Sea Salt

Thats great to be able to throw perfectly good salt away due to not
wanting to store or measure it. There has been a few times I sure
wished I had just 1/2 cup more salt..........Its not a big deal to add
a little salt or water to adjust........at least not to me. And a
buck saved is a buck I can spend on other things instea dof buying the
same thing in "exact" quanitity at a later date....Gues I am just a
pack rat and too frugal to trash something that way... To each their
own.




On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:11:27 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:
miskairal wrote:
Why did you throw the rest away?

Well, we guestimated the amount to mix when we set up the tank. Added a bit
later to get the SG correct. That left enough salt in the bucket to make up 50
or 60 gallons of water.

I usually make up about 27 gallons at a time in a big trash can. I usually buy a
box the right size for 25 gallons of water. It all works out ok. I didn't want
to be playing around adding salt a little at a time to get the SG correct for
the next two water changes.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

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"~Roy~" wrote in message ...
Thats great to be able to throw perfectly good salt away due to not
wanting to store or measure it. There has been a few times I sure
wished I had just 1/2 cup more salt..........Its not a big deal to add
a little salt or water to adjust........at least not to me. And a
buck saved is a buck I can spend on other things instea dof buying the
same thing in "exact" quanitity at a later date....Gues I am just a
pack rat and too frugal to trash something that way... To each their own.

Come on... take it easy. His salt, his money...
It ****es me off too when I see how people can be wastefull,
but it is their own mistake. Nobody is perfect! ;-)

~Roy~ wrote:
Thats great to be able to throw perfectly good salt away due to not
wanting to store or measure it. There has been a few times I sure
wished I had just 1/2 cup more salt..........Its not a big deal to add
a little salt or water to adjust........at least not to me. And a
buck saved is a buck I can spend on other things instea dof buying the
same thing in "exact" quanitity at a later date....Gues I am just a
pack rat and too frugal to trash something that way...

You sound like my father did - time was worth nothing. He was a depression era
kid and would spend hours or days building something to save three or four dollars.

Me, I'll throw away $15 worth of salt if it saves me time and trouble. And I did.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:GOvKf.833$gh4.785@trnddc06...
You sound like my father did - time was worth nothing. He was a depression era
kid and would spend hours or days building something to save three or four dollars.

Me, I'll throw away $15 worth of salt if it saves me time and trouble. And I did.

And what do you do with all this free time on your hands ? ;-)

I did not make the reply previous as a slam, so don;t read it that
way, but I just have a hard time throwoing anything away especially if
its not broke or there is nothing wqrong with it and know up front I
am going to need it again later or on a continual basis. After a few
fresh batches of salt is made and if that trashed salt was saved, yu
would be basically getting a free batch every so often..... I am far
from being broke, so I could readily afford to throw left over salt
after changes, but IMHO its wastefull and a buck is a broke. I need to
point out I am fra from being rich either, but I sort of look at my
self as frugal. My barn, out buildings and shop all illustrate that
trai very well as I have heaps of stuff all over the place and
continually add more most every day. More than one time a packed away
bit of "trash" or excess" items / material has saved my butt and its a
pretty sure thing it will continue to save me in the future as
well.....Heck its not hard to make water or add amounts of water or
salt to get specs right, and I can just about do it visually anymore,
so its not like it takes hours on end to bump up or down SG in a
batch.

My grandfather on my mothers side gre up as a depression era
indivudal, and was an imigrant as well. My grandfather on my fathers
side came from a well to do family and most times money was never an
object....My mothers side GF used to scrimp and save and scrounge,
whereas the other GF would just go buy. I liked the scrimp, scrounge
one better as he was able to make something out of nothing or my
grandmother could throw together a meal out of nothing......certainly
not dependant on society or life in general. NOw the other side would
die if they needed something and could not find a store open to buy
it.....I myself am retired, and still do not have enough of time to
accomplish what I set out to do on a daily or weekly or even yearly
basis, but anymore I just do not care how long it takes, as long as I
am alive and kicking I enjoy doing, more than buying.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:29:10 -0600, "Pszemol"
wrote:
"George Patterson" wrote in message news:GOvKf.833$gh4.785@trnddc06...
You sound like my father did - time was worth nothing. He was a depression era
kid and would spend hours or days building something to save three or four dollars.

Me, I'll throw away $15 worth of salt if it saves me time and trouble. And I did.

And what do you do with all this free time on your hands ? ;-)

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Roy I bet your sheds look like my husband's. Nothing gets thrown away. I
used to laugh at him for it until I discovered all the things he can
fix/replace by scrounging in his shed. Last time I was game enough to
walk in there I found the bases of 2 pedestal fans that died this
summer. The actual fan part was gone from each. Why I asked? Well he
answers, they're adjustable height, I can use them to help prop up the
new ceilings when I am replacing them - we are currently doing up our 98
year old house. I saw him bring some old piece of farm equipment home
yesterday that he must have found down the paddock. It looks like
something that would be pulled by a horse - I wonder what his plans are
for that.

I can't throw out old computers and so far have managed to get other
people's old pc's going with parts from them. Modems in particular come
in handy and even hard drives.

Haha, I just asked hubby and that was a horse drawn plough. He is going
to make it fit the tractor to hill up some beds to grow some small
crops. At the moment we are drought stricken and there is little grass
so he is finding things his parents and grandparents used.

I think that whether or not you become a horder or saver depends a lot
on how much room you have to store it all. Maybe George just doesn't
have the room.

~Roy~ wrote:
I did not make the reply previous as a slam, so don;t read it that
way, but I just have a hard time throwoing anything away especially if
its not broke or there is nothing wqrong with it and know up front I
am going to need it again later or on a continual basis. After a few
fresh batches of salt is made and if that trashed salt was saved, yu
would be basically getting a free batch every so often..... I am far
from being broke, so I could readily afford to throw left over salt
after changes, but IMHO its wastefull and a buck is a broke. I need to
point out I am fra from being rich either, but I sort of look at my
self as frugal. My barn, out buildings and shop all illustrate that
trai very well as I have heaps of stuff all over the place and
continually add more most every day. More than one time a packed away
bit of "trash" or excess" items / material has saved my butt and its a
pretty sure thing it will continue to save me in the future as
well.....Heck its not hard to make water or add amounts of water or
salt to get specs right, and I can just about do it visually anymore,
so its not like it takes hours on end to bump up or down SG in a
batch.

My grandfather on my mothers side gre up as a depression era
indivudal, and was an imigrant as well. My grandfather on my fathers
side came from a well to do family and most times money was never an
object....My mothers side GF used to scrimp and save and scrounge,
whereas the other GF would just go buy. I liked the scrimp, scrounge
one better as he was able to make something out of nothing or my
grandmother could throw together a meal out of nothing......certainly
not dependant on society or life in general. NOw the other side would
die if they needed something and could not find a store open to buy
it.....I myself am retired, and still do not have enough of time to
accomplish what I set out to do on a daily or weekly or even yearly
basis, but anymore I just do not care how long it takes, as long as I
am alive and kicking I enjoy doing, more than buying.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:29:10 -0600, "Pszemol"
wrote:

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:GOvKf.833$gh4.785@trnddc06...
You sound like my father did - time was worth nothing. He was a depression era
kid and would spend hours or days building something to save three or four dollars.

Me, I'll throw away $15 worth of salt if it saves me time and trouble. And I did.

And what do you do with all this free time on your hands ? ;-)

~Roy~ typed:
Thats great to be able to throw perfectly good salt away due to not
wanting to store or measure it. There has been a few times I sure
wished I had just 1/2 cup more salt..........Its not a big deal to
add a little salt or water to adjust........at least not to me.
And a buck saved is a buck I can spend on other things instea dof
buying the same thing in "exact" quanitity at a later date....Gues
I am just a pack rat and too frugal to trash something that way...
To each their own.

Oh....my God....me too! Good God, I buy a big bag of salt--50-gal.
worth--for my 8-gal. tank. Then I have a good time frittering around
getting it just right. I don't throw ANYthing away if I can help it.