Does it get hot by your front door or in direct sunlight? We have a few in my house that go off if our kitchen gets too hot. We had to move them down the hall slightly and they stopped. A really old one we have upstairs, hardwired into the house electric (built in 86) trips if too much steam builds up in the bathroom and let’s loose into the hall.

More of a “well we got what we could get while we could get it”

Which is ironic as fast food used to have 2 appeals - quick and cheap.

I’m not sure how quick they are these days because I can no longer afford it.

Well, they said it was a regrettable mistake! A whoopsie! Clearly, they didn’t mean to do that, so we should still support them.

Where is the red line? Have we misplaced it?

Free market goes to the highest bidder.

It’s a vicious pinch, rent rates going up preventing you from saving while housing rates (and minimum down-payment if you want a decent monthly mortgage/interest rate) are going up at the same time. My wife and I got lucky and we own our townhouse, but half of the properties vacated in our neighborhood either through eviction or owners moving out have all been turned into rental properties owned by a corp. It’s fucked up, they want noone to own anything anymore so they can get richer through obscene rent hikes every year… And we live in MD. I can’t even imagine trying to survive in NY or any other big city.

Also OK Cupid, but my wife and I also knew each other back in high school. So that was our icebreaker. Ok cupid was the only dating app I could actually use because everything else required a Facebook profile, which I do not have…

At my last job we actually had a guy die of a heart attack right on his forklift. Not a public spectacle, but it made me realize how bad that company actually was. His position was filled by Friday…none wanted to tell the guy his predecessor just died right there on the forklift he’s sitting in a few days ago.

Maybe the percentage is exaggerated, but I have no doubt that more people are having trouble keeping debt under control. I’ve hit a point where my debt is indefinitely growing, despite throwing every spare cent at my cards, and I’ve always been good with my debt. In the process of not using one of them, another gets piled on. Half of my pay goes to mortgage/utilities and the rest goes to my cards which are used for gas/groceries/dog food/emergencies. I’ve cut out everything I can at this point. My wife and I haven’t gone out to dinner in almost a year, no vacations, and I’m hesitant to even take a day off because I will only get 8 hours of pay, losing the overtime. All of this, and my card debt still goes up every month by about $50, which isnt a lot, but it’s unsettling that it’s at a point of steady increase. In a few years, at least one of my cards will be maxed or close to it. One emergency like my last (3k in car repairs) will immediately max one of them. The only other options I have at this point are giving up my dogs, or starving myself. The working class, even the responsible ones, are struggling.

I guess the best I’ll be able to do is take a half day off work on the day of my funeral.

My wife named him after the cat in dragon age lol

That’s beautiful! Zelda is one of my all time favorite game series, just had to compliment that one!

I love that green GameCube! I can’t zoom in well enough to 100% tell, is that a triforce and master sword?

It’s because I said bad things about Biden, even though I was talking about politicians as a whole. But you can’t say bad things about Biden or be any kind of critical about the current administration without getting trashed on here.

I mean, you wouldn’t want the politicians to lose their legal bribes generous donations over acting in our interests instead of the corporations, would you?

Will someone please think of the rich folks pockets?

“Best I’ll be able to do is work a half day on the day of my funeral”

And even then, the mandatory overtime is gonna make me late to my own damn funeral.

I agree fully with that. I use one of my credit cards for groceries just to keep padding in my bank account for on hand cash for emergencies (down payment on a car in case mine goes out as you stated, for example) I don’t feel like I should have to do that but here we are. There’s a fine balance I have to walk financially because of stagnant wages, which is a huge part of the problem.

I don’t either. I’ve already told the family Christmas is gonna be light. Other than what I can scrounge up, instead of the “buy now, pay later” model, I’ve adopted the “don’t buy what i don’t need, pay never” one.

Skyrocketting prices on everything means I use what i have until it is absolutely unusable/unfixable anymore. And my credit cards stay mostly clear except for emergencies.

It’s a lack of self control on a lot of people’s part, and financial institutions are loving it I’m sure.

I got my wife’s ring on etsy. It’s pearl and opal, but there are a good bit of jewlers on etsy. I would do a bit of research on the shop before you buy though.

This is 100% about pinching pennies. Gotta find new ways to post those “record breaking profits” every year.