"She read that if it hasn't been used for 90 days, it would be unusable." Actually that's backwards. After 90 days the number is available to reassign. Depending on the area, it may be reassigned immediately or it may takes months or years to need that number again. In very busy areas, numbers can be reassigned just 30 days after disconnect.

My brother owns a choose and cut Xmas tree farm. I can confirm that a lot of people are getting trees early this year. As of Sunday 11-19 30 trees sold . And since he's not officially open until the Friday after Thanksgiving, people are calling to ask to come early. Don't fret. This tree farm has been around something like 60 years and the regular customers, some for 40 years or more, generation after generation, are valued, and my brother operates an honor system at the pay shack. Put your check or cash in the box and Merry Christmas.

Oh heck yeah. Not us, but as the first house on our dead end road, I see the plumbing trucks every Friday after Thanksgiving. FYI: There's no law saying you can't flush more than once. Dumping a big load? Flush after the dump then flush again after the TP, or sooner if you're using a lot of TP.

I have six $2 Silver Certificates, but they're probably a 1 on a scale of 1-10. I got them that way in 1966 from a grandfather.

Potatoes! Time to make gnocchi.

They can probably pad the insurance claims too. Besides the tax write off.

I always knew people who could write music had brains that just worked differently from mine. Same for some painters. And then there was Robin Williams. Whew!

But... you can ignore all those retirement things like SSA and Medicare etc until you get there cuz nothing you read today will still be in effect when you retire.

Even Greenpeace no longer wants us to attempt to recycle plastics (except those bottles you paid a deposit on). Put it in the regular garbage to be buried at some landfill.

Imagine some of the most sought for mummies being ground up for that. Cleopatra, Alexander The Great... Yum.

Forgot the worst of all: Humans.

It's difficult seizing properties on corners in order to make room for roundabouts. Lawsuits and such you know. And people who have lived there forever don't really want to see a big chunk of their property carved away, or see the depreciation they'll suffer from that.

Ah yes. Man has discovered that nature, when left alone, is a pretty good system. But what humans did before we learned better is what will kill us all.

I (63F) spend a silly amount of time looking up actors I see on the old TV shows and old movies on TCM. Sometimes I can come up with the name but need to remember where else I've seen them, and sometimes they're such an "insignificant" actor, at that time, they don't appear in the credits of the show. Then I have to click open every "uncredited" actor in the IMDb list to find who they are and where I've seen them before.