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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

SOMEBODY has been reading the lower depths of the vaults to resurrect this old thing.

Since that time, I learned the uncontested best way to keep the linoleum clean is to...

hire a maid.

I sit here drinkin' mint juleps and sayin', "Honey, ya missed a spot over there."

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

This was a good thread. I'm currently looking for a shipping thread which lists a website for shipping via containers for another poster, and this one hit my search criteria. Good post about the socks ya-ta boy.

EDIT: Found it! http://www.discount-shipping.net/containers/containers0.cfm

thebomb · Joined: 13 Nov 2006

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If you have a door that you get into by pressing a code, please keep a key with you. Firiend had the batteries die and had to pay a locksmith change the lock t get in to his apt.[/quote]

On the digital door locks, usually located on the side, you will notice to metallic round dots one located above the other. If the internal batteries do become dead whilst you are out, all you need to do is buy a 9V(sqaure type) battery and place the battery terminals on the metallic dots this will power the system up for you to type in your code, and gain entry.

dogshed · Joined: 28 Apr 2006

I would rather carry a spare key than a battery but the battery trick
is nice to know if you don't have a spare key and you have the money
to buy a battery at Family Mart.

Of course hiding a battery under a flower pot or above the door is probably
safer than hiding a key there.

Check out this thread for what to keep in your wallet. It includes links to the volunteer translation service.

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=75722&highlight=wallet+translation

thebomb · Joined: 13 Nov 2006

I have no "keys" whatsoever for my apt, I have the little key fob thingy but I always just type in the code. Never have to worry about losing them, never carry any!

thegadfly · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

If your place has roaches, a safe and cheap way to get rid of them.

Instead of using pesticides, go to a pharmacy and buy a box of boric acid -- I wrote it on paper and the pharmacist grabbed the right stuff -- it is used to make an eye-wash mixture (usually to help wash the eye-boogers from an infant, or help with pink-eye -- at least, those are the uses *I* know).

Sprinkle the powder along baseboards, under the sink and fridge, anywhere the roach will probably walk. Let it sit there for a few days or a week. It sticks to the roach's feet, the roach cleans itself and ingests the powder, and dies. Repeat if they return.

I dunno if it does anything to ants, but when I first moved into my place, there were roaches. A box cost me 950 won, and I stopped seeing roaches after 3 days. The box had the boric acid powder in a little plastic baggie -- I nipped off a tiny corner of the bag with scissors, and used it like a frosting bag to place a line along the baseboards. Easy-peasey, vacuumed it up a week later (I cleaned the floor before then, just stopped an inch shy of the baseboard for a few days).

browneyedgirl · Joined: 17 Jul 2007

So Ya-ta Boy, is there anything else that you would warn yourself about if you could go back in time?