#Cheap Shop

[doggirlhen]

they should make shopping for cables easier i think. there should be a service where you pick the ends, you pick the length of cable, you pick the like. color and texture of the cable (shitty plastic, nicely woven, bare metal, whatever) and then they make it and ship it to you for a reasonable fee

[bluepoodle7]

#Johndoegame #TheGasStation #GasStationTunes #CheapShop #ScottPilgrimVSTheWorld #MyThoughts

What the gas station sounds like when John Doe walks in to ask a Yousona out on a date be like.

Cheap Shop - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game [OST] - YouTube

John Doe be like when he/they sees You.

Lovin At The Cheap Shop | R&B Mix | Scott Pilgrim Vs The World - YouTube

Music's and videos not mine but link is there.

Used the Illbleed gas station as a title image.

Thinking about the level 2 milk prices that are super cheap.

But what's the $1.99 blue milk and the $1.39 red milk with their prices labeled?

Too bad I'm mostly into alternative milk's like almond and would try other milk's like goat milk.

Like is the blue milk price skim milk and the red milk price whole milk?

I also got Eriko's shadow in that picture from when the let's player interacts with the gas station with the someone seems to be inside white letters which is pretty cool.

25:11-25:30

All images and videos not mine but links are there.

Snek plays Illbleed (No Commentary) (Sega Dreamcast 2001) Part 2 (The Revenge of Queen Worm) - YouTube

James on X: "Gas Station from ILLBLEED https://t.co/eWZk0lgUkd" / X

Got a gif the someone seems to be inside white letter message.

https://gifmaker.me/video-to-gif/viewimage/20240904-21-yAbztskqkDuPJvDH-omZz7i-hnet

[purenonsens]

Tried printing bigger designs this time. Somehow I can't spread the ink I'm using evenly and thickly enough (as you need more of it than in paper prints) - will follow up soon with another type of ink I finally acquired!

[skunkes]

[southfarthing]

having a job is sososoooso dangerous because you see yet another copy of the silmarillion in a charity shop and think well that will cost me 50 minutes of work. i would gladly work 50 minutes for another silmarillion that will not fit on my shelf. and then you buy it and lo and behold it will not fi

[terminalkisser]

exactly what the link reads. nine dollar sisyphus & minos keychains. wrapped in plastic and packaged with their very own fleshy time out chamber. ^__^ available for sale...NOW!

[hajihiko]

GRHFHA fashion friday unusually modest bc it was a work yule dinner

[godshideouscreation]

[secondbeatsongs]

truly the only point of those cheap dropshipping sites is so I can type "earrings for men" into them at 3am and then go "🤔 hmm..." at all the pictures

[cjgladback]

I went to my first fiber festival this past weekend! Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival; if I'm still in this state come June next year, I'll probably be back and would love to meet anybody else there. Socializing/hanging out/talking to people without feeling like I was obstructing Real Customers was the one thing I missed, though I didn't really get to any of the free lectures so maybe that's where I could've met some people. Since it was an unknown situation with a lot of people and nearly an hour drive each way, I strategized to make sure I'd go:

First day, I signed up for a couple volunteer shifts. Absolutely a recommended strategy.

Got to be helpful!

They happened to have goodie bags, to help me justify the gas and time (I now have a nice tape measure to replace the one that's been vacationing with a missing sewing kit for a couple years and a lasercut wood two-inch gauge window that might help me with consistency versus my suboptimal practice of just trying to knit perfect squares when swatching in pattern)

I got to learn things about the layout and schedule I wouldn't know to ask when answering questions and acting as a gofer -- especially true working two different locations

And of course, some people were pretty much guaranteed to be happy to see me!

Second day, I signed up for a workshop in the morning so I'd be there and able to shop for anything I needed at the end. Ombre yarn dyeing was the class! It's acid dyes, something I'm several years off from wanting to get into enough to commit to dedicated cookware, full pots of dye powder, etc. The room with the workshop was a barn that had plenty of outlets--but they did not represent plenty of breakers. So there weren't quite enough functional heating elements for the class to have sufficiently cooked our yarn before leaving, and I did need to risk a giant stock pot at home for three batches of four jars, almost-simmering in a water bath for thirty minutes each, of the yarn that hadn't proven it was done (all but the two palest greens). I was a little worried the delay/drawn out heat situation would affect the results but if it did it wasn't much; I got pretty much exactly what I was hoping for with my two color gradient and the single is great too!

The single dye gradient is the color Moss, which did some interesting things with the red portion separating out once they were heated. Every skein has redder blotches, so I'm not bothered about any inconsistency -- if anything it'll help my finished product camouflage stains. Though it was definitely a surprise for me and the other Moss user in the class when our first yarn to have exhausted the dye was the complementary color to what it went in as.

The two color gradient used Rhodamine Red on one end, which was one end of one of our instructor's samples where she chose a cool-green for the other end to show how multi-component dyes mix less predictably than most paint. (It was kinda like shading with markers where you can still see washes of the pink and green in what you squint at and call a grey-brown.) The other end was Cantaloupe, which was one of the maybe three colors she didn't have a sample cut of yarn for. But she described it as the flesh of a perfect ripe cantaloupe and obviously I had to see that, and it sounded like it would be fairly guaranteed to combine nicely with the magenta while being just enough around a bend in the color wheel to be interesting--warm orange versus cool pink. As I said, it turned out pretty much exactly as I was picturing. Not anticipated was how much the jars looked like they were full of some delicious dragonfruit-mango beverage. Were I still a barista I'd be trying to recreate this for my shift drink.

Image descriptions under the cut.

[ID: Five images following fourteen small skeins of sock yarn dyed in individual glass jars, in two gradients. One gradient is six skeins from a medium forest green through a pale creamy pink, the other is eight skeins from a vibrant yellow orange through an even more vibrant magenta. The first photo is inside under fluorescent lights, showing the 32oz glass canning jars with metal lids and rings, full of dye and yarn on a table at the end of the class in which they were filled and heated for a short time.

The next two images are animated gifs. The first gif is two frames showing the finished dye jars sitting in grass, with their yarn and with it removed. The green gradient left only transparent blue color in its jars, and most of the pink to orange gradient's water looks more orange without its yarn, aside from the third and fourth jars from the orange end, which shade toward a neon lilac with the peachy pink yarn removed. The second gif is a view of the inside of the bright green wash bucket, with just the pink-orange yarn in it, then all of them mixed up, all as they were after a soak with the rust-brown water, in the first rinse, and that rinse water alone showing its transparent but still brown tint.

The last two photos show the gradients lined up along a weathered wooden bench on the side of a deck. The first photo has the wet piles of yarn bundled in front of each of their respective jars with remaining dye. The final photo has the clean, dry yarn wound into center-pull balls and still vibrant in the direct sunlight. End ID]

[fishbloc]

emergency cømms

hi umm ^_^ i need some quick cash stat so im willing to draw smth in the style above for 6usd (crazy cheap i know) if anyone wants

i need around 20-22usd (fickle exchange rates wooo) so taking 4 ppl!

thank you <3

4/4 slot has been claimed!

[kitsune528]

Got a lucky find at my local half price bookstore!!

[evelili]

imagine you are playing a story-based game w the opportunity to learn more abt charas thru a relationship system (eg visual novels), and your ability to explore every relationship is linked to your success in a different part of the game.

[strawberrum]

thinking about how I had a few folks at my last market suggest to me (kindly and with good intentions) that I make and sell some versions of the hand knit cardigan I was wearing because people would "totally pay $300 for that!"

I appreciated the sentiment, but people don't understand what goes into handmade clothes! I don't use a knitting machine. Every stitch in that garment is created by hand on needles, and the sleeves were brioche. Even using inexpensive acrylic yarn for the whole project, and accounting for the HUGE sleeve stitches (saving me time making the sleeves)—the material cost was $55 and the labor was well beyond that.

Let's conservatively estimate the cardigan took me 30 hours to create. Currently, when pressed to put a dollar amount to my time, I use the living wage as a baseline and then go up from there $1/hour for every year I have been actively practicing that particular skill. In the case of knitting that would be 11 years, and the current living wage in my area is approximately $23/hour. Setting aside the fact that this is calculated based on a 40 hour work week and I don't believe that is ethical or sustainable, we'll just leave it at $34/hour. That would make labor alone $1,020.

This brings the "production cost" to $1,075.

Items are not sold at production cost because that would leave your profit margin at 0%. This is not sustainable because it costs money to run a business (think things like paying for computer repairs, buying tools, the tablecloth you use at markets, paying for a website, etc.). Realistically to cover business costs and still come out with a 7% "net" profit margin, which is just a number pulled from averages in the clothing retail business...

... I'd have to sell that cardigan for $1,350.

So yeah! Something to think about when you see the price of clothes that are handmade. :o)

[boarloved-art]

finished my uni project finally and this is how i celebrated. uk-ei wuxian. british supermarket au. sure. why not.

anyway!

yunmeng jiang is asda, qishan wen is wilko, gusu lan is waterstones, lanling jin is waitrose & qinghe nie is marks & spencers. baoshan sanren + her students are Tkmaxx. moling su is whsmith. hope this helps.

[adelphenium]

from (winter) coats to (atlantic) coast <3