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Post by anneinwa on Apr 8, 2017 23:29:02 GMT
Tie dyed shirts for my daughters softball team and screwed up a couple times with the finishing process. Finding contradicting information so hoping someone can tell me a fool proof way for finishing shirts once the die is in them. We are doing the sunburst method if that matters.
Never have done this before. First error was rinsing too soon or improperly. We lost all the white due to colors running. 1/2 of these are still ok even with the white gone. Ruined the other by running through cold cycle on washer.
Other half is drop drying til I find out what I should do
Can someone with experience tell me how you do if? I want to keep the white parts white next time but need to see if I can salvge the 6 still hanging so I only need to redo 7.
Help please!
Update: Huge thanks to everyone who helped out and especially suggested Dharma Trading Co! Got my order Thursday, dyed 14 shirts last night, rinsed them tonight and they are so much nicer. I know where I am buying supplies from now on!
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Post by anneinwa on Mar 31, 2017 15:34:04 GMT
Thanks. That's something to look at! It works out really well for small businesses. You're not an S-Corp, you're an LLC with an S-Corp election. There's a difference. The primary one for us is that you don't have to do the corporation stuff like form a board and have minutes and officers, etc, etc, which doesn't make sense for a truly small business. As another poster said, you probably should pay an accountant, but at least for us, it's a few hundred dollars a year and well worth it because then the business can share some of the taxes. Either way it's still "us" at the end of the day, but this burdens our personal family budget less. It's just a form you file with the government-easy peasy. Would this be beneficial for a business whose income can vary greatly each month? Mainly in regards to ACA and reporting income to the healthcare authority? Would we only be reporting what the business actually pays us vs it's profit for the month?
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Post by anneinwa on Mar 16, 2017 20:58:41 GMT
We live just outside what will be totality by a couple hours. The science museum is selling tickets for the fairgrounds that will be in the path so we bought those and will be traveling, who knows how long it will take though due to everyone else traveling to that area that morning. I'm excited!
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Post by anneinwa on Feb 16, 2017 17:18:20 GMT
I just used them for a chip and small crack from a rock. If you have full coverage it might be covered. Mine was. They gave me a 5 hour window and came to me. I think the receipt showed just under $70 (even though I didn't have to pay).
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Post by anneinwa on Jan 7, 2017 22:06:06 GMT
We're getting the tiniest quantity of snow here in Portland right now....I just left the grocery store because Saturday is my shopping day. There are people literally RUNNING in the grocery store. Omg people!! Calm the F down! *smh* It's been like that for 3 days here!! My sister sent me a picture of her local grocery store.. out of milk, bread and potatoes!! I shopped twice yesterday (SW Washington) and things seemed normal, even Costco. Only issue I had was finding a decent snow shovel and car scraper/brush at Home Depot. I did see that broccoli was down to two heads which was strange but everything else seemed normal. I am seeing FB posts that it is a different scene today.
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Post by anneinwa on Dec 17, 2016 2:30:21 GMT
Our tree is all hand made this year minus the candy canes. Popcorn strung with cranberries... cinnamon applesauce ornaments... branches cut into rounds painted with snowman faces, and candy canes.
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Post by anneinwa on Oct 22, 2016 1:51:17 GMT
I haven't been to Universal for a couple of years but do know there is still a Special Effects show (a new one). We always went right to the tram first whenever we visited so that we didn't get caught in lines later, but I'm sure the best thing to do is hit HP first right now. I have to put in a plug for the Waterworld show for stunts and special effects. There will only be a couple a day and they will be listed on a "what's happening today" sheet that you can get when you go in to the park (this sheet will also tell you the last tram ride time which is at least an hour before the park closes). DD and friends bought season passes when HP opened and always go on Fridays. They don't even get to the park until after noon and haven't run into any significant lines. I don't think schools have a day off until Nov 11, so you've picked a great time to visit. Sweet! Schools being out is usually my luck so I'm thrilled to hear that! My daughter is off Friday so pulling her out of electives on Wednesday... Normally off Thursday. Usually we are down here over the holidays and I refuse to go then. I do remember a live show we would always catch so will make sure to look for the schedule of events to hep plan the day.
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Post by anneinwa on Oct 21, 2016 21:19:35 GMT
Thank you. Looks like what I thought is to hit HP first and we can revisit later if needed. We will be going on a Friday and hopefully schools down here will not be off. I think hours are 9-6 with early admission at 8 (I think if you buy online? Need to look into that).
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Post by anneinwa on Oct 21, 2016 21:16:47 GMT
I went this summer and really enjoyed it. We did the VIP experience, so I can't really speak much to the order of things. I did observe that the Harry Potter area was much more packed in the afternoon and evening than it was in the morning when we visited it. I don't remember anything specifically with special effects makeup. There is a show in FL, but I know I didn't see it in Hollywood, if it is there also. The "scareactors" at Halloween Horror Night have serious special effects makeup, if you are there in the next few weeks. I debated about the horror nights (we will be there in a week) but think I need to put that off a couple more years. Daughter will be turning 13 on Halloween and has never been to Un.St. So this will be a good fun visit! She's been wanting to do a haunted house but not knowing how she will react I'm not taking a chance! She been playing around with making herself into a zombie for Halloween with store bought makeup and concoctions she is making out of household material.
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Post by anneinwa on Oct 21, 2016 19:30:53 GMT
Ok I haven't been in over 20 years. Growing up I think it was mostly field trips when I visited and I remember always hitting the tram ride first....
What are suggestions for Universal Studios today? I know Harry Potter is now open. Anything to make sure to hit first?
Is there anything there that deal with special effects makeup, either stores or exhibits?
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FMLA help
Oct 21, 2016 15:34:52 GMT
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Post by anneinwa on Oct 21, 2016 15:34:52 GMT
Thank you so much for answering my questions. I completely understand now I am so sorry you are going through it and hope they give your sister what she needs. It will help everyone involved. It is the worst time to have to deal with that kind of stuff when you are just trying to live and care for your family! It is... And I hope so too. We are trying to figure out our schedules so maybe she can given them something more concrete (aside from him needing more 'urgent care' on bad days). I'm ready to get home and spend more than a couple days with my family every couple weeks too.
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Post by anneinwa on Oct 21, 2016 6:16:08 GMT
In role of caretaker... We are concerned with mental well being as well. He is not back to baseline mentally (better every day and is finally starting to realize he is imagining things that aren't real - huge improvement but has a ways to go and he fears that he may never walk again (a possibility), so we need to be there to push him.
Have also had to hire a sitter for night times after the two of us did about 2 weeks of 24/7 and realized we just could not do it long term.
We are also the relay medically between the staff there and the doctors. They need to see him as he was, a functioning intelligent, independent person, not a frail elderly man who they think came from a nursing home. You would be surprised at the jaw drops when we explain what he had been like.
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Post by anneinwa on Oct 21, 2016 0:26:28 GMT
Thank you... Going to pass these on to her. The doctor had written something like up to 2-3 days per week off but HR didn't like something about it so she's confused. She's trying to get them to tell her what to have the doctor put down so everyone is happy. Sounds more complicated than it should be. We can't plan ahead what days we will need her because we can't predict how the days will go (dealing with delerium too).
She tried putting 1-8 hrs off up to 2-3 days per week and they didn't like that either.
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FMLA help
Oct 20, 2016 22:08:58 GMT
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Post by anneinwa on Oct 20, 2016 22:08:58 GMT
Due to my dad being in the hospital for a month plus rehab now, my sister signed up for FMLA. We are now in a position where he is stable enough that she wants to return to work part time but flexible so she can still take time off as needed. Not knowing where things are going to end up, she wants to make she she has time left later.
She is running into trouble on her form that the doctor signs. HR is giving her a hard time with the wording so I am hoping someone here has enough experience how to word it. They are also having share time helping her word it. His current doctor at rehab says there will be a few to fill it out, and his normal Doctor is a 30 min one way trip so she's hoping to figure something out song she doesn't have to adjust it each week
What she wants is the ability to work with the option of 1-2 days off per week if needed and the time being anywhere from 1-8 hrs per time off during that time. It might need to be consecutive days, separate days, or no days at all some weeks.
Any help?
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Post by anneinwa on Aug 31, 2016 20:45:46 GMT
Yeah it worked! Thank you!!!!
Uninstalled and reinstalled... Don't know why I didn't think of that... Probably because I was on my way out the door. Best part is that a hold is now available!
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Post by anneinwa on Aug 31, 2016 18:30:19 GMT
I just checked mine and it is working. You may have to delete the app and re-install if you can't figure it out. I would be lost without my Overdrive. I feel your pain! I had 20 pages left in my book when this happened! Thankfully I figured out I could go back through the library and read it online to finish. However, I want to be able to access my books off line. Been reading so much more since I downloaded the app. Once I get home I will try to either downgrade or delete and reinstall.
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Post by anneinwa on Aug 31, 2016 18:28:07 GMT
I think it's the update. That happened to me as well until I down graded to the last version and now it works. I have a question maybe you can answer. I have 2 NOOKs - one is the original and one is a later tablet version. On the original, I can read my books through Adobe digital editions. On the newer one I have to use Overdrive, but I have to read it through my internet connection - does that sound right? Thank you. Not sure if I can downgrade but will look into it. Using Apple devices. Can't help with nook questions, so hopefully someone else can. I am just now making my way into e-books after realizing I could read later at night than I could with a real book (and the fact we went on a trip and I could 'pack' lots of books lol
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Post by anneinwa on Aug 31, 2016 17:25:13 GMT
I just started using Overdrive a couple weeks ago. It updated sometime this morning and now I am having issues. It was working fine one minute and when I sat back down and clicked on my book, I am now being told "invalid authorization. This Adobe E-book can not be read. Authorize this device with the same account originally used to download this e-book and try again". It happened on multiple devices so I know it is the update.
I tried to follow the directions and was not able to fix it. I don't know if it is user error or a bug with the update. Has anyone who is more familiar with Overdrive have this issue and been able to fix it?
Edited to add that both devices that are having issues are Apple devices.
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 30, 2016 3:23:10 GMT
I suspect you are going to have to pull hours and rates off of QB and do a WC spreadsheet unfortunately. I have 4 WC policies currently and finally have 3 on end of quarter dates (instead of mid-quarter weird payroll reconciliations), so I've done lots of WC spreadsheets from QB data. Hopefully in the future my audits will be much easier since QB reports will match back exactly to the time period. I wish I were in your state and close by because honestly I love solving problems like this --systems/programming/calculators. When you bring back into QB, how do you show the deduction? Would I just show the total deduction for that week to show up on their timecard and then I would use the spreadsheets at the time I need to file quarterly with L&I? My plan this weekend is to go in and play around with a few scenarios. I know I can make this work with desktop (working WC on spreadsheet), not sure about online (Husband would prefer that, and honestly I would too because I prefer my MAC to his PC laptop lol)...
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 30, 2016 3:17:16 GMT
Thank you for reassuring what I am thinking. Might be going back to online version if that ends up being the case. Hoping by starting desktop didn't stop the online yet...
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 30, 2016 1:16:44 GMT
So along with a massive headache I may be a little farther along but still not sure I will be able to work it out. Have been on the phone at least 6 hrs with QB this week and researching/Installing/etc about the same.
I can not do multiple codes on a paycheck... However the rate is figured per $100... WA figures per hour. There is a way to set it up for WA, but so far as I can tell, I can only set up one code this way. For our one employee I can do a work around... If we add a second at a different wage, my workaround will no longer work.
So now to see what's best... Find new software all around or maybe do spreadsheet for WC and input into QB...
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 28, 2016 0:49:54 GMT
Those are high rates OUCH! I have been very lucky that we have stayed relatively claim free so our rates are pretty low across the board. It is interesting that there is a statewide rate per WC category that doesn't take into account your personal employer history/claim rate. You could also ask out at thelaw.com HR forum....I know they also have a WC forum, because this is a combination of issues (payroll software and knowledge of WA's WC system) I wish I could solve it (I am a problem solver by nature, but this one has me stumped too!) I'll know tomorrow when I try it on the desktop! If not I'll be doing this week's payroll on a spreadsheet. Thanks for trying to help! The rates are high but we also have no history with WC to bring them down. We did not claim on my husband (owner) and our first employee is only on the job two days. Hopefully they will come down but I have a feeling it will take a while.
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 27, 2016 23:15:34 GMT
Your state requires an employee contribution to WC premiums? Wow! I must say I have never heard that before so can't help there. Our employees would scream! I guess I should count my blessings that ours is 100% paid for by the employer based on employee wages.
So you would have to set up an hourly wage rate with a matching deduction % for each wage? Ouch....I can see where that would get overwhelming! And the paystub would be a nightmare! You'd have to have a chart for each hourly wage rate and what WC code it matched back to....(and yes, in the end I think it gets back to one WC code per employee since it is on the employee main record.... my work around would get complicated if you had too many different WC codes at your company too)
We use the desktop version Enterprise with Payroll, but I just pull QB reports to get the #s I need for our carrier to calculate our premium annually and then the audit annually.
eta: you might ask this question out at payrolltalk.com. I am not sure how many QB users there are though! If nothing else, maybe they can tell me what I can use. I would rather have something that QB can work with... I really hope going to desktop is the key... Just need to figure out what version... Washington state shows on hourly employee contribution on what I got from Labor and Industries... its only a fraction of the total.. for instance one has employee at .26 and employer at 1.04. Another reason I want to be able to file it correctly at each pay period... high end has me withholding 1.47/hr from the employee...
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 27, 2016 22:52:31 GMT
I thought about setting an hourly wage based on hour wage - his withholding for each class, but that wouldn't help on the company end for the employee contribution and probably cause a lot of extra work for me.
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 27, 2016 22:51:11 GMT
While I don't use codes to split for WC, I do have some employees that make up to 4 different payrates depending on what they are doing so I just have the different paytypes or payroll items as I think they are actually called in QB. I do have to punch in how many hours/classes that they are paid at each rate, but I would think that could work for you for what you are trying to accomplish. Each payrate/item would be assigned a different WC code vs each employee having a different WC code. And each would print on a separate line on the paystub. Honestly if I were an employee who worked differing hours at different rates, it would be nice to see that split out rather than one amount. And that way if and when you hire more people, you already have those types/classes setup and you can sum by either employee or by types. In my example, I have one rate for teaching fitness classes, one rate for group pilates, one rate for private pilates and one rate for semi-private pilates. In the end I want to know for our financial budget how much payroll there was for pilates versus fitness classes, so having the different paytypes helps. (there are times where an employee is paid the same amount per class but I want to split their payroll into different groups. This accomplishes that purpose too -- which it sounds like what your end goal is) I've not done job classing, but know it is possible in our version. mlynn is calling them deductions where I use them as different types of income/wages. To me, deductions are things that the employee pays for out of income/wages and in my state the employee pays no part of WC, so it wouldn't be a deduction. But maybe I am misunderstanding since I don't use job classing. Does your version allow you to have more than one payrate per employee? (it should because at minimum you have regular rate and OT rates). The only conundrum with multiple payrates is if that employee works overtime and you have to figure regular rate of pay and how to calculate OT. If you get to that point and need help, let me know. Luckily my employees that work at multiple payrates don't go over 15 or so hours per week. It's not a hard calculation, but QB doesn't do it for you. which version are you using? Online or desktop? I was able to set differently hourly wages but could not set more than one code for our employee even though all 7 are entered in on QB for the company.
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 27, 2016 22:02:48 GMT
I used to do payroll for a farm labor contractor. I think I was using QB 2003. We entered hours by the job worked. In deductions, we created a code for each WC class. Then when entering the payroll, we would enter the hours for the different classes for the payroll deduction. If there was more than one class for a job, the hours were separated in the hours section. When it came time to do the quarterly reports, I would do a printout by job. The printout would show the total for each class within the job. This was a system I jerry-rigged myself using the reports and capabilities of the program to create what I needed. Clear as mud? Totally understand! I have spent abut 4 hours today between research and on the phone/chat with QB and WC... latest is they tell me the desktop version will do what I want it to do. We shall see when I order it tomorrow. At least there is a 60 day return policy. We will see if that applies to my upgrades this week too for online version. I was getting ready to go to a weekly pay schedule if I had to go by highest class code... I don't think I am asking for that much! I get it may not be typical for most businesses but its not untypical either.
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 27, 2016 21:25:54 GMT
So have talked to WC rep and she says that I can split based on hours. On phone with QB again because online chat told me it was possible (I refuse to give up on the very slim chance there is a work around). So upgraded and trying different things. She just came back and said no, which is what I was expecting.
I ran a scenario on paper that shows our issue with running through QB. We are a small company that could easily have 4-5 codes for our one employee each week... If I had him painting for 32 and working on a roof for 8, according to the limitations of QB I would need to run at the higher rate which for the total hourly rate would be $307 vs just running it for 8 hrs which would be $61.40.
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 27, 2016 18:30:33 GMT
Will be looking more at what you said when I get home ... That was just quick update as I walk into the market lol
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 27, 2016 18:29:30 GMT
Reason I want to split is we have about a $5 difference per hour between our highest and lowest. So trying to figure out how to do it if a guy is doing floors and roofs in same week without having to pay the $5 difference for the full week?
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Post by anneinwa on Jul 27, 2016 16:31:39 GMT
Hoping someone here can help. We currently have the online version of quick books essential. We just hired our first employee and due to the nature of the work he will be doing, we need the ability to add in different class codes each pay period, possibly multiple in a day.
I set up payroll yesterday and do not see anyway of doing this with the level we have.
I called quick books and they said the only way they think I can do this is with a desktop version? Can anyone verify this?
There is one more level above essentials that I can upgrade to, and it opens up more options for the business and I have a hunch that it might do what I need it to, but according to the agent I spoke to, it's not a quick downgrade, so I need to make sure before I upgrade.
One option I do have, if I can't find an answer, is to try a free trial of the next level but I won't be able to do that for a day or so.
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