{"id":4156,"date":"2007-12-21T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2017-11-24T06:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:57:53","slug":"the-miser-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/the-miser-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miser Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one of our biggest home improvement projects in our previous house, sadly enough, we put drawer liners in our kitchen drawers.  Surely that added $1000 to the selling price of the home and recouped more than 100% of our investment for the improvement in the sale price&#8211;if the purchaser opened the drawers and didn&#8217;t rip out the marble-looking liner as part of a complete remodel.<\/p>\n<p>Because I prefer to err on the side of too much, I bought a little more than a roll and a half more of the contact paper than I needed.  I injected the complete roll and the partial roll into the second-hand contact paper market through the underground economy, meaning I sold them for a buck or something at a garage sale.  However, I found some scrap in my basement that represented some cuttings from the partial roll.<\/p>\n<p>Throw them out?  What kind of miser would I be then?  I mean, sure, I don&#8217;t have a a drawer or two of suitable dimensions to use this contact paper as nature intended it, but I could find some use for it.<\/p>\n<p>And I did:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/marblepresents.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas gifts wrapped in drawer liner\" title=\"Christmas gifts wrapped in drawer liner\" width=\"600\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s Christmas wrapping paper you can reuse.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t remove the adhesive backing, so the gifts&#8217; recipient can line two small drawers or wrap gifts herself.  Given that she&#8217;s a miser, too, I wouldn&#8217;t put it past her.  However, since it&#8217;s my inheritance she&#8217;s protecting, go, Mom!<\/p>\n<p>You trained me well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of our biggest home improvement projects in our previous house, sadly enough, we put drawer liners in our kitchen drawers. Surely that added $1000 to the selling price of the home and recouped more than 100% of our investment for the improvement in the sale price&#8211;if the purchaser opened the drawers and didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17708,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/17708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}