Thursday, August 04, 2005
Itching What's a Good Method to Stop A Dermal Bacterial Inflammation, e.g. Staph?
I went to the dermatologist, no improvement, and waited 10 years to find you this method. I tried about 30 things, e.g zinc, aveeno, baking soda, calamine, washing a lot ect to reach a simple conclusion; drying is a powerful way to solve the problem or perhaps candida. How to dry your skin? Simple, polypropylene underwear. It has compounds built in that wick away moisture to keep your derma drier. You can also get antimicrobial blends with silver compounds that actually get more antibacterial when you wash them. Not only this you can actually wear your underwear in the heat and stay comfortable in the AC because it has the advantage summer or winter of not overheating. It actually keeps your temperature constant winter or summer. You go outside and the wind doesn't knock you down and you go indoors and it's not so darn hot, a major woe of winter solved for just 25 or 30! They sell A BATCH of these at Sierra Trading Post the sales lady will tell you, they solve a major problem of winter, great for itching too. I also use clove powder to finish up the labor (cloves are drying and antibacterial too.) The ones I tried that were much better are comfortrel, if you try other ones from Sierra, they may be no so good (I tried others for rotation methods and they were third rate.) Another option here too may be powder like baby powder in combination. This is much safer than antiseptics. To keep the underwear more in contact with your skin, belts around your itch may help you sooner. If you're too hot in the heat, just to wear the underwear at night while you sleep helps you a lot, with reduction of the progress of the staph by 50% ect.
P.S. The talc powder works best if you have constant moisture where you itch, total solution! It's real cheap and simple. Not for internal use.
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Saturday, June 11, 2005
When I was a Teen I would use the old trick of making 49 trips to find gold out west! Even so I used paper towels for years to clean shelfs like in the kitchen. At first I would try cleaning off the shelf with going over the realm with just the paper towel using up a lot. Then I realized it's much more efficient to clean in steps, sort all the large stuff by grouping all the like stuff by like type and in small batches on the edge of the shelf aimed to remember where they go, jugs are much tougher to clean off the table with paper towels! Each item I aimed to the shelf, ect. Step 2 was to brush all the stuff off to dry clean more exactly and in step 3 I would spray on the surface like with water, soak it a while clean with the paper towel and repeat, then fine tune in Step 4 with a bit of baking soda on the paper towel up close for beauty and sharpness. Then I realized in Step 3 after each spray of water (the universal solvent) can be improved by using a small deck mop for a much faster cleanup after the soak. A problem with the deck mop was that it wasn't washable and so on. To improve this I tried the ruse of storing them in my refridgerator, I couldn't store them in the freezer because they would be solid ice, so I compromised with this partial cleaning solution. You read where they say it's of worth to store your brushes in the freezer in a zip loc no doubt, even so I finally found a better way to save on the paper towels and for the rest of our life;
A Squeegee, Gee!...
First I sort the shelves by the above motif, dry clean the shelf with the squeege to move the stuff into a dustpan off the side and then spray and use the squeegee again to cleanse the shelf the moist, and repeat the spray and squeege motif till finished and then go over the shelf with just a bit of paper towel and baking soda by the usual method to find tune. Squeegees are cheap and much better to clean windows too Click Here, in double duty. My squeegee just cost two at Big Lots and won't wear out. To clean around edges after you sort the stuff, where a wide squeege may not reach, you may want to use something like a smaller spackling knife or a small squeegee. It has a much reduced surface area compared to a brush, and if you store the squeegee in the icebox it's much safer to use, in ten years you'll save 500 or more and your branch of the S & L will hug you!
This method is good for higher speed use on flat surfaces, for other surfaces where you either reach deep or round, first sort and dryclean as above, then use of a brush with poly bristles, and then spray to soak and cleanse and so on may be best. While less clean than a squegee, the bristles are easier to clean than a mop because stuff you clean slides off with water and won't stick to the brush.
Friday, May 13, 2005
If you leave a room unused and in good condition, your cleaning progress is retained, so too a cabinet or a wall.
If you don't feel like cleaning the first time, like when the landlady arrives or if you have no landlady and you're being criticised, a hybrid method is to hire a Merry Maid and ask her to clean like 3/4 of my house and then finish the rest myself, so I'm exercising and have more control with the Maids and so her precious pictures are uplifting the wall. Reducing Use keeps your house clean for months "or indefinitely", a a lot more for your money, you don't even have to feel rundown once when you win Grand Am.. Even so there are tricks even a pro won't know about shields and how to Reduce Use I list below. A pro only cleans, she's not going to tell you how to stay clean, cigarrette companies don't remove chemicals from cigarrettes to make them burn less or reduce additives from snacks to make you buy and eat less.
.. Keep in mind that these methods like Reduced Use while the best I've found yet, are only ways to reduce the cleaning the you may have to do. Think of Reduced Use as one important tool, though there are others needed to finish up. You'll still have to clean somewhat if you want to be clean, though only about 1/4 as much, for maintenance cleaning and a feelgood event, plus a thourough clean I use once a year when the site manager arrives. Though these methods are of value, I've found it best too to be prepared to clean all out when I have to, distrust of the bleach devil is important so we might have cleaning salvation... Hope these tricks are of real worth for when the boss shows up and for the reduced labors you'll have, your cleaning will be of more worth than umbrellas in the heat in refreshing rain.
(15 or so) Cleaning Tips and Tricks Using (what else) the Reduced Use Method, like Shields, and Other Tricks To Be Almost 10,000% More H2O2! Fetch my vendor and we'll blast on to higher rain or showers..
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Ultimately Activive or an energy herb like Activive (Hello Life) or being fit enough to clean may be the best for being clean, but with Activive this is easy to achieve if in doubt. Even so who has time to clean 12 hour away not found in evolution, thus the methods of reduced use I list here are of worth for how to be "Superclean". You may like these methods of Reduced Use (what's in a name, lots) when your landlord shedules for inspections, and it's twice as natural for you.. Cleaning labor may conquer all, but awareness is labor saving.
About the kitchen you can also use a labeled tote in the refrigerator since it simplifies all the clutter. You may have heard of the 20/80 rule, 4/5ths of all we use like socks is not in use, thus concentrate on the 20% and in life in general you are doing well. So too, the totes make it so you can just put like 1/5th of your stuff for common use, the rest is there to serve you at your command, yet your sorting and cleaning is a lot higher speed.
In the kitchen or dining room is where I would stain my clothes, this can cost 1000's in outfits. I searched the web and here also found little of use, so my own dining method is to buy a cloth shopping bag and tie it to my ice box door, in which I put the can opener and the large spoon. To eat my food I have to open the ice box for the can opener and spoon or other to eat, thus I'm reminded to use the shopping bag for a bib (or you can use a bib, couldn't find any where I live). The large spoon makes it so I spill less food on the "bib" which has the handle that easily fits on and over my shoulders fast and easy. Even if this is more spillproof, I also lean over the sink to eat with the light on, like weight listeners, I had to stop, the more I hear the more I eat! The light helps my coordination to not spill the food and I bang my head on the computer shelf, for best reflexes. Just spray the sink out to clean up, much easier than cleaning off the tablecloth or falling over, and no food on the floor.
..To reduce use of sinks, just use 1 not 3, 1/3 less to clean! (I know) How Your Bathroom Sink Will Shine if you do nothing more and more!
If you use these tricks, you'll have all the outfits you want, buy them once and you also have light outfits, no stains. Stain removal is like solving from the other side! I often used some impossible method before this. My father said if a person didn't have to spend on clothes food or rent, anybody could be rich, two outa 3 ain't bad considering that Reducing Use like this can also save many people from eviction by being clean faster, saving more money and to have rent to pay. The 1000s you save on Reducing Use you can put into cleansers and other improvements in your house, except once you understand Reducing Use, ways to clean to have to clean less, as I say here, I use more permanent methods by Reducing use that cost much less money or labor in the long run..To remember to use the bib I put it on my refrigerator, if you can't remember to or if you want to improve any household habit, eg. reducing computer hours away from Muffy, a cheap trick is to make cheap labels out of paper (masking) tape. And I use a medium permanent marker that's both easy to see yet narrow enough to have good reflexes, to improve handwriting to make it look beautious, go over in pencil, edit if needed, then the marker, cut to fit, plus the heavy transparent tape over to seal it. It has more space to put your label than store labels, it's not too red or green, and it's vastly cheaper than label makers at like 2 or 3 dollars a label overall cost! WOW! What's the probability of UFO's Out of this arena! Handwriting improves your personality, and like TV that reduces life expectancy by 30 minutes for each hour watched, I wonder what computer drudgery and grief does to us? DSL helps a lot no doubt, even so it has sitting and stress combined, and this is reminiscent of TV, TV what is it? I couldn't find sites yet about computers and life expectancy yet, when they arrive I'll be so high speed I'll be aware!
To reduce use of my sinks like in winter actually eat over one of my kitchen sinks, leaving the other two unused, It's easy to then clean out any food I spill with the sink sprayer, thus no kitchen shelves have food on them no food on the floor and the other sinks are clean too, reducing use.
To reduce use of the one kitchen sink, I use the screen drain food holder, though you see them for 10 or 15, there are good screen drains at the dollar store for just 2. I used to use lots of mouth wash and constantly floss and brush for how I CURED my gingivitis with probiotics with 5 years of search in 3 days Click Here. Good germs like acidopholis and others like bifidium (not just acidopholis) replace the bad germs, putting you in a much better general position. Brushing and flossing still recommended. I seems important to get nutrients from otherwise healthy foods with sugar. If you have sugar issues like 1 in three who will get diabetes yet need fruit, a formula called New Greens has little sugar, but 20 servings in a one dollar dose that is just one 10th the amount I spend on food anyway, so it may be worth a lot more than fast food alone and a wise way to get good nutrition without sugar. Like the surgeon general would say, vitamins and nutrition are of real value, since just a little goes a long way, so it's good in general, and sugar is now believed to be a slow poison. "Sooner or later if you live long enough you're guaranteed to get diabetes if you eat sugar." New greens are a good cleanser, I feel good right after I eat the dose, and it doesn't taste too good or bad just mildly nice, so it's not tempting to eat it all, wasting the cost, yet still improved over other green formulas. Clay is not famous here in the US but it's so absorbant it even absorbs out heavy metals and radioactivity, and it's great for allergies, ect. Clay seems to absorb out fat sugar and and salt too, perhaps it is evolutions dish. As I say on the page Clay is cheap and has literally 1000s of benefits because the food has no minerals and you only absorb 10 percent of vitamin minerals, ect. ect. Brewers yeast has lots of fiber, it's cheap, and a big dose of chromium, and it's much more delicious than fiber like wheat fiber, for brewer's yeasts they'll think you're a beer, taken with sugar it may make the difference between whether you get diabetes, because it actually rebuilds your cells insulin receptors. It's now found that 1 in 3 will get diabetes, and this is a fun cheap insurance you won't. Developing countries don't get diabetes because they have fiber in their diet of unprocessed foods. Even people who eat sugar and work in the sugar plantations don't get diabetes because there is fiber in unprocessed sugar plants. Here's My Health Disclaimer. Please read.
Of course just opening the windows when the boss or companys will visit, is cheap and easy and the number one red=commended way to reduce house odor by websites who kno!
.To not have to make my bed so often I use a heavy blanket of deep beautious weave and the sides are beneath the legs of the bed so they won't slide around. If you need to in winter the arch of the bed makes a good blanket holder so you're in reach of the rug. The blanket above the heavy one is for heat, and the heavy blanket insulates you better from the cool air in the cushion. How to have clean sheets, I buy more! Reduced Use saves.
Actually you can use like clips like the silver handled black paper clips that I unclip the handle, thread through both the sheet edge and reclip it and the mattress underneath where I want to stabilize it with the sheet in place on the top and the mattress upside down, and then turning it back over, this stabilizes the sheet as long as you like.
CLOTHES
Reducing use can also be used to save on buying clothes. I have some older clothes that I've had for more than 15 years, and I noticed what these clothes have in common with other clothes that "don't wear out". First they are usually durable, like synthetics, and second they're light enough to be beautious and not to be tossed out in a few months because of looks yet dark and of complex and beautious motif enough to not show many stains. Generally I buy clothes that go with other clothes in modular ways, with some sharper ones for real life. Even so to Reduce Use the clothes I notice that are the best most for Reduced Use are also with enough moderate camouflage patterns. To maximize reduced use, these clothes I wear around the house, while the lighter clothes that seem more sociable I wear to go out for visits or appointments where I won't spill anything on them (lots of my neighbors wear lighter clothes, and indeed research shows the road where you live has influence on how fat you are, Lois Lane Superwoman! Is the woman up the road!). Thus the house clothes are saved because they don't show stains while deep and beautious, and the clothes to wear out for business or pleasure aren't stained either, I would spend 3/4 of my money on clothes on stains before reduced use. Another way to reduce use in winter is to wear an outer durable moderate hue or other outer synth coat and an inner coat that costs more but that won't wear out for many more years with more insulation. Also, see above about how to stop spills, using the bib methods.
Reduced use can save you thousands on clothes (even at Goodwill) and months of shopping for new clothes otherwise. They match together well because not too dark or light and you have to wash them less often.
To reduce use of winter boots a good pair of durable PVC "overshoes" makes them last much longer and you can just buy a cheap pair of warm boots that won't wear out for years that otherwise would, this can save you hundreds over years and it also makes your boots waterproof and with rubber heat insulation.
Socks last much longer by the same trick, inner socks for insulation, outer shield, strong synths for reducing wear. You can buy lifetime sandals, silicone oven mitts for winter that are real cozy and never wear out, how are lifetime mits, ask customer reviews! Bass Pro Red Head socks, made of real cozy thermolite and nylon, also have a lifetime guarantee.
To sort clothes, another good way to reduce use of clothes in your house is just to use one set of the more deep hued clothes as I say this way I don't hang my outfits most often on the floor! For reducing perspisation parsely and other herbs also reduce use too.
Outfits with durable cloth that has patterns and are also light enough to be interesting not only save 1000s even at Goodwill, but they match together well because not too dark or light, and you have to wash them less often. I wear lighter clothes when I go out to be with my neighbors who wear lighter outfits, even so people will unconsciously think of you as smarter for wearing this type of outfit that are dark mysterious and light too because they sense you have mystery and power of interesting outfits while saving too. To reduce use of outfits it's good to find like 3 of your best outfits and then alternate them perhaps two or 3 days each. I would find that I spent too much time sorting my clothes after I had gone through say 10 outfits to find the ones that matched best sometimes. Folding in the labeled totes is a mere two hand operation, not the complex rocket science and optical recognition and 10,000 dollar computer arm needed to hang outfits on the hanger because you have to find the hangar, the clothes...often hangars aren't seen.. Folding takes about 3 seconds and no wait.
Using fewer outfits in rotation and combination both Reduces Use and randomness, speeding your time finding and sorting clothes, and storage of items like unwashable shoes in poly bags if needed reduces house odor. Febreeze is a good additional boost. I wash outfits 1000% when the manager arrives. The ruse is just to use a few outfits at a time.
See also above DISHES/KITCHEN Reducing Odor by Reduced Use/ CLOTHES.
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For rugs it's good to use heavy nonslip washable rugs in the kitchen, and only walk on these, this way you can just toss them in the machine for a fast clean up without huge scrubbing labor if you watch to not drop and or always clean up spills.
RUG CLEANING CHEAP
In 15 years I've learned to no doubt toss floor rugs in the washer for cleaning the wall to wall. (Even with Reduced Use it needs some care.). No doubt hoover it up.Tthen I use two special tricks. First I go over it with a brush like a self cleaning pet brush (easy to find in Pet supplies in stores like Wal Mart cheap. The pet brush has deep cleansing rubber tipped bristles that rapidly dig out dirt while fluffing up your rug without harm to it-much faster than sweeping with a broom, vacuum often while you clean in alternate cycles. After brushing fast you can then sweep otherwise buried dust that's out of the rug to a dust pan. Believe me to fluff and cleanse your tired rug (combined with the towel method see below) this works better than anything other than a professional, it's fast and just costs 5$ If you can't find a pet brush with stiff rubber type bristles though this isn't self cleaning ("clean...out with a comb") and I don't know if this is of worth.
To clean put the dust pan on the floor to the left aimed right, put your left hand on the floor for level zeniths above and then sweep from right to left into the dust pan while on hands and knees. This method is the most labor saving because it's an action reaction power saving mode. For higher speed, sweep larger areas then channel into the dustpan.
For the second trick I get some towels and moderately moisten the side say 4" and scrub out more of the dirt then dry real fast with the towel If there's more dirt on the towel keep cleansing till no more. the rug doesn't have much risk of mildew if you clean dry it clean faster. Why not just pay for a rug shampooer? The brush towel method is cheaper, takes less time, perhaps and hour, and is good exercise. If I have more time I use cycles of vinegar, baking soda, "wet towel" and dry towel plus perhaps more of the pet brush ect. vino and baking soda are great for for rugs, no powder to remove like baking soda alone and much cheaper and safer than carpet cleaning fluid. If powder remains after drying use more vino and scrub. Your time is twice till dry so as I say water may be best.
Have you ever wanted a self cleaning mop that is? A good trick is to buy two or more durable rayon mops (I think rayon is the best value overall, because unlike flimsy cotton mops won't fall apart in a week or two; even though a bit unabsorbant, rayon costs about the same). To make them self cleaning I just put them out in the weather, the rain cleans them, reducing use because no buckets and tubs to wash out. To wash the patio too move the mops to the side with each cleaning cycle. Or you can add water to the floor via a plastic broom, if you spray like using a hand spray jug it would take years of tweezers to trim your lawn like some cheap lawns. To clean out the broom when you're done, just squeeze in the sink with the pressure of the handle, and it's good to wash the broom outside. Two or more mops are better, because although not much water us needed after you add water with and loosen dirt by edging via the broom, two mops finish up better than one, and you have an extra mop for other cleanup and drying. Though you can't use this if you live in the desert, with enough mops in reno you'll stay ahead of the bet.
The best cleanser by far for water stains I've found in 20 years by far is baking soda plus lemon juice, wait a few hours, wash up with wet towel repeat if needed. No scrubbing, no fumes, best I've ever seen, also a great bleach for clothes, sunlight boosts the safer bleaching, antibacterial power. Not for use on wood finish surfaces.
...Dropping the shaver is a major cost with shaving. To solve this loop a shoe string through the handle or punch a hole in duct tape after you tape it around the machine. Then tie the shoestring if it reaches all the way around your shoulder so you can loop it up there and you'll never drop your cutters, just your beard!
Another good way to save on shavers is by Reduced Use with the same shaver used to also cut hair. This can be achieved by using just one of the sideburn trimmers with the linear (oscillation type) blade. Because it's cheap it won't much cause nicks and it will cut your hair pretty well Click Here for how to. I've saved about 800$ and with practice like online instructions you can do more with a beautician than cutting out.
.. The majority of people take suppliments and perscriptions for health. Click here for ways to find and not drop vitamins or herbs in the bottle thus Reducing Use by not having them fall on the floor, and how to research your alternate herbs.
Monday, May 09, 2005
How to Keep Your Stove Clean Without a Trivet
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
What's wrong with Mp3? All cyber machines fail eventually, most of them fail in lots of small ways before they go. While I haven't tried pricey MP3, I have put 200 into cheap low cost Mp3s that failed one by one in just weeks.
Like a Steam Car of the 20s. with a room that's an elevator that could go at 100 mph outrunning the usual automobile in the 20's, it seems that "the final days of an old technology are always better than the first days of a new".
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For saving more money, or me, good old cheap audio works best. You may see these 1g chips they advertise to have 40 hours of sound. But a usual hour of CD sound has about 500 Mg so the total is just 4 hours, so the cost per hour with SD is much higher. You can buy 10 times the memory on cassettes, and even listen to blank cassettes in silence if you'd like peace and quiet with your solid gold ears! I never tried this with Mp3!
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Certainly cassette portable audio has no little AAA's you have to charge in 15 or 20 minutes of listening, AA's in Walkmans last weeks and don't lose all my memory if I drop the machine, now I remember! The AAA's in all my Mp3s I bought were so bad I had to leave the battery compartment open and often the off on didn't work so the only way to boot down was to disconnect the battery from the outside..
And what about flipping through the songs, this is no easier with Mp3... All I bought had just numbers of each track and you had to flip through all the tracks between to reach your song, start to finish. This is not good if you have 100s of tracks, and the only features that were definitely improved were random order of the songs and that you could find out faster what was on by skipping through the tracks with the sound bite. These aren't really that much of an advantage, a song is a song, whatever the order, and earplugs and a bit of patience solve the bad parts of the tape like grandma turning off her hearing aid if the preacher was bad sometimes! Actually this may be better because research has proven that rest between when you learn like in college improves memory. If the memo is too easy to acess it may not be as well learned.
This may like when they remove stop lights and build a traffic circle and the number of accidents goes down, they think this is caused by people making more effort to be cautious when they have to make some labor to achieve a task. And in Sweden when they went from driving on the left to the right, it's believed accidents were reduced too because of more labor. So during the time when the memo is on already heard, if the listener plugs in ear plugs worn around the shoulders with a strong twine all the time instead of hearing the other memo they can instead be memorising the higher quality memo with both rest and power learning.
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This about continous access to ear stops is good for sleep and a good bark stopper too, I wear smooth earstops most of the time so if the volume goes up by accident for a second while I listen it won't damage ears for the rest of my life. Black shoelaces make good cord you never lose them so you can have solid gold anytime day or night, it's easy to wear them if you never lose them. Mine were a bit tough to tie, I tied them and then would sew the frazzles. They say the damage caused by constant loud music may show up years later without evidence before and if you listen to a song without all the sharp notes it sounds pretty good. The EU is considering sound limits on Mp3's.
Actually you get two or more songs from the same song if you listen at more than one volume and with the earstops in and out, more tunes when you save the absolute most!
If you like the sharp sound because you like music a lot it may be of value to alternate between listening with the plugs in and out to give your ears more of a rest at any rate. Continuous listening is not recommended by experts.
Thus cassettes for now in 2008 are as good as Mp3's ...
What if you have a great collection of old cassettes you don't want to let go of?
The main problem for long term use of cassettes is being able to find all your songs, particulary recent songs or memos, often the most valuable.
There is a way I've devised to find out what's on all my cassettes, this makes them much more of worth. My method is to take the cassettes of a given type, say music from a given year, radio shows of a given type (comedy, drama, language, wit college, music, current conversations/improvs and more) and tie them together in batches with a strong narrow twine like nylon upi can get at the discount store. The twine is across the top (opposite the audio tape) and then taped to the cassette with good more silent tape (light tape general area, heavier tape so stronger to seal the ends) and added in a line the same way to another cassette beside it you'd like in the batch, and then the one line and cassette repeating so you have a batch of say 5. The only drawback is it's a bit more labor to insert and remove the cassette or to flip it around from side to side (auto reverse reccommended). The main problem I had with cassettes that made me stop listening to shows like radio shows or good sounds I missed a lot was I had so many cassettes, when I would record one, I'd put it with others in storage and they would be absorbed in the giant pool of the cassettes. The only way to find the one I was looking for was to either sort the whole batch (a real labor once a month) or do without the info or songs I'd like to find. When you have this you have the main problem of cassettes solved for large numbers of audio memos and with this overall you have a better value than Mp3 remember the money and better sound is in this picture..
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This batch method makes it easy to find your current memos by numbering each batch with numbers and then naming each cassette of each batch say with date or A Z. Once you write down all that's of worth elsewhere like in an A Z in a book you can always find where any song or verbal document on any cassette is by the general to exact cassette number to letter, and you can also then be more precise by making a line where the the wheel of the rolled tape is on the outside like with ink and a small number or name on the cassette beside this line to find the song or words if it's important to know and you haven't written the words out in your booklet that goes with that batch of cassettes. They're both grouped by batches and types of document, it's more than 5 times as fast to find your memo even if Elvis was the author.. And you can code them with stickers like stars, gold and silver stars always solid gold and silver music, silver stars, language.. use color coded tape on the tip and top of each batch of five twined cassettes. Naming them has good worth too, when I was recording FM music I'd number each tape with year and month and hour if the same AM FM with numbers like no other, and if you do this you can put them in order from old to new. Another old method I used before I used the nylon twine was to put labels on the side of a high shelf above my TV and these were A to Z so I hoped to sort them well. While this was better than just putting the audios in a box, eventually the memos were random even if not as often so this still took sorting and it was tough to stack the cassettes without them falling. The cassettes are 5 times as easy to sort with rubber bands and more stackable using the A2Z index on the shelf and this in combination is another good way to find the twined cassettes especially if they are recent memos. The rubber band is most useful if you often listen to just one of the tapes at a time in the batch like I do to learn math intensively, audio is much faster and deeper to learn words if used in question and answer form. Without the twine and color code to them fast just like with the Mp3 discs it would be much tougher to find them so they would be not worth nearly so much for this.
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Why not use your computer to store your audio? My Windows XP is slowed down a lot and storing on broadband audio sites costs a lot, and the main problem is about pressing the wrong button and all the memos go zonk to cyber space. I have at least two non computerized document types (books like My Comedy Machine and the audio cassettes) so if my computer goes down I won't cry for hours all month. Warren Buffet (el richo) says moving to more types of business doesn't make much sense, with this at any rate you should be as wealthy as the neighbors in Malibu who listen to cyber sounds!
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To improve this about the batches of cheap cheap memory you can make booklets (modular clip on is good) and tape them to each batch say at the starting line of the batch of your cassettes where you can always start to go through the whole song batch by 80's song, or 90's. I write memos in the booklets about what's on the tapes except the start of the first words for each joke so I can have a fast summary of the best of the cassette without taking an hour to listen to it if it's of worth once it's in memory. To make an easy memory marathon in the memo for the audios like to remember comedy to memorize, comma the letters in batches of say five and read them like forward and rewind or repeating each letter more than 1x and the moving ahead slowly but more surely to exercise my brain with easy memory exercises. If the radio show doen't have a lot of comedy mostly, I listen to the radio with the recorder at hand, when I hear a good joke (a good way to know is if it's memorable and makes a good impression on you) I record on the cassette without wasting my time on the whole show, it's condensed, most radio shows are with few jokes per minute, why waste my comedy being serious?
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This is cheap (my wokman costs about 5 a year not counting rechargables and cassettes). And it's more reliable than MP3. I've had just two tape failures even with cheap tapes in 15 years, and the cassette wokmans are droproof. The lowest price tapes would tear up, but above 37 cents per tape the tapes are good. With cassettes "being now on the way out" you can get high quality cassettes at sites like closeout or other old audio sites at the cost of cheap ones 10 years ago.
One problem with portable audio is often the jack for the plugs which wear out and lose the wire connection before anything else tears up so no sound and the machine is not playable, just because of the darn connection. To save the wokman of any type from the plug failure a good method is to buy earplugs they sell with a wire in the bundle you plug between the wokman and the audiophone, this second wire can be plugged into the walkman wire and cinched to it and then to an amp like a bigger sterio (I got one at no cost at a yard sale with and amplifier and big speakers.) or to audiophones. To make it so the plug won't wear out my wire is plugged and unplugged between the amp wire and the wire to the wokman instead of in the machine each time you may want to jog or walk, or when you flip the cassette over to the other side, this makes the number of times the machine is plugged and unplugged much reduced saving it for many more moons of music in the roomwah. If you leave the Walkman on a shelf plugged up to the sound booster and don't move the plug much you have lots of good music and will save you 100,000's of rich..
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To flip to the other side I used enough line between the cassettes to make it so I could simply flip it once in one direction to cross the line, and then untwining the same loop in the opposite direction to listen to the other side using no more than one loop so it won't tangle. More than 5 cassettes will tangle. To batch them during use I use large clips and modular clips are of value, for example when you are recording from one cassette that's not as much of value as another which has a higher level of information, like e.g. condensing a talk show in your own words when you sing!
A problem at first was about the line I was using, it's broad enough when I clamp the door of the cassette machine to throw the tape heads off, and this jams up the tape so I lost a few cassettes at first. The solution is to move the lines further down to nearer the hinge of the door of the cassette machine when you load or unload the cassette, this allows the heads to stay aligned. These are the only cautions about this method.
To store the clipped and lined cassettes while listening so they are not too loose to handle I tried Zip Locs, these were too small and clutzy, like Santa Klutz, the advanced method is a foam bag I got with my Sony Audioearz, it's 8 by 7 and it holds about 5 cassettes well, this black bag unifies by beauty and makes it much easier to walk around while holding on to memories, just wrap around your hand with the machine and memory inside. No doubt this only is good for one batch of cassettes, but I often listen to just one type of music at a time, and buying a number of these for the most uses of worth (one for music, one for learning, one for comedy) you may stay busy with just these for so long the small amount of labor needed to change them more infrequently is no problem. And this use of bags and nylon line is a lot cheaper than buying the clip in cassette holders that you see in some libraries that seem to have the volume up too high cost with the marms shushing rather loud.
This cheap cassette twine method to find your audio memos is portable, even so your wokman will wear out sooner in jog mode because of the plug losing the connection when you're walking around or changing the tune so you won't be a gold prospector and cheap both, most audio will wear out sooner if you walk around, ther's not as much portable HD Wide Zoom Dish Stations as high resolution FM!
If you see those books you buy where you snap your cassettes in and out for storage, the batch of 5 method is much cheaper, the books would cost 500 for the cassettes I have, and thousands for more, and your cassettes may not stay nonrandom without more sorting. So in truth, like the A2 Z shelf memo method I tried on my way to this method, it would still be incomplete even at this price. E.g. I thought of buying zip locks and taping them in looseleaf binders to organize my cassettes, but they eventually were more random as I used them, and I wouldn't always know where the binder is even if it has 30 cassettes.
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While these are some of the 8 ways I tried in my evolution to this method of using twine to sort the cassettes, some of these early methods are of worth to use with the batch method, e.g. the program memos, rubber bands to keep them neat, color coding at the tip and top with tape, and an A2 Z index on a high shelf to find the most important audios (especially the ones of this month or hour), and the rest in boxes by type and so on.
All cheap audiophones are not the same, I tried cheap 2 to 5 dollar audiophones for years before I realized that Sony around the ear headphones for 20 are better because they last indefinitely instead, my current Sonys are 2 years, for the same cost the cheap ones would cost just be for 12 months, because they would always tear up in about a month, so about 1/3 of the time I would have no phones unless I lived "live" at the BBB reunion concert! The only problem the Sony phones have even if they are much more durable is that I stepped on them by accident when the first two pairs smunched, this can be solved by always putting on a high shelf or loop out of the way when not in use instead of leaving them around the room. Even if you don't crunch cheap phones they use cheap wire so they tear up and the best value are the Sony's because you don't have to go to the store to buy a new set half the time, so I'll have sound in both ears.
Cassettes to record radio music and shows can be made just as good as Mp3 and much cheaper than listening to a big cassette recorder by using a larger recorder to record off both AM and FM for good sound quality (audio science proves cassettes have better sound quality than Mp3 If the recording is high quality, walkmans to listen with are well known to be as high quality as a medium priced machine, Consumer Reports says they have "suprisingly good sound", mine sound much better than mp3's.). The big recorder may cost perhaps 70 dollars and I use mine for recording music. The heads of all cassette machines wear out and become oxidized at the same rate, I needed a good recorder for sound quality and the cost for the recorder is "one time" (mine's in good shape after 15 years). Once you buy the recorder you always have good quality sounds and a good copy machine for just the cost of the cassettes and you only have to buy a big recorder for higher sound quality once in 20 years not once in 2 if you do most of your listening on the smaller machines. ..
You may remember how good a preprogrammed recording sounded on your cassette Walkman while your own recordings like with a cheap machine sounded not as good. The reason is while the music recorder has to be a bit higher priced, the walkmans can be cheap to play the sound, they last as long as the big machine for playback of all audio documents but like me with the 200$ in Mp3s you save a fortune and with high sound quality than if you played all your songs to listen on the big machine which has the same lifetime as the walkman, if that same lifetime is used for recording only or mostly and the player more often for listening only, since the players are much cheaper, you save a lot more.
To optimize better yet, for voice recording either of radio or my own creative words, I bought a cheaper, though still good for voice recording cassette recorder so the big recorder is used just for music and some dubbing, conserving it just for higher quality audio like music. The players are all for listening, the bigger recorder is for music, and the cheaper recorder is for speech recording so the big one is saved for music alone. If you're a musician you can also buy a second hand high quality digital recorder, I got a Minidisc Recorder with the highest sound quality for my own sounds of music and then make cheap copies for listening to my own songs. I don't listen to the minidisc for the songs themselves to save the MD because it cost 200 new. Now a good used on goes for 40 no doubt.
Thus the worth of over Mp3 of using cassettes in batches is, it's cheap, it's drop proof (safer too no high voltage inside like MD), the machines are much more reliable than Mp3's I've tried, the sound quality is better for cassettes than Mp3, the batteries last much longer with each charge, sooner or later all computers fail, smaller Mp3's are easier to drop, and so on, and also compatibility, the memory is cheaper, and the audio documents are easier to find. I think while it may be more worthwhile in 20 years Mp3 is way overrated as they are here in 2008.
Why not use CD's? Even with random play and how you can skip through the tracks, they're more expensive, and you can't tape them in a line like cassettes, so to find your data on CD's you would have to flip through the entire heap or continually sort them (if CD's were in a box like floppies they could be found in batches like this, I actually got his idea for cassettes from floppies in cohesion with the cosmos to find the best ones with a tab, the inventor says this would be a useful improvent for DVD's or CD's.). And CD and DVD recordable has the problem of "volatility", there's risk of losing your 10 years of data at one time or misplacing the DVD itself, and all cassette machines read cassettes at low cost. You may have noticed there is much more problem with the security of your digital documents. My mother lost half of a book she was writing because she forgot her password, maybe she's just overqualified, she knows a lot more words than math! Almost any digital document can be lost at any time in cyber space or the bit bucket. You learn from machines like chess computers, if there's any risk of a great loss by one move like this or audio at any time while you're recording, the machine or us would make the most sure and take the most time and energy to try to solve and stop the move. DVDs that can be easily recorded it seems may be easily erased like by the accident of the TV's magnetic field, so cassettes are more of worth about volatility.
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