Its actually been a very interesting dynamic to compare myself to my pops, engineers who went down the PM pathway (with a passion for music), married to a teacher with a son and a daughter. I don’t forcefully use him as a ruler, but it does ‘happen’. The biggest differences? They had a constant increases in funds from…

*slow clap*
So I’m the oldest of my generation in the family (mid 30s with the my sister and cousins all in their mid 20s). For the past 5 years roughly I’ve warned them of exactly this. I’ve relocated. I’ve purchased a house. I’ve started a family. I’ve bought several cars. I’ve been let go and hired the same day, I…

I had my folks over this past weekend and I wanted to grill, did a couple tomahawks, kermit eggplants, asparagus, hot dogs, sweet peppers, green peppers, red and yellow peppers (I like peppers with my steak), corn, onions, and a few other odds and ends. I shocked my mom when after heating the grill up, and placing the…

Its kind of weird reading about this. Because of AP classes, early college classes, and aggressive course taking on my part, if I took 12th grade English during summer school - I could have graduated a year early. My mom, an educator REFUSED to let me do this, not because she didn’t think I could handle it, but she…

Well when I finally get to it, I have a completely unfinished attic with a pathway to get electrical from the panel in the basement. I figure I have to look up code and get some stuff drawn up so I can get a permit, since I would be doing most of the design myself, I’m not too worried about damaging the…

Yeah are weather is hard to complain about...fortunately haha.

We’ve talked about insurance covering at least part of the cost, but my personal creed is prepare to pay for it yourself, and be pleasantly surprised for payment to come from elsewhere, instead of planning for someone else to pay and getting bent out of shape when it doesn’t happen.

I’m still trying to figure out what truly is casual. The community had been distilled to the dedicated, which then shifts the line of ‘casual.

I’m not original poster, nor level 20 (34, I gave up trying to lvl up around 32 and just play, lucky eggs and XP schemes be damned). You DO get higher IV mon from eggs on average, no question - the averages for me typically float around 85%, I HAVE gotten good hatches as well, again no question. but it is STILL simple…

We were some what prepped, which was another reason I personally was only going to jump if we still had money set aside just in case - my saltiness with the matter is driven more by the condensed time frame, it was very much a rain->pour feeling about two-ish years in, year one things were fine, it was more 2-4 that…

I did a fair amount of field work for electrical systems to get experience in my field (elec sub PM) and watched framing and drywall work and you are right about it doesn’t look too difficult, especially with a second set of hands. It’s just not something I have any experience with short of cutting for new boxes, and…

The cost of those repairs against the value of the house typically isn’t ‘z0mg’, its “when”. If you buy a brand new house, unless you sell it in say 10 years, you have to absorb those same cost for maintenance/replacing, but as another poster said - you should budget about 2% for repairs, and that will cover those…

No we got an inspection and certain things were called out,my point was just that the cost of the house and what you think is the daily maintenance of the house isn’t necessarily enough to calculate the actual cost of the house. Because of the age of my house, it isn’t so much one thing that needed to be taken care…

That’s a fair number, but when buying a 15+ year old house, I’d wager that’s not enough intel. In *my* situation - I spent 22k within (4) years on major repairs, that does NOT include the items that 2% is *generally* intended for...it can still be planned out for which is what I’m really getting at though,…

I’m semi-rural, work in a mid-sized city, live near farms, so I’ve been trying to track it, the recent nerf has already destroyed it for me unless I open up and just add randoms from FB to my friends list. One friend sent me (1) potion and (1) max potion *yawn*. Need to have a huge list to aggregate from now. The…

The only reason we’ve been ok is that (1) we didn’t max out on what we could buy, (2) have great credit so we were able to get cost spread out, (3) took care of somethings ourselves (I fixed the hot water), (4) had planned on spending money making upgrades - so that cost got sunk into the repairs. The biggest upgrade…

Its really just a matter of sitting down and understanding all the cost that might be unique to that house. If a house (mine) is 15 years old, then things are going to have to be replaced, and that should factor into “can I afford it”, if its a brand new house, the math is way more straight forward, but things like…

Its not about searching for a 95% IV pokemon, its that hatching a pokemon...if I hatch a dratini, its useless unless I’ve caught like 30+ other dratini, I’ll say using pineapps and drop that to 20. Of that 20, most likely one of them is going to have better IVs than the one you hatched. Not only that, but its going to…

I’m all for this post, but it unfortunately its only realistic for people with access to non-rural areas and coins/money to spend on both eggs and raid passes, and the volume of people who fall outside of that cross is pretty large. I do think something needs to be said for stardust. Keeping it a buck - your actual…

So while I prefer to spend my coins on incubators, in reality, those hatched pokemon are throw away when it comes to raids. If you need a real strong pokemon for a raid, the reality is you have caught a bunch of them to get the eggs to evolve it and then to power it up, a hatched egg barely puts a dent in that number,…