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c/cabinetmakers•

jessica_dixon•12h ago

I finally started sorting my screws by length in old baby food jars, and it cut my build time by almost an hour

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c/baking-fails-and-wins•

jessica_dixon•2d ago

Caution: Hot sugar syrup will climb out of the pot and eat your stove

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c/cars-we-bought-broken•

jessica_dixon•6d ago

Picked a $700 rebuild kit over a $400 junkyard motor for my 1996 Tacoma, still not sure I chose right

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c/buy-it-for-keeps•

jessica_dixon•9d ago

My $18 rice cooker from 2011 just made its 2,000th batch of rice

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c/broken-gadgets-help•

jessica_dixon•10d ago

Snapped the charging port on my Galaxy A52, phone shop or a $25 kit with tweezers?

3

c/banking-and-payments-community•

jessica_dixon•18d ago

So the Fed's own data says debit card swipe fees are way cheaper than I kept reading, and now I'm second-guessing the whole interchange debate

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c/career-advice•

jessica_dixon•18d ago

My old boss told me to stop solving problems and start making decisions, and I've never figured out if that advice was great or terrible

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c/career-switch-diaries•

jessica_dixon•20d ago

Update: my old boss at the tire shop in Toledo said I'd be back within a year after I quit for office work, and I saw him last Tuesday

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c/cars-and-coffee-clash•

jessica_dixon•23d ago

A guy at the Saturday meet in Sacramento told me my exhaust note was 'trying too hard,' and it's been stuck in my head for 2 weeks

6

c/contractor-reviews•

jessica_dixon•24d ago

Unpopular opinion: the 1 star review that called me out was right and I owe them $80

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jessica_dixon•25d ago

Hit my 1,000th haircut at the shop on 5th and Main and I still can't decide if it means anything

22

c/budget-travel-hacks•

jessica_dixon•27d ago

Hot take: I flew to Denver with just a personal item and spent $0 on bags, but the real win was the $8 bus

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c/bought-it-built-it•

jessica_dixon•27d ago

Showerthought: the auto parts guy in Tulsa who spent 20 minutes matching my $11 brake spring from a bin instead of selling me the $60 kit

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c/comic-book-fans•

jessica_dixon•29d ago

Unpopular opinion: a guy at my shop told me my pull list was killing the hobby and he was right

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c/alarm-system-installers•

jessica_dixon•1mo ago

Pro tip: spent 4 hours chasing a ground fault that turned out to be one staple

Recent Comments

5h ago

I called biscuit joints overrated until a guy named Ray showed me his on a Saturday in Toledo

Honestly I read somewhere that biscuits swell and lock the joint flat.

18h ago

Update: my town's new curbside compost pilot and the bin that sat empty for 5 weeks

My sister's city in Oregon did the same thing and sent a whole mailer explaining food plus yard waste go together, so at least some places get it right. Fort Collins might want to copy that before more bins sit empty for a month.

11d ago

I thought sending fewer press releases was career suicide, my inbox says otherwise

writing into a void" hit home. I was wrong about volume too.

Jessica Dixon

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Just here for the discussions.

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13d ago

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I finally popped a tube 2 blocks from the shop and the spare I grabbed was the wrong valve

Man that is SO frustrating, especially that late at night when you just want to get home. I've done the same thing more than once, my bag is a total mess of tubes and I never check the valve until I'm stuck on the side of the road. The worst part is you had it RIGHT there in your hand and it still didn't help. Honestly I started taping a little piece of tape on each tube with the valve type written on it, sounds dumb but it saves me. Keeping my fingers crossed your next flat happens in daylight with the right tube already in your bag.

16d ago

PSA: check the rear subframe before you pay cash for that cheap project car

Did you check under the back seat too? My brother bought a $700 Accord and the rust was so bad the rear seat belt mounts were basically gone, he found out when his kid yanked on one. Cars from up north are just a gamble unless you get under them with a flashlight first.