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ParticipantSorry to hear you don’t like your Tempur-Pedic–I truly, madly, deeply love mine. We don’t have the classic–it is one step up from that, I think. My husband recently slept on a Sleep Number bed at a hotel, and he thought it was pretty comfy. I would recommend going to a store where you can try out the feel of different mattresses. Once upon a time we bought a couch from a popular mail-order furniture store, and I hated that darn couch! It looked cute, but it was VERY uncomfortable. I will never buy another piece of furniture that I have to put my body on without thorough testing in person first.
ParticipantSorry to hear you don’t like your Tempur-Pedic–I truly, madly, deeply love mine. We don’t have the classic–it is one step up from that, I think. My husband recently slept on a Sleep Number bed at a hotel, and he thought it was pretty comfy. I would recommend going to a store where you can try out the feel of different mattresses. Once upon a time we bought a couch from a popular mail-order furniture store, and I hated that darn couch! It looked cute, but it was VERY uncomfortable. I will never buy another piece of furniture that I have to put my body on without thorough testing in person first.
ParticipantSorry to hear you don’t like your Tempur-Pedic–I truly, madly, deeply love mine. We don’t have the classic–it is one step up from that, I think. My husband recently slept on a Sleep Number bed at a hotel, and he thought it was pretty comfy. I would recommend going to a store where you can try out the feel of different mattresses. Once upon a time we bought a couch from a popular mail-order furniture store, and I hated that darn couch! It looked cute, but it was VERY uncomfortable. I will never buy another piece of furniture that I have to put my body on without thorough testing in person first.
ParticipantSorry to hear you don’t like your Tempur-Pedic–I truly, madly, deeply love mine. We don’t have the classic–it is one step up from that, I think. My husband recently slept on a Sleep Number bed at a hotel, and he thought it was pretty comfy. I would recommend going to a store where you can try out the feel of different mattresses. Once upon a time we bought a couch from a popular mail-order furniture store, and I hated that darn couch! It looked cute, but it was VERY uncomfortable. I will never buy another piece of furniture that I have to put my body on without thorough testing in person first.
ParticipantOMG!! Nostradamus–that picture speaks louder than words. I almost can’t bring myself to look!! Ugh. Yep, that’s definitely a bad thing. . . but it isn’t my particular pet peeve. My pet peeve is:
Lazy people who leave their grocery cart parked between cars in the parking lot instead of putting in back in the dang cart rack!!!! WTH??? They never stay where people put them, they blow around either into other cars or into (otherwise) perfectly empty parking spots. Seriously? Are we such a lazy culture that we can’t walk the extra ten feet to return the cart? I know there are *some* situations that may justify this, but there aren’t really that many.
Which leads me to pet peeve number two: MASSIVE cars parked in COMPACT parking spots such as the ones in front of Trader Joe’s in Temecula. Your Escalade/Suburban/F-250 DOES NOT fit in a compact spot, try as you might. God bless ya for driving one, but park in a spot actually designed for a vehicle of that size. And if any of the carpool parents at my kid’s school are reading this: if you back into a parking spot, please make darn sure you are actually parked in ONE spot, not TWO because then many fewer people can actually park in that parking lot when you do that!
Ahhhh, my empress of the universe impulses are now satisfied. Thanks, Dharmagirl for the fun topic! We needed something light after all the small car vs. SUV drama.
p.s. I drive a small car and I only reproduced once. Now will someone please pin a rose on my nose?? Bwaaahaha!!
ParticipantOMG!! Nostradamus–that picture speaks louder than words. I almost can’t bring myself to look!! Ugh. Yep, that’s definitely a bad thing. . . but it isn’t my particular pet peeve. My pet peeve is:
Lazy people who leave their grocery cart parked between cars in the parking lot instead of putting in back in the dang cart rack!!!! WTH??? They never stay where people put them, they blow around either into other cars or into (otherwise) perfectly empty parking spots. Seriously? Are we such a lazy culture that we can’t walk the extra ten feet to return the cart? I know there are *some* situations that may justify this, but there aren’t really that many.
Which leads me to pet peeve number two: MASSIVE cars parked in COMPACT parking spots such as the ones in front of Trader Joe’s in Temecula. Your Escalade/Suburban/F-250 DOES NOT fit in a compact spot, try as you might. God bless ya for driving one, but park in a spot actually designed for a vehicle of that size. And if any of the carpool parents at my kid’s school are reading this: if you back into a parking spot, please make darn sure you are actually parked in ONE spot, not TWO because then many fewer people can actually park in that parking lot when you do that!
Ahhhh, my empress of the universe impulses are now satisfied. Thanks, Dharmagirl for the fun topic! We needed something light after all the small car vs. SUV drama.
p.s. I drive a small car and I only reproduced once. Now will someone please pin a rose on my nose?? Bwaaahaha!!
ParticipantOMG!! Nostradamus–that picture speaks louder than words. I almost can’t bring myself to look!! Ugh. Yep, that’s definitely a bad thing. . . but it isn’t my particular pet peeve. My pet peeve is:
Lazy people who leave their grocery cart parked between cars in the parking lot instead of putting in back in the dang cart rack!!!! WTH??? They never stay where people put them, they blow around either into other cars or into (otherwise) perfectly empty parking spots. Seriously? Are we such a lazy culture that we can’t walk the extra ten feet to return the cart? I know there are *some* situations that may justify this, but there aren’t really that many.
Which leads me to pet peeve number two: MASSIVE cars parked in COMPACT parking spots such as the ones in front of Trader Joe’s in Temecula. Your Escalade/Suburban/F-250 DOES NOT fit in a compact spot, try as you might. God bless ya for driving one, but park in a spot actually designed for a vehicle of that size. And if any of the carpool parents at my kid’s school are reading this: if you back into a parking spot, please make darn sure you are actually parked in ONE spot, not TWO because then many fewer people can actually park in that parking lot when you do that!
Ahhhh, my empress of the universe impulses are now satisfied. Thanks, Dharmagirl for the fun topic! We needed something light after all the small car vs. SUV drama.
p.s. I drive a small car and I only reproduced once. Now will someone please pin a rose on my nose?? Bwaaahaha!!
ParticipantOMG!! Nostradamus–that picture speaks louder than words. I almost can’t bring myself to look!! Ugh. Yep, that’s definitely a bad thing. . . but it isn’t my particular pet peeve. My pet peeve is:
Lazy people who leave their grocery cart parked between cars in the parking lot instead of putting in back in the dang cart rack!!!! WTH??? They never stay where people put them, they blow around either into other cars or into (otherwise) perfectly empty parking spots. Seriously? Are we such a lazy culture that we can’t walk the extra ten feet to return the cart? I know there are *some* situations that may justify this, but there aren’t really that many.
Which leads me to pet peeve number two: MASSIVE cars parked in COMPACT parking spots such as the ones in front of Trader Joe’s in Temecula. Your Escalade/Suburban/F-250 DOES NOT fit in a compact spot, try as you might. God bless ya for driving one, but park in a spot actually designed for a vehicle of that size. And if any of the carpool parents at my kid’s school are reading this: if you back into a parking spot, please make darn sure you are actually parked in ONE spot, not TWO because then many fewer people can actually park in that parking lot when you do that!
Ahhhh, my empress of the universe impulses are now satisfied. Thanks, Dharmagirl for the fun topic! We needed something light after all the small car vs. SUV drama.
p.s. I drive a small car and I only reproduced once. Now will someone please pin a rose on my nose?? Bwaaahaha!!
ParticipantOMG!! Nostradamus–that picture speaks louder than words. I almost can’t bring myself to look!! Ugh. Yep, that’s definitely a bad thing. . . but it isn’t my particular pet peeve. My pet peeve is:
Lazy people who leave their grocery cart parked between cars in the parking lot instead of putting in back in the dang cart rack!!!! WTH??? They never stay where people put them, they blow around either into other cars or into (otherwise) perfectly empty parking spots. Seriously? Are we such a lazy culture that we can’t walk the extra ten feet to return the cart? I know there are *some* situations that may justify this, but there aren’t really that many.
Which leads me to pet peeve number two: MASSIVE cars parked in COMPACT parking spots such as the ones in front of Trader Joe’s in Temecula. Your Escalade/Suburban/F-250 DOES NOT fit in a compact spot, try as you might. God bless ya for driving one, but park in a spot actually designed for a vehicle of that size. And if any of the carpool parents at my kid’s school are reading this: if you back into a parking spot, please make darn sure you are actually parked in ONE spot, not TWO because then many fewer people can actually park in that parking lot when you do that!
Ahhhh, my empress of the universe impulses are now satisfied. Thanks, Dharmagirl for the fun topic! We needed something light after all the small car vs. SUV drama.
p.s. I drive a small car and I only reproduced once. Now will someone please pin a rose on my nose?? Bwaaahaha!!
ParticipantIf you have a ROTH 401k or IRA like us, no handy dandy reduction of income. Maybe I am also personally seeing higher taxes than the fictional family of three with 100k income because we are above the 110k level.
I copied the below information from another site. . . and this doesn’t take into account CA state taxes, which are 9.3% for everything over 40k.
To take an example, suppose your taxable income (after deductions and exemptions) was exactly $100,000 in 2003 and your status was Married filing separately; then your tax would be calculated like this:
( $ 7,000 – 0 ) x .10 : $ 700
( 28,400 – 7,000 ) x .15 : 3,210
( 57,325 – 28,400 ) x .25 : 7,231
( 87,350 – 57,325 ) x .28 : 8,407
( 100,000 – 87,350 ) x .33 : 4,175
Total: $ 23,723This puts you in the 33% tax bracket; but as a percentage of your income, your tax is about 23.7%.
Just more food for thought!! 🙂
ParticipantIf you have a ROTH 401k or IRA like us, no handy dandy reduction of income. Maybe I am also personally seeing higher taxes than the fictional family of three with 100k income because we are above the 110k level.
I copied the below information from another site. . . and this doesn’t take into account CA state taxes, which are 9.3% for everything over 40k.
To take an example, suppose your taxable income (after deductions and exemptions) was exactly $100,000 in 2003 and your status was Married filing separately; then your tax would be calculated like this:
( $ 7,000 – 0 ) x .10 : $ 700
( 28,400 – 7,000 ) x .15 : 3,210
( 57,325 – 28,400 ) x .25 : 7,231
( 87,350 – 57,325 ) x .28 : 8,407
( 100,000 – 87,350 ) x .33 : 4,175
Total: $ 23,723This puts you in the 33% tax bracket; but as a percentage of your income, your tax is about 23.7%.
Just more food for thought!! 🙂
ParticipantIf you have a ROTH 401k or IRA like us, no handy dandy reduction of income. Maybe I am also personally seeing higher taxes than the fictional family of three with 100k income because we are above the 110k level.
I copied the below information from another site. . . and this doesn’t take into account CA state taxes, which are 9.3% for everything over 40k.
To take an example, suppose your taxable income (after deductions and exemptions) was exactly $100,000 in 2003 and your status was Married filing separately; then your tax would be calculated like this:
( $ 7,000 – 0 ) x .10 : $ 700
( 28,400 – 7,000 ) x .15 : 3,210
( 57,325 – 28,400 ) x .25 : 7,231
( 87,350 – 57,325 ) x .28 : 8,407
( 100,000 – 87,350 ) x .33 : 4,175
Total: $ 23,723This puts you in the 33% tax bracket; but as a percentage of your income, your tax is about 23.7%.
Just more food for thought!! 🙂
ParticipantIf you have a ROTH 401k or IRA like us, no handy dandy reduction of income. Maybe I am also personally seeing higher taxes than the fictional family of three with 100k income because we are above the 110k level.
I copied the below information from another site. . . and this doesn’t take into account CA state taxes, which are 9.3% for everything over 40k.
To take an example, suppose your taxable income (after deductions and exemptions) was exactly $100,000 in 2003 and your status was Married filing separately; then your tax would be calculated like this:
( $ 7,000 – 0 ) x .10 : $ 700
( 28,400 – 7,000 ) x .15 : 3,210
( 57,325 – 28,400 ) x .25 : 7,231
( 87,350 – 57,325 ) x .28 : 8,407
( 100,000 – 87,350 ) x .33 : 4,175
Total: $ 23,723This puts you in the 33% tax bracket; but as a percentage of your income, your tax is about 23.7%.
Just more food for thought!! 🙂
ParticipantIf you have a ROTH 401k or IRA like us, no handy dandy reduction of income. Maybe I am also personally seeing higher taxes than the fictional family of three with 100k income because we are above the 110k level.
I copied the below information from another site. . . and this doesn’t take into account CA state taxes, which are 9.3% for everything over 40k.
To take an example, suppose your taxable income (after deductions and exemptions) was exactly $100,000 in 2003 and your status was Married filing separately; then your tax would be calculated like this:
( $ 7,000 – 0 ) x .10 : $ 700
( 28,400 – 7,000 ) x .15 : 3,210
( 57,325 – 28,400 ) x .25 : 7,231
( 87,350 – 57,325 ) x .28 : 8,407
( 100,000 – 87,350 ) x .33 : 4,175
Total: $ 23,723This puts you in the 33% tax bracket; but as a percentage of your income, your tax is about 23.7%.
Just more food for thought!! 🙂
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