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Old 02-01-2017, 11:46 PM
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I wish you guys on here lived closer because I would just of given you guys a chance to buy up some of my gear that I didn't want anymore instead of it ending up in the e-waste center or in the landfill, because to be quite honest those are my only options at this point for taking old radios and TVs that I either can't sell or can't fix or don't have any desire to keep
Out of curiosity, what was the final outcome on that cute little KLH 21 that you were working on a while back?

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Old 02-02-2017, 07:40 AM
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Here are my really nice pieces. My lesser TVs I keep at my other house.
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Old 02-02-2017, 11:21 AM
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Out of curiosity, what was the final outcome on that cute little KLH 21 that you were working on a while back?

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I ended up scrapping it out because the screws that were holding the tuner module into place were stripped out and I couldn't get it removed so I could troubleshoot it and get it working properly.
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Here are my really nice pieces. My lesser TVs I keep at my other house.
you see if I could do something like that I would be doing OK but like I said I keep getting resistance from my mom and sister and my staff person and behavior specialist about trying to display some of my nicest pieces and then just getting rid of the not so nice pieces that I could care less about.
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Old 02-02-2017, 11:34 AM
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you see if I could do something like that I would be doing OK but like I said I keep getting resistance from my mom and sister and my staff person and behavior specialist about trying to display some of my nicest pieces and then just getting rid of the not so nice pieces that I could care less about.
Man, most people don't deviate from the book at all. Such people won't exactly leave a legacy.

Not only do I insist on being in the driver's seat of my own life, I insisted on a manual.
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Man, most people don't deviate from the book at all. Such people won't exactly leave a legacy.

Not only do I insist on being in the driver's seat of my own life, I insisted on a manual.
That's the thing I did try that once as far as trying to tell my mom that I didn't want her meddling in my affairs when it comes to my collections and what not and she just got all pissy at me and basically told me that I had no right to tell her off like that, and then made me appologize for my behavior... Go figure.
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Old 02-02-2017, 03:19 PM
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Aren't you about done with college? When you do finish, get a good job, move well away from family, do whatever is necessary to get those idiot government Councillors out of your life and live as freely as you want. If I was in your shoes I'd be carefully appraising my situation legally and financially, and plotting and working towards a scenario where no one can try to tell you what to do. Sometimes harassing and controlling relatives need to be excommunicated...My parents excommunicated their relatives because the grandparents let sibling rivalry build till all the siblings permanently hate/are constantly mean to each other...As a result we moved away, they don't know where we live, they only have an email address to reach us at and we don't see them and hardly communicate with them unless someone dies or gets married.
My best friend has a mother that has some sort of perfectionist/minimalist/neat freak OCD...Her garage is the neatest most organized I've ever seen and she "can't stand how messy it is"....He finally moved out early this winter after having constant war with her for a while....The worst episode she started by without any reason completely reorganizing his basement work area without telling him, while we were hanging out at my place. She tried to throw out a ton of paperwork including schematics for what he was working on, and much of his college notebooks and textbooks!...Coming from the same college I can say that those notes are EXTREMELY valuable reference material for his career work, and tossing them is almost like intentionally lighting money on fire...

Frankly, if it is your money and your home you are using to collect SHE is the one who has NO right to tell you how to do things...And you should stand your ground and not apologize or back down, ever.
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Aren't you about done with college? When you do finish, get a good job, move well away from family, do whatever is necessary to get those idiot government Councillors out of your life and live as freely as you want. If I was in your shoes I'd be carefully appraising my situation legally and financially, and plotting and working towards a scenario where no one can try to tell you what to do. Sometimes harassing and controlling relatives need to be excommunicated...My parents excommunicated their relatives because the grandparents let sibling rivalry build till all the siblings permanently hate/are constantly mean to each other...As a result we moved away, they don't know where we live, they only have an email address to reach us at and we don't see them and hardly communicate with them unless someone dies or gets married.
My best friend has a mother that has some sort of perfectionist/minimalist/neat freak OCD...Her garage is the neatest most organized I've ever seen and she "can't stand how messy it is"....He finally moved out early this winter after having constant war with her for a while....The worst episode she started by without any reason completely reorganizing his basement work area without telling him, while we were hanging out at my place. She tried to throw out a ton of paperwork including schematics for what he was working on, and much of his college notebooks and textbooks!...Coming from the same college I can say that those notes are EXTREMELY valuable reference material for his career work, and tossing them is almost like intentionally lighting money on fire...

Frankly, if it is your money and your home you are using to collect SHE is the one who has NO right to tell you how to do things...And you should stand your ground and not apologize or back down, ever.
Well that's the thing I do have a job working as a custodian for Goodwill (which is how I find some of my cool stuff I do because I can see it as it comes in) and because of my disabilities I have a caseworker from the state, I receive disability and other such services, and I do live out on my own, but where I live is in a house that I share with a housemate that I pay rent and utilities for, and we pretty much have the house split evenly between us as far as the living spaces go, and then we share the kitchen, but anyways the crappy part was that the state of Indiana required me to have what's called a representative payee for my disability payments as a condition for me to be able to move out on my own (which I think is bulldukey) so because of that my mom is actually in charge of my money I get through disability, I have no control over it whatsoever, the only money I have control over is my money I earn from my job, and even then that's not really enough to do much with, because my job is only part time 25 hours a week, @ $8 an hour six days a week and I get paid every week, that's not a whole lot do stuff with. Anyways, the whole system kind of has me locked into its grip not just my mom and sister and staff people, but also the stupid social services (the state) even though I'm just about finished with my IT degree with my disabilities and the way disability payments are handled I don't think I'll even be able to use my degree to get a job in the IT field like I want because all IT related jobs make $100k+ a year and with the way disability payments are you can't make over a certain amount of money or you'll lose your benefits, which not only would I loose my disability payments but I'd also loose my Medicaid which is what pays for my medications which If I don't have that I would have to pay for my medications completely out of pocket which would be well over $1k every month. So yeah its not as easy for me as you might think to try and "live off the grid" so to speak as much as I would like to. And as much as it sounds like I'm making up excuses, they are not excuses, it's legitimately the situation I'm in currently, and I quite literally can't do anything about it right now as much as I want to. In the neighborhood I'm living in right now there are actually 3 houses for sale and all three houses are quite litterally just the right size for me to live in on my own and to hold my collections properly and to be able to have a nice workbench set up as well, and in fact the houses are probably more than likely in my price range payment wise if I were to get a mortgage but if I would try to talk my parents into buying me my own house they would probably think I'm crazy, even though the house I'm living in now was bought for my housemate by his parents (my landlords) so that he could live on his own).
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Old 02-02-2017, 09:17 PM
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Are you getting your drugs from Canada? If not you/the government might be paying 20X what it actually costs to make them profitably. Mom was on ~$400 a month stomach acid reducing prescription med, and insurance stopped covering it...When she switched to buying it from Canada mail order it was like ~15$ for the same stuff. The domestic pharmaceutical corps are blatantly financially raping the American public...(literally they spend several times their research budget advertising "ED" treatments on TV.)

Look into buying Canadian. If you can get that payment down, get that 100k$ job and get off the government dole/out of their and your parent's control it will be liberating beyond your wildest dreams.
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Are you getting your drugs from Canada? If not you/the government might be paying 20X what it actually costs to make them profitably. Mom was on ~$400 a month stomach acid reducing prescription med, and insurance stopped covering it...When she switched to buying it from Canada mail order it was like ~15$ for the same stuff. The domestic pharmaceutical corps are blatantly financially raping the American public...(literally they spend several times their research budget advertising "ED" treatments on TV.)

Look into buying Canadian. If you can get that payment down, get that 100k$ job and get off the government dole/out of their and your parent's control it will be liberating beyond your wildest dreams.
I would but I don't think my medications are available that way, three of my medications are available as generics but the fourth one is still not available as a generic yet so I would still have to at least get that one here yet.
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Old 02-03-2017, 11:16 AM
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I would but I don't think my medications are available that way, three of my medications are available as generics but the fourth one is still not available as a generic yet so I would still have to at least get that one here yet.
If it is available to the Canadians then it will almost certainly be cheaper to source it from them. No harm in researching it.

If something is bad enough to waste a lot of energy being frustrated, then it should be bad enough to channel some of that energy into seeking/making a solution.
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