Sentences with phrase «make a buck instead»

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I made a mistake and bought bulgar wheat instead of buck wheat.

Nothing gets my goat like lazy free from recipe writing — the sorts of articles and books compiled by those intent on making a quick buck from the growing «free from» phenomenon by using the «replace all» function to put «gluten free plain flour» instead of «plain flour» in the ingredients list with little regard for the availability or suitability of ingredients in the dish.

I almost said, If Thunderbird ever made a red wine, I would buy it instead for two bucks a bottle.

But right now it looks obvious that Alexis is unhappy on missing out on the chance to win the title, so it would make sense that we recoup some of our cash by selling the Chilean in January instead, and it would now appear that City is not the only team willing to pay big bucks for our contract rebel.

At 28, when many Millennial men are choosing to marry, Lochte is instead choosing to focus on his swimming — his career — which will guarantee him big bucks in the future and that will no doubt make him much more attractive to a woman who wants to marry a successful man (read: rich).

It gets done because a misaligned system has lost track of priorities, making it possible for someone to make big bucks tinkering with high - tech toys instead of channeling those resources toward more useful endeavors.

Maybe as practitioners it's because we are more focused on trying to make a buck out of products instead of actually spending time with our patients and instructing them on the right ways to live, no profits there, the medical profession worked that one out many years ago.

Plus, they once again featured six samples instead of five, which makes the $ 5 extra bucks each month not seem so bad.

Instead of paying big bucks for a West Elm's Bentwood Pendant Light Tasha knew she had to figure out a way to make one for herself.

They're not about providing a quality service, just about making money by scamming hard - working guys out of a few bucks instead of hooking them up with hot girls looking to get laid.

Prison has taught him a lesson, and instead of making a quick buck on a monster weed sale, he's emptying the package into the wind so he can spend more quality time with his adoring wife and child.

Instead, I keep reading articles where developers say, «It's too risky» which, to me, honestly just translates as «I'm lazy, I want to make a quick buck.

The film came into the festival without a domestic distributor, looking to make a deal, and — bucking many trends we have seen this festival season — chose to go with Neon and 30WEST, favoring a traditional theatrical instead of streamed release with platforms such as Netflix.

Instead of selling it on Craigslist or donating it for a one - time tax deduction, you could make a few bucks over and over again by renting it out.

Ads placed by someone looking to make a quick buck will offer kittens that are priced well below average (for example at $ 50 to $ 150 each) and may state that the kittens do not have registration papers, or that they are registered with an unknown registry instead of CFA (Cat Fanciers» Association, which is the equivalent of the AKC — American Kennel Club — for dogs).

Instead of filling those premium seats with elite customers who've only paid for a coach fare, they can make at least a few bucks off of someone who's will to pay a little extra.

Instead of making pretty TV spots... you could wander over to the BetterPSN campaign and spend a few bucks fixing things on the Wishlist and making the service catch up to where Xbox have found themselves at the end of this generation.

It's rare to see major publishers behave with magnanimity when the big bucks are involved, so I was moved if not to tears, at least to substantial surprise when Square - Enix decided not to be jerks about the whole not wanting to make more Hitman games thing, and instead let IO Interactive walk away with the rights to their slap - headed, murderous creation.

Instead of free online for everyon we can waste 50 bucks every year like Microsoft's online makes you

It's not the most egregious implementation of this particular economic structure, but it makes grinding for credits seem a little hollow when you can pony up five bucks instead.

You should make this a separate, universal version for 1 bucks, instead of shitty «HD» versions....

Personally I'm no where near the point where it makes sense to shell out big bucks for a totally custom site, so WP fits the bill quite nicely, freeing time that I can use to grow my business instead of worrying about coding or paying someone everytime I need something done on my site.

I sat disappointed in silence instead of challenging my colleague on his assertions about women or over the appropriateness of his very public tale telling and I bit my tongue at the urge to correct the man on my other side on both his assumption about what type of bucks I made and whether or not I was a scumbag.

To maximize your conference experience, apply my «Before, During and After» strategy; instead of only focusing on the conference once you actually get there, begin your planning ahead of time and implement an after - conference strategy to make sure you get the most bang for your conference buck.

It's fine for these telecom companies to make a few extra bucks on my dime... after all, it's not like they could have kept up with the times and found new ways to innovate instead of lobbying the government to cater to their power structures in a way that helps them gain even more profit.

The iPad Mini with retina display enables you to have a lightweight device that won't make you squint, but you can save yourself about a hundred bucks by going for the original iPad Mini ($ 299) instead of the more recent one.

Instead — they argue — they would rather make the big bucks now and double their capital in a flash by flipping homes.