#tables for cheap

[ilikelookingatthings]

I got a table for eight bucks....

I did not need a table.

Its a very nice pretty cheap table.

I have no room for a table.

My sister did not want me to get that table.

that sister went to Florida.

I got that table.

Now.... How do I hide a table.

Dear sister in Florida who has tumblr who told me not to get the table

Do not tell the sister who also went to Florida but who doesn’t have a tumblr that I got a table.

She can’t keep secerts, will judge and I want to see how long it will take til she notices

#table #tables for cheap #cheap tables #or table singular as it were. #its wood #very square and has a odd black pain on the top #is paint suppoused to peal in strips? #its got seashell details on all four sides #little wooden seashells #and fancy legs #nicely curved #I want to paint it either Aquaman themed or Never fairies and the quest for the egg themed #If its aquaman i want to do a accurate but cool look into the rebirth atlantis look. #like a fancy map or colorful blueprint or dollhouse look #for never fairies i would have to get good #or maybe i could do themiscara? Or maybe i should just paint the underside(or burn it...i have a wood burning tool....but i'm not good yet) #my bet is to hide it in plain sight near the foot of my bed where it can blend in like a where's waldo among my stuff #I am proud I was able to sneak it into the house #by myself #it was difficult to maneuver by myself but I did it #I accomplished something #table i didn't need aquired

[gregdotorg]

Kim Kardashian was really out there saying the knockoff Donald Judd tables she had made were the real thing, and the Judd Foundation was like, ma'am, no, and she was all, what if I post support for the Foundation on my insta? And the Judd Foundation was like, keep Judd's name out your mouth and chop up your busted fake furniture, and now they sued Kardashian and her carpenter for trademark infringement, and the New York Times is ON it.

#donald judd furniture #darren jurd furniture #judd foundation #tfw one of the only ways kim and gwyneth are alike is that they both cheap out and buy fake art and then get busted for pretending it's rea #think of the widows and orphans tryna get by with nothing but their wits and their father's designs for $90000 dining tables

[donnyclaws]

STONE SENSUAL: I didn't survive the Nuclear Love Apocalypse

A zine about a weird arthouse porn film, stone sexuality and anything else. (12 pages) ($3 on itch.io)

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#art tag #zines #I'm very much pricing these the way i would for a table bc i think zines should be cheap but i am also broke so id appreciate tips on these #if you enjoy them <3

[sergle]

ironically i love thrifting but ive never thought about using ebay, do you have any tips or keywords you use on it to find deals and shifty stuff/wording to look out for?

honestly I don't find ebay to be shifty for buying stuff! people are scared about using it sometimes and I think it's a little funny lol I guess the tip would be that if you search for an item with vague enough terms, you'll get some SHEIN-esque mass produced clothes muddying the results. and you know it when you see it, because those listings look like shit btw. this type of thing:

like, these are real listings and everything, and you'd get the product, but they are obviously not what you're looking for. you can ignore these, but if you want to filter them out, you can just narrow the search to SPECIFICALLY pre-owned items.

There isn't really any wording to look out for-- the only other thing would just be to make sure the stuff you get can be returned, bc sellers can specify whether or not they'll take the items back!

#aside from that you can search by brand if you're looking specifically for like. modcloth dresses #you can look for that! and obviously it lets you sort by size and color and whatever #people post pics of the clothes on a hanger or laying flat on a bed/table or on a mannequin #or they'll reupload the original product photo from the origin website lol and that's fine too. honestly sometimes prefer that. #people really optimize search terms on there so you can be vague or specific it doesn't really matter #I think pre-op I was looking for button up pajama tops. bc they're soft and have fewer buttons. and I looked exclusively for pre-owned #so they'd be cheap lol #ebay is really strict actually and if an item doesn't show up or there's a hole in a shirt or whatever you aren't left in the lurch #and the sellers really really want good ratings #sergle answers #It's a problem though actually bc I really really really like shopping for clothes. but also. I got no money #there's lots of great stuff ppl put on ebay instead of in a physical thrift store

[lastoneout]

this is my entire stance on the "american food is bad" discourse summed up

#there are two distinct times when american food is bad #when it's people who are well off or rich enough that all they care about is appearances and how expensive the ingredients are #bcs they don't care about taste anymore it's a status thing #and also when it's stupid gentrified gimmick restaurants basically following the Cesare from Big Top Burger formula #where it doesn't matter how it tastes #it's just about it looking cool or having a gimmick so influences will come take pictures and give you tons of free advertising #that's when american food is bad #bcs rip to y'all but I grew up dirt fucking poor around other dirt fucking poor people of all races and backgrounds #and we COULD cook y'all under the table with these things #when all you have for food is hamburger helper and canned soup well damn you learn how to make it taste good #also those two bad times are NOT unique to america AT ALL #remember the Australian fish and chips that had activated charcoal and looked like actual shit? #this ain't an american problem this is a fucking rich people problem send tweet #this is also why I can't watch chopped anymore #the way they talk about ingredients like those like they're worthless and they can't believe people would eat them #like cool glad you grew up well off enough to afford real people food #the rest of us had to learn to make velveeta taste good and you know what #I could cook your ass under the table with velveeta and all those other 'cheap' ingredients you're mocking

[code31-onthedancefloor]

dont get me wrong while uli learning disco dancing and other horrifically outdated ways to pick up dates with harry is absolutely fucking hilarious i feel as if he would naturally gravitate towards kim more. not just because of the nilsen parallel but because he wants to be taken Seriously. and here is this very Serious (lonely) man who is Serious (repressed) about the way he loves and he drives a car despite being legally blind (stubborn) and has beaten the odds of survival time and time again (at the expense of others; which he feels as if he does not deserve). ulixes will learn Something from kim but it certainly won't be related to how to get steban to like him.

#kim probably wouldnt let uli anywhere near his gun so shooting's off the table #their interactions are more akin to 'estranged uncle drives you to a pretty place and #you both stiltedly philosophize on whether the love is worth the grief' #and then he shows you his cool camera and maybe get into photography since ampoules are cheap #and then maybe you build a collection of pretty photgraphs. you're an amateur but surely steban will see the beauty of them. right? #countless nights and days. whenever kim's free to drive you around to places you've seen a picture in #and then you place a photograph between each page of a new book of theory and gift it to Steban. #what comes next? uh... i'll write this fic someday 🧍‍♂️🏃‍♂️ #disco elysium #echo maker #ulixes bücher #txt #steban the student communist

[marzipanandminutiae]

also someone on that post of McMansion getting renovated into a different McMansion was like "people who love old things don't realize that a lot of it was just cheap mass-produced stuff like the furniture and household goods they hate today!!!!"

and like. okay. there are articles on how cheap mass-produced stuff has gotten worse in just the last ten years. is it really that hard to believe that it was vastly better-made 100+ years ago?

also that should make MORE of an impact, I think, than simply assuming it's all the same as exquisite artist-crafted furniture in mansions. even the equivalent of Wish.com housewares in the 19th century were often 100X more durable than what we have today

(and no, that doesn't mean Western Society BetterTM or anything else the marble statue PFPs spout. forms of mass production happened in many societies, from cheap ceramics made in China and Japan for export to copies of ancient grave goods made in Egypt and the Mediterranean during archaeological revival crazes)

I have been living in Working or Middle-Class People's Apartments c. 1910-1920 for the past ten years. one of them was just rendered uninhabitable by fire, but a surprising number of the walls and doors were still standing. I firmly believe you could run a tank into those radiators and not damage them. things WERE often better-made in Ye Olden Times, and it doesn't make one ignorant or a Trad to say so

#history #their 'cheap throwaway perfume transportation vials' intended only to get a liquid from the store to your dressing-table bottle #are now valuable antiques #like. this shouldn't lead you to assume modern society is Morally Degenerate #it should lead you to demand better treatment and pay for workers and better materials to make our things #and the subsequent pay cuts for CEOs to make that happen #taxes on the wealthy were higher in the 1920s just saying

[anipgarden]

Cheaply Starting Seeds

This is my fourth post in a series I’ll be making on how to increase biodiversity on a budget! I’m not an expert--just an enthusiast--but I hope something you find here helps! 

Having a high-quality seed-starting setup can feel like an ultimate but distant dream. An entire shelf--an entire room, even, filled with grow lights and plant trays in the optimal setup to make tons of plants? Tons of garden tools, each with a diverse and dedicated purpose? That’s just not an option for some of us. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get started at a low cost!

Seed Starting Set-Ups

Speaking from a somewhat biased Floridian perspective, I’ve had great success starting seeds outside! My usual set-up is on a rarely-used outdoor patio table that’s moved to a sunny spot in the yard, but I’ve even grown seeds in solo cups on sidewalks, or directly in the ground, with great results! 

Some seeds grow best when they go through a cold period before germinating, while other seeds aren’t affected much by it and just wait for warm weather. As such, a viable option is to sow your seeds in late fall, let winter roll by, and wait until the seeds sprout on their own come spring! I would try and mark off where you planted said seeds, so you don’t lose track of them and accidentally dig them up.

Alternatively, if you want to get started while it's cold outside, a popular option I've seen is to grow in milk jugs! There's a lot of different ways to do it--everyone has their preference--but if you're already drinking things like milk or juice or sweet tea, and you're going to get jugs at some point in time--why not use them for gardening?

An easy way to clear up a section of lawn to create open gardening space is by using a sheet mulching or lasagna gardening method (though I like to call it the Cardboard Snuff-Out). Place cardboard or newspaper down in fall/winter to mark out where you want to garden. Layer compostable materials like grass clippings and wood chips on top of it, or potting soil/bagged compost. It’ll decompose over Winter into an organically rich bed that’ll have killed the grass and weeds underneath it. You don’t have to break out any tools and sweat over it come spring, and the cardboard itself will slowly decompose as well!

Though it's often recommended to plant things directly into the ground to decrease watering needs and increase nutritional independence, there’s plenty of reasons you may not be able to. Whether you’re renting, living in a place without a yard, or even just can’t or don’t want to break ground in a yard, you can still help biodiversity by growing in pots. Some plants have rather extensive root systems and aren’t well suited for pots, but there are still plenty of options available for plants that’ll boost biodiversity, be beautiful to look at, and grow just fine in pots! A recommendation is to get a larger pot, if you’re able, as it’ll hold onto more water and need watering less often. Not only are potted plants great for providing food for insects, but they can be shelter for other creatures too--there’s been a good few times I’ve moved a pot and found a frog or toad living underneath it.

If you don’t have room for pots on the ground, you could consider using hanging pots or window boxes! These can be great and easily-maintained options to provide food and habitat for insects and birds in an urban living situation like apartments or townhouses, but they can also be a fun way to add even more habitat to an already-robust home garden. You can even make an entire mini habitat in a window box or pot! I can personally say I’ve seen tons of pollinators visit my yearly hanging basket garden that consists of about five to seven plants, and I’ve always loved the idea of having a window box for blooms right out my window. Just make sure that it’s safe--make sure they’re securely fixed, and that whatever they’re hanging from can handle their weight when they’re freshly watered and loaded with plants. 

If you want to start indoors, you don’t necessarily need grow lights or heat mats (though it will make things a bit easier.) I’ve successfully grown milkweed, peppers, tomatoes, zucchinis, and even sprouted lemon seeds in college dorm rooms, and kept tomato and pepper plants in a dorm room on a sunny windowsill. For the most part, you need a nice and sunny window, some kind of container, and a source of heat (in my case, I used anything from a space heater to the warmth of my laptop running nearby. If you don’t have any sunny windows, or enough windowsill space to start plants on, its possible to obtain cheaper grow lights. One year, my mom bought me some gooseneck grow lights that could clip onto things for cheap off of Amazon. (Fair warning, though, they did light up my entire room in purple. I lived alone that year (covid year, my roomies bailed), so it was fine, but it was kind of trippy,)

Another year, when I was in an apartment on my own, I bought a grow light modeled like a normal light bulb from the lightbulb aisle in Lowe’s and put it in my desk lamp. Growing seeds indoors can make them grow fast and leggy, so it’ll help if you can keep a desk fan on them so they focus on growing strong instead of tall and fast.

If you’re fortunate enough to have a friend with a nice set up, you could see if they’re willing to let you borrow some of their space to start your own plants as well! My set-up in college was by no means High Class, but I was still more than willing to start seeds for my friends who asked!

Containers for Seed Starting

So now that we’ve talked starting seeds indoors and out, we need to address what to start them in. It’s important that whatever you’re using has drainage holes, and be large enough to support your plant (starting something like milkweed or a squash in a tiny little pot won’t yield great results). Fortunately, there are options here!

If you’re looking to buy pots, Dollar Tree will sell some small plastic pots for cheap in the spring! They’re kind of thin, and won’t last forever, but they’re great for a few uses and don’t cost a lot of money. Something that’s a bit more pricey but are longer-lasting, in my experience, are the Burpee SuperSeed trays. They come in different sizes, but I’m fond of the 16-cell trays--they have silicone bottoms and are made of a nice solid plastic with a tray to hold water, so they hold up for a long time and are easy to clean and reuse!

Burpee seed tray, my beloved.

What’s better than a cheap pot? Free ones, and there’s plenty of options there! I’ve seen people use toilet paper or paper towel rolls as pots by folding the bottoms in and have it work well for them! I think this method would work best if you had some kind of tray to keep them moist, because mine dried out fast last time I tried this method. I’ve also seen people make pots out of newspaper with a few different methods, and the people who use this method love it--apparently, the roots pass through the paper easier and it decomposes faster when buried, so you can just transplant the whole pot and avoid any kind of transplanting shock. If you don’t have any newspaper on hand, you can likely ask your friends or neighbors! 

I’ve gotten lots of mileage from reusing old containers by poking a few holes in the bottom with knives or scissors--just be careful while you’re doing it! I, personally, am more likely to use an already-used solo cup for it--they’re a nice size, so they hold a good amount of soil and moisture and give the seedling a good amount of root space. I tend to write the plant information on the side of the cup in sharpie marker, or on an index card in pen. I’ve also heard of people making use of egg cartons, fruit containers, yogurt cups, milk cartons, soda bottles--the more you start thinking about what you could easily poke a hole in, the more options start coming around!

This photo may be from 2018, but I'll still regularly reuse cups like this! They're also great for cuttings!

As you start planning to move your seedlings into the ground and preparing planting sites, you’ll likely need a few tools to do it! How do you get these? You may be able to borrow some tools from a neighbor! As long as you make sure to return them in good condition, depending on how friendly your neighbors are, they might be totally fine with you borrowing their tools for awhile. If you don’t want to take that route, there may be a tool library you can borrow from, or a mutual aid group that can loan you tools for awhile. Either way, borrowing tools is cheaper than buying them--though, if you do have to buy tools, cheap hand-tools from Walmart or the dollar store work just fine. They’ll even last a good while if they’re taken care of when not in use! I've even seen places like Ross sell some tools and pots in spring!

Spotted in a Walmart gardening section by the registers, 2023.

Of course, your mileage may vary with these. I genuinely cannot think of the last time my house got a newspaper, and as I've mentioned I don't have to worry about snow. Similarly, maybe you don't use plastic cups when you can help it, or don't have a particular affinity for eggs and yogurt. Maybe there isn't a tool library in your area--I sure don't know if there is in mine--but it could still be worth poking around and asking a neighbor!

That's the end of this post! My next post is gonna be about ways to support your plants for cheap--we're gonna be talking compost, mulch, and trellises. Until then, I hope this advice was helpful! Feel free to reply with any questions, your success stories, or anything you think I may have forgotten to add in!

#biodiversity #solarpunk #gardening #outdoor gardening #growing from seed #budget gardening #cheap gardening #indoor gardening #ani rambles #out of queue #the biodiversity saga #I can make a post later about how I prepare solo cups for being used as pots if yall want #I've found its safest to just use a nice pair of scissors and keep the cup upside-down on the table while I cut into the bottom #and when i say 'take care of the tools when not in use' i mean 'dont be me and leave a cheap shovel from dollar tree out in the rain' #it had a wooden handle and it basically just like. rotted. fell apart in my hand when I picked it up #generally keeping tools in the garage will also help them not rust as fast too #but if you're gonna leave them outside at least put them in shade #the number of times i have lost feeling in my hands because i picked up a hoe that was laying in the sun and fuckin SCALED my palms #its not fun. dont do it. maybe its a Floridian problem but still #if you read all these tags. uh. shovel emoji. idk. sorry dude.

[wetwaluigi]

you guys should check out my oc x canon🥺

this is zom and whisk my beloveds i dont post them enough because im scared people will be mean

for context- i like to imagine these two as kind of platonic soulmates (which is my funny way of saying bffs) who just also love each other also this has many problems. i like problems dumping some old extra slop sketches i never posted here below i will conceal it under a read more

#oc x canon #zeti #deadly six #zomom #zomom the zeti #sonic oc #medium tone wood cabinets #cheap marble dining tables #shipping #my life would be so much easier if my fictional crush was literally anyone else

[s-e-v-e-n-24]

Happy Valentines Day! Take a Nevada

#do I celebrate in the traditional sense as an aroace? no #but it's still fun to get cheap candy and hang out with friends #unfortunately I'm kinda sick though #wttsh nevada #wttt nevada #welcome to the table #welcome to the statehouse #wttt #wttsh #the statehouse #the table #my art #sev's art #anyone who noticed the poppies and the sagebrush gets a sticker #i think ben should give him a tank top actually #and more silver

[cotgar2]

Trying out some little things with how I draw Ed :p

#don’t mind the really bad profile *sobs in artist-trying-to-do-profiles* #anyways I wanted to see a) how drawing Ed for the first time in a good while would go #and b) how adding more floof and changing up the face shape just a tiny bit would go #also wanted to test out how the physics would probably work but that’s boring stuff :p #been doodling too many squid kids lately. i miss super flowey and floofy hair… #my art #fanart #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma ed #edward elric #hey for this being on my tablet with a cheap bluetooth pencil #i’d say this isn’t half bad….! no pressure sensitivity SUCKS though #but for being away from my actual drawing table for a few weeks I’d say this is a decent alternative ! kinda ! #downside is that I was stupid and didn’t bring my sketchbook because I forgot that tablets run out of battery :I oops

[bogkeep]

if i had a nickel for every heavyweight, sturdy and embroidered No Expenses Spared fancy totebag that's been gifted to me by a watch-related company visiting our school and handing out goodie bags, i would have two nickels. i don't have any nickels though. only totebags

#swedenquest #ironically the totebags i use the most are the cheapest thinnest ones i got bc they can live in the crevices of my backpack #and i worry less about damages etc #also the handle length on the Fancy Totes is a bit weird #little too short to be comfortably on the shoulder. little too long for me to carry in my hand without scraping the ground #idk why im blogging about totebags. #there's just something about. ah yes you've heard of goodie bags full of cheap stuff in mass produced totes #now get ready for FANCY GOODIE BAG. even the obligatory ball point pen has some Heft to it #the one we got today came with an absolute tome of a coffee table book. you Need a heavy duty tote to carry it #the first totebag giver was a luxury watch company from germany so that checks out #and this is a well established watch shop so. yea....

[clairetalon]

received the stuff i ordered from @eulyin's sale in november (signed btw 😏)

#claire personal #ignore the box i used as a support and the cheap-ass ikea table

[ardentpoop]

the angels (collectively, as a concept) were the worst thing to happen to supernatural's narrative btw im sorry if you cant see that bc you're attached to individual characters

#every big plotline involving them everything abt spn's Heaven sucks ass #it should've remained mysterious just as god should've remained an unsolvable absence #perhaps there could've been a fallen angel or two in play and perhaps nephilim could've been more The Thing #but we never should've seen inside heaven bc they're supposed to be Biblically Accurate up there for fuck's sake lol #not these fucking business-casual humanoids sitting around a fucjking conference table it's TERRIBLE #we also shouldn't have seen inside hell. i know they skirted the budget limitations by saying oh crowley hates it down there so he #set up shop inside an abandoned asylum on earth. but it's still fucking corny. again with the cheap-suited henchmen. COME ON #it's like unbearably bad if you think abt it too long

[venacoeurva]

I don't really keep up with Watcher anymore aside from the drunk ghost stories, but oh my god leaving Youtube and starting your own streaming service, let alone during a period where people have like no money and people are very annoyed with streaming services, is such a terrible idea

#vena vents #not art #your primary demographics are probably younger people who don't have money what are you smoking??? #for increased production value??? that apparently a lot of people don't even like already?????? #I was fine with them sitting at a table with relatively cheap props and a folder man I do not care nor want anything flashy and expensive #Not even a Mythical Society type of thing? Which would probably work??????

[homestuck--edits]

meowrails requester from before: i really liked it! can you edit the one with vriska flying, but godtier nepeta as vriska and equius as vrissy?

:> them !!

-mod davesprite

#mod davesprite #homestuck #homestuck panel edit #nepeta leijon #equius zahhak #meowrails #god i love walmart mens buttonups (not sponsored by walmart mens buttonups) #mm... floral patterns... the gender of buying mens clothes... absurdly cheap but comfortable and of passable quality.... #i split my shopping between walmart (for the buttonups) and safeway (because its 2 miles away and i like the walk) #theres a third much better grocery store (fred meyers) too but i dont shop there usually because its too short of a walk #only bones to pick with the safeway is that the starbucks is bizarrely dirty all the time? like i dont think theyve ever cleaned the tables #also they only sell the fancy cheese like. three days before expiration #so its always too strong for me