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2d ago
inMy sister told me to stop buying coffee out and I told her that was boomer math, then I did the actual numbers
My mom kept telling me to check my subscriptions and I blew her off for months. Finally did it and found three apps I forgot about, $46 a month gone. That's over $500 a year just poof. Moms are annoying but sometimes they're right.
12d ago
inMy brother in law said I was nuts to hand address 400 wedding invites, he was dead right
Watching my cousin go through this exact thing with 200 save the dates last summer. Her mom said hire someone, she said she could do it on the couch while watching TV, and by week two her hand was cramping so bad she couldn't hold a pen. The kicker is she still had to pay someone to redo the messy ones, so she spent double the money and triple the time. Dan was basically a prophet and you should probably buy that man a beer. The real lesson here is that when a relative who has zero reason to lie to you tells you something will break you, they are usually right.
15d ago
inGot talked out of spray foam by a framer and I'm glad I listened
Why does this same story keep popping up in every part of life, not just roofing? People get sold the fanciest fix first because it costs the most and sounds the most high tech, then the old guy who's seen it fail a hundred times says hold on. Same thing happens with cars, lawn chemicals, kitchen gadgets, you name it. The simple answer is usually boring and that's why nobody wants to hear it. Your framer saved you a ton of grief because he'd already watched that movie. Trapping moisture behind a seal you can't check is one of those mistakes you only find out about years later when the wood is already soft.