RPK79

I got out of college in 2009 and was unemployed for months. Credit cards got used and not paid then went to collections. I went from good/excellent credit to poor. Easy to go down, hard to get back up.

RPK79

...and I didn't really care for years that it was poor. Never really mattered to me, but now my wife wants to buy a house so I have to get it back up.

Dan333SP

Right there with you. Went into CC debt during grad school, didn't think it was a big deal and put it off, now my credit is not hot because of late payments and such due to general irresponsibility and my wife with a much better financial situation wants to look at buying houses. Sucks to be the limiting factor in that equation, and it's slow going getting out of it

RollCNY

I was only picking, RPK. It just struck me as funny. Years ago, a friend's wife became a financial planner, after demonstrating the financial acumen of a waffle iron. It is just too easy to pick on. A mechanic with an unreliable car. A toothless dentist. A contractor with a leaky roof. They all exist for reasons.

Bah Humbug

Happy to help.

datlas 

I know plenty. Of course I am not one of them...

datlas 

My wife grew up in Pusan, South Korea. She said that for fresh seafood, you would go to the market and pick the actual fish/eel/octopus etc. that you want while it's alive and they kill it in front of you. You can eat it right away or take it home.

Of course that offends my vegetarian sensibility, but I suppose you can't get fresher than that.

LAJ

Look for the worst running car on the block. Yep. Likely belongs to said mechanic. We know how far to roll the dice before it ****s the bed mightily.

Yep. It drove in.

RPK79

Yeah, I saw that coming back before I even hit reply.

RollCNY

@LAJ, I was very tongue in cheek with all of my examples. The mechanics I used to know hated working on their own stuff, simply because it is what they did all day long. And in NY, any older car is a rust factory, so, like you said, you often push the timing from preventative maintenance to pre-mordem maintenance.

UnfilteredDregs

sram?

UnfilteredDregs

Chef's love fast food and TV dinners...

RollCNY

I greatly enjoy it when those docs recommend 30 minutes of daily exercise. I'm always thinking about pots and kettles.

UnfilteredDregs

Well, if you're going to exercise with them be sure and get cast iron.

Doug28450

As a Structural Engineer, I really don't enjoy working on my home. I can do carpentry, plumbing, HVAC and electrical, but, I prefer to hire someone to fix it.

2manybikes

I have videos of the same thing. Can't find them.

RollCNY

I took an architectural drafting course in highschool, and it was extremely in depth regarding wall sections, foundation standards, common practices in roof design, and some basic plumbing design. From that course, I have helped several friends build houses, and helped others plan additions. But I am perpetually amazed that many, many people have no idea how a house is built, or what a header does, or how a roof should be vented. I am most surprised by my EE friends who will tear into their homes for wiring runs, and have no idea how to fix it.

Doug28450

Most home repairs are not really all that difficult. Even remodeling can be fairly straightforward. The problem, of course, is trying to undo the "artwork" of some amateur wannabe tradesman who has no business owning a hammer. The home we currently live in was constructed in 1939. In the ten years we have been here I have added a dormer to the second floor that included a new bathroom, complete remodel of the main lever bathroom, and a complete remodel of the kitchen. I did most of the work myself. I did hire out stuff for expediency and/or because I simply didn't feel like doing it.

Bah Humbug

In Boulder I could ride my bike past a farm, look at the happy, well-treated cows, then drive back and grab some beef. No factory-farmed meat for me, and no trusting pictures on a package.

LAJ

I knew you were very tongue in cheek, @RollCNY. Just proving the stereotype through. I knew there was something going on back there 4 years ago, but it was just a clearance issue, and not a super big worry. Obviously the noise increased, and then the need was a wee bit more immediate. The tongue in cheek is very much based on truth.

rjones28 

Do you ask them if that means you need to cut back?

jtaylor996

This builds stress chemicals in the animals while in captivity. It's fresher from the sea directly, but that's pretty darn close.

WhyFi

I want to start a band just so I can name it this.

LesterOfPuppets

surgeonstone

Ou last golden retriever tended to be fat, had to really limit his food intake. Early on he got up to 95 lbs, his healthy weight was 75. We took him to be vet and the lady at the front desk was horrified to see how fat he was and proceeded to lecture me on allowing him to get so large.
Mind you this lady was 350 pounds or more.
She failed the see the irony.