Blue Collar Workman

GIVEAWAY at Blue Collar Workman!!

Posted on May 2, 2013 by TB

Hello to all the dudes and chicks out there in blue collar land, and welcome to my first ever giveaway! Radical to the max!

I’ll get right to the good stuff.

The Giveaway

For this giveaway, I’ve partnered up with Uncommon Goods so that the lucky awesome winner will get a $50 gift certificate to use at Uncommon Goods!

To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment below asking me a question you want answered about anything blue collar! Easy as that. The winner will be randomly drawn and I’ll use the email address below to let you know that you’ve won.

What’s that you say? You want extra entries to the giveaway? I can do that for you.

For one extra entry, go to the Uncommon Goods facebook page here and “like” them.
For a second extra entry, sign up for the Uncommon Goods email list here.
For a third extra entry, subscribe to my RSS feed (orange box in the upper right corner of the page).

So you can keep it simple and enter by just putting a comment below with a question, or you can get crazy and get some extra entries by doing any or all of the 3 things listed above.

So ask me a question and get crackin’ on entering! Giveaway ends at 11:59 p.m on Friday, May 10, 2013.

The Product Review

But TB, you ask, how do I know if their stuff rules or sucks? Well, cool reader, because Uncommon Goods sent me some loot to review. They didn’t pay me to say anything in particular so I’m gonna be honest. But just so you know, they did send me this loot for free. Which is kinda cool.

1. Home Plate Doormat: In their Gifts for Men section here, they have this doormat that’s shaped like a home plate and says, “Home.”

I’m a baseball dude and so I thought this was pretty cool. It looks exactly like it is. Seems like it’s made pretty well. I give it a thumbs up.

Actually, I give it 2 thumbs up because a week or so ago we had some massive flooding that came up to our front door. This doormat floated in the water around the house and ended up in our back yard. After the water went away, I laid it out to dry and guess what? It’s still in great condition and back on our front stoop. I’d say it’s a hardy little doormat!

2. 7 day hand repair kit for men: I’m in construction and my hands get pretty crunked up (remember when I burned my hand?). My wife doesn’t always like it, so it seemed like this kit was a good idea to fix up these hands so that I could pick up a new career as a hand model or something. Or at least make my hands less crunked up.

I’m not a girly man so it was hard to use this stuff like I was supposed to. But I did it. And. Well. You can check out my “after” hand picture below and see for yourself. My hands are still crunked up. It didn’t work so great for me and it smelled like a church pew.

To be fair, I’m really rough on my hands with my job, they’re always getting cut, nicked, and scraped. And I never use lotion or that kind of stuff usually. So it might actually work for a white collar dude whose hands aren’t quite so badly crunked. They’ve got the kit listed in their section on Father’s Day gifts here, if you want to check it out.

Hand still crunked up

One thing that’s funny about the repair kit is that one of the things is called butter nub. Ha. Funny name. Butter nub. I got both my daughters walking around saying that, haha.

That’s it hot chicks and gnarly dudes! Enter the giveaway by leaving a question for me below, and you can pick out your own Uncommon Goods stuff!

Butter nub

The Dumpster Artist

Posted on April 30, 2013 by TB

Ever seen those giant dumpsters at construction sites and wondered if there’s an art to filling them? Yeah, I thought so.

There is an art to it actually. The picture here is of a 30 yard dumpster that I filled. It’s full of drywall, metal studs, insulation, and ceiling tiles.

The art to loading these is that if you want to fit the true 30 yards of rubbish, you have to pack them tight enough. Like when you load up a moving van, if you want to fill all the space and get your money’s worth, you gotta plan and put stuff in there right! Same deal here.

Next time you see one of these giant dumpsters at a construction site and see dudes throwing stuff in, know that they’re actually being careful about where they put stuff so that it gets filled properly!

Blue Collar Roundup – River Ice Balls

Posted on April 29, 2013 by TB

Guess what’s coming up next week? A GIVEAWAY! Dudes, you read right, the first ever Blue Collar Workman giveaway is coming up next week. I can sense your excitement. Be like Yoda and channel that excitement into reading some of these great blog posts below that I found this week. May the good blog posts be with you.

What do river ice balls look like? This, they look like this.

101 Centavos is a blog that’s pretty awesome. I’ve never gone there and read something that I’ve seen somewhere else. Yeah, it’s unique stuff. But enough a5s kissing, do you want to hear something about the Chinese and their food? Maybe you don’t care about the Chinese and their food, but you do think that they’ll take over the world someday soon. After reading this, I think maybe that won’t happen.

How are the Jones doing these days? Update: They’re broke. My Personal Finance Journey gives the details. And hey dudes, maybe they’re not broke and they are perfect, but what’s that matter to you?

All Things Finance wants to tell you about the differences between dudes and chicks when it comes to money. Turns out, men and women both suck a little when it comes to money, but in different ways. Knowledge is power, dudes, so check out the deal!

What’s a Diderot and what kind of effect does it have on your life? I didn’t know either, but now I do. Which means I got smarter and you’re staying the same. So get smarter. Go to Afford Anything and learn about the Diderot Effect.

Plunged in Debt did some tire shopping recently and I’ve gotta give it up to them over there. They shopped around and did their homework – good work, gumshoes!