– Go in at the end of the month
– Buy the model of the year right before the model for the next year comes out (dealers get desperate to sell the old models)
– Refuse to put any money down. Say that if they ask you to put down money, you’ll leave
– Seriously. If they ask you to put down money say you need to go and walk out
– If there’s another dealership nearby, tell them that you’re walking there right after you leave
– If a deal seems unfair but you really like the car, tell them you’re going to another dealership and leave. Chances are, they’ll call back the next day with a better deal
– If possible, after the first call wait till the last few days of the month and they’ll likely call again with an even better deal
– Look around for family and friends that need a car. If you buy more than one car from the same dealership you’ll get a much better deal
– If a family member/friend is looking for a used car while you’re looking for a new car or vice versa, still get the used car from the same dealership
– If you decide to buy a new car after a few years, trade in the old car and buy a new one from the same dealership. Companies appreciate loyalty and will likely offer you a lower price
UPDATED
(My dad went to college for finance, more specifically he looked a lot at stocks and how to sell things for a maximum profit. He learned it from the perspective of the company but it also works in his advantage)
– When you walk into a dealership, the salesperson will immediately “be your friend”. They’ll act like it’s you and them against dealership – Sometimes a salesperson will offer to talk to the manager. This does not mean anything. Chances are, they’re going to have small talk for a few minutes and come back out – Carefully consider the usefulness of an extended warranty. You’re losing money unless there’s an accident or issue soon after you buy the car – This wasn’t so clear before, but you’re still going to have to pay a down payment. What you should refuse is a securing payment – The securing payment is a psychological trick. You feel more tied to the company so you’re more likely to buy from them – You’re extremely more likely to buy at the last place you go, but with the securing payment you’re less likely to go to another dealership due to a sense of commitment – A salesperson may say it’s a limited time deal. Most times, unless this is the last of that years model, or it’s a special event, the deal is not going away and will still be there if you decide to go back. It’s not necessarily a deal breaker, but you should be suspicious if it’s said to you – Save money by asking to buy the floor model. There’s no mileage on it, but it’s worth less because people have sat in it – Or, ask to buy the demo if you’re willing to buy a car with some mileage. The depreciation of the price is usually worth it – Each can get you a few thousand dollars off due to the fact that it is technically not a “new” car anymore – Always look at the websites and play around with the build a car, payment calculators, or anything other offered features. Make sure when you’re using it you look at the down payment and the number of months that you will be paying for the car over – Try to not buy a really obscure model because the trade in value will be lower – Get the maximum down payment you can afford to lower the interest cost – Look for a crash rating test. A 5 is going to get good trade in value, and is much safer
(This was written in NY so there might be exceptions in other states or countries)
I needed this thank you
Sorry I cant check you in right now like 20+ people. We have signs up saying we are switching systems right now and check in isnt even until 4pm. Its 11am. Sorry but we have no computers. We. Can. Not. Check. You. In.
I honestly thought bum was gonna be so affected mentally by what happened last chapter especially when sangwoo told him “ you thought I was your lover?” like being sad or crying or at least giving sangwoo the silent treatment again. But instead he was staring as sangwoo’s sleeping face all day 😆
But it’s kinda making me glad that both of them went on with thier life like nothing happened so no complaining
i just found this amazing site which is a random sentence/passage generator from tons of classical pieces of literature. everything from the illiad to bram stoker’s dracula and more. a pretty awesome way to do bibliomancy, especially if you don’t own some of the books it generates! i just used it with my spirit companion and it worked beautifully.
it would be a real buzz kill to stop your partner right in the middle of it tho, if you cant handle it all the way at least help them to finish off as well, you should be nice and care for their needs as well as yours right? c:
That’s rape.
If someone is stopping sex for whatever reason – but especially if they had to stop because they can’t handle it – the last thing their partner(s) should be thinking about is that they should get help getting off. They should be making sure their partner who had to stop the sex is okay, physically, mentally, and emotionally, and being supportive of their partner and their need to stop.
The “but I need to get off!” mentality is why and how I was raped by my ex. Both because from me getting physically hurt and needing to stop and then him making me finish him off (while I was still in pain and hurting, I might add), but also because it emboldened him to, instead of just side-stepping my “no,” ignore it altogether.
That added comment is so dangerous.
Your partner needing to stop during sex SHOULD be a huge buzz kill, because having sex with a person who’s unwilling, uncomfortable, unsure, unhappy, or IN ANY OTHER WAY not 100% on board with the proceedings is repugnant.
These kinds of responses are my FAVORITE. Some examples to answers to this question I have heard:
1.
“Okay, and who’s the president?”
“Obama, no wait, shit *vehemently* fuck, I hate him… what’s his name…”
“It’s okay, you know who he is.”
2.
“Who’s the president?”
“*drunkenly angry and confused* ..uhhhhhhh…Orange… damn it what’s the fuck’s name….
“Yup, good enough.”
3.
“And who’s the president,”
“Not fuckin’ Obama!”
“I feel ya.”
4.
“Who’s the president- wait, nevermind you’re from Korea you said, right? So who’s-“
“Everybody knows that Trump-bitch.”
“Oh, well, alright then.”
5. (My personal favorite)
“Who’s the president?”
“Ew.”
“Good enough.”
My roommate is a neurologist and has to do this check all the time. Her all-time favorite so far has been “ay dios mio” during which the woman was vigorously crossing herself.
More children have died in school shootings in 2018 than active combat members of the US military according to The Washington Post.
The number of deaths and school shooting incidents through May 18 are each higher this year than at any point since 2000. There have been three times as many deaths in school shootings so far this year than in the second-most deadly year through May 18, 2005.
One of the best fic authors I’ve seen around has been posting about having a redemption arc idea, but being too afraid to write it because redemption arcs are considered Problematic nowadays, so they don’t want to get in the crossfire, and I just want to say – tumblr is completely fucking dead to me.
redemption arcs are fucking important!
ppl seem to think it’s about the villain being forgiven for all the shit they did like it was nothing, but that’s not what redemption is! redemption is hard selfless work to become a better person, regardless of wether the ppl you’ve hurt forgive you or not, regardless of wether you can actually atone for your mistakes or not. redemption is swallowing your pride and understanding what you did wrong and having those memories of your past self hang over you constantly as a reminder to not ever do those thing you did ever agin. it is maturing as a person.
redemption arcs are so important because they are there to show that we are all human and we are all capable of change but it has to come from our own effort!
being a person who often get stuck in the past and the mistakes I made when I was even just a child, there is nothing I find more comforting than a good redemption arc, tbh.
if these villains from my childhood cartoons can become a better people despite all they did, then so can I
Thank you for your suggestion anon! And yes I am thinking of pricing them on complexity, type of spells and over all how ‘big’ they are as well as offering to teach the person on how to cast it, any precautions, and general set up. Its going to be more than just plain spells. Thank you anon ^-^
Thank you for the help ^-^ and all that sounds pretty fair to me as well. I also don’t charge tax since my home state is sale tax free so I feel like charging tax would be a jerk of a move.
I am also considering teaching classes one on one for different people based on learning different types of magick. But that is personal and I am pricing it based off time needed, subject and what I am assisting in. thank you so much for your help anon, you are lovely ^-^
Myra needs her teeths fixed by the end of summer so I need to make as much income as possible. Student loans, rent and bills are draining most of my income from work
For a price? Lol. You’re a joke.
Like I said it is only a suggestion and why I was asking. No need for calling me a joke. You could always unfollow and/or block me.
I love standing for 8 hours on my period and having a heavy flow
Myra needs her teeths fixed by the end of summer so I need to make as much income as possible. Student loans, rent and bills are draining most of my income from work
I just saw a curse that basically went along the lines of “make the person so unbelievably infatuated with you that they drown in their own emotions,” and I was like “… that just seems more dangerous than useful tbh.”
I don’t really care about it being a curse, that’s not the point – the point is you can’t really control how far that person may fall, or their actions after they have done so. Like, that just seems like it could end up creating you a stalker, which would end up causing you pain and problems too. Kinda defeats the purpose, while also putting you in a potentially really scary situation.
Love is a really unpredictable and volatile thing on its own, before you add magic into it.
I think that is a curse that sounds very much like it has a huge window for error. I won’t say backfire since I don’t see magick as that, its more of just a range of unexpected possibilities. I curse, a bit regularly depending on the situation but this curse seems extremely dangerous for the caster. Obsession is no joke, we can’t ever tell how someone can behave when obsessed. Some may turn out to be extremely toxic, and if you’re cursing them in the first place implies they are a toxic person.
And then if the point of the curse was to later shatter their heart so to say, that could make it even more dangerous. Some people cannot handle rejection. And an obsessive possibly stalker, person being rejected can result in some severe backlash and violence. This could really end seriously.
I recommend looking into other curses, for all of you cursing witches out there, that do not encourage putting yourself in such a dangerous position.
some fucking gremlins, every time: lmao i hope he ends up being shitty!! I hope he ends up being an abuser or a pedo lmao!! I hope real life people are being abused just so I can say i told you so!! I hope he’s secretly horrible just because I don’t like seeing other people enjoy his content!!! lmao!!
Cue me looking longingly at 4chan’s trolling transparency compared to tumblr’s thinly veiled puritanical culture.
Years ago, before the anti-shipping movement meshed together with SJWs, I remember fandoms coming together to protect themselves from trolling raids organized by 4chan users, where we could expect waves of gore and triggering content being poured in general tags.
Years later, in a perfect evolutionary move, fandom groups do it to each other. Yet, between “I do it because it’s fun” and “I do it for your own good” I so much prefer the former.
So I looked up the whole story and, as the BBC reports:
I legitimately want to know what the wife’s reaction to this was. I know she deserves to go to jail for attempted murder, but I can only just wonder what was going through her head when she saw him get out of bed complaining of a headache.
Stemming from the old Scots word, a “glamour” (always spelt with the British “ou”, as we are referring to the spell not the trait) is a kind of magickal spell or enchantment that a person casts upon an object, a person, or themselves to confuse, bewitch or obscure the senses of other observers. For instance, a pickpocket may use glamours as a means of assisting in the avoidance of detection, and a secret Witch may use a glamour to hide their spell supplies. Glamours are also one of the primary spells that the Fae Folk use to hide their presence, and also to make mischief and cause harm to intrusive or blundering humans who offend them.
Why have I never heard of this before?!
Probably because it’s not very flashy and, by its very nature, it’s centred around concealment. Glamours are very powerful, very useful spells, but they don’t involve love or money or luck or happiness and so they tend to be overlooked by most novice or self-taught Witches. They’re also quite hard to perfect, and so many more experienced Witches give up before they have mastered them.
They are simultaneously very simple spells to perform, but very difficult to perfect, as they require significant effort of Will and a lot of practice but if you achieve a true glamour it can be one of the most powerful spells in any Witch’s arsenal. It’s also worth noting, however, that glamours do not conceal things from machines. Machines like metal detectors, security cameras and proximity detectors don’t have minds, and as such they cannot be fooled by magick that affects the mind and how the brain perceives senses. They also work poorly on animals, especially cats. Do not try to fool a cat with a glamour. Dogs are often confused by glamours, but generally see through them with time, and snakes and lizards are completely immune as far as I can tell (since their minds are not concerned with things that glamours affect).
OK, but how do I cast a glamour?
The first step is, as with all spells, to decide to do it. Decide “I am going to cast a glamour”. Know it in your soul, know that what you will do is magick, it is a glamour, and that it’s purpose is to hide yourself. Glamours on yourself are generally the easiest to start with, because they are the easiest kind with which to tell when something needs improving.
Secondly, you must visualise strongly – and I mean REALLY strongly, let it consume your being – the purpose of the glamour. Fill yourself with the knowledge how how it will work, what it will do, how it will work. If you are looking for a glamour of imperception, whereby you attempt to make yourself hard to see by convincing the minds of people around you that you are utterly uninteresting and forgettable, fill yourself with that. Let to complete and utter truth of that ring through your head;
“I am forgettable, I’m not even here. You don’t remember me, I’m utterly boring, I’m just another part of the background. Everything about me is empty and dull. There is nothing here”
And similar such truths. Let your Willpower make them true, let their truth fill the world around you through the strength of your visualisation.
Thirdly, sustain it. This is the hardest step, but a glamour will only last for as long as it is sustained and remembered. If you are visualising a glamour on something that moves or changes (such as yourself) this can involve literally constant reinforcement – never ever stop thinking those reinforcing statements and pouring all your Willpower into them. For objects that are more static, for instance a chest containing spell supplies, this can simply involve a period of refreshment every evening whereby you place your hands upon it and refresh the enchantment you’ve placed upon the chest, reminding it of how completely ignorable and boring it is, reminding it that nobody will open it because nobody will care enough to try, that nobody will notice it because it’s so dull it’s not even there.
That seems REALLY hard, is there a simpler way?
The short answer is, no. This is why glamours are often quite unpopular – despite their obvious power and usefulness, the sheer effort of Will that goes into the construction of a glamour, and the amount of practice you need to get really good, can scare off a lot of Witches from truly persisting. Those who need glamours are often the only ones who are really any good at them – the best glamour-caster I have ever known developed her skill during her life as a pickpocket, when she used glamours to avoid getting caught. The simple fact that she has no criminal record attests to their efficacy! But, it took her a very long time to get that good, and most Witches simply don’t care enough to try.
However, I urge you to do so! It’s such a rewarding skill, even if only so that you can be the undisputed champion of paintball and laser tag in your friend group because nobody ever sees you in the shadows.
So there you are! The ancient, powerful, and mostly-overlooked art of glamours! I hope this helped all you lovely Witches!
– Juniper Wildwalk
Glamours are exceptionally useful and I strongly recommend learning them. 🙂
These are very fun to learn how to do. And for me (at least) a great way to practice the art of Glamour is to practice while in a mall or shopping center. I know one of my favorite glamours is envision myself becoming this massive and scary tank while walking through Walmart, so people get out of my way or move to the other side of the aisle. But an invisibility glamour can work wonders especially if you have late night classes and you need to get to your car after class and the area gets a bit sketchy after dark. It will help you go unnoticed (speaking from personal experience here).
This ship is so f*cking cute and I hope they get married.
Not just cute, this is incredible. The male love interest tells the female protagonist, “The person I think I know is partly my own fantasy. I want to know the real you.” Need more shows/movies/everything like this
Before that, he’s sad she’s dating someone else, and tells someone, “it’s not her fault I didn’t ask her sooner”.
He’s like the anti-Ross
This show is mature for its characters design and I’m so freaking in love 😭😭💖💖
I think magick shows itself in different ways. All spells can fail one time or another for many different reasons. I really don’t believe there is one ‘sure always works’ spell or ritual anywhere. Things don’t work but sometimes things don’t work out how we plan in ‘mundane’ life too. Mistakes happen or random results can happen, even in science.
what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them?
Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too
look at this shit
They radiate peace
capybaras are friend shaped
I love this post
This is actually a cool thing I know about!
In the wild capybaras live in large groups so naturally a female capybara will take care of not only her own offspring, but all of the other offspring in the group. So capybaras are super great mothers who will adopt pretty much anything and take care of it.
Lots of places that rescue different animals will give a group of baby animals to a capybara to raise if they have one.
Like puppies
Ducks
Deer
Emus
They are just super calm animals so they’re naturally great at mothering or just existing in a group!
mom shaped
This is the ideal nurturing animal. You may not like it, but this is what peak social reproductive labor looks like.
Well first I would recommend speaking to some experienced spirit workers because its always good to get more than one opinion on things. A few that I regularly talk to are @feistyceltic and @macabre-incarnate both of whom are very nice and well versed in spirits.
I would say you should try to communicate with it if you are comfortable in a beginner friendly way. One way would be using a simple pendulum and asking yes, no and maybe questions. Its very basic but it is the easiest way for most inexperienced to communicate.
I do urge you to read my post about Spirit House Rulesthough before you start communicating with it and make sure you have made your own. Unfortunately there are cases where a spirit will seem very friendly but will get clingy or even abusive to someone. You want to stop that from happening in the first place and make sure it understands your rules.
*sigh* a certain blog (I think we all know the one) is antagonizing so many people again and it just annoys me so much. Find something better to do than going after young witches or mocking pop culture magick.
I have never heard of it being “bad” to cast spells. I have heard of new witches having energy issues at first while casting spells.
You need to learn how to center, ground and meditate so that when you cast spells you don’t use too much energy on it to the point of getting dizzy, tired, drained etc.
It is best for new witches not to try to do too big of spells at first, because it may be overwhelming to them as in exhausting. Plus bigger spells can call for more concentration and more intent which can be very hard and difficult for a new person. Take baby steps and when doing spells give yourself plenty of time to rest and make sure they are beginner friendly.
I got it on sale for 25 dollars and it has so much information in it. It has scientific information on the stones, historical, where you can find them and in some cases how they are made, their spiritual qualities as described by 3 different individuals. I think its very informative and is a good way to research stones and crystals you’ve never worked with. It also tells you if a stone is toxic or not which is information I found in the witch community is often ignored or overlooked which is dangerous.
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