I store some people food that’s sold in plastic bags anyway in those cat litter buckets, so you’re not alone here. They are square and stackable, which most other solutions aren’t.
Rubbermaid tubs, though - those are a great idea.
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These are some good ideas, thanks guys. I really want something sturdy and square, that will fit neatly in my limited space. Maybe I can get rubbermaid type bins that are the right size. Space is at an extreme premium, so I want to use it as effectively as possible, and anything round will leave a lot of wasted space, or else, visual clutter if things are shoved around, and I don’t want that either. I’m having a hard time dealing with visual clutter as I get older, and I think I need to spend money on it to minimize. I thought there were discussions about restaurant supply type places having this type of thing, but maybe I was wrong!
(ETA: I have tons of containers I’ve saved from other things, I’m not against that, but not this time. And I don’t use that kind of cat litter, I use pine pellets, and it comes in giant plastic bags. I don’t think a garbage can will fit in the space I have to put it.)
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When I took a baking class at a cooking school they had large rectangular bins on wheels for flour and such. Part of the top angled down with a flip up lid.
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They do sell bins that are specifically for pet food, so you might look at Petsmart or chewy? The bag we use Velcros closed and it’s in a closet so the cats can’t gnaw on it. I used to use a Rubbermaid tub, though.
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You could use the types of bins that people store floor in, you can get those in rectangle/square shapes, but I’m not sure they’d be cost effective?
A food grade bucket is cheaper but also probably gonna be a cylinder.
Just watched a good lecture from the Naval War College about the supply chain/inflation/workforce/inequality issues and their implications for national security. TheSpeaker was an economist from Navy Federal. @PAWG
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The dollar store has great containers!
Not sure here I posted this here, all, I was aiming for my journal!
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How do you find a credit union that’s a good fit? What should you be considering? Do you just Google and look at rates?
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Look for reviews on their mobile banking, and their branch and hours availability. See if they’re part of any shared branch banking for your area, too.
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Thanks, that’s helpful! 
I may have found two in my area, so I am excited about that.
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Hi frens, I will be asking our vet about this but I thought I’d put the question here because everyone here is smart and loves cats. The vet says my kitty is a little underweight and I’d like to get him some cat treats, but they have to be soft and not crunchy. Product recommendations? FWIW he is eating very well! He eats 3 cans of food a day but he plays so much. My husband plays one-on-one with him every single night and it’s usually 2-3 different sessions with each lasting like 5-10 minutes. He runs full force and jumps like a little kitten and tumbles all over the place, and I’m convinced that’s why he’s underweight! He also plays alone, batting and chasing his toys and “helping” me do pilates, lol. I’m glad he is so active but it’s hard to get his weight to stick. We’d had him up to 10.1 and now he’s back down to 9.7!
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My cats would kill me to get to these:
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I am working on creating some visuals for a set of data.
The data is collected like this:
Rank these items in importance, 1-5.
Wages Health insurance staffing
1 5 2
4 1 2
3 2 4
What is the best type of chart or graph for this in google sheets?
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First:
Count the number of times any response got a 4 or a 5 (“top two box” in survey lingo)
Then:
plot the count for each in a horizontal bar graph
Kind of like this https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Relative-importance-of-variables-for-predicting-population-trend-Bar-graph-showing-the_fig1_270291140
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Alternative:
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Calculate the percentage of 1, 2 3 4 5 for each answer.
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Plot in horizontal bar graphs using the same color for each response with % of 5 first and % of 1 last.
ETA: links just show the kinds of chart pictures I mean, I didn’t read any of the text 
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This is v helpful, thank you!
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I n the survey was it clear that 1 is most important and 5 is least? (People can struggle with rank vs rate)
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Haha excellent point…I was assuming 5 was most important.
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90% of people hit it right. There are a few that I think had it backwards. 
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