Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Ancient traditionsEnglish
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    4 days ago

    lol … I had this kind of argument with my wife for years.

    She kept buying the smallest bottles of dish washing liquid for years … if it was smaller, to her it was much cheaper. I kept telling her that the price for the small bottle was more expensive per liter of liquid compared to buying it all in bulk.

    I kept telling her that if you just bought one giant bottle for the best price when it went on sale, you’d end up buying more liquid and saving money over time. I’d buy a big huge bottle every year or so and it would last us months, then she’d revert to buying small bottles again.

    Eventually, she realized that it was cheaper in the long run to buying big bottles … mostly because when you bought one giant bottle, you’d forget the problem altogether for about six months or even a year.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a random act of kindness that's stuck with you?English
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    6 days ago

    We did a little tour on our own into Germany one spring, about 20 years ago. It was only a few days, we didn’t have much money and we absolutely didn’t know what we were doing. We rented a car and just started wandering. It was just at the point of technology where GPS was still new. We didn’t have any so we just started driving with a shitty map and no clue.

    We had done some traveling in other countries before and we had met several famously obnoxious German tourists. We had partly expected to meet equally arrogant Germans in their home country.

    Instead we met the most open, kind hearted, brilliant people ever. Everywhere we stopped, we’d meet three or four locals who were more than happy to give directions, recommend restaurants, bars, tea shops and sites to see.

    At one point we met a truck driver who gave us a ton of information and showed us a driving route on a big format ringed binder map book. When he was done talking, he left the book. We told him he was forgetting his book and he said we could have it as it had detailed updated map info of the entire country. It was an expensive book and I knew it, so I told him not to give it away. He insisted and said he didn’t mind.

    I still have that map book on my shelf and whenever I see it, I think of that trip and all those people we met.

    Totally loved Germany after that.