Happy Thanksgiving back, Laura. The amount of family at our celebration trumps the sad ragtag group of TDS sufferers at the protest celebration side of my family. Sad. I’ll send photos. The better meat jockeys are at ours. 3 awesome guys whose bbq cookers are smoldering as I write this. May the feast begin tomorrow. Thankful is an understatement right now. I step just a bit lighter these days. Praise God!
🤣🤣🤣. I remember it was wise to not tell anyone you had a giant box of Sam’s toilet paper in the closet. I do have to say we already had it in the closet before lockdowns due to the due diligence of my husband’s motto to always be prepared. We always have a supply of canned goods around. I mentioned that to a neighbor and she seriously said that they would come to our house. I didn’t tell her we also have firearms. Aw, they are nice. I’d share some Kraft Mac and cheese with them. But toilet paper ? No way.
@MS, I just had one of those "Blow Coffee Out of Nostrils Moment"s. Cleaning keyboard and lower third of monitor now (and reckoning it a small price to pay).
Jenna, please look into the Fab Over 40 small print. I knew you'd be 1099'd on the $40k, but had no idea that there were more pieces. Copied from FB:
Hi Ladies, this is important to look into and understand. I'm in the quarter-finals, however, I started thinking about what is keeping others from just buying their way to winning. Then I remembered when I won a vacation the amount I ended up paying in taxes because I was 1099'd for it. I reached out to the FabOver40 support contacts and asked what amount the winner will be 1099'd for taxes. You would have to claim this amount as income earned. they wouldn't give me a direct answer and would just copy and paste parts of the rules and sent them back to me. When I asked more questions, they stopped responding completely to me. This is what they responded with when asked.
"To the extent that any United States federal and/or state income or other taxes apply to the value of the prize(s) and/or award(s) provided to the Grand Prize Winner, the Grand Prize Winner shall be solely responsible for the reporting and payment of such taxes. Actual/appraised value may differ from the ARV at time of Grand Prize award. Grand Prize Winner will not receive the difference between the actual value of the Grand Prize or any Grand Prize component and the ARV of such Grand Prize or Grand Prize component."
This is what they are claiming the prize worth which you would be 1099'd:
"Prize package valued at an approximate retail value (ARV) of $125,000.00, comprised of (a) $40,000.00 cash/check honorarium; (b) the $75,000.00 estimated value of being photographed to appear on the cover of, and in an interior feature spread in, NewBeauty magazine; and (c) travel and hotel accommodations for a minimum 4-day/3-night Arizona "Spa-cation" from January 2nd - January 5th, 2025 for the Grand Prize Winner and one (1) guest, valued at approximately $10,000.00 (the “Grand Prize”).
You guys, you will need to claim $125,000 in taxes that you will need to claim and pay back in taxes if you win. I reached out to my Tax Advisor and they said it doesn't make sense on why they would 1099'd you $75,000 for the photo shoot and being on the cover the NewBeauty, but it's just another tax right off for them. He said I might need to pay back up to 50% of that back in taxes. I don't have $62,000 do you? You would need to claim $125,000 over what you all ready earn as income which also puts you in an much higher tax bracket.
If this is all wrong, help me understand, because they won't. I want to be safe and you all also to be safe.
What you would be assessed in taxes and prosecuted for refusing to pay depends--entirely--on "which IRS" shows up: the robo-dog of Wallace & Gromit's (& Joebiden's) _A Close Shave_ or the same robo-dog AFTER it goes through Trump's dog-food machine.
I confess I have a closet full of TP. But at least my edibles are freeze dried eggs, freeze dried cheese, freeze dried sour cream, freeze dried butter, freeze dried milk (Dairy is my love language) and dried beans and lentils...so should be okay for a while....
I keep stocking up on candles and matches because I’m using them all. Those 8-hour candlelights don’t hardly last seven hours! But they’re so nice when the evenings get dark early. BTW I need to stock up on dog food too … can’t let my canine sweethearts go vegetarian. 🤔
Dog food is a good idea. There has to be some point at which it, suddenly, looks appealing. (Has anyone done the cost analysis to determine if the kind that "makes its own gravy" is worth the premium?)
@Heather B, with all the freeze-dried dairy, I take it you'll be going into a space capsule to wait out the nuclear winter. (May I suggest you re-think the beans?)
Incidentally, here's a prepper tip my daughter gave me a few years ago. It's possible to put dry beans (2/3C) in a pint jar, add water to 1" headspace and put the jars in a pressure canner for 75-85 min. (I mix black beans, black-eyed-peas and garbanzos and a tbsp of a custom chili-powder mix.)
She hooked me with this scenario: say the shat has hat the finn AND it's below-freezing AND there's a sleet blizzard AND the only firewood is two miles uphill both directions AND there's only one match left AND "It sure would be _easier_ if %somebody% had thought AHEAD and we could just eat cooked beans, cold, out of a jar." I converted every dry bean I could find into ready-to-eat, and now I have some to trade for freeze-dried cheese, if I could figure out how much beans for which parts cheese. I assume the good will have died young as they do, and the rest of us that are left will thus be the dregs of the race with predictable consequences so "trading" might be wishful thinking.
I hate the scenario you described...but great tip on the beans....I've got lots of stuff to trade if necessary...mostly dairy 😂 jk Iots of other stuff too..
Thank you Jenna. I’m Italian and my memory of childhood holidays was Antipasto first, then Lasagna( which was the best my mother was Sicilian) then the turkey😳. I don’t know where we put it all. Never had pumpkin pie. Apple maybe and of course Italian pastries. Have a Blessed Thanksgiving. Enjoy! Prepping later.
I love that Charcuterie board lol but it wouldn’t go over well at my Thanksgiving table this year, too many with TDS are invited and coming! So we will play games and talk travel instead ;)
Hmmm, wondering what games people who loathe each other played. Chicken? Double-dare?
And "Travel?" Like in, "We'll be in DC for the inauguration of St. Donald the Good; I assume you'll be house-hunting in one of the Commie paradises...; have you thought about where you'll charge your phones?"?
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We have much to be thankful for!
Happy Thanksgiving back, Laura. The amount of family at our celebration trumps the sad ragtag group of TDS sufferers at the protest celebration side of my family. Sad. I’ll send photos. The better meat jockeys are at ours. 3 awesome guys whose bbq cookers are smoldering as I write this. May the feast begin tomorrow. Thankful is an understatement right now. I step just a bit lighter these days. Praise God!
Happy Thanksgiving!!
If I have a 2 month supply of food do I need a 6 month supply of toilet paper? Just asking….
🤣🤣🤣. I remember it was wise to not tell anyone you had a giant box of Sam’s toilet paper in the closet. I do have to say we already had it in the closet before lockdowns due to the due diligence of my husband’s motto to always be prepared. We always have a supply of canned goods around. I mentioned that to a neighbor and she seriously said that they would come to our house. I didn’t tell her we also have firearms. Aw, they are nice. I’d share some Kraft Mac and cheese with them. But toilet paper ? No way.
I’m going with 1 roll for every 4 cans ratio. This assumes Charmin instead of the Scott 1 ply super roll. I’m not sacrificing softness for starvation.
You have to factor in the raging diarrhea you will get after eating that can of creamed corn that expired in 2007.
Just gets more tangy with age! ; )
If you follow "their" advice on the prepper food front you will likely be so stopped up you won't need the toilet paper anyway! ; )
Or suffer the screaming shits and use all of it in a day.
I reckon after 2 months of eating dried beans and quinoa you'll switch to eating toilet paper (and wiping with the beans).
@MS, I just had one of those "Blow Coffee Out of Nostrils Moment"s. Cleaning keyboard and lower third of monitor now (and reckoning it a small price to pay).
I vote for you early and often!!!
😊🥹💕
Jenna, please look into the Fab Over 40 small print. I knew you'd be 1099'd on the $40k, but had no idea that there were more pieces. Copied from FB:
Hi Ladies, this is important to look into and understand. I'm in the quarter-finals, however, I started thinking about what is keeping others from just buying their way to winning. Then I remembered when I won a vacation the amount I ended up paying in taxes because I was 1099'd for it. I reached out to the FabOver40 support contacts and asked what amount the winner will be 1099'd for taxes. You would have to claim this amount as income earned. they wouldn't give me a direct answer and would just copy and paste parts of the rules and sent them back to me. When I asked more questions, they stopped responding completely to me. This is what they responded with when asked.
"To the extent that any United States federal and/or state income or other taxes apply to the value of the prize(s) and/or award(s) provided to the Grand Prize Winner, the Grand Prize Winner shall be solely responsible for the reporting and payment of such taxes. Actual/appraised value may differ from the ARV at time of Grand Prize award. Grand Prize Winner will not receive the difference between the actual value of the Grand Prize or any Grand Prize component and the ARV of such Grand Prize or Grand Prize component."
This is what they are claiming the prize worth which you would be 1099'd:
"Prize package valued at an approximate retail value (ARV) of $125,000.00, comprised of (a) $40,000.00 cash/check honorarium; (b) the $75,000.00 estimated value of being photographed to appear on the cover of, and in an interior feature spread in, NewBeauty magazine; and (c) travel and hotel accommodations for a minimum 4-day/3-night Arizona "Spa-cation" from January 2nd - January 5th, 2025 for the Grand Prize Winner and one (1) guest, valued at approximately $10,000.00 (the “Grand Prize”).
You guys, you will need to claim $125,000 in taxes that you will need to claim and pay back in taxes if you win. I reached out to my Tax Advisor and they said it doesn't make sense on why they would 1099'd you $75,000 for the photo shoot and being on the cover the NewBeauty, but it's just another tax right off for them. He said I might need to pay back up to 50% of that back in taxes. I don't have $62,000 do you? You would need to claim $125,000 over what you all ready earn as income which also puts you in an much higher tax bracket.
If this is all wrong, help me understand, because they won't. I want to be safe and you all also to be safe.
Holy crap that is BANANAS and thanks for looking into that! Why is everything a scam anyway? 😭🤬
What you would be assessed in taxes and prosecuted for refusing to pay depends--entirely--on "which IRS" shows up: the robo-dog of Wallace & Gromit's (& Joebiden's) _A Close Shave_ or the same robo-dog AFTER it goes through Trump's dog-food machine.
And hopefully lots of gelato too! Happy Thanksgiving all!!
I confess I have a closet full of TP. But at least my edibles are freeze dried eggs, freeze dried cheese, freeze dried sour cream, freeze dried butter, freeze dried milk (Dairy is my love language) and dried beans and lentils...so should be okay for a while....
I keep stocking up on candles and matches because I’m using them all. Those 8-hour candlelights don’t hardly last seven hours! But they’re so nice when the evenings get dark early. BTW I need to stock up on dog food too … can’t let my canine sweethearts go vegetarian. 🤔
Dog food is a good idea. There has to be some point at which it, suddenly, looks appealing. (Has anyone done the cost analysis to determine if the kind that "makes its own gravy" is worth the premium?)
Did you freeze dry yourself?
no I bought it all on amazon
@Heather B, with all the freeze-dried dairy, I take it you'll be going into a space capsule to wait out the nuclear winter. (May I suggest you re-think the beans?)
😂 Those aren't for me. My husband loves them....
...and you--clearly--love your husband.
Incidentally, here's a prepper tip my daughter gave me a few years ago. It's possible to put dry beans (2/3C) in a pint jar, add water to 1" headspace and put the jars in a pressure canner for 75-85 min. (I mix black beans, black-eyed-peas and garbanzos and a tbsp of a custom chili-powder mix.)
She hooked me with this scenario: say the shat has hat the finn AND it's below-freezing AND there's a sleet blizzard AND the only firewood is two miles uphill both directions AND there's only one match left AND "It sure would be _easier_ if %somebody% had thought AHEAD and we could just eat cooked beans, cold, out of a jar." I converted every dry bean I could find into ready-to-eat, and now I have some to trade for freeze-dried cheese, if I could figure out how much beans for which parts cheese. I assume the good will have died young as they do, and the rest of us that are left will thus be the dregs of the race with predictable consequences so "trading" might be wishful thinking.
I hate the scenario you described...but great tip on the beans....I've got lots of stuff to trade if necessary...mostly dairy 😂 jk Iots of other stuff too..
Thank you Jenna. I’m Italian and my memory of childhood holidays was Antipasto first, then Lasagna( which was the best my mother was Sicilian) then the turkey😳. I don’t know where we put it all. Never had pumpkin pie. Apple maybe and of course Italian pastries. Have a Blessed Thanksgiving. Enjoy! Prepping later.
I love that Charcuterie board lol but it wouldn’t go over well at my Thanksgiving table this year, too many with TDS are invited and coming! So we will play games and talk travel instead ;)
Hmmm, wondering what games people who loathe each other played. Chicken? Double-dare?
And "Travel?" Like in, "We'll be in DC for the inauguration of St. Donald the Good; I assume you'll be house-hunting in one of the Commie paradises...; have you thought about where you'll charge your phones?"?
OMG! Jenna! This one had my damn side-splitting in uncontrollable laughter.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all. We have so much to be thankful for this year.
I am mastering the "Trump dance" just for all my libtard friends. Hee, hee, hee. Being super awkward and stiff is quite tricky! LOL!
Crema gelato with aged balsamic! How is the weather? It was HOT all of October from North to South!
Enjoy! 🍝 Ciao! 🇮🇹
Personally, I’d be happy when the SHTF to be in a cave with Jenna, laughing hysterically at her description as it unfolds.
❤️🇨🇦
Happy Thanksgiving to all the awesome people on here. Be blessed. ♥
Enjoy your vacation!
Enjoy, Jenna. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
Mangé, mangé! Be blessed!