Rep Retirement Lodge #185: Summer Activities

[leswp1]

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That also depends upon the design of your school's meal plan. Most schools, I think, have moved to a buffet style cafeteria, where you scan your student ID upon entry and then the cafeteria is your newly spoiled/rancid oyster. I found that when I did move off campus that I ate a lot less food than while in the dorms.

That could well be true by now.

Houghton rent tends to be on the cheap side, especially if you go in with roommates. I once rented half a duplex in Hancock with 5 total people. $1200 each for the year, split utilities however. That's $100 a month. If you can swing something like that, you're cruising.

1200 a month would barely cover it around here.

 

[The Rube]

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I remember houses for rent for around $400/month tops in Duluth when I was in school. They weren't the greatest, but they were very good for students.

 

[bigmrg74]

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Especially with the increased level of service they're putting into the dorms. SCSU is tearing down its WW Holes dorm (started as a women's dorm in the 60s, you fill in the jokes) and replacing it with dorms that are designed around apartment style living. You can rest assured that those won't come cheap, and likely drive up the cost of all dorm living on campus.

Heck, I've been seeing pictures this month of GVSU tearing down the old Ravine apartments, apartment housing they put up back in the seventies. They were old and run down back when I moved into them way back in 2000. Lots of good memories there, but yeah, they were due to be knocked down for something new.

Last week my dad was helping my grandpa clean out his basement of the farm house he's lived in for 50 years. He is moving to a townhouse in town, at 76 years old, its a good move for him. They found 5 guns in the basement that had been there for many years, some of them, my grandpa says were there when he moved in as a kid (its the same house my great grandparents lived in). Some are in terrible shape, and one is unrecoverable and likely just junk. But there was one gem. My grandpa said to give them to me, because I'd know what to do with them.

There was a Winchester Model 94, early serial number, 1904 manufacture date, chambered in .32-40. It is decent condition but more importantly it is completely original, no replacement parts or mods. I cleaned it up with light oil, and it looks pretty good. It has a decent amount of patina and no bluing left. There is some rust on the barrel, but there isn't anything to be done about that. Cleaning them beyond using light oil, using steel wool or a wire brush will ruin the gun and destroy the value. Never do anything like that to an old gun that has value. There were a couple worthless old rusty shotguns in the basement that, since they have no value, I think I'm going to try to restore to new condition, re-blue, re-finish the wood, etc. Since I'm just doing it for myself, and the guns have no value, it doesn't really matter at that point.

Anyway, I've posted pictures on a gun forum, and I'm trying to get a value estimate. From what I've seen it could be anywhere from $600 to $6000. Just don't know enough to pinpoint it.

Super cool. Even if they're not useable they should make for a nice display of some kind.

 

[Greyeagle]

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I remember houses for rent for around $400/month tops in Duluth when I was in school. They weren't the greatest, but they were very good for students.

Certainly better than the mo-mansions on campus.

 

[St. Clown]

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I remember houses for rent for around $400/month tops in Duluth when I was in school. They weren't the greatest, but they were very good for students.

I really thought you were going to end this They weren't the greatest, but neither were the students.

I rented my off-campus apartment for $250/month, which was a little expensive for the area, but it was literally ten feet from campus. People would sit on the front stoop and mock the UPS (University Protection Services, pronounced "oops") by drinking some beer and smiling at them (dry campus, taken very seriously by UPS but nobody else).

 

[The Rube]

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I'd have thought about moving off-campus, but tUMD had basically a trailer park for one of their "dorm" sections. Ok, no real neighbors/shared walls, 4 to a trailer, it was cheap, and it was the LAST year of their existence. And our RA was a frat brother. Basically, break rules at will (within reason), could be a bit louder when playing music/having people over, and destruction of property didn't really matter.

I was so in. And my 3 roommates were friends from the year before. Total gong show on the weekends.

 

[gmann]

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Good evening Lodge.

I'm in cityslickerville all week for work. Work has been absolutely crazy the last 5 weeks or so. Holy f over the top crazy and as of now it's just the tip of the iceberg.

For those of you keeping score from home.......little g turned 10 the last week of May.

For the record. I purchased a home (with the help of my dad) my freshman year of college. It was a fixer upper. My roommates provided sweat equity versus rent for the first 2 years. When I graduated I sold it and made a big profit.

 

[The Rube]

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Good evening Lodge.

I'm in cityslickerville all week for work. Work has been absolutely crazy the last 5 weeks or so. Holy f over the top crazy and as of now it's just the tip of the iceberg.

For those of you keeping score from home.......little g turned 10 the last week of May.

For the record. I purchased a home (with the help of my dad) my freshman year of college. It was a fixer upper. My roommates provided sweat equity versus rent for the first 2 years. When I graduated I sold it and made a big profit.

Nice on the house story!

And it seems that work crap is affecting many of us recently.....

 

[mookie1995]

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Mookie was asleep

Now he is not

 

[Ralph Baer]

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yawn!

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Good morning to tLodge!

 

[Lady wore Black]

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Good Morning, Lodge!

 

[leswp1]

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Good evening Lodge.

I'm in cityslickerville all week for work. Work has been absolutely crazy the last 5 weeks or so. Holy f over the top crazy and as of now it's just the tip of the iceberg.

For those of you keeping score from home.......little g turned 10 the last week of May.

For the record. I purchased a home (with the help of my dad) my freshman year of college. It was a fixer upper. My roommates provided sweat equity versus rent for the first 2 years. When I graduated I sold it and made a big profit.

Happy belated birthday to little g! Wow! 10?? that cannot be. Feels like yesterday you were writing about his being a little guy.

Enterprising re the house.

Good Morning Lodge!

 

[goldy_331]

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Good Morning Lodge.

Hi gmann! Happy belated B-Day to little g. We are actually staying in Parker's Prairie for the State Trap Meet, driving up June 17, shoot 18th and drive back. All Alex hotels booked.

 

[gmann]

Good Morning Lodge.

Hi gmann! Happy belated B-Day to little g. We are actually staying in Parker's Prairie for the State Trap Meet, driving up June 17, shoot 18th and drive back. All Alex hotels booked.

Parkers Prairie. Living the high life.

Good morning Lodge

 

[leswp1]

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If I was intelligent in computers I would create an app that linked fact checks to all political posts. Imagine~ false posts being immediately tagged. Most of my FB feed (currentl filled with nonsense posted from both sides) would be lit up.

I hate politics. I hate people that act like sheep and believe really stupid, unbelievable stuff, post crap that has nothing to do with a person's ability to govern, malign the person's family, etc. Does anyone actually think critically or is it more important to believe what will make you the happiest? Why concentrate on silly, obviously untrue stuff when you could be pi55ed about something big the person did?, It is only June. I think I need to move to a small island in the middle of the sea.

 

[goldy_331]

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Parkers Prairie. Living the high life.

I didn't pick the hotel, one of the other parents did and I just went along with it...Place looks kinda, um small...

We're going to drag the boat up and fish on Friday on one of the lakes between Alex and Parkers.

 

[Twitch Boy]

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If I was intelligent in computers I would create an app that linked fact checks to all political posts. Imagine~ false posts being immediately tagged. Most of my FB feed (currentl filled with nonsense posted from both sides) would be lit up.

I hate politics. I hate people that act like sheep and believe really stupid, unbelievable stuff, post crap that has nothing to do with a person's ability to govern, malign the person's family, etc. Does anyone actually think critically or is it more important to believe what will make you the happiest? Why concentrate on silly, obviously untrue stuff when you could be pi55ed about something big the person did?, It is only June. I think I need to move to a small island in the middle of the sea.

Too bad Facebook cracked down on Social Fixer and unpolitic.me.

I once used Social Fixer during the 2012 election season to filter out any hot-button political term I could think of. My posts on my wall after I was done amounted to eight.

 

[bostonewe]

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Sometimes it's really good to be a few years older and having attended an average state school. Tuition, room & board, books, fees, etc. came out to average just over $6,000/year at SCSU. I started there Fall '95 and graduated Spring '99. My student debt was about $5,000 upon graduation.

I'm not saying this to rub it in or anything like that, only that I keep hearing about people with six-figure student loan debt and I think my eyes would bleed from the stress of it if it were me carrying that load.

While my eyes don't bleed, I do feel like there is much that I miss out on by having so much debt. Our rent just went up 100$ this year in our apartment. Matt and I were thinking about purchasing a home, but it's really difficult to save a reasonable amount of money for a down payment when you pay >1000$ in loans. It also added to our decision never to have kids (I didn't want them anyway, but we could never afford one). I'm not asking for pity, but it's a reality.

I tried to prevent something similar for my brother as he had gotten into Penn State's Honor College as well as Georgetown. He had designs on medical school and I strongly advised him and my parents that Penn State would be a vastly cheaper option, especially since he'd be adding more to his debt by going to med school. Was told to bugger off (basically) -- that prestige would help him get into med school. He went to Georgetown, didn't get into med school, but my parents were able to help him more with his undergrad tuition as they had sold one of the houses they own and they were no longer putting any more kids through Prep School. Now he's going to start grad school in Vertebrate Palentology.

 

[goldy_331]

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I don't even remember what I paid for room/board/tuition wayyy back when I went to school (no, we didn't study by candlelight, nor write on the back of a shovel with charcoal, but it was a while back). I just know it was cheap enough that between what I had saved through youth/high school, summer jobs and part time jobs, I paid it all except about $2K that I borrowed from my dad for last couple quarters. I went to a state school, lived at home the first couple years and lived in frat and apartments after that, never dorms. I do remember that when I moved into the frat one summer because I had gotten a night job on campus, they charged me $55/month for a shared room. The engineering frat budgeted their year on what they charged during school year and summer rent was real cheap and bonus money to the house.

ETA: Jr is required to pay for the first 2 years and we'll cover the rest. He's going to live at home and go to community college the first year, then hopefully to a State school (MSUM) for the rest. He should have enough saved to cover dorm/board/tuition for the second year. MSUM has the Automotive Engineering program he wants and they actually have many of the MSUM classes offered at the community college (Normandale CC). The CC is way cheaper than even MSUM.