How Was Your Day Thread V5

[Waveclaw]

Ahh, still awesome... For now...

[Sochitelya]

So the bosses are cracking down on flextime and I wonder if they realize that with the shitty wages they pay, the flextime is the only good thing they have going for them. If they start trying to fuck with my schedule, I'm gone and that would really suck... for them.

[Anira]

Looks like it'll cost more to feed my dog raw than it does to feed myself in general. I'm okay with that. Problem is, do I have enough money to do it at all? Probably not.

[NyxNoire]

My dad just called me and said my mom isn't doing well. He thinks this might be it...

[Reima]

Magistream needs a sad compassionate hugging emoticon, the happy hug just really isn't doing it in many situations

[Kiwi329]

Looks like it'll cost more to feed my dog raw than it does to feed myself in general. I'm okay with that. Problem is, do I have enough money to do it at all? Probably not.

If you live in an area where raw feeding is not considered "crazy" (aka not my area but the city next to mine), there may be a co-op raw feeding group you can join. Buying in bulk and splitting the cost with a few other people really helped me out. I had a Great Dane with numerous health issues that stemmed from diet (she had malabsorption issues amongst a plethora of others) and they were really only under control when I fed her raw. With her and another large dog, I needed a lot of meat but my job in those days sucked. I had to be super thrifty. I found a group in the city next to me and we bulk ordered from a large supplier and split the cost and meat. It saved me tons. Now I'm lucky enough to have befriended my city's only real butcher and he gives me the hook-up. Thankfully no one else feeds raw around here apparently because he saves me all the past date meat, freezer burnt meat, scraps from butchering, etc. I usually get out of there with 60-100 lbs of meat for about $20 bucks. Last trip was 80 lbs of chicken leg quarters that thawed and refroze into one solid chicken-sicle when they had a freezer malfunction and he gave them to me for $5. (That was a great deal but omg the work seperating, repackaging and portioning....yikes lol. But worth it!)

Seriously, make friends with your local butchers. Buy in bulk on sales when you can (10lb chicken quarters on sale for $2.50 a bag is my favorite sale in the world!), make friends with hunters and ask them for scraps, ask friends and family for freezer burnt meat they were going to discard anyways, check grocers for markdowns on meat that is about to pass it's sell by date. Make friends with farmers or small homesteaders. I get 100-150 fresh eggs a month for free just because the guy who gives them to me can't use them all and gets sick of eggs lol. Join a co-op if you can. There are sooo many thrifty ways to feed raw if you're lucky enough to live in the right area. Good luck!

[Sochitelya]

Uterus why.

[Anira]

Looks like it'll cost more to feed my dog raw than it does to feed myself in general. I'm okay with that. Problem is, do I have enough money to do it at all? Probably not.

If you live in an area where raw feeding is not considered "crazy" (aka not my area but the city next to mine), there may be a co-op raw feeding group you can join. Buying in bulk and splitting the cost with a few other people really helped me out. I had a Great Dane with numerous health issues that stemmed from diet (she had malabsorption issues amongst a plethora of others) and they were really only under control when I fed her raw. With her and another large dog, I needed a lot of meat but my job in those days sucked. I had to be super thrifty. I found a group in the city next to me and we bulk ordered from a large supplier and split the cost and meat. It saved me tons. Now I'm lucky enough to have befriended my city's only real butcher and he gives me the hook-up. Thankfully no one else feeds raw around here apparently because he saves me all the past date meat, freezer burnt meat, scraps from butchering, etc. I usually get out of there with 60-100 lbs of meat for about $20 bucks. Last trip was 80 lbs of chicken leg quarters that thawed and refroze into one solid chicken-sicle when they had a freezer malfunction and he gave them to me for $5. (That was a great deal but omg the work seperating, repackaging and portioning....yikes lol. But worth it!)

Seriously, make friends with your local butchers. Buy in bulk on sales when you can (10lb chicken quarters on sale for $2.50 a bag is my favorite sale in the world!), make friends with hunters and ask them for scraps, ask friends and family for freezer burnt meat they were going to discard anyways, check grocers for markdowns on meat that is about to pass it's sell by date. Make friends with farmers or small homesteaders. I get 100-150 fresh eggs a month for free just because the guy who gives them to me can't use them all and gets sick of eggs lol. Join a co-op if you can. There are sooo many thrifty ways to feed raw if you're lucky enough to live in the right area. Good luck!

You could have stopped after the first line. I live in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing and no one here, and I never get to town because it's 3 hours one way and takes the entire day for a trip, and I don't have a vehicle and no one I know goes to town when I need stuff from there.

On top of that, I have a camper refrigerator (I live in a 5th wheel). I have no space to buy a lot in advance.

Also, I have chickens, quail, and turkeys for eggs, so I never have to buy those.

But thank you for trying to help. I've been looking at raw feeding off and on for many years. It's just not something that can be easily done out here in the middle of nowhere.

You want to know what our prices are at the store here (only one grocery store)? $3.49/lb for chicken. $5.99/lb for beef. $2.99/lb for pork. And the selection is minimal. Those are the only types of raw meat available (plus ground beef, of course). And 99% of the time it's only boneless. No drumsticks. No wings. Just chops, steaks, and breasts. Fish? Good luck.

ETA: I don't know if that sounded bitchy or not. Wasn't meant to. I have a migraine and I ran out of Excedrin months ago. I do appreciate you trying to help.

[Waveclaw]

Looks like it'll cost more to feed my dog raw than it does to feed myself in general. I'm okay with that. Problem is, do I have enough money to do it at all? Probably not.

If you live in an area where raw feeding is not considered "crazy" (aka not my area but the city next to mine), there may be a co-op raw feeding group you can join. Buying in bulk and splitting the cost with a few other people really helped me out. I had a Great Dane with numerous health issues that stemmed from diet (she had malabsorption issues amongst a plethora of others) and they were really only under control when I fed her raw. With her and another large dog, I needed a lot of meat but my job in those days sucked. I had to be super thrifty. I found a group in the city next to me and we bulk ordered from a large supplier and split the cost and meat. It saved me tons. Now I'm lucky enough to have befriended my city's only real butcher and he gives me the hook-up. Thankfully no one else feeds raw around here apparently because he saves me all the past date meat, freezer burnt meat, scraps from butchering, etc. I usually get out of there with 60-100 lbs of meat for about $20 bucks. Last trip was 80 lbs of chicken leg quarters that thawed and refroze into one solid chicken-sicle when they had a freezer malfunction and he gave them to me for $5. (That was a great deal but omg the work seperating, repackaging and portioning....yikes lol. But worth it!)

Seriously, make friends with your local butchers. Buy in bulk on sales when you can (10lb chicken quarters on sale for $2.50 a bag is my favorite sale in the world!), make friends with hunters and ask them for scraps, ask friends and family for freezer burnt meat they were going to discard anyways, check grocers for markdowns on meat that is about to pass it's sell by date. Make friends with farmers or small homesteaders. I get 100-150 fresh eggs a month for free just because the guy who gives them to me can't use them all and gets sick of eggs lol. Join a co-op if you can. There are sooo many thrifty ways to feed raw if you're lucky enough to live in the right area. Good luck!

You could have stopped after the first line. I live in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing and no one here, and I never get to town because it's 3 hours one way and takes the entire day for a trip, and I don't have a vehicle and no one I know goes to town when I need stuff from there.

On top of that, I have a camper refrigerator (I live in a 5th wheel). I have no space to buy a lot in advance.

Also, I have chickens, quail, and turkeys for eggs, so I never have to buy those.

But thank you for trying to help. I've been looking at raw feeding off and on for many years. It's just not something that can be easily done out here in the middle of nowhere.

You want to know what our prices are at the store here (only one grocery store)? $3.49/lb for chicken. $5.99/lb for beef. $2.99/lb for pork. And the selection is minimal. Those are the only types of raw meat available (plus ground beef, of course). And 99% of the time it's only boneless. No drumsticks. No wings. Just chops, steaks, and breasts. Fish? Good luck.

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[AssassinsCreed]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2 ... e-netflix/

MOVIE ABOUT EUROVISION!? HELL YES!!