It’s better with milk than water, but making it at home water is easier cos you can just use the kettle rather than heating milk up specially. I normally put about 2/3 boiling water in after the powder, stir it through, then top the rest up with milk (and a bit of triple sec if it’s to your taste…). That is enough to stop the milk making it too cold. I think the more milk you use the better the powder dissolves and the less lumpy it is too.
What’s the best place to sell stuff online these days? Context: a family member passed away last year and left a large shed absolutely packed to the rafters with every imaginable tool. I’ve been sorting through and chucking junk away, but I’m at the point where I need to start selling some of the bigger machines to clear out some space. Vices, bench sanders, grinders, mills, welders, lathes, drill presses, many other power tools - both hand tools and fixed - and motorised garden tools like edgers, rotary hoes etc. So this will be stuff that will require an in-person pickup, no delivery by mail.
Is gumtree still worth using? Facebook marketplace? Ebay?
Just looking for something relatively hassle-free and where I’m not going to be deluged with scammers and bad-faith buyers. I’m willing to pay a bit more in commission to avoid bullshit. I’ve got a lot to get through and I don’t need to be messing about.
Marketplace
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Only real success we have had is Facebook marketplace. Easy to use and costs nothing.
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Plus one for marketplace.
my kids laughed at me when I mentioned eBay.
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I could use one of them. Also I previously worked at Vic Uni in the trade schools where everybody used those kind of tools (mills, grinders, welders etc) Maybe put up and ad on their noticeboards.
In the current batch of stuff I’m trying to get rid of is a Vertex VK-6 milling vise, never used. Might be a bit more specialised than you’re looking for, but if not, drop me a line. I’m going to be peddling this stuff for a couple of years I think. There’s stuff piled two feet deep on every available horizontal surface, in condition ranging from ‘brand new and never unboxed’, all the way to ‘pulled off someone else’s hard rubbish collection’, I’m sure there’s regular vises too - probably several, in fact. A bit of a hoarding problem was involved. I think the last count of leafblowers was 6, there’s three sheet metal bending presses, we’ve chucked out 5 dead lawnmowers with more to come, and we’ve counted 14 soldering irons.
I’ll see how I go on Marketplace before going to the trade schools I think. I’m pretty eager to keep it low-key and to avoid drawing too much attention. I know that there’s a pretty flourishing cottage industry in stealing and reselling tools out there, I don’t want to invite any problems.
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Milk is just as easy. Just whack it in the microwave for 90-100 seconds.
Mother’s Day is just around the corner!
There was a place in Oakleigh called Zelato that did ice cream that my folks back on the farm went nuts over. Sadly, they went out of business so I can’t surprise them anymore.
Does anyone know of any top notch ice cream places in the south east that they’d recommend?
How does the Salary cap work in the AFL when you have Essendon playing 23 games a year and paying their players accordingly but teams like Geelong/Brisbane play an additional 2-3 games every year, do payments in the finals fall outside the cap?
I think outside of players on minimum wage(s) - initial contract post-draft or a rookie - most contracts don’t have match day payments but might have performance bonuses, trigger clauses, etc.
Stay with me here.
A car was parked next to me (car was off)
I opened my door to put my son in the car seat. They turn on the car and reverse out and hit our door
Who is at fault?
They are 100% at fault.
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Brad Scott.
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Ideally you have photos of everything - where the car stopped relative to parking bay and your car, the scrape along their car. Your door open.
Position shows they moved, scrape length shows they were moving rather than you hit them while they weren’t moving etc.
I have used photos TWICE to overturn dodgy attribution of blame in accidents. Any accident - take photos of everything. In one case the shape of the plastic bead at one end of the scrape, and the direction in which a strap on the truck that hit me displaced relative to a dust shadow were important, and I hadn’t figured that out at the time. I just took the photos and pieced together what they meant later. The photos proved my account and totally disproved the other account.
Similar in the other one - but totally different scenario.
I do have the photos to the damage of our door. She sped out so fast it knocked the hinges off and the door doesnt close as well as it should.
Bingle (my insurer) are trying to say it is my fault. The other guy was supposed to put it through his insurance company but hasn’t gotten back to me (did a rego check, it’s suspended)
Go to the cops. If his rego is suspended he’s in deep poop.
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Yeah my insurer blamed me twice. Stick to your facts and write an articulate letter that lets them know you’re not stupid and you should be fine. I think sometimes they just want to tell everyone they are at fault to minimise arguments later. Based on what you say, clearly not your fault.
Yeah I’ve raised a complaint with the ombudsman
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Yeah going to do that, but you have to wait ages at the cop shop, but will definitely do it.