I’m really glad she’s getting better and has found a community and support system to help her navigate sobriety.

Given that you lose 50-60% of your profit to eBay fees and shipping and another chunk if you move enough volume to pay taxes on your profits, I don’t see how anyone could make a meaningful amount of money on this. But I’m also terrible at math, so there’s that.

I was poking through some bins a few months ago when a guy came up and bought ALL of the ones there, a staff member said he would come in buy $800 worth of cars and return most of them later. Don’t know why he wasn’t banned from the store

me who’s been patiently waiting a ~year to buy a late model used car

Another Volvo here chiming in, I’ve owned 4 Volvos (almost done with my 245) and also paid cash. $500 on the nose, because all Volvos are only worth $500.

“That family isn’t alone, either. Data from Edmunds shows that the average amount Americans owe on their auto loans is quickly approaching pre-pandemic levels. After dropping below $5,000 between April and December 2021, the average amount has started to climb again reaching $5,500 at the end of 2022. Rising vehicle…

What they did is more practical than it looks on paper. They were $20k $14k (corrected) underwater. There is no magic way to erase that. They owe that $20k $14k to someone regardless of their next steps.

I’m getting old and I know child safety and child car seat designs have changed. But my parents hauled my sister and I around in a Dodge Omni and later a Ford Tempo. Eventually, we got a minivan. The percentage of people that NEED a Ford Explorer has gotta be pretty small.

“After he realized his family needed a bigger vehicle, they did something unusual: they traded in both of their vehicles for a Ford Explorer.”

nobody with an ounce of integrity collects these for real

This should be illegal. Creating that much waste and probably having to pay close to nothing to dump it, thereby passing the true cost onto everyone else who has to deal with plastics in our food, medicine, water, etc. If you can’t accurately forecast the demand for these trinkets, then you should have to firesale…

Maybe finally we can let Africa know it’s Christmastime!

“May our future ancestors, or the aliens excavating our civilization sometime in the distant future, forgive us.”

do you really think that the company selling cringe PVC garbage cares an ounce for the environment? Like, for real?

I’ve gone to two fairly small comic book conventions in my life, and there were no less than five vendors at each selling 12-foot tall shelves of nothing but Pops out of maybe 15 vendors in total. It was so incredibly depressing.

...throwing them out will be cheaper than trying to sell them.

Jezebel itself criticized Mulany excessively because they all empathized with his ex in the divorce especially after he went with #1 enemy, Olivia Munn. Now this is basically the first time they do something about Ali Wong and it’s to defend her and once again pile blame on Mulaney. POV gender if there ever was one.

Literally what are you talking about with the John Mulaney comparison? His split was talked about WAY MORE on all the gossip sites, blogs, socials, etc. than Wong’s. I know people who used to be fans and now hate him and won’t watch him anymore because of the way his his divorce played out in public.

If anything, I saw waaaay more backlash to his divorce. I’ve barely seen any about hers. There also seemed to be a lot of backlash because Mulaney talked so well about his wife until the divorce (blindsided!), which uh... certainly isn’t the case for Wong!

LOL, that John Mulaney didn’t receive backlash after his divorce. I didn’t know about Ali Wong’s divorce so I don’t know what the chatter has been about, but there is no way people didn’t consider Mulaney’s divorce “problematic” too... whatever that means.