snooggums

Some books are pretty short, and some people are quick readers.

While true, a child not playing with a toy with their parent but wanting to play with the same toy with another kid is absolutely a thing that happens.

On average they are. Insurance is cheaper, and that adds up. Registration is cheaper, and that adds up. If one is able to do their own repairs, parts are generally a lot cheaper.

There are periods of time when costs spike, and that is horrible when on a lot income (yes, I know personally), but occasionally costing far more than expected is different than costs less. Hell, a newer car can have thousands in repairs for stuff shortly after the warranty ends, or be for something the warranty doesn’t cover.

Or he literally wasn’t sure how to play with them without an example. I liked construction/farming toys as a kid because I knew how they worked from personal experience. A kid who never saw a truck before wouldn’t have anything to emulate, but another kid showing them…

A parent might even present the toy and try to play, but not know how to show it in a way that the kid picks up on.

That is an assumption.

Assumptions say a lot about the people who have them.

That maintenance easily takes out $1000 a month with fuel, loan, tax and insurance.

For new cars, sure. Used cars are a lot less than that, but even a couple hundred a month is significant for someone on minimum wage, and even worse when it is the month that something breaks…

Don’t invite clutter, as in stop buying so many things. If you can’t break that habit then it will just get back to where it was.

If you are keeping something, is the total possible savings by keeping it around worth the lost space that could be used for something else? If it was gone would it be easier to clean? Is wasting time managing it existing in your space worth it?

Keep some keepsakes around, just keep it manageable. One or two tubs is plenty if you only go through them once a decade or less. Yeah, you might save some money by keeping an old toy around for grandkids, but there will also be newer toys and odds are they won’t want old stuff enough to keep boxes of them around. Maybe keep a few of your favorites so you can share stories.

Unless you really enjoy changing decorations constantly only a couple backups of regular things are needed at most. You don’t need a dozen sets of bedding. You don’t need a full backup set of silverware.

I don’t need the inner workings of the last three generations of PC builds, but I keep telling myself that I will use them for playing around with Linux and they only take up a small tub so I am OK it since I got rid of three tubs of the kiddos childhood toys she never really played with. Kept a tub of the ones she liked in case she has kids and wants to pass them on. One tub of a thing is fine if there aren’t too many total tubs.

Note:tub is my unit of measurement since having these discussions with family are hard to have without something to represent volume.

Guess I’m not brushing my teeth anymore.

Stares uncomfortably at wooden cutting board.

Poor Phish, constantly slandered on the internet.

I’m interested in the non-commission pay. I stupidly went all in on commission at the hot springs, but maybe I should switch professions.

Dungeons & Dragons

“That would be expensive! Just slap a crab necklace on some guy and call it a day.”

-the producers

r/superbowl was the inspiration for the lemmy version…

It is people, so basically the same.

Of course not. Voted against him in 2016 an 2020 too.

Oh wait, did I fail a loyalty test?

hello

66% of the time it works every time.

Holds up better, won’t crack or leak.

Prophetic dreams are pretty much the best guess of what it would take to solve an issue, and we only remember the ones that worked out. With enough volume…

It is both overreacting and a valid feeling. If you were not wanting to drive before tue accident, then the accident escalating the feeling is a valid response. People not wanting to drive is not that uncommon! I love to drive but my daughter resisted learning for the longest time and is only learning now because it is a necessary skill to have in this country if you want to visit 95% of it because of how transportation is structured.

Your father is also right that an accident is not uncommon and assuming it was low speed it shouldn’t keep you from continuing to try, although sentiment requires wanting to drive.

You can live your life relying on others to drive you around, although that approach is limiting. Keeping up the ability and confidence to continue driving in case you need to might be an important skill where you live, and that would be the only reason I would encourage you to keep at it. If public transportation, biking, or walking are feasible for most of your travel needs then not driving is a reasonable choice!