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* Photo scanning service? - 3 messages, 3 authors
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* How long to build a house from Craigslist "free" materials? - 1 messages, 1
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* Ninety Percent Off Or More! - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Photo scanning service?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/9f598948386130fc?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 31 2007 8:20 pm
From: "pepita@prodigy.net"
On Jul 30, 11:58 am, m...@privacy.net wrote:
> I have abt 100 family photos of various shapes and
> sizes (old) that Id like to have scanned and digitized
>
> I don't have the time or equip to do myself.
>
> Any advise on services that can do this?
Find a local teenager or anyone you know with a scanner and a computer
equipped with a CD burner. Call in a favor, trade for something you
can do for them, or pay them some cash.
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 31 2007 10:04 pm
From: Anthony Matonak
me@privacy.net wrote:
> PaPaPeng <PaPaPeng@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Then what you really want to do is to copy the photos on a color
>> copier using photographic grade paper.
>
> I only need electronic files for the moment
If you don't have a computer then what do you need with electronic
files? You won't be able to actually use them without using some
kind of computer somewhere.
That said, do you have any friends with computers? Scanners can
be found pretty cheap if they don't already have one.
Anthony
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 31 2007 10:39 pm
From: Rick
me@privacy.net wrote:
>
> I have abt 100 family photos of various shapes and
> sizes (old) that Id like to have scanned and digitized
>
> I don't have the time or equip to do myself.
>
> Any advise on services that can do this?
You'd need to check into specialty photo processing places - either Mom
& Pop independent stores or a chain like Ritz camera to find a place to
do it. But keep in mind that having them do it won't be cheap. Even if
you could find a place to do it at $2.00 a photo without anything but
the most basic color corrections involved... The problem is there's a
lot of manual labor involved. It's not like running a pile of 8.5x11"
paper through an automated copier. Each one of those photos has to be
manually placed into a scanner, scanned, saved and then all burned onto
a CD once it's all done. Digitizing just about *any* other format -
slides, negatives, video tape or 8mm film - is a lot less labor
intensive than individual photos. They key here - and cost - is having
someone else do it.
Rick
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TOPIC: How long to build a house from Craigslist "free" materials?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/009019a2521ac2e0?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 31 2007 8:20 pm
From: et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)
Rick (rickajho@rcn.com) writes:
> Theoretically, it's an interesting idea. But to really accomplish it in
> a reasonable time frame I think you'd have to go slightly beyond "free"
> and get creative with low costs options as needed too.
>
I think the original premise is based on stories we are getting now.
SOmeone comes up with some idea, gets press about it, and everyone
wants to follow. The reality is the original may be less interested in
the final outcome than in the press and the book that they can
write about the experience.
So there was that guy who parlayed a paper clip into a house. A woman
who "stopped buying for a year" and got a book out of it. I'm sure
there have been some other examples.
They make good press, but they are likely pretty impractical. Reality
is not so extreme.
So someone building from as much scrap as possible may not be
as spectacular as the person who builds a house completely from
scrap, but it may turn out to be better, and the hopefully small
amount they do have to invest is compensated for a tremendous
ease in the building.
It's like anything. You can put in a lot of effort, and not
spend any money, or you can try to minimize what you spend, and
still do a lot better than someone who is careless about what
they spend. To cut out money completely, you are likely going
to put in a whole lot more effort than if you are willing
to spend some money. In effect, that last 1% or whatever will
cost dearly in terms of effort.
Someone isn't likely to get another house by trading a paperclip.
It's been done, the novelty is gone, and reality sets in.
Micahel
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TOPIC: Ninety Percent Off Or More!
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/c7bc1f1bae68adcb?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Jul 31 2007 11:01 pm
From: Steve
BeaForoni@msn.com wrote:
>Has anyone been to UBid.com and seen the watches up for bid? They have
>$4,000 watches for around fifty bucks. I am not sure what a Rousseau
>Deluxe is, but it has got to be a real deal.
Sure thing, I think those are the ones that fell off the back of the
truck on the Sopranos...
--
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
...Garry Shandling
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