I had occasion to use the virtual credit card service that PayPal offers today: I wanted to do some shopping but didn’t want to tap the family budget, nor did the merchant accept PayPal. So I simply had PayPal gin up a virtual MasterCard, backed by the cash in my account, and used that. So it’s really a debit card that works like a credit card. All the same, smooth as silk.
Once you get a “card†created for you, PayPal pops up a little mini-window with your account information — the account holder name, card number, expiration date, etc. — and you can just refer to the details there as you make your purchases.
Since my takings from my little part-time gig go to PayPal — I use their invoicing tool to collect — I have funds available. And this opens up possibilities with other merchants who don’t do PayPal (some eBay sellers don’t accept it, but would they care about a debit purchase? I doubt it.).
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That’s a definition of the adage “There’s a right way and wrong way to do things..”
At least you have neighbours that talk to you. We’ve had three sets of neighbours in the apartment opposite and all of them run with their heads down if we happen to meet in the hall, even if you shout a “Hello”.
Man I just love city living :/
Some idiot planted a huge tree right up against the property line in our back neighbor’s yard, directly underneath the power lines and a few feet away from the utility pole. Until just a few weeks ago, this meant branches were growing into the power lines and telephone box. We hadn’t lost power because of them yet, but we had noticed a lot of phone/dsl interference when it was windy or rainy. The city arborists came and removed a good chunk of it a few weeks ago, so at least it’s not growing into the power lines any more.
There are still a few very large low branches on our side of the property line which block most of the light that our garden would otherwise be getting. I’d like to remove them, but whenever the subject has been raised with the neighbor, she’s been pretty hostile to the idea. She also doesn’t seem to want us putting up our own fence, so we don’t have to see hers, but I have no qualms about ignoring her on that point. (Also, we suspect that she’s been coming into our yard and spraying pesticide, which is very much not ok.)
But we’re within our rights to trim branches on our side of the property line, aren’t we? We’re not likely to be able to get permission from her, based on previous conversations, and I’d rather not wait until she kicks off to do it.
We more than suspect the pesticide. She’s told me straight out that she’s sprayed pesticide on our property. Whether she’s continued to do it after I objected, I do not know. I also have reason to suspect that she’s been dumping brush on our side of the fence. She’s a real charmer, that one.
Paul, I’m not sure I understand you here. Are you saying that the guy trimmed branches that weren’t crossing over the property line? Geez. That’s no good.
Oh, yes, leaned the ladder over the fence (that the previous owners of my house installed so they wouldn’t have to look at his yard) and cut limbs that paralleled the property line, but on my side of it.
If you want to trim branches that belong to a neighbor, sociopathic as they may be, get an opinion (an arborist should be able to guide you some of the way) as what’s permissible.
The origins of this prohibition date back to Washington’s history in timber: some rascals would skirt into adjoining holdings when they cleared their land and “accidentally” harvest timber for sale that they weren’t entitled to.
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