it. I was thinking while enjoying my morning pose that anybody taking that advice would be taking themselves to the cleaners. Those were a couple good pages for the outhouse!
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The best use for Reader's Digest I can think of is to roll the pages into tight bundles, they make good starter logs for the woodstove. But to get those copies, you'd have to pay and that enables poor journalism to flourish. I wish to believe, Piffin, that you just happened along that copy at the doctor's office. Struck with curiosity over that horrid anti-contractor article, but unable to finish cause your name was called, you jammed it in your pocket to read after donning your johnny robe. Thus after rummaging for your glasses to read the morning paper, you find this rumpled copy to advise you on living better by answering such mysteries as: "10 New Ways to Loose Weight" "Are you Rude? -- Take this Quiz" "Be a Better Wife", "How I Survived Cancer and Built a New House -- on ten dollars!".I admire you very much Piffin and I will have no more talk of you reading such drivel, lest the man I've constructed in my imagination, around the type you've placed here be dashed all to bits and I lose faith once again in the human race.
you gurls...<shakes head>I hate to disappoint the fans, but I kinda like RD.
Well, now that you make me think about it, they have really gone downhill over the past couple of years. Too much of fluff pieces and one minute reads - not enough of thecondensed articles from other rags that they built the magazine on.But it is one that was always there at my grandparents home, and thehome i grew up in, and mine too, so I guess it will always be there. IMO, just the anecdotes and jokes are worth half the price.I do have one peeve with the rag though. They have WAY too many of those little cards that fall out, and they now have advertising from the ones willing to pay more - on card stock pages. That way it automaticly opens to that page when you start leafing it and your poor eyes are bombarded with that particular ad.When they started that a few years ago, I was so pissed that I wrote a letter to the ed there. I carefully cut and saved every piece of cardstock that came with the mag - both the fall-outs, the tear-outs, and the stiff-ad-pages - to make a point.
The weight of all that which I included as attachments in the US mail was about a third of the total weight of the magazine. I made a point as efficiently as I could how obnoxious that was to recieve in my mail. Got a nice letter back from the assist-ed VP in charge of blah-blahs thanking me.Glory be! The next several issues had noticeably fewer of that sort of page.Now tho, they are getting right back with it....
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