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The Spray On, Rinse Off sealant category has really expanded over the last few years, and now almost every major brand (and even many of the smaller brands) have this type of product. Like many of us, the first one I ever used was Gyeon Wet Coat. It's what made me fall in love with this type of product for the protection it provides and it's ease of use. I have nothing bad at all to say about the performance of Wet Coat. However, it's a premium product for a premium price. $25 for 500ml (16.1 oz) is a tough pill for me to swallow, so when I ran out, I decided to try out a few others. Based on my test, here is how I would rank the performance of these: Meguiar's Hybrid Ceramic Wax: Regularly about $22 for 26oz., but often goes on sale for $16-$18, it's a good value and a solid performer. If you want something ready to use, this is what I would recommend. It's water beading is as good or better than Wet Coat. It recommends your first application be a spray on, wipe off with follow up applications being rinse off. Using this product has actually taught me that all of these types of products perform better this way, so I appreciate Meguiar's actually calling that out. Sonax Spray N' Seal: Regularly $21 for 21 oz., but often goes on sale for $16-$18. Not quite as good of a value as the Meguiar's but still a solid performer. I have found this to hold up longer than the Meguiar's in higher heat areas like on wheels. I have tested it's wash resistance and it holds up well and lasted for 40 passes with a soapy wash mitt. Nanoskin Supercharger: The value king. Available ready to use at around $10 for 16 oz. or in a dilutable form. 32 oz. costs $40 and sales are extremely rare, but it is dilutable 100:1 so that means a gallon of useable product only costs $1.60. Also holds up well in wash resistance testing and lasted about 30 passes with a soapy wash mitt. Mother's Ceramic Spray & Rinse: Brand new and was announced at SEMA. Since Mother's is so late to the party on this, I was really hoping for great things. There's no sense in trying to sugar coat things... it's not good. Poor performance and a poor value at $18 for 16 oz. Don't waste your money. If you'd like to see this test in video format, you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG_NSuWRP4k So, what are my thoughts? I use the Nanoskin most frequently because it's just so darn cheap. It works well on every surface I've put it on. Because it's so cheap, I've found myself using it on things besides cars (patio furniture, my gas grill, exterior light fixtures, house windows, etc.). You can use this on basically anything that sits outside that could benefit from a little protection. My 32 oz. bottle will last me forever. The Meguiar's just works. It's 100% as good as Wet Coat or better. The beading it creates is beautiful and is on par with full on ceramic coatings (although it obviously won't last as long). It's easy to overdo it when you do the spray, on rinse off application so just remember a little goes a long way. It will leave spots if you overdo it. The other 2 I probably won't buy again. The one advantage of the Sonax is that it holds up well to heat meaning its better on wheels than the others. Because I know some of you will doubt my intentions for posting this, I have ZERO affiliation with any of these products or brands. No links of any kind and my YouTube channel is not monetized. So, what do you all think of this product category? Do you use these types of products, and if so, how? Hope this was helpful! submitted by /u/DavidAg02 to r/AutoDetailing [link] [comments]

(Music highly recommended: https://youtu.be/E4OzdyxbOuU?si=2hKSxl5zQsAZGoLM ) Small alarm clocks blared their usual repetitive tones across Fort Davies in the predawn hours as men and women woke up to another warm day at their new home. Like in many other barracks rooms, in Captain Clarissa Petersen’s Praetorian officer barracks, wake-up time meant morning showers. It didn’t matter if you showered at night, because by the morning you were already sweating again, they had learned by now. One by one, Clarissa and her roommates took their turns at the small restroom, swapping nightgowns for uniforms and emerging from the shower to wake up fully over a cup of tea and a copy of the Fort Davies Digest, the base plan of the day which took the form of a small newspaper. Their Amercadian counterparts generally preferred recaf in the mornings, but otherwise the men and women in blue were pretty similar in their morning routines. Small knots of officers and enlisted gathered in the mess halls to chat, eat breakfast, and wait till it was time to start work. Major Farragut walked the mess hall a lot in the mornings with his cup of coffee and friendly smile, greeting the various soldiers and officers present there. In her private quarters, General Penelope Braithwaite had just finished her daily preparations, glancing in the mirror one more time as she pulled on her blouse. She could feel the small plastic keycard that she carried in its concealed pocket against her undershirt as she buttoned the blouse – the card always seemed heavier than its small size and weight would make it. The watchstanders who waited in case it was ever opened sat at their consoles – calm, alert, and armed around the clock. In the halls of Sanctuary One, home to the Sisters of St. Elizabeth, the Sisters were gathered at Lauds in their private chapel. Lines of black and white robed sisters filled the choir stalls on each side of the central aisle of the sanctuary, as they chanted canticles and psalms in alternating choruses. Meanwhile, Father William Washington sat in the small chapel of his rectory, praying the same morning prayers quietly before a tiny altar in the pre-dawn light as he began another day, then poring over a book of scriptural reflections while his breakfast warmed up on the stove. Many of the civilian staff of Fort Davies were hard at work through the night or in the early morning. The power plant operators were watching the voltage load from the deep underground fusion reactor, the massive solar farm that provided daytime power and its connected batteries that provided power by night, and occasionally the promethium-driven compact gas turbines that spun up when power demand was highest. The water treatment plant’s many pumps and filters were running at their usual pace, screening, filtering, softening, and disinfecting the water extracted from wells around the city to make it drinkable, then screening, settling, disinfecting again, and reusing every drop of water that could be squeezed out of the town’s wastewater. The smokestacks of the fort’s trash and sludge incinerators fumed day and night, plumes of gas spilling from the constantly burning fires within that consumed everything that couldn’t be reused, as the town’s compact little garbage trucks trundled up to the incinerator plant at the end of every early morning drive. Once the sun was up, the sound of low drawling voices (https://youtu.be/B9j91-18Kb4?si=LktE0bXThLeQ06m2 is the vibe, but let’s be honest, the vocabulary is a little simpler lol) signaled the arrival of construction battalion Ogryns to their place on the railroad worksites. Each site was adorned with a logo of the Concordia and Plymouth Southern Railroad, with a prominent “C&PS” mark atop a red and white striped shield, as the railroad ties were laid with tracks running over them. The network of railroad lines was growing, and already there were train loading stations being built at the logistics depot and vehicle maintenance facililty. ------ Speaking of which, the maintenance crews were working full overtime to get Major Alexander Sherman’s tanks up and running. The dashing mustached Amercadian armor officer was a constant presence in the shop for every single chassis under repair, always jovial and friendly to the maintenance staff but ever-present and always asking about how his tanks were doing. Only in private did he express his frustrations at so many of his assets being still offline after city fighting – which was not where Amercadian-style armored cavalry tactics excelled. “Honored Tech-Priest,” he said, “I do not have two weeks to wait. Those chassis need to be able to roll in five days when the Battalion leaves.” “The machine spirit will recover at its own pace,” advised red-robed Chief Techpriest Enginseer Fabius Agmen in his usual monotone. “Insistence upon deadlines will not hasten the sacred rituals of repairs. To install parts without adequate adherence to the manuals is anathema and will result in more maintenance – so it is written and so it is.” Sherman bit his lip to keep from biting back some snappy remark about the cogboys loving ritual more than Father Washington and the Sisters. “Perhaps we prioritize those that can be adequately adhered to entirely. If you stopped all maintenance on the assets that would not be ready in time for the departure wave anyway, how many could you give me?” “You are requesting that I order my acolytes to neglect maintaining machine spirits in need of attention?” “No,” said Sherman with forced calm. “I am suggesting that you apply your blessed talents in an order that will prioritize immediate needs. You can prioritize bringing machines to full readiness, and then work on the others at your preferred pace without interference from me and my chain of command.” After some more explaining, the tech-priest finally tilted his head in an almost-normal human gesture. “This is acceptable. You will have what tanks we can spare, Major Sherman, and the rest will come when the Omnissiah wills it.” ------ On an off-day, after the usual church services and meals were done, the first meeting of a small book club was held among a group of medium-ranked female officers of an intellectual inclination. This group had been half-seriously named “The Bluestocking Society”, as a witty embracing of the derogatory nickname sometimes applied to Praetorian women who were too well educated for the taste of a certain class of misogynistic male nobility. The leader of this small gathering was Captain Deborah “Deb” Jefferson of the Praetorian quartermaster corps, joined by her friend and roommate Captain Leary as well as by the half-Saunoit Amercadian supply officer Captain Kate Meyers. Invites had gone out to a variety of other interested parties around the camp, such as Lieutenants Donahue and Nichols from special operations, and an invite had found its way also to both Annie Hillingham and her fellow platoon officer Gail Haversham, both of 5th Light Infantry. Rumor had it that the Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the base was herself quite the literary enthusiast, and that the countess Darnaway and her family still maintained one of the most impressive personal libraries on Amercadia. “Good morning and welcome,” said Deb to the small crowd. “Er, I do appreciate you all taking time out of your day off to join us. I wanted for everyone to get a chance to introduce themselves and then maybe we could put a vote to what book we start with?” ------ On another similar day during the fitting-out and recuperation period after the last phase of assaults, Sergeant Wilder came to speak to her lieutenant. “Miss Hillingham, ma’am, I just heard about Sergeant Hawkins’s patrol. They were several hours overdue…it seems they were ambushed. The Taronians are bringing the survivors back to base.” Sergeant Maisie Hawkins was one of Sophie’s peers, a junior sergeant in the 5th Light Infantry and, while not directly in Annie’s usual group of soldiers, was under her guidance as well. At that very moment, in fact, the critically wounded survivors were being treated in the hospital at Fort Davies, under the watchful eyes of Surgical Sergeant Rachel Bishop, the best Praetorian surgeon who could be spared for the task while a runner went to fetch a Sister Hospitaller for the worst cases. ------ On yet another day, three young couples were scheduled to meet in various locations at various times. First, Charlotte Merriweather found time to visit Captain Hexbane in the hospital, where he was still being treated, arriving at the end of the workday with a small box from the officer’s mess containing a pastry. Second, having spent a morning together, Captains Leary and Adien were spending the afternoon at the hospital as Adien visited his Taronian patients and prepared them for release back to their own regiment. Third, Major Rosamund Ferguson was scheduled for a dinner date with her long-time crush, Captain Cassin, and had been fussy enough about her secret all day for her junior officers to smirk behind their hands, particularly the perpetually nosy and clever Captain Augusta Higginsbloom, who had first divined it while eavesdropping on Ferguson’s vox call the previous night (it didn’t really count as eavesdropping, Higginsbloom thought to herself, if they were having the conversation in the open…my word, that made the evening much more interesting than reading a book. To be a fly on the wall at the officer’s mess would indeed be something). ------ Tryouts were being held for the formation of the Fort Davies sports teams, for the game which the Amercadians called soccer and the Praetorians football. The decision was made that there would be multiple local recreational teams to practice and play on the small turf lawns of the base itself, but only one team – the best players that could be found – would play in the “competitive” co-ed league against the other regiments. Competition jerseys were obtained from surplus standard blue Amercadian PT gear shirts, adorned with a hastily screen-printed “FORT DAVIES FC” logo, player numbers, and their sponsors - McMorrow’s Burgers, Pomum Apis Bar and Grill, and of course, the C&PS Railroad. Attending the games would cost money, of course, which would be distributed to 1) base facilities management, 2) the team themselves as a reward for volunteering their time, 3) the corporate sponsors of the field and the team, and 4) the Taronian builders of the stadium. Tickets would be fairly numerous, but not unlimited, and would only be on sale for certain time blocks. This meant that Bonnie O’Rourke and Marvin Richardson, the black marketeer duo with their connections in the various areas of the base, had found a new way to make profit: scalping tickets and running a betting ring. ------- And finally, all the day to day machinations of the division came to one end: many of them were leaving, very soon. Bags were being packed, tanks refueled, and trucks loaded with supplies for a long trek northeast to their next objective. Soon the layout of units and forces would be ready, and the next phase would begin. submitted by /u/MagicMissile27 to r/WarforTrackoldMinoris [link] [comments]

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I am NOT OOP, OOP is u/Accomplished-Cod8263 Originally posted to r/neighborsfromhell Apparently we have to share our driveway because they have to share theirs. Thanks to u/soayherder & u/queenlegolas for suggesting this BoRU Trigger Warnings: destruction of property, manipulation, harassment, animal abuse Mood Spoilers: frustrating Original Post: August 18, 2025 We moved into my home when my daughter was 2 months old. Our neighbors were already showing signs of being a handful. They initially kept parking all of their vehicles (A huge truck, a jeep, and a motorcycle) on our driveway and taking up the entire space. We hoped that once they realized the driveway wasn't vacant and that someone had moved in that they would naturally stop. And they did sort of. The guy living next door kept driving down it on the motorcycle, and he would park it in the middle of the driveway still. Most of the time he was gone before my husband and I got home so there wasn't a confrontation. But when my husband had to deploy and I broke my leg our car sat vacant in the driveway, unmoving. As soon as the neighbors realized this they just started using it as if it were there own again. He even parked his truck and used our driveway to change out his lifted tires. This went on for three months until I was well enough to walk up the steps and talk to them. I'm 5'2, and this guy towers over me. I don't know how to explain it but everything about his body language tells me this guy is dangerous. The way he walks and moves and wears his clothes, he gives me time served in jail vibes (though he was probably somebodies bitch) or at the very least hothead. So I was nervous and polite but firm, I said "I need you to move your motorcycle off my driveway, this is not a shared space its private property." I hoped that would be the end of it. Of course it wasn't. He never really stopped. That wasn't the worst of it either. They live on the top unit of their house (its a condo), and leave their trashcan open at the bottom of their steps (same side as my driveway). They drop down the whole weeks worth of trash into the trashcan below, and don't bother to clean up the mess they make. Initially they left it open for the bugs and the animals to be attracted to. One day I came home with my daughter (while my husband was still deployed) and I got swarmed horror movies style by all the bugs from their trashcan. I was scared. I know its silly to be scared of bugs, but I was worried they would bite my daughter and they did. We both got inside covered in welts on our arms and the back of our necks and our faces. We both have over-reactive skin when we get bites so they become big, round, red welts. It wasn't the first time, but it was the worst. I decided to message the property manager. The whole property was trashed, and was the obvious cause of a lot of the mosquitos. They have a sign outside their house that says "managed by ..." I texted that number and let her know what was going on and sent pictures. It was a weekend, about 7 or 8am and I didn't know it wasn't a business number. The woman was extremely offended that I messaged her early and on a weekend. She seemed so angered by it that it was obvious she wasn't going to help, I asked her if I could have the landlords number. Big mistake. She isn't just managing the property she owns it- that's not what the sign outside said but that was enough to shut down all communication with her. She did mention it to my neighbors and they did start to close their trashcan lids but I could tell that however she worded it to them I was the problem and she didn't really care how much of a nuisance they were. She also included the downstairs neighbors, that had just moved in, in the text and from then on they gave me dirty looks too- I had specifically mentioned that I had not seen them contributing to the trash accumulation but it didn't really matter, I was making a name for myself with my neighbors and it wasn't good. Then the summer months came, and my husband came home, and the upstairs neighbors kids began playing outside more. Initially I had a soft spot for them. We don't live in a cul-de-sac and people drive fast down our street. I worried about them from far away and considered talking to the city to get permission to paint a hop-scotch pad out on the sidewalk out front and build a free library they could enjoy. There's a blind spot when you first turn into my driveway, and one day the kids were on it and I turned in. I was probably 10 feet away from them with my car, but it felt closer. Some of these kids are really small. When I got out of my car I asked them politely not to play in my driveway, that its not safe. They kind of got bashful, because they were little, and agreed and zipped off to the front of the houses. But from then on they ramped up. It was like we had become the boo-Radley of the neighborhood. They threw toys that hit our windows and doors, started walking up to our house in the dark and sitting on our back porch (like at 10pm). Then one day, encouraged by the eldest child who is 14, they broke a cinderblock with a sledgehammer and threw the pieces at our house and windows. The worst things always seemed to happen when my husband was away on the ship over night. Maybe they would see the car was gone and feel emboldened. I went outside and told the kids to get off my property or I would call the cops. The eldest said "Do it. What are they going to do? We're kids. Its a driveway, get over it". So, I called the cops. I had them properly tell the neighbors where the property line was and that we would start legal proceeding should they continue to trespass. I got more colorful no-trespassing signs at the recommendation of the officer. I did this three or so times and it became apparent that the police weren't really going to help. They said we had to file a civil case with the courthouse but couldn't tell us the names of the adults in the home for us to file the claim. Otherwise they said that unless the neighbors were actively on our property when they pulled up that they couldn't even issue a citation- even with video evidence from our cameras. I watched the children gather up the chunks of brick that they had thrown at our house, and they began to throw it at the downstairs neighbors dog. At first I saw them throwing it where the dog usually was, but I couldn't see if the dog was there and I hoped that he was away. But then one day I caught movement on my camera and I knew for sure that the dog was getting rocks thrown at it. I contacted animal control and they got ahold of the downstairs neighbors who weren't home at the time. The downstairs neighbor came over and I told her I wasn't trying to be a menace neighbor, that I don't hate kids, and that I had noticed her kid was the most well mannered of the bunch (which is true), and I showed her the video. We exchanged numbers. I wish I could say we found common ground and became friends or something but the woman has to live with those upstairs neighbors and I get the feeling she is just trying to stay in neutral ground (which I totally respect). The rocks stopped getting thrown at the dog, but we didn't talk much after that. She asked a few weeks later if I saw who stole her sons bike and I looked through my cameras and hadn't caught it. Otherwise we didn't talk. The kids would twerk or flip off our cameras and continue to trespass, the whole family was still littering all over the driveway, and the father intentionally revved his motorcycle as he would go down it every other day, sometimes inches from our vehicle. We scrimped and saved for a fence and once we had most of the materials, applied for a permit from the city. We were recently gifted a lawnmower and my husband has been spending more time doing yard work. Yesterday the man next door, blatantly went down the driveway while my husband was there. and narrowly missed him with his motorcycle (probably on purpose). Angry words ensued and the man got off his motorcycle (still parked in our driveway) and we finally found out his logic. The reason he feels entitled to our driveway. He said that its a driveway and he's not hurting it or us by going down it. My husband said he's breaking the law by trespassing and his kids have thrown rocks at our house- harm is being done. The man said that his kids throwing rocks and him going down our driveway are separate issues. My husband said you're a family, its not separate. Then the mans magnum opus of a statement, the reason he does what he does is because his landlord screwed him over and made him share the driveway with his downstairs neighbors so we should have to share ours. The man egged us to call the police. But at this point, we had the permit processed, we had the fence panels. My husband laughed at him and said we have our own solution. Que three or so hours later the man comes home to my husband putting up fence posts. They stand on their balcony as my husband works and whisper to each other but my husband can hear them. The man says "that f***er that's probably not even the correct line" and the woman says "it is" (because we have a survey and the police told them were the line was), The man says "its not even that big of a deal." The best part is. Its going to be a beautiful fence. My husbands initial gut reaction was to get a 6-footer but the city wouldn't allow us to take it all the way to the sidewalk. So we have these really nice gothic picket panels and some pretty cedar stain and seal. And they didn't have the gothic posts so we used 2x4s instead and we are going to put up really nice solar lights on them. We didn't put it directly on the property line, but we didn't leave them enough room to continue to bring their trashcan down our driveway, and the motorcycle most certainly won't fit. I already have the plants I want picked out to plant next year (we are pretty broke so they will have to wait). I don't think this is going to be solved by just putting up the fence. I wish it would be the end of it. But even though I hate confrontation, it was a relief to finally start working on a solution. It brings me joy to imagine them seething inside every time they look at our adorable gothic fence with adorable solar lights. I hope it is as frustrating to them as this whole unnecessary ordeal has been for us. Relevant Comments Commenter 1: Make sure you've got cameras on the new fence, because now when they trash it that will be vandalism and destruction of property and even keystone cops like the ones you're dealing with here will pay attention to that (seriously why do cops lie about the "oh I have to SEE the trespassing with my own two little eyes, if a law isn't broken IN FRONT OF A COP then well it's like a tree falling in a forest, right?"). OOP: Fortunately our cameras go all the way down the driveway, we can see the whole thing. I was really surprised by the cops take we have video and pictures of the children literally mid throwing the rocks Commenter 2: Oh, hun. I’m so sorry to say this but you’ll be back. They’ll have their kids vandalize that fence within a week. Prepare for a civil suit. OOP: We knew that was a possibility when we made the choice to do the fence. They managed not to properly damage the walls or windows when they threw rocks (thank god). If they actually damage the fence we will have better legal grounds to press charges. Commenter 3: I am confused why you would be kind enough to let them use your driveway for their garbage can still? Wouldn’t it benefit you to make them move their garbage can away from your home and have to move it down their own driveway? OOP: We dont allow them too they just wouldn't stop. I kept calling the cops but the cops wouldn't do anything until I felt like I was being a nuisance for calling. They dont care when I tell them not to do it they just say "its not a big deal" and "its just a driveway". They literally dont care Commenter 4: The fact that you let it go on this long is partially your fault, no offense. Not that what they're doing isn't illegal and trashy. By continuing to let them get away with it and facing no consequences, they see no reason to stop. Vehicle in your driveway? Call a tow truck EVERY TIME you see this & get it removed asap. They'll be happy to make money off your neighbor trespassing. Don't even engage with these trashy neighbors. Property destroyed? Harassment? Call the police EVERY TIME WITH DOCUMENTATION. Keep the cameras up and keep ALL recordings. OOP: We have been calling and documenting. The cops won't cite them because they are already off the property by the time the cops arrive. I have a binder we keep the printed out images with dates and records of every incident Commenter 5: Your husband should meet with Base Legal Services about this continuing harassment. They won't look too kindly on neighbors being threatening while your husband is deployed. They can write a cease and desist letter to the neighbors. Won't cost you anything. OOP: Fortunately my husband has returned from deployment. We wanted to file for a cease and desist with the county but they need the names of our neighbors and we dont know them. I've tried every way to get them. The cops couldnt tell me, and we have their license plates but those dont tell me either. They aren't on the property records of the house because they dont own. And the landlord already dislikes me Commenter 6: If you rent, consider yourself lucky and move. If not, bite the bullet and sell. These people will be a constant nuisance for years. You do not want to be around those kids when they all become teenagers, as you can see by the 14 year old’s behavior. They are learning to be delinquents by behaving like their parents. If moving is not an option, you need an access gate on your driveway in addition to the fence. OOP: We own, but ive talked to my husband about selling once we get his next set of orders. Its so sad this city and our home is so beautiful (its in a historic district), and if it weren't for this one family we would be so happy here. Its the kind of community where people sit outside in the evening and play with their kids. OOP's location OOP: Virginia   Update #1: August 20, 2025 (two days later) Small update: Apparently we have to share our driveway because they have to share theirs. So its been 3 days since we started building the fence. My husband has gotten three posts in (hes working on it between weather, work, and a toddler so its going slow). We contacted the bottom neighbor and let them know that they will want to move a riding lawn mower that will get locked in place by the fence and they are working on it (it has a dead battery). And -drumroll please- the wife of the upstairs neighbors actually asked us if it was okay for her kid to take his trashcan down the driveway this one last time (he couldnt do it without asking because we had a line up between the completed posts). I know thats not a huge victory but it is the literal first time anyone from that family has asked anything or even been a little polite. My husband allowed it, stating the fence will be up before they can bring the trashcan back so they will want to plan for that. It benefits us in our fence building for the trash can to be removed from its location anyway because its been butting against the property line. I know its not the blood your looking for, but I see it as a hopeful sign. Maybe this last act of grace will soothe some of their resentments so the war can end (if not, we are still on our toes). I'll post a picture once the fence is up and update if we get any retaliation from hot-head dad and juvenile delinquent son. Relevant Comments Commenter 1: Makes me wonder if the wife wasnt as terrible but the husband is one of those "alpha male" stereotypes. (Also noticed on your other post you are going to plant things. Check out sales this time of year! If you give the plants enough water they'll survive and you can get some amazing deals! Like 5 dollars per plant when its usually about 20 dollars.) Commenter 2: Yeah. In the other post, she told her smart-ass husband he was wrong in assuming they weren't building the fence on their property line. Sounds like she might be a lot more civil than the rest of her family. OOP: I think she is. Shes always told her kids not to do what their doing but it goes like this: Mom: do you want the neighbors to call the cops on us? Don't throw rocks at their house. Kid: we aren't hurting anything mom goes inside, kid doesnt skip a beat and continues to throw rocks Commenter 2: I’ve read both posts and I’m having trouble visualizing all this, is there any way to get a diagram of how all these neighbors NEED access to your driveway and can’t take their trash or mower out without it? 🤣 OOP: They dont need access at all. But supposedly the upstairs neighbor kid is afraid of the downstairs neighbor dog (cant imagine why seeing as he was throwing rocks at the poor thing) and didnt want to cross the dogs path to put the trashcan out. It was news to me but she mentioned it when she asked my husband to let the boy do it one last time. Theoretically they will now move their trash to their own driveway and not have to pass the dog at all. So still not our problem going forward. Commenter 3: I know you said the plants will have to wait until next year, but check out Facebook Marketplace. A lot of people give plants away for free or just a few dollars. OOP: I will! I would really love some plants, it would really bring me so much joy to get something growing!   Update #2: August 25, 2025 (five days later) Update 2: Apparently we have to share our driveway because they have to share theirs. I'll post links if I remember later, to the previous posts, I usually post on my mobile. I am so tired of this situation. Jfc. We were trying to be courteous to the downstairs neighbor and we gave them a weeks notice that the placement of our posts and pannels will lock their riding lawnmower in place. They are not the tennants that we've had huge problems with. Their child and their dog walker have trespassed on our property though as well. I have no idea how a house in the middle of a through street ends up becoming the neighborhood alleyway. Anyway. I gave them notice a week ago about the fence and gave them time to move their lawnmower. Initially the guy came out and tried to move it but the battery was dead. He said he needed a couple days to get a new battery. By a few days later, they arent really communicating and when i message saying my husband wants to complete the posts by the following day the woman says that its not a priority for her because she's dealing with a recent miscarriage and that her partner is working on it. Now he got the battery and managed to turn it on but he still hasnt moved the lawnmower. He has left jumper cables and a gas can next to it indicating work. it is two days after he managed to turn it on and the guy sat outside cooking burgers yesterday and didnt work on it at all. Neither of them have told me what the hold up is with moving the thing mechanically. I'm 5 months pregnant, I really empathize with her loss. But am I wrong for wondering why they havent just popped that mower into neutral and pushed it? I know a few of you said ive been a doormat and you arent wrong- ive been very passive hoping to resolve things amicably and without having to resort to a fence i couldn't really afford. But I am beyond frustrated with this ongoing situation. So tell me, how much longer should we wait before we put the post in behind the lawnmower? I don't want two families retaliating against me if possible. But I really want this project to keep moving forward. As for the other neighbors they have started respecting the line, and they moved their trash cans to the other side of their house (shocker). Im still wary but its nice to see some progress. Relevant / Top Comments Commenter 1: Is the mower in your yard? If not, how would it get fenced in? If so, why? OOP: There is an l-shaped space under their second floor (hard to explain) that they have placed it in. It conveniently fits next to the houses ac unit and a set of stairs to the second floor. Its on their property, but to back it out and remove it from thst space they have to ride it down our driveway. Commenter 2: You already gave them the deadline. Stick to it. They are walking over you because they think you will let them. Commenter 3: You don't wait. They're dragging it out so you don't put the fence up. They know as soon as it's moved the fence goes up. They're banking on the fact that if you can see it, you won't do the fence. Screw them, they had notice, if he had time to grill he had time to move it. Just put up the fence and they can deal with their own laziness themselves. Commenter 4: You send them a certified letter stating that they were told on X date about the posts and asked to move their mower. It has been two weeks, and the mower is still in the same spot. Tell them that on X date the posts will be placed regardless of whether or not the mower has been moved and that you are not responsible if they fail to move it by that date.   Latest Update here: BoRU #2   DO NOT COMMENT IN LINKED POSTS OR MESSAGE OOPs – BoRU Rule #7 THIS IS A REPOST SUB - I AM NOT OOP submitted by /u/Choice_Evidence1983 to r/BestofRedditorUpdates [link] [comments]

Intro + Background Hello everyone. I did a lot of poking around on here while researching this trip so I figured it would be be helpful to add my own writeup for people planning in the future, in case it's helpful. I'm from Anchorage and still have family there. Recently a family member was interested in getting a new EV but the shipping up to Anchorage was problematic and / or expensive - I am not an EV owner and I don't really follow what's going on but sounds like there was some kind of accident or fire with a container ship recently that means that shipping up there either isn't happening or is really pricey. I needed a break from work and have wanted to do that drive again for a while now, so I agreed to drive it up from where they purchased it in Washington, to Anchorage, through Canada. We looked at taking the ferry for part of the way - from Bellingham to Haines - but it was also pretty costly and they only sail once a week these days so the timing was a little awkward. I have done that leg in a car in the past (in an ICE car) and it's a blast if you don't mind sleeping on the deck of the ferry, but these days I am not sure my lower back would be too happy with that decision. So the all-land route it was. I'll break this down into sections and a day-by-day quick log. Jump around if you want. I really liked having the detail when I was doing my own research so I apologize if it's too nitpicky. Summary 6 driving days, ranging from 5-10 hours drive time. Longest charge time was 4-5 hours, in a town where the fast charger was broken. Typically charged up above 80% given the unpredictability and distances involved in the more remote areas. Didn't ever get stranded but it was a little dicey in spots. Overall much better charging support than I expected, especially in BC, where I feel like the infrastructure is to the point where you don't really have to do much pre planning. No real regrets or big things I'd change. Even Shorter Summary Fun drive, a little stressful sometimes, worth it, long, beautiful! Vehicle I drove the 2026 Kia EV9 - I think they have only been out for a very short amount of time. I believe it was the long range model. Like I said, not my car, and I am not an EV guy so I don't know too much about this aspect of it. I know I had to use a CCS charger adapter at almost every stop. I liked the car a lot. It's pretty huge for a guy like me but for their family with kids I think it makes sense. It has quite a bit of range, realistically, it's only in places like northwestern Canada that you feel it. I really liked the driving assist features - in my day to day I drive a pretty basic (but hey, still great) Subaru without a lot of the bells and whistles. The lane keeping assist or whatever was awesome. Less functional on rougher roads of course but on highways, I could set cruise control and lane assist and pretty much uhhhhhhh let the car drive, not sure if I am supposed to say that. The one downside is the climate control cuts into the mileage pretty significantly. Took me a couple days to figure this out. Also the charging port is on the opposite side of the car of a lot of other EV’s which makes it a little goofy to orient while parking at a charger that other people are at / may arrive at. But not insurmountable. Route I took I-5 north through Seattle, then cut east at Bellingham to cross the border in more like Abbotsford than Vancouver itself. From there in order I went through Kamloops, Cache Creek, Prince George, Fort Nelson (skipping Dawson), Watson Lake, Whitehorse, Beaver Creek, Tok, Glennallen, and ended in Anchorage. Stopped more places than that obviously but that will give you something to put into a map. This was driven by a combination of places I wanted to see, charging places I knew about, avoiding forest fires, trying to stay within some kind of range of services in case of a problem of some sort, and driveable distances. I’ll get into it more in the day-by-day. Lodging I stayed in a hotel (of some description) every night. If I was to do this again and I had more flexibility, I think staying at RV parks and camping would be a good option because I think a good number of them are starting to or have chargers that charge reasonably overnight. Because I was only driving one-way though, I couldn’t bring all my camping stuff because I wasnt going to be able to take it on the plane on the way back. Or it would have been a giant pain. Plus, again, lower back. But I think you could definitely do this a little cheaper and a little more rustic. The one pain here is that quite often, I was playing it by ear where I would end up on any given night, due to uncertainty around charger availability and charge time. If I ever showed up and had to wait for someone to charge, or if I needed to charge and the charger wasn’t available for whatever reason, the amount of charge time needed especially further north where the chargers were slower (50kw if you were lucky) meant that it was hard to reserve hotel rooms ahead of time and know for sure you would be there. Day-of is sometimes cheaper if they need to sell a room that would otherwise be empty, but it can be a real roll of the dice. Cost For 6 nights, charging, food, snacks, coffee, etc. my cost as 1 person was about $1700 USD. Again camping would make this a lot cheaper, and I like to try restaurants when I’m in new places, so you could certainly lower your food costs and be more frugal. Of that, since charging in Yukon was free, only about $300 was charging expenses. Cheaper than gas for sure. Resources I used A Better Route Planner which I’m sure you all know about, which was pretty good. Further north I relied more on the official apps of the charging utilities - BC Hydro, and Flo in the Yukon. I also started relying on stopping in at every town’s visitor center and talking to the desk staff - they are quite often across developments in the EV charging area much earlier than some of the other resources. Things like Oh yeah, they just put in a new charger at Johnsons Crossing! or “I think that RV park has a fast charger now actually.” that maybe weren’t on other resources yet. One challenge here is that the Kia was not linked up with A Better Route Planner so ABRP couldnt access my real-world driving efficiency data and adjust its predictions and routing advice. There were a couple times when I input the days travel into ABRP just to back-check it, and ABRP assumed I should have arrived in a town with 25% battery left and I showed up with 6%. For example. Normally not an issue but in the areas with big stretches between chargers… a little harrowing. I also used the Milepost, which I got a physical copy of, and flipped through at charging stops to see if there were any points of interest coming up. I would recommend doing this as well. They have pretty good EV charging information in there too since they update it every year. Daily Outline Quick outline of each day, where I charged, and also non-logistical highlights of the day for your traveling consideration. Day 1 - Portland to Kamloops BC Started off early ish in Portland, and stopped just north of Seattle (I used to live in Seattle and boy I do not miss the traffic) to charge at a Tesla supercharger. It was on the map as being east of the highway, but all I saw over there were regular chargers, which do not work with the Kia despite the plug fitting. Stuff you guys probably already know. So I bopped across the highway and with a little maneuvering found a row of superchargers in a parking lot of like a totally nondescript office building. This was my first time ever charging any kind of EV so it was a learning curve. I had to download the Tesla app and make an account, which was annoying. First time also using a charging adaptor but once I got the hang of it it went swimmingly. Charged for about 30 minutes I think to get back up to 80%. In the meantime I went into the lobby of the office building to find a bathroom - it was code locked but I just did the classic wait for someone to come out and pretend you were just about to go in move and it worked great. Crossed the border near Abbotsford. Some questions regarding the newness of the vehicle but overall fine. One interesting note: the Kia does not switch its displays to kilometers automatically, but the display does change its speed limit guidance to a conversion from KM. A little funky but for example, in a 100km/h speed zone, the display still shows your speed in Miles per hour, but the little speed limit sign on the dash says Speed Limit 62MPH (the conversion from KM). I assume you can change this in the settings but I didn’t want to dick around with it and it worked well enough. Hung a right to head for Kamloops, and stopped pretty quick in Chilliwack to add some more juice - this was an “On the Go” charger in the parking lot of a gas station / convenience store. Worked reasonably well. I headed for Kamloops because it was the biggest city near ish to my route and I figured had the best odds of having a decent hotel room available. I don’t know what’s going on in that town but boy they sure love hotels there - there are a gazillion. I pulled in late-ish and was able to get a room at the Doubletree - there were two EV charging spots out front where I could have charged overnight but since I got in late, they were both taken. Nice hotel, nice room, everything besides bars was closed for the evening though so I just went to bed. Day 2 - Kamloops to Williams Lake to Prince George Got up early-ish and found a charger in town to plug the car in at while I went and had breakfast. Had a pretty good sun dried tomato + asiago benedict at Hello Toast. It was busy but I sat at the bar and eventually got served - very tasty stuff. The breakfast potatoes were incredible. Then I moseyed back through town and looked around, passed through the farmers market, retrieved the car, and headed out to Williams Lake, the rough midpoint between Kamloops and Prince George, the goal for the evening. Note - at this point I was hoping to push a little past Prince George, but there was no real logical next town that made sense. If you look at the total mileage to Anchorage you’d like to divide it up into pretty even chunks but what I found was that the population centers with fast chargers are not really spread out like that. So Day 2 was a shorter day than I might have liked - if spacing was a little better, or I was camping, I definitely could have equalized the days a little better with that added flexibility. Williams Lake was an interesting little town at the confluence of two rivers. Beautiful scenery in this part of BC that reminded me of eastern Oregon and Washington. Dry golden browns, bluffs, water. Unfortunately they put the chargers in the ass ends of some of the weirdest parking lots in BC so my half thought through plan of “Park to charge for a bit and walk around looking at the town” did not really work. Instead I got a disgusting drink at Tim Hortons and wandered around looking at some First Nations interpretive installations and eavesdropped on everyone in a Tesla charging at the same bank of superchargers. Could be worse! On the way out of town (kinda) I stopped for coffee at Logjam. Great little shop, great vibes, great coffee, very weirdly shaped iced drink cup that did not fit that great in a cupholder, but it’s all part of the vibes. Next stop was Prince George for the evening. I got a room at the Hyatt Place there, which again, had a couple of EV chargers in the lot that were available in theory but busy when I got there. Bad luck. I had quite an evening here - went to the Twisted Cork, it was a bit of a quiet night initially but Mike the bartender was great to talk to (possibly slightly too energetic but what’s one dropped bottle at the end of the day) and made some delicious drinks. I had the scallops and risotto, and the caesar salad, both of which were very tasty. Got to talking to another solo traveler at the bar, we had another drink or five and ended up playing blackjack at the local casino til last call. My new friend was a real pro and I think turned her $100 into $110. Fun night. Funny little town. Day 3 - Prince George to Fort Nelson Note here: I decided to go up 97 instead of the Cassiar for a couple reasons. One, there were some fires brewing on 37 that I didn’t like the looks of. Two, the chargers were more spread out on the Cassiar, and I was still a little gun shy about being so far from towns and services. 97 is more populated along this stretch although that’s not saying a ton. I believe the Cassiar is much more scenic, though. This was a long-ass day, with two charging stops planned, and a nice little hangover to boot. Grabbed a plate of eggs at the hotel. Had to top off in the morning at a BC Hydro charger on the edge of town, in the community college parking lot. Got coffee at The Open Door Cafe on the way out of town, which was totally passable. Tons of local art and crafts for sale there which is cool. The first haul was Prince George to Chetwynd, a small little town that is famous for its chainsaw carving competition. Had lunch at A&W here while charging at the visitors center (BC Hydro). Beautiful scenery, you are kind of following a valley along this leg with lots of farms and forest and some great terrain change that offers some real sweeping views. Via Hudsons Hope, I cut off the corner that would have taken me to Dawson City - this only saved a little bit of time, so if you are interested in sightseeing and are at a more leisurely pace I think it’s definitely worth a jaunt into Dawson to poke around. Beautiful scenery through by Hudsons Hope though, including a big dam project and some killer views up and down a river valley. Hopped on the Alaska Highway (Finally!) and the next stop was a BC Hydro near Wonowon. As I was pulling in to the chargers area I noticed two dudes in I think a teal Chevy Volt with a decal on the side that said “Bolt to the Arctic Circle.” Not sure what they were up to but if they’re on this subreddit - Whats up guys This stretch is scenic in a totally different way - it’s definitely starting to feel very northern. You can tell the soil is not deep - all the trees stop growing at a very specific height - and things feel muddy, boggy in a way. Thunderstorms. Not a ton of mountainous terrain yet. Most of what you see along the highway here are motels, abandoned motels, turnoffs for natural gas facilities, and work camps. There are a ton of giant pickup trucks around here full of sunburned men and welding gear. I had my eye on a hotel in Fort Nelson that supposedly featured an abandoned tiki lounge, but when I pulled into town, the hotel was dark and locked. Someone saw me at the door and came to the door and told me “You can check in, but we’re closed tomorrow.” I didn’t really like the sound of waking up in a closed hotel, not even really sure what that would mean, so I backtracked a quarter mile up the main drag and got a room at the Woodlands Inn and Suites. Totally serviceable hotel. Very big. Lots of kids running through the lobby yelling which I knew because they put me in a ground floor room immediately adjacent to the lobby. But it’s all good, it’s all love. Had a very questionable chicken caesar salad at the Boston Pizza up the road. No EV plugs at the hotel but a BC Hydro fast charger in town. Day 4 - Fort Nelson to Watson Lake Woke up early again eager to hit the road. This day was probably the highlight in terms of things seen. Charged the car up at the BC Hydro fast charger while chomping down some McDonalds breakfast and a “Long Espresso” which they gave me in the type of cute to go espresso cup that would cause a security incident if it was ever handed to an average American McDonalds customer at an average American McDonalds. Next charge stop was Toad River Lodge, another one of dozens of funny gas station / motel combos that exist in this part of the world. Had some decent coffee. Wandered around. Moseyed. Took some pictures. BC Hydro fast charger again. The BC Hydro fast chargers are pretty plentiful, even this far north, and most of them advertise 150kwh which is nice and zippy. This section is crossing into and within the Canadian Rockies, so the scenery starts to get pretty dramatic again. I did succumb to the temptation to stop and take pictures of vistas every 10 minutes. The joys of road tripping by yourself. You pass Muncho Lake for a stretch here, which has incredibly dramatic teal colored water. Next stop was probably the highlight of the trip and another reason I took 97 instead of the Cassiar - Liard Hot Springs. A day use area with a cool bathing structure (changing rooms and benches) built into a natural hot springs. Stinky, but a real treat and a real unique area. Tons of folks were congregating here, including a few Quebecois dudes on motorcycles I had spotted at the A+W in Chetwynd, and I think the same dudes in the teal Volt. Again, not sure. Dudes, let me know.Look up some pictures of this place and definitely consider adding it to your route. Stop for the night was Watson Lake. I realized that basically every successive town heading north, pulling into the town I had been like “Wow, this place is really fuckin tiny” only to then drastically revise my expectations downwards when I got to the next, even incredibly tinier, town. Watson Lake is basically a wide spot with a few motels along the highway. And a visitors center, where the charger lived. I was in the Yukon territory by now - no more fast BC Hydro, I was stuck with 50kwh Flo chargers. Fortunately, the government of Yukon made all the chargers free to use. Unfortunately, they were pretty slow. I left the car charging and walked across the highway to the Sign Post Forest - a grove of trees where almost 80 years worth of travelers have hung up signs and license plates, whatever, commemorating their journeys through. Unexpectedly very moving. I spent an hour just wandering around here, reading signs from people who had passed through decades ago and had more than likely passed on. Bring a sign of your own and definitely plan to stop here. I got a room at A Nicer Motel in the strip of motels - as far as I could tell they all looked pretty similar. Again a nice functional room, nothing flashy. I think based on reading google reviews of places a lot of people had higher expectations for rooms, and I could envision a world in which I thought these rooms were crummy. But at the end of the day they were quiet and clean and the plumbing worked. So. Had dinner at The Nugget, a Chinese place. Haven’t had Chinese food of that particular kind - your classic 90's American Chinese food - since I was a kid growing up in Anchorage, so it was pretty nostalgic. Up in this area the similarities between Alaska and this part of Canada were really hitting me - weird little frontier places that basically only exist because of a big resource extraction boom 50-100 years ago and are somehow still hanging on. Anyway. Day 5 - Watson Lake to Whitehorse Every night at the hotel I would do a little research and fine-tuning on the route ahead the next day, mostly so I could have the most current wildfire information. The night before is when I had noticed ABRP distance guidelines and route planning were way more optimistic than distances and charge levels I was hitting in the real world. I started to worry a little bit - there’s a leg on this trip when you hit Alaska where you really do not have any intermediate points and pretty much have to have a 100% charge to make it from Beaver Creek to the next charger. The distances I had been hitting and the car was telling me it was capable of, I was not going to make that leg, even at 100%. Light freakout moment, but I decided to dedicate Day 5 to some serious data checking. By which I mean I busted out a pen and pad, wrote down the actual distance between some stops, wrote down the ABRP prediction, wrote down my car’s start levels and the car’s prediction of miles remaining, and then did it all again at every stop and used good old fashioned arithmetic to see how much the car was off by. Topped off again at the visitors center charger in the morning, then hit the road. The first stop was Rancheria Falls - no charger here but a quick 10 minute walk along some very nice boardwalks to see a cool series of waterfalls in the woods. I am a little bit spoiled living in Oregon but these were quite nice. Took a photo of a couple on their way from Edmonton to visit their son in Whitehorse. The math here said the car was optimistic by about 25%. Not as bad as I thought, and a short distance, but still worrying. For the next leg I cut the climate controls completely to see if that would help. It sure did. Originally my thought was to try and make it to Johnsons Crossing in one leg without stopping to charge, because the distance was pretty comparable to the worrisome leg from Beaver Creek to Glennallen. But the charger in Johnson was super slow - i think it was a 25 - and as the day wore on and I checked my math with pen and paper at every stop I got less worried. I had figured out the AC was a massive impact on efficiency, and with the AC off, I was actually often beating the car’s estimates. So leaving from Beaver Creek with a 100% charge and no AC usage would actually give me a very comfortable buffer to get to the charger in Glennallen. So I stopped at Teslin and used the fast (“fast”) charger at the marina there. Left the car charging, crossed the highway for a pretty passable clubhouse sandwich and fries at the restaurant there. Restaurant was quite busy! Left on about an 80% charge for the leg to Whitehorse. Aimed for the Flo fast charger at the Whitehorse Transporation Museum - at this point again I was kind of high-centered in terms of timing. Part of me really wanted to push to Beaver Creek and cut a day off the trip and get home a little earlier, but the chargers in Yukon were really not fast enough to make that a reality without planning to pull into Beaver Creek at like 11PM with no hotel reservation and no camping gear. And also - all the fast chargers in Whitehorse were down that day anyway. As I was pulling in to the fast charger at the visitors center, a guy in the next stall over waved me down - he lives in town, and told me that all the fast chargers were not really functional at delivering 50kw and most of them were stuck at more like 12 for various reasons. He had theories. Not sure. But there were plenty of like, 7kwh chargers that were still paid for by the Yukon government. So I hooked up to one and planned to spend the night in Whitehorse. This town broke the every-town-is-tinier trend. Wow, it really reminded me of Anchorage. Architecturally and vibes wise. They have a beautiful river front path, it seems to be a jumping-off point for outdoor activities like hunting, mountain biking, etc in the area, so it was full of like, young adventure type people. Bend Oregon vibes. Sorry for saying Vibes again. I got a room at the Sternwheeler, after calling around to about five other places that were already full. Then I went and put my name in at Gather, had a drink and some decent tempura green beans at the hotel across the street while I was waiting, then had some kind of delicious ahi / guacamole situation with a marg at Gather, and a couple more drinks at the Woodcutter’s Blanket up the road. Talked to some interesting folks at the bar, including an older couple from Alberta on their first road trip in 40 years, and a young man who had just gotten laid off from his job in fuel cells. Always sit at the bar and talk to people IMO. Car was just reaching 90% ish at this point, five hours later. Back to the hotel and conked out. Day 6 - Whitehorse to Beaver Creek Another short-ish day because of the timing of charging, so I planned to take it easy and give myself plenty of stopping time. Good thing too because this is probably the most or second most scenic leg of the drive. Got breakfast at The Open Door, a fascinatingly busy coffee shop where they’ve got a real streamlined operation happening. Whitehorse is a very interesting place, I would love to go back and spend more time there and figure out the vibes. It’s definitely a major regional hub of some kind. Short, mountainous, beautiful leg to Haines Junction - another spot I had considered pushing on to and staying at the previous night if the car had charged faster. Pulled up to the fast charger at the visitors center and for the first time in the trip, had to wait in line for someone else to finish charging. Another couple in a Tesla pulled in a few minutes later, we chatted for a bit, they said they had just been in Whitehorse and all the fast chargers were working fine and they were a little insistent. Not really sure what to do with that information but I hit them with a “Huh that’s crazy.” Very cool visitors center here. Tons of info on geology of the area, the mountains, icefields, First Nations people, the whole deal. Overheard a First Nations fella from the eastern side of Canada talking to one of the local First Nations guys about the differences in how their treaties were set up, how they handled certain things, so on and so forth. Cool moment to eavesdrop in on for a white boy like me. After charging up to 80%, I went and grabbed a coffee and snack at the coffee shop / bakery in town. Very cute little place with an awesome patio - I should have stopped and had real lunch and enjoyed it a bit more but I was not feeling amazing from the night before. Continued on. This segment is definitely the most bonkers scenery of the whole drive. Take your time here if possible. The road got pretty bad around Destruction Bay, which I was expecting since I talked to a bunch of the visitor center people along the way. It’s built on permafrost so in the spring it heaves like crazy, not much they can really do about that. Definitely need to be prepared to slow down, there are some wild dips. Pulled into Beaver Creek around 5pm maybe, hit the charger at the visitors center. Another slow one so no chance of scooting out early since I pretty much needed to be at 100% to feel good about continuing to Glennallen without problems. Asked the visitors center attendant about motels, got told there were only three so I was in luck in that it would be easy to choose. One was full, one was disrecommended by the lady I talked to, so I got a little cabin out back of Buckshot Betty’s. Decent enough little spot but god I wish they had put a fan in the room. it was real stuffy. Had an OK burger at the restaurant, some good fries, sat next to a shockingly vulgar Canadian fella who seemed to take offense to the fact that I scooted down the bar to give him and his buddy a little more elbow room. Whatever. Returned to the visitors center on foot to sit in the car for another hour while it chugged up to 100% ever so slowly. By the time I got back to the cabin it was cooling off a bit but still quite toasty in there. Took a cold shower to cool down and passed out surprisingly easily. Day 7 - Beaver Creek to Anchorage Woke up early, got coffee at a place across the street, it was fine, hit the road. Roads still quite bad and lumpy in this area. No real cell service once you leave town for quite a ways. Border crossing was very quick and easy, and I laughed at how much better the road instantly got. Some construction in the area (hence the good roads I guess) and had to wait for pilot cars a couple of times, but overall pretty quick through here. Quite beautiful again, this whole day was. Got to Tok midmorning, stopped for coffee and a snack. I had been keeping my eye on a big fire in the area that looked like it was threatening the town and possibly to close the cut down to Glennallen, which would have detoured me up around through Delta Junction and then down the Richardson. Not a ton longer but not time I wanted to spend. 7 days on the road is a long time. Fortunately, there had been a giant downpour in the area the day before and the fire was totally out. God loves me. Continued on to Glennallen, pulling in around 1130. No state or federal funding in this great nation of ours for charging infrastructure - this one was hilariously tucked in the back parking lot of a log cabin Subway, right next to a dumpster. Sure says something about something, I bet. Brief moment of panic when the CCS charger wouldn’t start charging, but downloaded yet another fucking charging network app and eventually got it to start charging. 50kw again. Not really “Fast” but at this point I only had 180 miles to go to Anchorage. Rather than eat at Subway I hiked up the road a bit to the Caribou motel where there was a cafe. Had a pretty great grilled cheese sandwich and a pretty decent bowl of tomato soup and a pretty weird salad. Hit the road with about 85%. No more charging stops til Anchorage. The section of highway between Glennallen and Palmer is again some of the most beautiful on the whole trip, despite the rainy weather. Finally saw a moose. Arrived in Anchorage on about 17%. Good enough! Trip Highlights - Liard Hot Springs, number one with a bullet - Canadian Rockies scenery - Spending way too much on good food and booze at The Twisted Cork - Signpost Forest - Kamloops... something about that area really spoke to me. Would like to go back. - Logjam Coffee That's it! Hope this helps someone in the future. It sounds like Canada is really rolling out some more EV capabilities as we speak, so the chunk of the drive in the Yukon especially should be getting less stressful every day. 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The men in my family have a tradition. A rite of passage, my dad called it. When a boy becomes a man, he takes a journey in my grandfather’s car. A cross-country trip, alone, to “connect with the past.” My grandfather died before I was born, so for me, it was supposed to be a way to connect with the man I never knew. A way to understand my roots. Now, I think it was a test. And I don’t know if I passed or failed. The car itself is a relic. A 1968 Ford Falcon, a heavy beast of sea-foam green steel and chrome. The inside smells of old vinyl, stale pipe tobacco, and something else… something faintly metallic and sad, like old blood. There’s no GPS, no Bluetooth, no screen of any kind. Just a rumbling engine, a steering wheel the size of a ship’s helm, and an old AM/FM radio with a single, crackling speaker in the dash. I set off two weeks ago, with a worn paper map unfolded on the passenger seat beside me. The first few days were incredible. Just me, the open road, and the ghosts of old rock and roll on the radio. it was the time for me to go through "the road". Looking at the map, I saw it: a thin, red line designated a state highway that cut a perfectly straight, 200-mile slash through a vast, dark green patch of national forest. The turn-off was unassuming, just a faded green sign pointing down a two-lane blacktop that was immediately swallowed by a canopy of ancient, towering pine trees. The air grew cooler. The sunlight dimmed, filtered through the dense needles overhead. Within ten minutes, I hadn’t seen another car. The road was a lonely, empty ribbon unfurling into the wilderness. That’s when the radio started acting up. At first, it was just static, the familiar hiss of a signal lost to distance and geography. But then, through the static, a voice crackled to life. It was a news anchor, his voice crisp and urgent, talking about naval blockades and tensions in Cuba. The broadcast lasted for about thirty seconds, then dissolved back into static. Weird. I twisted the dial, but all I got was more hissing. A few miles later, it happened again. A jingle, upbeat and cheerful, for a brand of soda I vaguely remembered my parents talking about, one that hadn't been on shelves since the 70s. I dismissed it as atmospheric bounce. I’d heard of it happening in remote areas—radio waves from god know where, trapped in the ionosphere, sometimes bouncing back down in just the right conditions. It was a strange, atmospheric quirk. A cool story to tell later. But the broadcasts kept coming. And they started to change. They became more intimate. I heard the hushed, whispered conversation of two young lovers, their words full of nervous excitement. I heard a mother humming a lullaby, a gentle, wordless tune full of so much love it made my chest ache. I heard a heated argument between two men, their voices sharp and angry, though I couldn't make out the words. They weren’t broadcasts anymore. They something else. The feeling in the car shifted from curiosity to a low, humming unease. The road stretched on, empty and unchanging. Then, up ahead, I saw a building. It was an old, dilapidated diner, its sign faded and peeling, its windows boarded up. It looked like it had been abandoned for half a century. As I drove past, the radio erupted. It wasn't a voice this time. It was a cacophony of sound—the clatter of cutlery on ceramic plates, the sizzle of a grill, the low murmur of conversation, and over it all, the clear, cheerful voice of a waitress asking, "What'll it be, hun?" It was so real, so vibrant, I could almost smell the greasy spoon coffee. It lasted for the ten seconds it took to pass the diner, and then it vanished, replaced by the familiar hiss of static. My heart was pounding. That wasn’t some physical phenomena. A few miles later, I passed a wide clearing with a single, massive, gnarled oak tree in the center. As the car drew level with it, the radio crackled again. This time, it was the sound of children laughing, pure, unadulterated joy. And underneath it, the steady, rhythmic creak… creak… creak of a tire swing. I looked at the tree. There was no swing. Just a thick, heavy branch, empty against the grey sky. The realization hit me hard. The radio wasn’t picking up random signals from the sky. It was picking them up from the ground. From the road itself. It was playing back moments, memories, that had happened in the exact locations I was passing. This entire, desolate stretch of highway… it was a recording. And this car, my grandfather's car, was the playback device. A morbid curiosity, stronger than my fear, took hold. I started to experiment. I slowed the car to a crawl. I passed an old, collapsed barn, its roof caved in, its timbers rotting. The radio filled with the frantic, desperate voice of a man praying, begging for mercy as the sound of a roaring thunderstorm raged around him. The storm wasn't real. The sky above me was a flat, overcast grey. But in the car, I could almost feel the thunder shake my bones. I stopped the car completely. The prayer faded. I put it in reverse, backed up ten feet. The prayer started again, mid-sentence. I was controlling it. I was scrubbing through the timeline of this place. The initial wonder of it began to curdle into something much darker. The memories weren't all picnics and laughter. They couldn't be. Up ahead, the road curved sharply around a deep, rocky ravine. A rusty, mangled section of guardrail was the only sign of trouble. As I approached, a knot of ice formed in my stomach. I almost turned the radio off. I couldn't. The static gave way to the screech of tires on wet pavement. It was a horrifying, high-pitched squeal of rubber losing its grip. It was followed by a single, sharp, female scream, a sound of pure, final terror, cut off abruptly by a sickening crunch of metal on rock. And then, silence. A profound, heavy, listening silence that was worse than the scream itself. I felt physically cold. The dread wasn't just in my head anymore; it was a physical sensation, seeping into me from the old vinyl of the seats, through the steering wheel into my hands. This wasn't just a recording. The emotions were real. The pain, the fear, the joy… they were imprinted here. I had to get out. Just for a minute. I pulled the car over onto the gravel shoulder, my hands shaking. I needed fresh air. I needed to escape the claustrophobic intimacy of these ghosts. I killed the engine, and the silence was a relief. I sat there for a long time, just breathing. My eyes scanned the simple, primitive dashboard. The glove compartment. I don’t know why I opened it. Maybe I was just looking for a distraction. Inside, beneath a stack of old gas receipts and a tire pressure gauge, was a small, leather-bound journal. It was my grandfather’s. His name was embossed in faded gold on the cover. With trembling fingers, I opened it. The pages were filled with his neat, looping handwriting. The first few entries were about the car, about his love for driving. Then, the entries started to be about this road. October 12th, 1971 Started my rite of passage today. A state highway that cuts through the old forest. The map calls it Route 9, but it feels older than that. There’s a strange quality to the air here. The radio keeps picking up old signals. Like echoes. I must be coming back this way. October 15th, 1971 It’s not echoes. It’s the road. I’ve started calling it “The Hollow.” It holds onto things. Voices. Moments. I passed the old Miller farm today and heard old man Miller yelling at his son, clear as day. Miller’s been dead twenty years. This road… it remembers. I flipped through the pages. The entries became more frequent, more obsessive. He was driving the road regularly, listening, cataloging the memories he found. He was as fascinated as I had been. But then, the tone of the final entries changed. The neat cursive became a frantic, almost illegible scrawl. September 3rd, 1992 I was wrong. I was a fool. The road doesn’t just play back. It records. It takes. I was out here last week, after a terrible fight with my wife. I was so angry, so full of rage. Today, I drove past the same spot. And I heard it. I heard myself. I heard my own words, my own anger, echoing back at me from the static. It took a piece of me. It recorded my pain and now it plays it back. Any strong emotion, any peak of human experience… it gets imprinted. It feeds the Hollow. The last entry was written on a page that was tear-stained and smudged. September 5th, 1992 It’s our blood. It has to be. I found the old county records. The ones they keep in the church basement. This land wasn't empty. Before it was a forest, before it was a road, it belonged to a tribe. Our ancestors, when they first settled this valley, they… they cleared them out. That was the phrase in the old letters. “Cleared them out.” It wasn’t a treaty. It wasn’t a sale. It was a slaughter. A genocide. We built our lives on their graves. And this road cuts right through the heart of their burial ground. It’s not just playing back memories. It’s playing back their suffering. An endless loop of their final agony. And it’s a curse. For us. For our bloodline. The car, this damn car, it’s an amplifier. It attunes us to their pain. This rite of passage… it isn’t about connecting with us. It’s about binding us to them. To their suffering. The road demands a witness from the bloodline of the usurpers. It demands we listen. I dropped the journal. My blood had turned to ice. The rite of passage. The connection to the past. It was all a lie. A beautiful, romantic story to cover up a horrifying, ugly truth. I looked up, into the rearview mirror. The road behind me seemed to shimmer, the image of the forest wavering like a heat haze. The car, which had been running perfectly, suddenly sputtered. Coughed. The engine died. The radio crackled to life. But it wasn't a memory this time. It was a low, expectant hum. A waiting sound. And in the mirror, I saw them. Far behind me, where the road met the horizon, figures began to appear. Dozens of them. Then hundreds. They were on horseback, dark, wrathful silhouettes against the grey sky. They began to ride towards me, moving with an unnatural speed. They were screaming, a sound that came not through the radio, but through the very air, a chorus of rage and pain in a language I didn’t know but understood perfectly. I looked to the sides of the road, to the forest I had thought was empty. It wasn’t empty anymore. Figures were stumbling out from between the trees. Women, children, old men. Their bodies were torn, mutilated. Their faces were masks of unending agony. And they were all looking at me. They weren’t just ghosts. They were accusations. They were raising their spectral, broken hands, pointing at me, their mouths open in silent screams that I could feel in my soul. My own scream was a raw, terrified sound. I turned the key in the ignition, praying. The engine caught, roaring back to life. I stomped on the accelerator, and the old Falcon fishtailed on the gravel before finding purchase on the asphalt. I flew down that road, the army of spectral riders gaining on me in the rearview mirror, the suffering faces of the dead flashing past my windows. The road ahead seemed to stretch into infinity. The car rattled and shook, pushed to its absolute limit. The humming from the radio grew louder, more intense, a sound that felt like it was trying to shake my skull apart. I saw a sign up ahead. A modern, reflective green sign for the interstate. The end of the Hollow. I shot past it, crossing some invisible line. And everything stopped. The riders in my mirror vanished. The figures in the woods were gone. The humming from the radio cut out, replaced by a profound, deafening silence. I kept driving for another mile before pulling over, my body shaking so violently I could barely control the car. I sat there, gasping for air, the silence a welcome blanket. Then, the radio crackled one last time. It was a voice. An old man’s voice, full of a weariness so deep it felt ancient. It was a voice I’d never heard, but I knew, with a certainty that chilled me to the bone, that it was my grandfather. “Now you know,” he whispered, his voice a ghost in the machine. “Now you carry it, too. The road remembers. The road always remembers. And one day, son, for one of us, for one of our blood… it won’t be enough to just listen. One day, it will claim its payment.” The radio went silent. And I was alone. But I know I’m not. I can still feel it. A cold spot in my soul. The rite of passage is complete. I’ve connected with my ancestors. And I am now bound to their crime, a witness to their sin, just waiting for the day the road decides it’s my turn to become another one of its recordings. submitted by /u/gamalfrank to r/nosleep [link] [comments]

Friday, July 9: Carolyn invited close friends Christiane Amanpour and her husband, Jamie Rubin, to the Vineyard to help cheer everyone up. Christiane and her husband fly up on Friday. John flew his own plane up accompanied by a co-pilot from Caldwell NJ to MV. John and Carolyn go with Christiane and Jamie into town after dinner. According to the NTSB John flew Essex County Airport (Caldwell, NJ, USA) to Martha's Vineyard on 7/9/99. Saturday, July 10: The weekend was spent with Christiane Amanpour, James Rubin, Anthony, and Carole Radziwill. “We spent the days on the beach and had fun dinners,” Carole recalled. “Except for the dying, it was a weekend like any other, with great friends and laughs and good food.” Christiane and Jamie provided them with a break and lightened the moment. Evening: The couples headed out in “the Goat”, John’s Pontiac GTO convertible to go for drinks at a couple of island bars, the Wharf and Lamppost. Anthony did not join them because he was too weak. From Sons of Camelot: "John didn't like to frequent the restaurants and clubs on the island very often, since the experience almost always turned unpleasant, with one photographer or another sticking his camera at Carolyn. Saturday evening, though, the two couples headed out in "the Goat," John's beloved 1969 Pontiac GTO convertible, to go for drinks at a couple of island bars, the Wharf and the Lamppost. For once people left them alone. "Kissy, are you pregnant?" John asked, as they sat drinking margaritas. "No, why?" Christiane asked "Because you're not smoking," John said. "We're trying." "Oh, don't get pregnant, Kissy," Carolyn said jokingly to Christiane, "or I'll have to get pregnant." At the end of the weekend, John hit the road again in search of a new publishing partner to replace Hachette. During his travels, John made sure to call Carole late every night to check in on Anthony. Elizabeth Beller wrote that "ON JULY 10, THERE was a long-scheduled dinner planned with all the Bessette women, including Lauren, Carolyn, Lisa, their aunts, and their cousins, at a restaurant in downtown Manhattan. The gathering took place, but Carolyn had to cancel at the last minute, explaining that they were moving Anthony into Red Gate Farm on the Vineyard at the end of that weekend." Sunday, July 11: Afternoon: John and Jamie lifted Anthony and carried him to the car and drove to the beach. They brought him to the edge of the water. From Sons of Camelot: "Anthony was too weak to join the group. He could hardly stand, but John wanted him to enjoy the ocean one more time. Sunday afternoon John and Jamie lifted Anthony up and half-carried him to the car and drove to the beach. There John and Jamie helped him out and brought him to the edge of the water. John stood on one side of him and Jamie on the other, and holding Anthony up, they walked into the water. The waves buffeted them, and they grasped Anthony so he did not fall. And all the time that John was physically holding Anthony up, he was verbally putting him down. And Anthony was responding in kind, trying to top John in his withering insults. When they got back to the house, Carolyn asked if the other guests would like to go water-skiing. Jamie thought that was a great idea, and so did John. "You don't want to go water-skiing," Anthony joked. "By the time John gets everything organized, it's going to be late, there are going to be bugs, and it's going to be a whole lot of trouble for a little spin." By the time John got everything organized, it was late, there were bugs, and it was a whole lot of trouble for a little spin. On Sunday everyone scatters their separate ways. Jamie and Christiane fly back to New York. According to Steven Gillon’s book, John called him on the Sunday before he died (7/11/1999) to complain that Clinton planned to seek the Democratic nomination to fill the Moynihan Senate seat. Monday, July 12: Morning: John sets out early on a business trip to Canada. John flew from Martha’s Vineyard to Buffalo NY and then to Toronto with a flight instructor to meet with potential investors Keith Stein, Leslie Marshall, and Belinda Stronach. John met with Canadian businessman Keith Stein who recalled "He was sticking his head out the car window all the time," says Stein, "curious about everything." When it was time to leave, Kennedy, who had flown in on his private plane from Martha's Vineyard, Mass., with a flight instructor, talked about his love of flying. He lamented that on the trip back to New York he wouldn't have a chance to fly at night, which he especially enjoyed because of the navigation challenges Carole R wrote that "Carolyn stayed behind to help her and Anthony settle into Red Gate Farm, moving a bed to the first floor for Anthony so that he could avoid climbing stairs." From her book, "The following morning Carolyn is getting ready to leave. She'd rather stay, but there are things she needs to do in New York. She and Holly and I are in the bathroom upstairs, and she is blow-drying her hair. I am sitting on the edge of the bathtub, looking up at her, and she turns the blow-dryer off suddenly." Carolyn returned to New York with Efigenio Pinheiro on a commercial flight and called Hamilton South soon after her arrival. South was initially supposed to have come to the Vineyard that weekend as well but stayed behind because he had met someone. After spending a few hours in Toronto, John arrived at Buffalo NY airport from Toronto around 7:40 pm. There were some issues with US customs and John had to drive into Buffalo to get gas and then flew back to Essex County Airport (Caldwell, NJ, USA) (noted in NTSB report). Tuesday, July 13: Morning: John called Gary Ginsberg when he got into the office to let him know about his trip to Toronto. John wanted Gary to look into the Canadian potential partner. John and Carolyn had a heated fight about whether or not she would attend Rory's wedding; Carolyn didn’t want to go. She was exhausted by it all—flying, the crash of the Buckeye, a declining magazine, ankle surgery, cancer surgery, and the endless requirements to keep up appearances amid all of it. John also called his close friend Dan Samson to discuss their future business plans. He told Dan, “There’s a chance that things at George might still go on, but I’m resigned to the fact that this is probably the end of something I’ve done. I’m looking forward to the next phase of my life”. Earlier that evening, John had gone on his own to a party thrown by Dazed & Confused magazine, in Tribeca. He had dinner afterward with photographer Jacques Lowe, whom he told that Keith Stein was interested in George, but “only if they can run the show. I’m not about to relinquish my role in the venture. I’ll shut it down before I do that,” John said. According to Lowe, John seemed on edge. “Hachette’s contract with John was scheduled to lapse at the end of the year. Unless Hachette reneged, John would be forced to find a new sponsor. But the Canadians weren’t the answer. Carolyn was spotted by a neighborhood friend sitting alone at the bar at the Independent, on Broadway and Worth Street, three blocks from her apartment. Elizabeth Beller's book mentioned " John’s party was only a few blocks away. Perhaps he was coming to meet her. Perhaps he wasn’t. “All I remember is that she just looked so very sad,” the friend said." Wednesday, July 14: On Wednesday, he stopped in early at the Socrates Deli near his apartment, wearing a white shirt, tie and gray slacks, greeting the regulars in the store, making his way on crutches to a table. "The usual, John?" asked waiter Andy Purnan, who said he served him Wednesday. Kennedy said yes, and Purnan served him a bowl of Product 19 with bananas and strawberries, scrambled eggs, whole wheat toast, coffee, and a small orange juice. Kennedy read The New York Times as he ate. John and Carolyn called Empire Executive car and Limousine service of Manhattan to pick them up at home and deliver them to Paramount Plaza Building, where George maintained office space on the 41st floor. John and Carolyn held a breakfast reception at George for the executive board of the Robin Hood foundation. Following the breakfast, Carolyn went shopping at Bergdorf Goodman, then picked up her sister Lauren at the midtown Manhattan office of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. That same afternoon, Carolyn and Lauren were dropped off at the Stanhope Hotel. John joined his wife and sister-in-law for lunch at Café M in the Stanhope, where he had rented a conference room in an attempt to create some space between himself and David Pecker, who was always hovering at Hachette. Witnesses of the trio at lunch said that things seemed tense at first but that at some point, all three of them held hands. Afternoon: After lunch, John returned to George offices and dealt with financial papers. It was reported John avoided his wife’s phone calls. John also called Caroline, who was leaving for Idaho the next day on a rafting trip to celebrate her and Ed’s thirteenth wedding anniversary and Ed’s fifty-fourth birthday. He told his sister that Carolyn was not going to be attending the wedding that weekend and that his marriage was imploding. He wanted her to know before the story flooded the tabloids. He apologized for being distant and suggested that they both make more of an effort to spend time together. Caroline responded graciously and compassionately. She invited John over, but he said that they could talk more after the wedding. John also spoke with Carolyn; Richard Bradley heard him arguing with Carolyn on the phone. “In startling, staccato bursts of rage, John was yelling. His yell would be followed by silence, and then John’s fury would resume. At first, I couldn’t make out the words. Then after a particularly long pause, I heard John shout, ‘Well, goddammit, Carolyn, you’re the reason I was up at three o’clock last night!’” At 4 PM, John received a call from Janet Reno’s office to discuss an upcoming interview with Reno for George magazine. At 5 PM, John called Jacques Lowe, and recounted details of his latest altercation with Carolyn. He told Lowe that he intended to spend the next night or two at the Stanhope hotel. Later that evening, Carolyn dropped by to see her old Greenwich Village neighbor Marlaine Selip’s daughter, Erin, there was no indication of marital trouble. Carolyn was all smiles, arriving with an armload of clothes, as she often did. Speaking of Carolyn's last visit on July 14, Erin recalled, “She was full of light and happy.” Carolyn also ran into her old friend Lynn Tesoro. Tesoro recalled, "I saw her the Wednesday before [she died], and I thought she never looked better or sounded more in love." Evening: John Called Gary Ginsberg and told him "I have a chance to get my cast off tomorrow morning. Are you okay if I miss your son’s bris?” He said, “If I get my cast off, I can fly—I don’t have to fly with an instructor.” John stayed in the office chatting with editors, and making phone calls until 8 pm. He left the office and headed to the Stanhope, where he checked into room 1511. Less than an hour after he arrived, a waiter showed up with his favorite turkey club sandwich and a bottle of mineral water while John reviewed some financial records for George. He wanted space to prepare materials for his potential Canadian partners and figure out how to deal with the media reaction on Monday (7/19/99) when he would announce that he was seeking a new partner for George. Shortly before midnight, John called his friend Dan Samson but did not mention he was at the Stanhope. Dan was planning to fly into Boston on Friday, 7/16/1999 to meet with John.. After midnight, he received a visit from his ex girlfriend Julie Baker. It’s been written that he invited her over to watch a video. According to Julie, she knew over the course of his marriage what "watching a video" meant. John had admitted to a friend a couple of months before that Julie was a temptation to him. It's been written that John would invite her over to his hotel room whenever he had a fight with his wife. She stayed for an hour or so and then left. Thursday, July 15 7:30- 8 AM: John had breakfast with Julie Baker at the Stanhope hotel's Cafe M. John arrived at the Cafe M in the Stanhope shortly before 8 a.m. About 10 minutes later, he was joined by Julie Baker. John chose an out-of-the-way table in the corner, and sat in the alcove so that Julie's back would face the dining area. He ordered pancakes and she picked poached eggs on an English muffin. From an article "John and his lady friend were very deep in conversation and looked into each other's eyes as they spoke," reveals the eyewitness. "He looked upset and emotional while she seemed to be soothing him gently. John hardly touched his pancakes while Julie dug into her breakfast. She was friendly to the waiter. But John avoided eye contact and stared dejectedly into his lap. At one point, when he looked like he was going to lose his composure, Julie took his hand in hers and spoke softly, but firmly. John nodded in agreement as she spoke.” After breakfast with Julie, John taxied to Lenox hill Hospital and his CAM Walker removed, he was given a walking cane, and a new pair of lightweight metal crutches. Steve Gillon wrote that Carolyn accompanied John to his appointment. He mentioned " Carolyn accompanied him, and the two were very affectionate, kissing passionately while seated in a small reception area. " Steve said John's doctor shared that info "a former doctor of Kennedy’s recently told him he caught Kennedy and Bessette making out in his office a few weeks before the crash. “He said, ‘John, get a room!’” Gillon recalls with a laugh...\*I think it might've actually been Julie who accompanied John to his appointment, not Carolyn. It's been years since that incident, and John's doctor probably assumed the woman with him was his wife. Just my two cents. It makes more sense because Julie was with him that morning and he was fighting with Carolyn. \* He left the hospital and went to the North Moore apt for a change of clothes, and packed a weekend bag to take back with him to the hotel. A photographer snapped a photo of John with a portfolio under his arm as he returned to his TriBeCa apartment. Still on crutches from a recent ankle injury and with his foot in a brace, John struggled along the sidewalk and sometimes grimaced with pain. After going up to his apartment, he came down two hours later. he was sighted at the Hudson Market near his home. He came in on crutches about noon, drank a cup of fruit juice and some coffee, then left. Another eyewitness recalled that John, dressed in a dark blue business suit for his job ,was still on crutches but minus his brace-was helped into a Lincoln by his driver. "Every time he put the slightest weight on his left foot," says the eyewitness, "he winced. e was still wearing the ca John had lunch with Steve Florio to discuss the future of George. They lunched at San Domenico on Central Park South. They lunched in his usual booth. At one point, he hobbled over on his injured ankle to hug and kiss Diane Sawyer and chat with her lunch companions, Leslie Stahl and Peggy Noonan. He told them he wasn’t letting his crutches slow him down. Restaurant co-owner Marisa May says he was in a great mood. He thanked her for always protecting his privacy. “Remember, I brought Carolyn [Bessette] here before anyone knew,” he said. “I hope to bring the whole family soon.” “When I got out of the hospital, John invited me to lunch,” Florio said. “‘Why don’t we go to San Domenico, and you can have a piece of grilled fish, and we can talk,’ John said. What I thought was going to be just a friendly chat turned out to be a more substantive talk. Hachette had lost interest in George, and John wanted to know if we at Condé Nast would be interested in picking it up. And I said, ‘Yes, we can talk about it. George is a good magazine. Let’s keep chatting over the next couple of months.’ But John died before we could make a decision on George.” Afternoon at George: John called the edit staff into the conference room for a meeting. Then John met with the George business staff and with Hachette’s new CEO, Jack Kliger. From Sons of Camelot, "Later that day John got together with the magazine staff and told them that one way or another George would continue and they would hold on to their jobs. That was John's wish, but it was by no means certain. He apologized that he had not focused on the work, blaming a personal matter that he said would soon be resolved. The best news for him that day was that the leg device came off, though he was still limping around on crutches. He chanced into McClellan, the editor of Flying, and told him how much he was looking forward to heading down to Florida again to complete his instrument training." John called his sister Caroline and agreed they need to do a better job staying in touch. Rosemarie called Carolyn to convince her to attend Rory's wedding, she was crying, saying, “He’s so selfish,”. Later that afternoon, John showed up at La Palestra, he put in a two-hour workout, says a source, and handed studio owner Pat Manocchia a set of keys to his loft, so Manocchia could spend the weekend. Pat also mentioned he helped John start his physical therapy exercises for his ankle now that his cast was removed, he also did some upper body workouts. John was seen having dinner at Zutto's on Hudson St (a 5 minute walk from the apartment). A person who was at the same place recalled "I sat right near him for dinner which was at Zutto's. He was seated at the corner window table. He had a big boot on his leg and crutches. He was seated with legs stretched out, wearing a nice white shirt having a lot of drinks, sitting by himself." (if you google photos of John at the Yankees game you can see he was wearing the same white shirt) That evening John went to Yankee Stadium with Gary Ginsberg in a town car to watch the Yankees take on the Atlanta Braves. Gary had been invited by Rupert Murdoch's sons, James and Lachlan, and Gary decided to bring John along. Baseball was never John's sport, whether to play or to watch. He needed action, and he spent most of his time talking to Gary and the Murdochs. They spoke at length about George, and John was even cautiously optimistic that the Murdochs might invest in the magazine. The Yankees game started at 7:35 PM and ended at 10:50 PM. During the game, John and Gary started talking about Julie, though John did not tell Gary he had seen her twice already at the Stanhope. Gary started ragging John about Julie’s clothing because John convinced him to buy some of her custom-made suits but none of them fit. responded that he had purchased four suits from her and none of them fit either. John then called Julie on his cellphone to tell her that she better get into another line of business. Gary and John drove back to the Stanhope Hotel together. From Sons of Camelot "Riding back to Manhattan after the game, Gary looked at his friend silhouetted in the shadows, and he sensed that something was wrong. "So what's bugging you, John?" Gary asked. "What's going on?" "God, it's tough," John said, looking out into the night. "This is like God's testing you to see how much stuff you can take in your life," Gary said, knowing how John felt about Anthony's dying. Gary knew John wouldn't want to talk about that, and he turned the conversation to George. Gary Ginsberg informed one author that he saw Julie Baker waiting for John in the lobby of the Stanhope hotel when they got there. Friday, July 16: Morning (9 AM): John had breakfast at the Stanhope Café M. Ordered strawberries, orange juice, and oatmeal. There is another version of this story that mentioned John checked out of the Stanhope and had breakfast at the hotel Carlyle on Madison Ave. John stopped at Kennedy family offices on 500 Fifth avenue to retrieve his quarterly financial statements, and bumped into cousin Chris K. Lawford. According to Lawford, John had lost his crutches was dragging his broken foot. Lawford wrote in his book "I bumped into John the following morning in the Lobby of 500 Fifth Avenue. He had just come from our family office on the seventeenth floor. I was on my way there to try and make sense of my quarterly financial report, with the hope that the accountants had gotten it wrong. He had lost the crutches and was dragging his broken foot with the heavy cast behind him like Quasimodo. John: Hey, man. What's up? Me: Hey. Nothing. Just going to do battle with the accountants. John: Make sure they don't put any of my money in your account. Me: Not a bad idea. When are you going to Rory's wedding? John: I'm flying up this afternoon. Do you want to come with us? Me: I would, but I left Jeannie on the Island with my mother and sisters. We're going to fly up tomorrow. John: Okay, man. I'll see you at the Cape. Me: Yeah. I'll see you up there, man. Carolyn still wasn’t sure that she was going to go to the wedding that morning—Rosemarie talked a few times with her. According to Rosemarie, she was crying and very upset and not feeling like she wanted to put on a brave face. “I just want some normal married time,” she said. “I’m exhausted.” Carolyn and John talked, and she agreed to go. She then went dress shopping. John met with Peter Kiernan, his friend who was a partner at Goldman Sachs, at 10 AM, and they were talking about a business plan and funding for George. Kennedy arrived for work at George on Friday morning at 10, dressed casually in khakis. The magazine's offices are on the 41st floor o fa 45 story building at 50th and Broadway It was deadline week for the September issue, and among the stories he was considering was one about Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott-Thomas, co-stars of the film Random Hearts, about a couple who meet after their spouses are killed in a plane crash. John discussed the upcoming Rob Lowe cover with the George staff. John also met with Kliger in his office. From Sons of Camelot "Soon after John arrived in his office, he went in to see Kliger. John could tell that the executive had no emotional stake in whether George succeeded or not. John was going to put together his plans over the weekend and pre-sent them to Kliger. If it made sense to the CEO, Hachette would renew its partnership. If it did not, the publisher would probably go ahead and sell its share to somebody else. John knew that he had some serious Canadian investors who might be interested. He had also heard from Gary that Lachlan Murdoch had inquired about George's subscription numbers. At about noon, John received a telephone call from Brian Calcagne, director of sales for Air Bound Aviation. Calcagne asked John if he was planning on flying the Saratoga later that day. Confirming the flight, John asked the caller to have the aircraft ready for departure by early evening. John then got a call from Robert Merena, a flight instructor who wanted to know if Kennedy needed somebody to accompany him to Martha’s Vineyard. John told the instructor he wanted to fly the plane himself. "I had called John approximately 1 pm to verify that he was planning to take his aircraft somewhere for the weekend. He said he was. I told him I would have it parked outside the hangar. He thanked me and said he would be out 5:30-6pm"- Brian Calcagne (NTSB) Lunch: He went to lunch with a group of George editors and attended an afternoon staff meeting. John had lunch with Richard Bradley at Trionfo, located on the ground floor of Hachette’s offices. John had spoken of a personal family problem in a meeting the day before, apologizing for having been so preoccupied. Bradley asked John, “That personal problem you were talking about in the meeting yesterday—you okay?” “I am,” John replied. Afternoon: John held an editorial meeting with the staff Carolyn needed a new dress and spent most of the afternoon shopping in midtown Manhattan. Late in the afternoon, she went to Saks Fifth Avenue, where she found a short, black dress by Yves Saint Laurent that cost $1,640. Rosemarie talked to Carolyn once more, just details of her staying at the apartment and that John was meeting Lauren in the lobby at six o’clock. Carolyn asked RMT to get her a car. 2pm: John called close friend Dan Samson. From Sons of Camelot: "At around two o'clock Friday, John called Dan. "I'm running a little bit late, you know," he said. "But what about that Billy thing?" Dan asked "I think we will have to bag it." John went on to tell about the newest change in plans. "Carolyn's sister Lauren decided to come. She's going to Martha's Vineyard. So instead of coming direct, we're going to drop her off there." That meant essentially that John had given up his friend's anniversary dinner so he could do a favor for his wife's older sister, an investment banker in New York. Carolyn was especially close to her sister, and given the fact that he had just had a rousing fight with his wife, it was probably not a bad peace offering. 4:05 pm: John sent a message to his old friend John Perry Barlow, who had just buried his mother. John praised him for staying by his mother’s side while she died. “I will never forget when it happened to me,” John wrote, “and it was not something that was all that macabre.” Late afternoon: John talked to Bob Merena one of his flight instructors, and said that he didn’t need him. 4pm: John leaves George to go to the gym. went to visit his old friend from Brown, Pat Manocchia, who now owned the exclusive fitness center La Palestra. As he headed toward the door, Rose reminded him that he had to meet Lauren Bessette in the lobby at six thirty. She then asked him if he was okay with her leaving at five-thirty that evening. “Sure, Rosie, no problem. I’ll call you later.” John took a car to Pat’s Upper West Side gym. “We trained a lot that last couple weeks because of his injury,” Pat recalled. “On that last day, we did some soft tissue work to try to get some range of motion back.” Pat described John as “despondent.” He was happy to have the cast off, but he was not sure what he was going to do about George. “He was demoralized by his meeting with Hachette,” he recalled. “He wasn’t sure whether the magazine could survive or if he wanted to continue with the magazine even if it did.” Pat declined to say what, if anything, John said about his marriage. 5 pm: "it was not until around 5:00 P.M. when he called Billy [Noonan] to tell him he would not be there that night. That was typical of John, and Billy was as used to it as any of his friends. He had learned years ago to shrug it off, and add the anecdote to his endless repertoire of John stories." Carolyn left the nail salon no later than 5 pm according to Colin Lively who was at the same salon. According to Manhattan hair colorist Colin Lively, who sat next to Carolyn at the pedicurist and was Klein's source for the anecdote, Carolyn left the salon no later than 5 p.m. Rosemarie left a note on John's phone reminding him to meet Lauren in the lobby at 6:30. Before leaving the office, John went into Richard’s office to ask him about publishing a poem in the magazine, both of them thought it was a bad idea, and John returned to his office, phoned New York literary agent Sterling Lord, and John let him know the poem won’t be published. John also wrote a rejection letter and sent it to them. John also got on the phone with Lauren Bessette and agreed to meet her at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of his office building. Before leaving the office, he told Matt Berman “See you Monday, Maestro!” At 6:30 P.M., shortly before John left his office, John logged on to Weather Service International on his computer to check out the weather. There was lots of haze out there, but the visibility was at least five miles, and there were no storms on the horizon. John got route briefings both to Martha's Vineyard and directly to Hyannis, suggesting that he may not have been certain he was going to drop off Lauren Bessette. 6:30 pm: Lauren arrived at George. Inigo Thomas mention in Beller's book that John took Lauren upstairs to show her around George. They came into Inigo's office asking for reading recommendations for the weekend. Lauren grabbed John McCain's memoir 'Faith of my Fathers' and John chose Stephen Fry's 'Moab is My Washpot'. 6:30 pm- 7pm: John and Lauren head out for the airport. around 8 PM: John and Lauren arrive at the airport in John's white Hyundai convertible. When John got to Essex County airport, he called Dan Samson, to say they were running late and he now estimated they would be in Hyannis around 10:00. They arrived at the airport shortly after eight and pulled into a Sunoco gas station across the street. The owner of the station thought it was too late for John to be flying. “He usually showed up between five and seven,” he told Time magazine. But John showed no signs of being in a hurry. Wearing a light gray T-shirt, he made small talk with the cashier and bought a banana, a bottle of Evian, and six AA batteries. The attendant asked John how his leg felt. “I just got the cast off yesterday,” John responded, “but it’s feeling better.” After John and Lauren loaded their luggage into the cargo hold, John hobbled around the plane checking its wing flaps and fuel tanks. Just as he finished, Carolyn pulled up in a black car. 8:15 PM: Carolyn arrived at airport in a Lincoln town car. 8:15 PM to 8:25 PM, Kyle Bailey recalled that John and Carolyn were conversing with each other in a casual manner. 8: 25 PM: Carolyn called Carole Radziwill and told her “We’re getting a late start, I’ll call you in the morning.” 8:30 PM: Engine "run up check" was performed on the plane at his parking location. 8:38 PM: Tower at Essex County airport cleared John for takeoff. Plane departs runway 22 at CDW. 9:24 PM: John flew over Westerly, Rhode Island. 9:39 PM John radioed the Martha's Vineyard airport and said he was 13 miles from the airport and 10 miles from the coast. 9:40 pm : John’s plane descent rate eventually exceeded 4,700 fpm (53 mph). The target's last radar position was recorded at 2140:34 at an altitude of 1,100 feet. From the NTSB report: "The witness, located approximately 9 miles to the northeast of the accident site, reported hearing a loud noise between 2145 (9:45) and 2155 (9:55). The sound was similar to a thud. She added that prior to hearing the noise, her environment was quit. The noise was loud enough that she went outside attempting to determine its source" I compiled these from various sources like books, articles, NTSB reports and interviews. Please let me know what you think :) submitted by /u/StellaOC to r/JohnAndCarolyn [link] [comments]

Went in to Mother's Day ready to get slammed and sling a ridiculous amount of food. Decided to turn on the other half of our salamander that we don't often use since we don't usually need it. Started a grease fire that set off the ANSUL system instead and got to spend the next 10 hours cleaning the line. Missed out on probably around $20k USD in sales today between lunch and dinner. To all the Mother's that had resos today, I'm sorry for ruining your day. To all the servers hoping to make a lot of money today, sorry for fucking up your money. To all the cooks out there, hope your day went better than mine and remember to keep an eye on your less used equipment. Cheers ya pirates. Keep up the good work. Edit for some of the questions/comments I've seen: 1) I work at a high end golf course clubhouse in Colorado. So our food is a little pricey and our drinks are even pricier. We are also the only sit down restaurant in our area so we get a lot of traffic. The total numbers we missed out on included both food and liquor/beer. We were told today by our Director of Food and Beverage that it would have been a 30k to 40k day between all our sales, but we only did 10k between liquor and a small amount of food sales. On Saturday we did 20k and had more resos for Sunday both shifts so we very easily could've hit 30k. Why we only use half our salamander usually despite being a busy restaurant is just the way our kitchen is set up. The stations are very separated and only the grill uses the salamander. This kinda helped us this time since only the grill had the ANSUL pop. The saute area and back prep area were all still safe and clean, the gas was shut off tho so we couldn't cook anything there. 2) I can't prove it to you guys, but our kitchen is actually very clean. Obviously our salamander could've been less greasy, but otherwise it's a clean kitchen. The only thing I can think of is that since it's right over our charbroil (stupid place but I didn't put it there) and it has so many parts to it grease just accumulated inside and caught when I turned on the side we don't normally use. Like I said I can't prove it to you guys, but I concede I need to keep a better eye on the less used equipment. 3) For those who said we didn't clean enough, I'm not sure if it makes a difference but our ANSUL spray wasn't foamy but a liquid of some kind. Not sure if it's easier to clean, but the health department swung by today and cleared us to continue service once the system was recharged. A group of us took the entire line apart (including taking apart the equipment) and cleaned every part we could with tons of soapy water and rinsed with a ridiculous amount of hot fresh water. Health inspector said it looked amazing. 4) Seen a lot about insurance claims, I'll mention it to my chef, but I'm just a prep cook so I don't have much control about how things happen. Not sure if these edits will help clarify some things or to change your minds that I'm not a complete fuck up, but at the end of the day it happened and I did the best I could to make it right. That's all I can do. Keep on crushing it out there guys. Only we have each other's backs! submitted by /u/NynjaHyppy to r/KitchenConfidential [link] [comments]

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My mom wants a grill for Christmas and I want to get her a good one. That being said, between bills and other gifts I only have about $210 to spend! Can anyone here find me a good deal? submitted by /u/Kadecide to r/grilling [link] [comments]

I bought a brisket flat because it was on sale. I have never done one before. I only have a gas grill. I know it's not ideal but would like to know the best way to do it on the gas grill. TIA submitted by /u/Any-Road-562 to r/brisket [link] [comments]

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I have a high end Weber from like 15 years ago that is dying (replaced parts but the heat burned through the interior sides and I can’t control the temperature, the thermometer is wrong and the starter quit so I have to use matches or long lighters to get it started). I’ve been using my bge for grilling but I would rather buy a new gas grill for quick meals. I don’t know shit about this Weber or what would be comparable. I’d rather wait if there is a sale on grills too. Any help? I’m not a die hard Weber fan but it’s made it through the years and two houses so I’m kind of a fan. Feel free to correct me. submitted by /u/irn to r/grilling [link] [comments]

repost from https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u0uemq/can_we_make_a_list_of_the_companies_that_bcg_has/ I figure this will not only help Apes look into and compare what BCG has done at other companies to what they did, or rather failed to do at Gamestop. - Taco Bell - someone said they are the reason Butterfinger doesn't taste as good anymore u/ammoprofit has been doing an awesome job collecting DD on BCG https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/tnjmwf/bcg_research/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf the following are all from the research under the same post, and I wanna thank all the apes that did their homework so I could copy it... https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/tzx1p0/anyone_care_to_play_this_game/?sort=top - ADT - Circuit city - Radioshack - Rite Aid - JC Penny - Neiman Marcus - Macy's - GO GO GO - Blackberry - H&M - Airtrans - Woolworths - Kohl's - Ubisoft - Atari - FutureShop - Dress for Less - Nokia - Shoe Carnival - Ahold Delhaize(parent company of grocery chain Stop & Shop) - Applebee's and IHOP (Dine Brands Global) - Paypal - Red Lobster - Barnes & Nobel - Nektar Therapeutics - Marks and Spencer following few found by /u/PmMeWifeNudesUCuck/ - General Motors - Pacific Gas and Electric Company - CIT Group - Enron (huh) - Conseco - MF Global following few found by /u/IEatSweetTeeth/ - Quiznos, Qdoba, and Taco Del Mar https://www.nrn.com/people/quiznos-parent-taps-qdoba-veteran-chief-brand-officer - Maybe Under Armour too https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-constantino-3aa29854 - Focus Brand group umbrella: Auntie Anne’s, Cinnabon, Jamba, Moe’s Southwest Grill, McAlister’s Deli, and Schlotzsky’s Added a BCG guy to their board of directors https://www.focusbrands.com/focus-brands-announces-new-addition-to-board-of-directors/ Maybe they have a thing for chipotles competitors… - Noodles and company another Ape , /u/frickdom/ made this list...yes, it has duplicates to this list, but I want to preserve the list they made... GameStop, Bed Bath and Beyond, Sears, Tacobell, Rite Aid, Boeing, Circuit City, Radio Shack, Lehman Brothers, Spectrum, Kroger’s, Ascena, Ann Taylor, Neiman Marcus, JC Pennys, ADT ,KB Toys, Toys R Us, eToys, USPS, K-mart, Ames, AFM, KLM Air France, Enron, Blockbuster, MF Global ,24hour fitness, Red lobster, Tim Hortons, Barnes and noble, Lululemon, UPS, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Moderna(?), Amazon, Walmart, McDonald’s, Disney. /u/Aenrichus/ said Kodak, Chrysler, and General Motors They had a hand in ruining Kodak despite them inventing the first digital camera. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unsuccessful-crisis-leadership-tragic-downfall-kodak-eric-flamholtz https://adamhartung.com/tag/kodak/page/4/ https://europe.autonews.com/article/20090414/ANE/304149975/treasury-pays-firm-7-million-to-assist-on-gm-chrysler-plans /u/bmhart17/ said LabCorp https://imgur.com/a/4qd97nB /u/AutoThorne/ said BCG attacking Canada https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ottawa-working-with-us-consulting-firm-to-draw-early-plan-for/ /u/Yattiel/ added this https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u12ibn/the_canadian_government_has_hired_bcg_wtf/ /u/DMDTT/ said Fidelity Vice President and Head of HR previously worked at Boston Consulting a group https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u165gh/fidelity_vice_president_and_head_of_hr_previously/?sort=top /u/Kaiser1a2b/ sad NBN Co https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u15h3q/aussies_ever_wonder_why_nbn_is_so_shit/ /u/Weedbro/ said KLM Air France https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u00viu/another_big_company_ruined_because_of_bcg_klm_air/ /u/dweir82/ said Wollworths https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u1821g/bcg_partner_amitabh_mall_joins_woolworths_in/ /u/bakedbeansandwhich/ said Telefonica https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u16ns2/bcg_connection_with_telefonica_a_company_with/ =========u/WHITE--PANTHER96 said BCG has some sister companies in France. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u15vfu/bcg_has_some_sister_companies_in_france/ ======u/HeRdERay said US Covid related contracts awarded to BCG https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u16rb5/us_covid_related_contracts_awarded_to_bcg/?sort=top====== u/Longjumping_College said This guy is connected to State Street, a European investment firm with half a trillion in assets, the Mercatus Center AND BCG https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u17pb6/this_guy_is_connected_to_state_street_a_european/ u/Longjumping_College BCG influencing Saudi Arabia https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u17f96/im_sure_this_is_fine/ =========u/Maleficent-Rub-4805 found a link between BCG consulting and Npower UK https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u15frp/ive_found_a_link_between_bcg_consulting_and/ =========u/Super_Share_8721 found NY Gov Cuomo hired BCG https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u1aowb/its_a_bold_strategy_cotton_lets_see_if_it_pays/ u/Upstairs_Sense2437 found BCG firms in Romaniahttps://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u15mn0/bcg_firm_in_romania_shady_af_headquarters/ =========u/lxUPDOGxl found BCG is attacking AUstralia https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u11q33/bcg_also_fucking_australia/ u/Independent-Ad4660 found Department of Veteran Affairs https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u16jd0/if_you_know_anything_about_the_department_of/?sort=top u/Longjumping_College found BCG, Microsoft, the NYSE and Starbucks (lol) partnered to make a crypto exchange/wallet in 2018. They are financially connected to each other. Citadel, point 72 and Apollo all have ownership of the company.https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u0z1iy/bcg_microsoft_the_nyse_and_starbucks_lol/ u/itsabittricky found BCG attacked Sri Lanka https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u0xoug/anybody_watching_the_news_of_sri_lankas_crumbling/ that's all for now, as of 3:21pm EST on April 11, 2022 /u/packof18/ found World Wildlife Fund for Nature WWF https://wwf.panda.org/act/partner_with_wwf/corporate_partnerships/who_we_work_with/boston_consulting_group/ and https://www.case48.com/bcg-case/17907-World-Wildlife-Fund-for-Nature-WWF /u/Successful-Visit-833/ found Lego https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/people-organization-jorgen-vig-knudstorp-lego-growth-culture-not-kid-stuff Gmatoshenriques said Ralph lauren https://www.retaildive.com/news/ralph-lauren-unloads-club-monaco-to-private-equity/600122/ Former BCG consultant: https://careers.bcg.com/blogarticle/fashion-industry-consulting /u/augh17/ said Activision/Blizzardhttps://imgur.com/a/IYx6pRxhttps://www.case48.com/bcg-matrix/5569-Activision-Blizzard-Inc And it seems BCG is currently attacking Burger King and Subway... If you have anymore names, please share. -------------- Corporal_Retard said Revlon https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/vaej63/boston_consulting_group_bcg_hired_by_revlon_plans/ ------------------- Duluh_Iahs said FedEx https://www.case48.com/bcg-matrix/12665-FedEx ---------------- wboard said Carvana https://www.case48.com/bcg-matrix/4917-Carvana-Co ---------------- CopperSavant said Harley Davidson... Black and Decker https://explorer.loopring.io/nft/0xfa76205369a116f3a8df967f148ae55948c5eab7-0-0x70870abdc3566f2d7d5b5836121a9c9a22af7232-0x0c0ced630d2db9a7ed114c3e9981a849684d82101dfac59108b03902f38a59dc-10 ---------------- TimelessBaller said In the middle east too https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ue65fd/a_friend_told_me_lebanon_has_been_going_through_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf ---------------- Freadom6 said Pizza Hut https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/u0whz1/moar_bcg_connections_former_bcg_project_leader/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share ---------------- n8bman said behind the scandal at Swedens hospital - New Karolinska https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/tmrw9p/boston_consulting_group_were_the_people_behind/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf ---------------- 1970Westyvibes said T-Mobile https://www.case48.com/bcg-matrix/6190-T-Mobile-US-Inc ---------------- JMRregister said BCG leveraging a coordinated sales website to obtain internal business data and strategies of United Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/20/business/airlines-site-is-under-inquiry.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB947725431349966671 ---------------- ​ This is not financial advice. I buy, I hold, I like to move it move it. submitted by /u/the-doctor-is-real to r/Superstonk [link] [comments]

Morning y’all, hope the portfolios have been keeping green. This DD follows a similar layout to the one I’d previously posted so feel free to jump to whichever section interests you the most. As always, play safe if you do and never risk more than you’re willing to lose – this is a clown market after all. Nothing in this post should be considered financial advice so please don’t treat it as such – do your own due diligence, read the news to understand the macroeconomic environment and the Company’s position in the industry, study their financials as well as reading what others are saying/reviewing to help you make an informed decision before making any investment if you choose to do so. Part 1 – Background Part 2 – Company Overview and Value Proposition Part 3 – Recent Updates Part 4 – Financials and Valuation Part 5 – Bear Case Part 6 – Short Interest Part 7 – TL; DR Part 1 - Background The total global plant based retail market size is expected to reach $162 billion in 2030, increasing by more than 500% from $29 billion in 2020 link. Key drivers that result in folks pursuing a plant-based diet are typically health, animal welfare and the environment link. In a world where worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975, 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and most of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight, link – conditions that often occur together and are among the leading global causes of poor health and death link, it’s not too surprising that people are turning towards plant-based foods-– which are a large part of a vegan diet – particularly fruit, vegetables, nuts, pulses and seeds, as they have been shown to help in the treatment of many chronic diseases and are often associated with lower levels of type 2 diabetes, less hypertension, lower cholesterol levels and reduced cancer rates link. From an animal welfare perspective – it turns out that an estimated 99% of US farmed animals are living in factory farms at present. By species, it’s estimated that 70.4% of cows, 98.3% of pigs, 99.8% of turkeys, 98.2% of chickens raised for eggs, and over 99.9% of chickens raised for meat are living in factory farms link, less than ideal conditions within these farms where ‘animals are packed in as tightly as possible to maximize output and profit, even though this causes many to die from disease or infection before being sent to the slaughterhouse’ link has also contributed to an increase in the awareness of and consumption of plant-based foods on ethical grounds. The third driver’s been getting the most airtime recently since it seems the planet’s actually pretty fucked, with a new report by the UN Environment Programme that came out yesterday finding ‘new and updated Nationally Determined Contributions only take 7.5% off predicted 2030 emissions, while 55% is needed to meet the 1.5°C Paris goal’ link a.k.a a bunch of countries do not want to make the necessary concessions to preserve the planet in its current state. These ‘Latest climate promises for 2030 put the world on track for a temperature rise this century of at least 2.7°C’ link, with the planet still on track for catastrophic heating link. Why is any of this important/relevant in this context? It turns out that ‘the animal agriculture sector is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions,’ link highlights include 9% of annual human-induced CO2 emissions,3 37% of methane (CH4) emissions, which has more than 20 times the global warming potential of CO2, And 65% of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, which has almost 300 times CO2’s global warming potential link. Not that it’ll happen anytime soon but it turns out that cutting meat and dairy products from diets could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent. If everyone stopped eating these foods, researchers at the University of Oxford found that global farmland use could be reduced by 75 per cent, an area equivalent to the size of the US, China, Australia and the EU combined – leading to a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions link. One survey found that ~23% of people were interested in cutting down meat consumption for the sake of the environment, showing an additional market for producers of plant-based food link. Part 2 - Company Overview and Value Proposition Let’s take a look at what Tattooed Chef’s all about and what sets it apart in the marketplace. In the company’s own words - Tattooed Chef is a leading plant-based food company offering a broad portfolio of innovative plant-based food products that taste great and are sustainably sourced. Tattooed Chef’s signature products include ready-to-cook bowls, zucchini spirals, riced cauliflower, acai and smoothie bowls, and cauliflower pizza crusts, which are available in the frozen food sections of leading national retail food stores across the United States. Understanding consumer lifestyle and food trends, and a commitment to innovation, allows Tattooed Chef to continuously introduce new products. Tattooed Chef provides great-tasting, approachable, and innovative products not only to the growing group of consumers who seek to adopt a plant-based lifestyle, but to any of the “People Who Give a Crop” link. The Company’s current market opportunity is worth $42 billion and consists of a number of frozen food categories including frozen appetizers & snacks, frozen breakfast foods, frozen entrees, frozen fruits & vegetables, and frozen plant based meat alternatives link. It’s worth noting that frozen plant-based meat alternatives in which some of its most comparable comps are, is only worth $0.8 billion, in comparison to the other massive segments such as frozen entrees at $23.1 billion and frozen fruits and vegetables at $7.6 billion. The growth in the frozen food category (a key areas where TTCF competes) has been primarily driven by the recent product innovation as a response to the growing demand for great tasting, clean label and convenient options. The overall frozen food category outpaced the general center of store food categories. Millennials and Gen Z are driving growth in the frozen foods section due to convenience, frozen fresh and plant based foods, with the number of consumers who say convenience had a significant impact on their food purchase decision growing from 49% in 2017 to 57% in 2019 link. The Company’s product portfolio consists of entrees, breakfast, vegetables, pizza, meat alternatives, and with yesterday’s acquisition news – they’ll also be entering into nutrition bars. The growth in their portfolio and product range has been pretty explosive, especially in the last year where they went from 38 total products and 17 total new innovations in 2020 to 73 total products and 35 total new innovations in 2021 (thus far) link. A key strength of Tattooed Chef and its USP is its vertically integrated operations that enable it to create a strategic advantage, through vertical integration they have control of ingredients and prioritization of product, the ability to go from innovation to market in as little as 3 months with experience in manufacturing, distribution, supply chain. As of their past IR deck presentation they highlighted four manufacturing facilities and capacity available to achieve $500+ million in revenue. This will be increasing to five with Belmont’s acquisition and likely higher revenue potential. In September 2021, key highlights included 52% year on year growth in revenue from $67.9 million in the first half of 2020 to $103.4 million in the first half of 2021, 82% year on year growth in the established brand from $38.0 million in the first half of 2020 to $69.1 million in the first half of 2021 with no investment in marketing and brand until 2021, strong resources with ~$140 million cash balance, 275k square feet of manufacturing capacity to quadruple in 2021 and opportunity for strategic M&A (closed 2 key acquisitions in 2021), and growth in sales and marketing including launching the first national media campaign, tripling of branded store count and creation of 35 new product in 2021 link. Despite the initial lack of marketing – testimonials such as President and CEO Salvatore Galletti stating that ‘Target said it was the most successful frozen food launch in the history of Target’ during the Q1 2021 earnings call show how popular the products are – even with minimal marketing. The expansion in national distribution has been remarkable, with growth from 1,614 stores in 2019 to 4,272 in 2020 i.e., ~165% increase. The goal in 2021 was to reach 10,000 total stores, with 8,355 already achieved in the 1H of 2021 – by the 3Q 2021 it’s expected that national distribution will have expanded to over 12,000 stores which would be a ~180% increase with the year not even being over. This was facilitated in part by the number of major retail customers that Tattooed Chef was able to onboard – in 2020 key customers included Walmart, Sam’s Club, Costco, Target, Trader Joe’s, and Aldi. In 2021 this list expanded with 20 additional key customers highlighted, including Kroger, Whole Foods, Albertsons Safeway, Harris Teeter, and Publix. In a study of mass retailers, 3 of the top 10 items including the #1 and #2 since launch in March 2021 of plant based frozen entrees belonged to Tattooed Chef, with dollar velocity over 60% above the nearest top 10 competitor link. Marketing and branding only really became a component of Tattooed Chef’s outreach in 2021, which makes their success thus far even more impressive in my opinion. The goal is to reach 80% of all Plant Based Intenders (78 million customers) through the national media campaign. I would really recommend taking a look at the IR presentation which has been linked here in several other places to understand more about how Tattooed Chef describes the plant-based intender and the wide cross section of society from which they come – urban dwellers, parents, under 35 year olds, people who want to eat less meat, aspiring & practicing vegetarians/vegans, pescatarians & flexitarians – there’s something for everybody in Tattooed Chef’s product portfolio and they’ve segmented their target audience pretty well. The campaign is running through 10,000+ TV spots plus targeted digital video and streaming – one every 15 minutes, and 24 top tier networks plus Hulu and Programmatic Connected TV/Streaming. As of August 3, 2021, brand awareness grew from 6% to 15% link. The Company has stable leadership and has been family run, while also adding experienced folks from the industry to the management team. This includes Sam Galletti – the CEO and President with 35 years of experience in the food industry having served in both operational and investor roles within seafood, breaded vegetables, salsas and dips, grilled chicken, and organic foods companies. Sarah Galletti – the Tattooed Chef & Chief Creative Officer who was the creator of the “Tattooed Chef,” joined the Company in 2014 and spearheaded shift to plant based and has experience as a former chef in Italy. Stephanie Dieckmann – Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer who joined Tattooed Chef in 2017 and has over 12 years of experience in the food industry, also being the former CFO of APPA Fine Foods. Matt Williams – Chief Growth Officer who joined Tattooed Chef July 2020, has over 25 years’ experience in CPG including roles at Dean Foods, Coca Cola and PepsiCo link. Part 3 – Recent Updates Yesterday on 10/27, Tattooed Chef entered into an agreement to acquire Belmont Confections, a private label co-manufacturer of nutrition bars, for approximately $18 million in cash and stock. The transaction has been unanimously approved by Tattooed Chef’s Board of Directors and the acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021. The transaction allows Tattooed Chef to further diversify its product offerings and enter into the $10 billion global plant-based bar category. At full capacity, Tattooed Chef believes the Belmont facility can contribute over $100 million annually in revenue in the next two to three years link, for a reference point – TTCF currently expects 2021 revenue to be $235 million to $242 million so having just under half of that come from Belmont alone in a couple of years in a new market segment is a pretty big deal. Earlier this month on 10/4, Tattooed Chef announced six of its entrée bowls are available in approximately 1,200 Publix Super Markets (“Publix”) stores as of October 1, 2021. Sam Galletti, President and CEO of Tattooed Chef, added that with the addition of Publix, Tattooed Chef products are now in more than 13,000 stores nationwide including Kroger, multiple divisions of Albertsons, Sprouts Farmers Market, Target, Walmart, Costco, and Sam’s Club [link]( link. On August 10th, Tattooed Chef announced it has launched four entrée bowls including two new flavors at Sprouts Farmers Market in approximately 340 stores link. In July, Tattooed Chef announced that it expects to launch its branded products across multiple categories in approximately 1,800 Kroger stores nationwide later this summer. By September, shoppers can find a variety of Tattooed Chef’s plant-based offerings including pizzas, entrée bowls, and vegetables in nearly every Kroger. A total of 12 SKU’s will be rolled out nationally link. On May 18th, Tattooed Chef completed the acquisition of New Mexico Food Distributors, Inc. and Karsten Tortilla Factory, LLC (collectively referred to as “Foods of New Mexico”) for approximately $37.0 million in cash link. The acquisition of Foods of New Mexico allows Tattooed Chef to expand further into the $20 billion Hispanic/Southwest Food sector and beyond, including frozen, refrigerated, and ambient products. Utilizing these new capabilities, the Company expects to launch Tattooed Chef branded products in additional categories. Foods of New Mexico’s two facilities total 118,000 square feet and provides Tattooed Chef additional capacity to continue to innovate link and is expected to contribute $200m to annual revenues in the next two to three years link. So in the span of 5 months, some of the highlights of Tattooed Chef include completing an acquisition that doubled the number of manufacturing spaces it had (from just Italy and California to adding Foods of New Mexico, Albuquerque and Foods of New Mexico, Karsten), agreeing on another acquisition that will enable it to enter a new market segment and have another production facility (both of these acquisitions are expected to contribute a combined $300m to revenues in two-three years – more than the expected full year revenue of the Company this year), launching into two major nationwide chains and continuing to innovate and launch new products – whatever knock anyone may have on them you can’t deny that they’re moving pretty quickly to lock in sources of major revenue growth. Part 4 – Financials and Valuation Revenue – Revenue for the first half of 2021 was $103.4 million, an increase of 52.2% from $67.9 million in the first half of 2021. The increase in revenue was primarily due to growth in sales of “Tattooed Chef” branded products. link. For the full 2021-year, Tattooed Chef expects revenue in the range of $235 million to $242 million, an increase of 58% to 63% compared to 2020. This guidance implies 49% year-over-year growth on the base business to $222 million, and a $13 million to $20 million contribution from one of the two facilities included in the Foods of New Mexico acquisition link. Tattooed Chef is expecting to reach revenue of $1 billion in 2026, so increasing by 5x over the next five years link, with the expected contributions from two key acquisitions this year – they could reach that number even earlier than 2026. The Company expects Foods of New Mexico to contribute up to $200 million annually in revenue in the next two to three years link, and the Belmont Confections facility to contribute over $100 million annually in revenue in the next two to three years link. If we do some pretty rough (by pretty rough literally don’t take this as any kind of in-depth analysis – just guesstimating) back of the envelope math and assume conservatively that both acquisitions begin contributing these numbers in 2024, and assume $240 million for the Company in revenue for this year with a slightly lower year on year growth rate of 50% just to make it easier for numbers’ sake, that would mean $360 million in 2022 (excluding acquisitions), $540 million in 2023 (excluding acquisitions), and $810 million in 2024 (excluding acquisitions). Add in the expected $300m the that Foods of New Mexico and Belmont would be expected to contribute by then and you blow past the $1 billion number a couple of years early (this is assuming of course that operational capacity can sustain these numbers – the Company currently is quadrupling capacity in 2021) link. Gross Profit – Gross Profit was $13.9 million in the first half of 2021, compared to $13.0 million in 2020 – while this was an increase in absolute terms, the Gross Profit Margin declined from 19.1% in 2020 to 13.4% in 2021 thus far. This was primarily due to expenditure on infrastructure to support current and expected growth in operations and increased raw materials, packaging, freight and container costs due to inflation link. The Company has forecasted improving gross profit margins for the full year 2021 in the range of 16% to 22% link, due to leverage of fixed costs on higher volume, benefit of new equipment to enhance operating efficiencies, and the product and channel mix link. Adjusted EBITDA – Adjusted EBITDA was ($9.2) million in the first half of 2021, as compared to $9.0 million in the first half of 2020. This was primarily due to public company accounting costs that were not present during the 2020 period, as well as significant increases in promotional expenses, marketing expenses, professional services, and freight and container costs link, this is forecasted to be ($14) to ($17) million for the full year 2021 so still decreasing in subsequent quarters, but at a lower rate, as the Company is committed to an aggressive plan of growing its brand through extensive marketing and promotional spending that has already produced significant revenue growth in both grocery and mass retail link. Market cap of TTCF link is $1.5 billion, in comparison to ‘competitors’ such as Beyond Meat who have a market cap of ~$6 billion link. Quotation’s emphasis because TTCF is competing in a broader range of segments so they’re not exactly direct comps but one of the closer ones we’d be able to look at here. Beyond has cash on hand of $1 billion compared to the $140 million that Tattooed Chef had in the last quarter, and also has ~2.5x the revenue with $257.59 million compared to $103.4m for Tattooed Chef, however the revenue growth was only 22.4% for Beyond so ~2.5x less than the 52.2% for Tattooed Chef, with Beyond incurring significant losses as well so as a growth story I would really think that TTCF is valued at magnitudes less than it should be. The analyst consensus for TTCF is a buy with an average price target of $23.50 so a 32.17% upside from current prices link, compared to BYND which has a consensus hold and an average price target of $112.24 so a 18.93% upside from current prices link, with a P/S of 10.22 for TTCF link compared to 13.25 for BYNDlink, it would also seem like the more attractive investment with higher upside. Part 5 – Bear Case Well the most obvious risk would be that the Company’s not profitable - as a growth story, it has a higher focus on revenue growth than profitability and my interpretation is that achieving higher revenue is the primary concern over the next couple of years, meaning that there is going to be cash burn in the short-term and I wouldn’t expect them to become profitable till probably around mid-2023. The one-off valuation allowance on deferred tax assets of $47.22 million skewed numbers a bit for this year, but if they were to continue making similar amounts of losses (excluding the one-off) so in effect ~$15 million in the first half of 2021 and doubling that to ~30 million for the full year, they would probably have enough cash to last 3 years – this is of course a very, very crude estimation as losses would not stay the same in absolute terms, the Company has estimated it’s gross profit margin would improve and they could become profitable within a couple of years as well and keep themselves in the running for longer. From what I understand, the Company is also authorized to issue 1,000,000,000 shares of common stock and currently have 81,938,668 shares issued and outstanding, meaning if it seemed like there was going to be a cash crunch, they already have the authorization for a potential dilution which would be a point of concern for any equity holder. I doubt they would need to call on this at least for a year or two and potentially not at all if they turn profitable soon but you can never be certain so worth keeping in mind link. Another risk would be the promotional/marketing/professional service expenses which seem to have the biggest percentage increases since 2020, as the company continues to build brand awareness and expand its distribution points and stores, marketing expenses especially would be likely to continue to rise. The Company has said that ‘We expect overall operating expenses to decrease over time as a percentage of revenue as many relatively fixed operating expenses will be spread over increasing revenue, but expect freight and container costs to remain high (relative to historical) as a percentage of revenue for the foreseeable future,’ link. The latter sentence about freight and container costs is concerning to me because in my opinion that’s one of the types of costs that a Company doesn’t have too much choice over e.g. if someone is selling you raw material and it becomes too expensive it’s within your control (hopefully if the product isn’t too niche) to switch to another supplier, but here with shipping costs companies are less likely to have that sort of leverage and would probably end up just having to absorb the cost, especially in this case where Tattooed Chef has a production facility in Italy – not something that I would expect to remain constantly high in the long-run but with current supply chain constraints it’s worth keeping an eye on. Finally, this is more of a mixed bag of bull and bear, as we’ve seen earlier – the current opportunity market for Tattooed Chef’s diverse range of products is massive and while having a wide variety of products is great as a buffer in the event one particular segment faces issues e.g. as we’re seeing now with Beyond link, there is a risk that increasing competition in this market – especially by firms leveraging economies of scale by operating in just one particular segment, could pressurize margins (although since Tattooed Chef is vertically integrated, it should be more resilient in this regard than competitors that aren’t). Part 6 – Short Interest High short interest pumps are now everywhere – like cheese in a mousetrap with half-baked numbers that just act as clickbait or a cause for people to fomo in. Nevertheless, being aware of short interest as a concept and having the numbers is a useful data point to have – though I would urge anyone reading this not to just look at SI numbers when making an ‘investing’ decision. Broken clocks are right twice a day and there are undoubtedly companies for which there is a good justification for folks to be doubling down on shorting them. Let’s take a look at TTCF’s short interest numbers using the SMELL test. Short Interest – 15.5 million shares out of 82 million total shares outstanding. With insiders holding almost half the shares, that leads to short interest of 37.43% of free float link, Additionally, with utilization of 98.56%, there’s very little left for shorts to borrow to depress the price further link. Market Cap – $1.5 Billion so at the lower range of a midcap stock, would require a few hundred million for shorts to cover if they were the only ones trading on a given day so would require a good amount of capital to exit or to add further to their short position if they decide to double down. Insiders hold 45.03% of shares outstanding, while institutions hold 16.87% of shares outstanding (30.7% of the free float) link. Extremely Memeable – Can’t think of too many better causes to get behind than saving the planet by eating your vegetables – if only you’d listen to ma when you were a kid and ate some broccoli instead of meatloaf we wouldn’t be in this mess. Low Liquidity – Average volume per yahoo finance is around 1.5m shares, with current volume around 20% lower than that so submitted by

Extreme Frugal Tips. Warning this is a REALLY long post Dog Tax: https://imgur.com/gallery/V06K53e Excel finance tracking: https://imgur.com/gallery/bKBkQFf ​ Here we go…I’m posting on my frugal living with REAL examples from my life. Single female aged 48 living in the mid-west. I started my adult life with a high school education and low paying jobs until I hit 30. Today my net worth is more than a million and I love my life…I want for nothing and I’m very content. Read on if you dare…some of this stuff may scare you… Career I didn’t start college till I was 26, prior to that I was in low paying dead-end jobs and as a result I started my adult life being a penny-pincher. I got a BS and 2 MS degrees in the STEM field at state schools while working full time jobs (close to minimum wage till I graduated with my BS). I applied for academic scholarships (and got some) and I took out the minimal I could in student loans. I paid them all back within 5 years. I had to relocate for my first job out of college. It was 2002 and I started out at $44,000 salaried a year (50 hours weeks, no overtime and working on 2 Masters degrees in my free time) So…I started my professional career at age 30, climbed the corporate ladder, relocated several times and went into management. I worked long hours, on-call 24/7, lots of stress and kept increasing my salary for 16 years. I started to contribute to my retirement when I turned 30. As soon as I could (I think around 36 after I paid of my student loan debts) I maxed out my 401K and ROTH every year. At my highest salary, at age 46, I was making $140,000 year (remember – I started at age 30 at $44,000 and increased to $140,000 by the time I was 46). I ALWAYS continued to live frugally and saved. I own my house outright and have no debt and plenty in savings. I don’t have a pension. My retirement is all in a 401K and IRAs, traditional and ROTH Once I was financially established I took a 60% lower paying job at a University. I’m 48 and because I live frugally I could probably retire (FIRE) but I like to have something to do. I also enjoy the social aspect of work and a feeling of purpose. I have no stress, great benefits, loads of time off and have never worked more than 40 hours a week in this job and no weekends, holiday…etc. I set my own hours and have no direct reports. I’m currently working 6:30am – 2:30 pm in the winter so I can hike with my dog after work before it gets dark. It was a very good move for me. I’ll probably work here into my mid 60’s just because it’s so cushy Health I exercise. I walk about 7 miles a day I eat pretty healthy, don’t smoke, don’t drink pop and I don’t drink alcohol (anymore…). Sometimes I miss a good craft beer but it’s better for my stomach and sleep without it I have medical, dental, vision through work. My plans cost me $56 a month I have the high deductible plan and max out my HSA but I only end up using a few hundred a year. Whatever is in my HSA when I retire will help cover retirement medical expenses. My deductible is $2,000. I use the in-network specialists when I need too I work at a university so I use the health center for non-specialist stuff which is $25 co-pay. I get a preventive visit free every year – general physical and well woman/mammogram I pay for prescriptions with my health plan or GoodRX. GoodRX is sometimes cheaper. Also some meds are cheaper if you get a 3 month supply by mail (but not all). Some OTC meds such as generic Claritin for allergies and Generic Prilosec for acid reflux are $0 or cheap if you get a prescription I get 2 dental cleanings and 1 vision exam free every year. I get 1-pair of bifocals free If I need reading glasses they are $1 at Dollar Tree I buy generic ibuprofen / first aid stuff in bulk. I keep it to the basics I never pass on free stuff. My dental plan pays for 2 free cleanings/exam a year, so I ALWAYS get my 2 free cleanings a year. My health plan pays for one free physical a year, so I ALWAYS get my one free physical a year...ALWAYS!!! Food I spend less than $100 a month on food and beverages. I don’t buy any processed food. I cook from scratch in bulk and I freeze. I enjoy cooking. I use lots of veggies in my evening meal. A typical day of food might include: a. 2 large cups of coffee will milk and stevia b. Oatmeal with chia, flax, almond flour, blueberries and a banana OR eggs on homemade toast OR homemade pancakes OR homemade breakfast burritos OR....??? I make my own bread. Yeast, flour, water, salt, stevia and a bread machine I got at Goodwill for $5 c. Fruit or veg snack (seasonal) d. Beans and rice with seasonings (work lunch) e. Fruit or veg snack (seasonal) f. Dinner – might be spaghetti, chilli, chicken noodle soup, lasagna, grilled chicken with veggies, curry. Each meal works out to under $1.50. I don’t use much meat in my recipes but I do use a ton of veg g. Homemade yogurt h. I drink lots of black tea or herbal tea throughout the day. I drink tap water i. I get my fix of sweet stuff at work. Someone’s always bringing in home baked goods 2) I shop at Aldi and Walmart, mostly Aldi 3) I buy all my condiments in bulk: spices, chicken stock, oil, stevia (also concentrated), almond flour, chia, flax, rice, pasta…etc. I get some of this on Amazon because it works out cheaper. I make my own yougurt. 1 gallon yogurt = the price of a gallon of milk. It's easy to do. 4) I love this one…I save my teabags. After I’ve used 2 teabags I make another cup of tea from them. I like herbal tea. The cheapest I can find is Celestial Seasonings on Amazon. By stretching the box of 20 teabags to 30 large cups of tea I save $35 year (assuming I drink 3 cups of tea a day). Over 40 years at 7% interest that’s $1500 saved. It’s not an issue for me and the flavor is the same 5) I only eat out a couple of times a year for social reasons and I don’t buy an appetizer or dessert and I only drink water. I tip 20% if service is good. I refuse to go to expensive restaurants. I want an entrée under $15. Honestly, I like my cooking better 6) I don’t drink pop or alcohol 7) I own a chest freezer and loads of plastic food containers. Most of the meals I cook are freezable and microwavable 8) I buy the large tub of coffee from Aldi. It’s like $4.50 and lasts 3 weeks. Tastes fine to me but then I would never drop $5 + tip on a cup of coffee 9) I only buy meat, fruit and veg when it’s under $1 pound. I make an exception for ground beef and blueberries, raspberries…etc. (they have to be under $1 for 6oz). I don't use much meat. Example: I use 1lb ground beef to make 12 frozen spaghetti dinners BUT I use lots of peppers, onions, mushrooms in-place of the beef.Example. When 8oz packages of baby bella mushrooms go on sale, I buy 12 of them. I wash, chop and cook them and then freeze them in 4 separate containers. Each container will be used in a big batch of spaghetti or Lasagna or mushroom soup., when blueberries go on sale for 0.89 cents for 6oz I buy twelve packages and freeze. 1 package is used to make 10 oatmeal breakfasts 10) I never buy name brand and I always search for reduced fruit/veg, meat…etc. 11) I do check the local flyers for sales. only shop once a week and I combine trips to save gas. House I brought the cheapest house in a really good neighborhood in a mid-west University town. I’m in the third highest rated school district in the USA for STEM (per 2019 Newsweek article). I have a 1950’s 1500sqft, 3 bed, 2 bath ranch with 2-car attached garage, separate laundry room, living and family room, large screened in-porch. I paid $135,000 for it and my taxes are $1500 a year. It’s bigger than I wanted but it’s what I had to do to get into my neighborhood. Houses like mine sell in a day with multiple offers over asking. I had to put some work into the house and spend some $$$. I fixed it up so it’s now one of the nicest houses in the neighborhood and worth 35% more than I paid for it. I did some work myself such as painting and laying the laminate floor. I will stay here until I retire and then decide where I want to spend my retirement years. Central Florida is dirt cheap with no state taxes + low housing costs but I am not sure I can handle the heat and humidity. I have a high deductible on my home insurance but I max out my liability coverage. I have a high net worth so if someone tries to sue me I want to make sure I’m covered and I don’t have to pay out of my pocket. I have extras like sewer/water line coverage, sewer/water back-up because the lines in my neighborhood are old and you see people’s yards dug up all the time. I pay my policy in full and it works out to $75 a month In the winter, I keep my heat at 55 when I’m not home or in bed and 60 when I’m home. I wear wool thermal leggings and tops under my clothes all winter long at home. They are soft and comfy. I wear slippers. When I’m lazing on the couch I snuggle under an electric blanket and with the dog. I have a down comforter on the bed. The dog loves the cold. In the summer I wear shorts and a tank top and I keep the AC around 76 as the dog gets too hot I change my furnace filters every 2 months with the cheap ones I keep my water heating on a warm setting. When I run the shower I turn the hot all the way and it’s plenty hot enough for me Household maintenance/repairs I cut my own grass, do my own yard work and clean my own house I do what repairs I can myself. I U-tube it. I buy stuff from Menards and get the 11% rebate. I’m not very handy or physically strong so I only tackle simple things I don’t do a furnace/AC service every year. I lived in my last house 9 years and my furnace/AC were 20 years old when I sold it. I never did a service (other than change filters) and I never had a problem If I have to hire a big job (i.e. roof, furnace, crawlspace) I always get 3 quotes and try to negotiate the price after I’ve received the quote in writing. Then I ask for a cash discount. If I have to replace something I try to go with a quality no-name brand. I do my research I use LED lightbulbs and I turn my lights off when I’m not using a room I unplug appliances if I don’t use them at least every other day. Exception is for larger items like stove, fridge, washer, dyer, freezer Car I enjoy a nice, safe car. I drive a 2008, 12-year old limited edition Subaru outback. I brought it when it was 1-year old with 30,000 miles for cash on E-bay. I paid $20,000 for it. It has 126,000 miles. I will drive it till it dies I only have liability insurance but I max out my coverage. I have a high net worth so if I’m at fault in an accident I want to make sure I’m covered and I don’t have to pay out of my pocket. I also have roadside assistance with my insurance company for towing, flat tire change...etc. I pay in full every 6 months and also have my home-owners insurance policy with them. My car insurance works out to $40 a month I get an oil change, tire rotation and fluid top-off every 5,000 miles with a coupon for $19.99. It’s a local place and they are really good about telling me if they see any issues. I replace my own air filters, head lamp bulbs...etc. I take it to a reputable import mechanic when I need too. Much less $ than the dealer I combine errands one day a week to save miles. I live 3.8 miles from work and I do drive an average of 2-4 miles to hike with the dog. I average 6,000 miles a year I keep my car clean. I wash, wax it...etc. myself at home with a garden hose. I don’t use high dollar cleaning products. I use dish soap to wash it and I do a hand wax on it once a year Internet/TV/Cell I have the most basic package Internet available. It’s still expensive at $60 a month and it drives me crazy I have to pay that. I don’t have Cable. I have an antenna for local stations I have Amazon prime (see my post on shopping). I also switch between Netflix, Hulu, Acorn…etc. about every 3 months so I don’t get bored. I stream TV, Movies, Music from my library for free via the Hoopla App. It's 100% FREE!!! Get a library card! I own my smartphone outright and will use it till it dies. I use Mint Mobile ($17 month with tax). 2g data is enough for me as home and work have WIFI Kitchen & Cleaning I do my dishes by hand once a day. I do not fill the sink full with water and I don’t leave my water running when I’m scrubbing. Airdry. Yes, I have a dishwasher, it came with the house, but I just don’t use it. Besides those dishwasher packets are pricey! I use Ajax dish soap that I dilute 1:1 with water and use a pump dispenser. I buy the large bottles at Menards and get the 11% rebate I buy my scrub sponges in a pack from the Dollar Tree. I throw them in the washing machine with my clothes when they get grungy. I have one scrub brush I’ve had for years I wash and reuse my Ziploc baggies over and over. I don’t buy name brand – I get from Dollar tree. Same with tin foil I have loads of microwave/freezer safe plastic food containers. I’ve had them years. I freeze so much food I have a chest freezer I recycle everything I can to reduce the use of trash bags. In-fact I have a tight closing trash can so I only need to start a new trash bag once every 2 weeks as it doesn’t stink up the house. I buy the tough no-name drawstrings ones in bulk. The flimsy ones break or leak and create a mess Don’t use paper towels ever. Use washable cloths, tea towels...etc Don’t buy all the latest gadgets and if you must have something check out your local charity shops, Facebook Marketplace & buy/sell groups or Craigslist I typically stick with 2 cleaning supplies, I could make my own I guess. I use $1 glass cleaner and $1 generic orange cleaner. I wash my floors with diluted dish soap. I have a broom, dustpan/ brush, a Shark vacuum with canister with washable filters (that I brought refurbished for about $80 and I’ve had years), a mop with washable cover. I also use recycled toothbrushes, scrubbie pads and cloths. I don’t use disposable cleaning supplies like disposable wipes, those throw away dusting pads, floor cleaning pads…etc. Everything I use is reusable and washable Laundry Only wash your clothes if they are dirty! I do 1 load of laundry a week for clothes and a couple of loads of laundry a month for my sheets and towels. I rotate my pillows between laundry loads. I shower every day so sheets stay clean and don’t get stinky. Speaking of sheets, I buy high quality 500 thread count cotton sheets - they are so soft and comfy and last for years. A couple of times a year I might wash my blankets, comforter…etc. I wear my dress jeans all week for work and I rarely wash my nice tops/sweaters as I wear a t-shirt under them. I wear my dog walking clothes and wool thermals all week. Wool doesn’t get stinky and dog walking jeans get muddy the first walk so might as well wear them all week. I always wash in luke warm water Airdry clothes or put a large dry towel in the dryer. If I use the dryer I’m typically dry in 20 mins on medium. I’m not frugal here and do use the dryer more often than not. I hate hanging clothes and ironing them I don’t have many white or light colored clothes. They stain too easily. I look better in dark jewel colors anyway I use Purex laundry detergent. I use the 300oz bottle with 200 loads and I really do use the amount they recommend for 1 load so it lasts me a few years. I get it for $8.99 at Menards with an additional 11% rebate. I tried homemade but this is better (for me) If you have to use dryer sheets, cut them into quarters. Personally, I’m fine with nothing in the dryer If you have to use a stain remover add 1 scoop of Dollar Tree Awesome Orange Oxygen cleaner to the washing machine or make a paste and rub into stain (compare to OxyClean) Clothing If I need clothes, which is rarely, I buy everything except underwear and socks from the charity shops. Usually Goodwill on the first Saturday of the month when everything is ½ off Speaking of underwear and socks, I buy dark colored because they don’t look grungy. I have 7 pairs of knickers, 3 bras, 14 pairs of socks as my feet get wet sometimes hiking. That’s it. I rarely have to replace them and yes I do change them every day! I think my current stash of knickers, bras and socks have lasted me over 5 years. I got everything from Kohls when they have a big sale, 30% coupon and $15 cash back if you spend $50. I buy for comfort and durability, not fashion. I have wool socks I buy some shoes new, such as hiking shoes. However I do check the charity shops, Poshmark…etc. for lightly used I have a very minimal wardrobe and shoes. I buy classic clothing and not the latest fad I have a few pieces of jewelry. Sterling silver and amber necklace, earrings ring and also mother of pearl. I have another set that’s real gold with fake diamonds(you can’t tell they are fake). have a few accessories such as scarfs and decorative hair clips Personal care I shower once a day for 5 mins which is comfortable for me and allows a good wash. I turn my shower water off when I shave. I use one high quality soft, thick cotton dark colored towel for everything and wash my towel every couple of weeks with my sheets and linens. I’m clean after a shower and its just water! I’ve had the towel for about 5 years. I do wash my washcloth every week with my clothes I have an electric toothbrush that I’ve had for years. I replace the head every couple of months with a generic one I get of Amazon in a multi-pack. I floss. I have sensitive teeth so I buy a multi-pack of sensitive toothpaste from Amazon. It works out cheaper than Walmart’s house brand. I could get a sensitive toothpaste from Dollar Tree but I don’t trust anything from China to go in or on mine or my dog’s body. I go to the Dentist twice a year for cleaning. This is covered through my work health insurance. I brush my teeth for 2 mins and I don't let the water run when I do this. I don;t rinse my mouth on the advice of my dentist - let the sensitive toothpaste sink in I have very few products. Suave shampoo and conditioner that I transfer into a pump bottle and I use one pump of each every time I shower. I use diluted Dawn dish soap in a pump dispenser to wash my face and body with a washcloth and yes, I love it. I don’t lather up my entire body every time, just my private and sweaty areas. I use a men’s razor from Dollar Tree to shave. I use Suave deodorant. I use a cheap oil free moisturizer on my face. It’s around $5 and it lasts months. I rarely wear make-up and if I do its big box store, basic and the same items (same eyeshadow, blush, lip colors). I haven’t brought any make-up in years. I have one bottle of nice perfume that lasts years. If I curl my hair, put my make-up on and dress up in my charity shop clothes I look like a million bucks for pennies on the dollar! I keep my hair one length with bangs and I don’t color it. I have medium brown hair. I cut my own bangs every couple of months and I get my haircut for $10 once a year at the beauty school or if I can get a $7.99 coupon for Great Clips. I blow dry and curl the bangs and let the rest of it dry naturally. I only use a $2 bottle of hairspray to hold it or I tie it back. I’m often asked about my hair as it’s cute on me and looks shiny and healthy, albeit I’m starting to get some gray I use q-tips but I don’t use tissues, cotton pads, face wipes...etc. A reusable, washable hanky works just fine for a snotty nose. I have eye brow scissors, tweezers, a metal nail file and hair dresser scissors. I’ve had them for years. I use a washcloth on my face I tweeze my own eyebrows and I shave above my lip once a week. I have a $5 magnifying mirror I got from Walmart that helps. Yep, it works fine. Been doing it for over 20 years. Don’t believe the baloney that the hair grows back thicker, longer. I am sans a mustache at all times! I don't get my nails done or paint them. I don't do fake nails, lashes, hair...etc. The only beauty service I pay for is my one haircut a year. I buy toilet paper in bulk. I buy 30 rolls of 425-2 ply sheets from Aldi for $15.99. I always fold my toilet paper. I use 2 sheets folded to ¼ size for #1 and usually need to do this twice for #2. I find the 2-ply a better value than the 1-ply as the 1-ply is so thin that you actually need more I don’t flush my loo every time I pee, especially not during the night. If it’s yellow let is mello – with the lid down of course. My bathroom does not get smelly. Where I live, those water and sewer bills can add up. If you only save $10 a month, over 40 years at 7% interest rate that’s $5,000. Probably too extreme for some of you but in addition to being frugal, I hate to be wasteful! I use a period cup and reusable washable pads. I’ve had mine for years Shopping I don’t buy stuff. At this point in my life, I’m a minimalist I buy used whenever I can. I haggle the price down whenever I can. I use charity shops, Facebook Marketplace and buy/sell groups, Craigslist I sell stuff I don’t use Amazon. I use my Prime membership ALOT. I borrow free books, I watch free movies/TV, I listen to free music on my Echo dot I got on special for $8.99. I do buy some stuff on Amazon but usually from Warehouse Deals. I also use Prime Pantry sometimes to buy food and toiletries but only if it works out cheaper than the store. Recently I got an order of 15 items through Prime Pantry. With Prime Pantry if spend $35 you get free shipping. If you order 15 or more items you get a 15% discount. If you use your Prime credit card you get a further 5% back. I was able to get Celestial Seasonings Tea for $1.93 box of 20 tea bags and 2-pack Suave 2.6oz deodorant for $1.93 (after the discounts) Hobbies I walk the dog twice a day, EVERY day, regardless of snow, rain, extreme heat, extreme cold. It keeps me and him healthy. I do 2 miles around the neighborhood in the morning before work and usually 5 miles after work along trails. He’s usually off-leash. Good hiking shoes/boots and gas are the expense here but I have a variety of trails within a 4 mile radius of my house. On weekends we branch out further to mix it up. I mostly wear my hiking shoes and I can make them last a couple of years (shoe goo is my friend). I use my hiking boots/snow boots for wet, muddy, snowy conditions and they have lasted me many years so far. My dog-walking jeans get worn out between my thighs so I patch them (2 large iron-on denim patches at Walmart for $1. After I iron them on, I also sew the patches around the edges so they don't come off). Dog-walking coats, gloves, hats, vests…etc. never seem to wear out. If I do have to buy dog walking gear I buy quality (I’m currently using Oboz hiking shoes) I read for free. I get books from the library and Amazon Prime. I have an i-pad with the kindle app so I download them. The i-pad is old but it works. I will replace it when it eventually dies I belong to groups on the Internet (like this one…) – hence I use my i-pad, I don’t have a computer, printer, scanner…etc. at home. I use the ones at work I watch TV and movies. I rotate one streaming service every few months. I never pay more than $10 month for these services and I also have my annual Prime membership which is about $11 month. I also stream TV, Movies, Music from my library for free via the Hoopla App I do jigsaw puzzles. I NEVER buy new. I buy them used then sell or trade them. I always come out ahead and make money on them. I used to scoff at people who did jigsaw puzzles but let me tell you, they are very enjoyable! Apparently they make me smarter too… I cook (see food) I go to free events in my community. Art in the park, various concerts, free outdoor activities days…etc. I live in a large multi-cultural University town. There is LOADS of free stuff to do... I have a group of dog walking friends. We meet several times a week (we also trade help with dog walking and pet sitting if we travel) I do try to get back to the UK once a year to see family but I always find a good deal on my flight. A friend watches the dog. I’m not a fan of travelling anymore, in-fact I hate travelling. I would rather have a “staycation” The dog. He’s awesome Yes it’s $. Yes it’s worth it. He’s therapy for my soul He’s a lab mix, AKA mutt. His adoption fee was high ($350) but it went to a good cause. Generally mutts have less health issues I buy high quality food in bulk. It’s rated 5 stars on DogFood Advisor which is the highest rating available and it’s not grain fee (don’t buy into the hype…). I get Victor Hi-Pro Plus 50lb bags. It’s $60. He’s a 3 year old 80-lb extremely active male lab. He gets 3 cups a day as this is extremely nutrient dense food without fillers. It lasts me nearly 2 months. $30 month for food I buy 20-lb dog biscuits for $14 at Menards plus 11% rebate. I break them in half. A bag lasts me about 3 months. It’s his daily junk food treat I buy a 10-lb bag all natural beef bones from a local farm. $5. He usually gets them on weekends and a bag lasts about a month I rotate and repair his soft toys when they get holes in them. He’s had them a few years. I got most of them for 0.50 cents at Goodwill. He inherited his nylabones, tennis balls, leash and collar, food bowl...etc. from my previous dog and they are probably 10 years old. I do buy poop bags but they are $1 for 80 bags from the Dollar Tree. I do not do things like dress my dog up or send him to the groomer or do doggie daycare (I exercise him and he has doggie friends we walk with a few times a week) I spend $300 year for his annual vet visit. This includes an exam, shots, Bordetella and a year of flea/tick and heartworm meds. I buy the heartworm meds with the 4-way de-wormer and Braveco which is a pill every 3 months for fleas and ticks. These are the most expensive but as we hike in the woods daily and he likes to catch small worm/flea ridden furry animals its money well spent. We could go to a low cost shot clinic and save some $ but I like to have a relationship with his vet as it comes in handy I trade pet-sitting service with friends who have dogs I wash my dog at home in the backyard with Dawn dish soap (its fine – I use it on me too). He doesn’t need haircuts or nail trims (we walk 2 miles on concrete every morning). If he needed haircuts or nail trims I would do it myself Other tips. I use cash back credit cards for as much as I can and pay them off every month I always send in my mail in rebates I track every penny I spend in an Excel spreadsheet. I know exactly where my money goes and how much my expenses change over the years I know where to buy the items I use for the best price I don’t pay for a financial advisor. I do my own investing in low cost Vanguard index funds that's my frugal life...My full, happy, content frugal life and hopefully there are some useful tips in here you can use. Anyone got more frugal tips they can share? submitted by /u/dlm5774 to r/Frugal [link] [comments]

So, I'm not a regular Reddit user. I recently found RSlash on YouTube and heard many stories of revenge, prorevenge, etc. I'm a very forgiving person, often taken advantage of, but I let it slide. I have one exception: Don't mess with my kids. TLDR at the end. Quick backstory: My oldest is on the autism spectrum. When we first moved here -- six years ago -- he saw two girls playing next door with some rocks. He knew he wasn't allowed to leave the yard, so he ran around our property, finding the prettiest rocks he could, and threw them at the girls, who ran crying to their mom. I spoke to their mom, who seemed cool, and we resolved the issue peacefully. I thought. Shortly after we moved here, I noticed the neighbor's dog would get out and roam the neighborhood. She was very skittish, so I could never catch her. We live on a busy road, so I was worried, and occasionally called animal control to see if they could help her before she got hit. One day, my neighbor's other dog was in our yard. When the kids and I stepped out of the house to go to the car, it snarled and growled. I called the police (it was a Sunday; animal control was closed) and they took care of it. The next day, neighbor storms over to me, screaming at me for costing her a lot of money. She blamed me, my husband, her landlord for not fixing her fence, and insisted she had very powerful friends who would crush me if I didn't leave her alone. She screamed over her loss of thousands of dollars, claiming I cost her daughter her senior pictures. "You should be more forgiving," she said. "Since I should have reported your retarded kid." Don't. Mess. With. My. Kids. Another quick note: It turns out she would let the dogs out when they were in heat, and only let them back when they were pregnant. They would sell the puppies and repeat. Animal control did what they could, but they couldn't do much. Since watching RSlash, I became quite aware of malicious compliance. I read our city's codes and ordinances until I knew them front to back, and I reported her for everything. Cans on the street at 6:01pm and they're required to be in by 6:00pm? Reported. I can hear you from my property? Reported. Grass too high? Reported. I have a massive spreadsheet of times, dates, and violations. Meanwhile, she still let her dogs out. They dug up the neighborhood, pooped everywhere, and got into our trash. Since the one dog was vicious, I couldn't let my kids go outside without me. We felt like prisoners in our own home. The dogs would be outside in all kinds of weather -- ice storms, 100+ degree heat, no water, no food, no shelter. Animal Control and I became best friends. They desperately wanted the dogs removed. It reached a point where they drove by her house on the way to and from work. They rescued dozens of puppies, sometimes finding them wandering the road. Where I live, there is a limit to how many times you can report someone within a timeframe, and if I walked in to report and they knew I couldn't, they would give a shake of their head and I would instead announce I wanted to look at adopting an animal (I've taken in a fabulous sweetie of a cat and a poor abused doggo, but that's not important to the story) My neighbor was furious. Any day I reported them, I would wake up the next day to find something on my property wrong -- car broken into, faucet in the backyard turned on high, the gas in my grill left on, all kinds of stuff. I've tried everything, even getting PETA involved (before I knew they were likely to put the dogs down). Eventually, the vicious dog was hit by a car. They immediately got a new dog. I reported them for not licensing it. When I spoke to other neighbors, I let them know what was going on and encouraged them to report them as well. I'm very active in my community, and I've gotten to first-name basis with many, like the mayor, police chief, etc. There was a sort of academy to get to know your city, and I took it, so I met a lot of people and have been volunteering, so they view me in a good light. Well, it's been a couple years, and my work is finally paying off. I got a call from a lawyer, representing the county. She was bringing everything to the court and wanted me to testify. When she found out I had a spreadsheet, pictures, and videos of everything, she nearly squealed with delight. My neighbor is currently being charged with: reckless endangerment, being a public nuisance, animal cruelty, child endangerment, disturbing the peace, and I can't remember what else. The lawyer informed me that they were requesting the following: 1) They not be allowed to own any animals, ever 2) The current animals be removed at once. 3) Due to the large number of complaints from the neighborhood, and due to the varying types of complaints, they are to be deemed a public nuisance and be removed from the county, never allowed to return. 4) Damages be paid to the neighborhood, since we all lost many a flower garden to the dogs, plus all the time we had to spend cleaning the trash and poop up. 5) Jail time. Now, I confess, I didn't know it was possible to be banned from a city, never mind an entire county. It wasn't my intent; I just wanted those dogs rescued. They didn't deserve to be treated like that. Bonus: A few nights ago I was legit concerned when I heard screaming and crashing from their house. I called the police. Evidently, they got the news about going to court and why, and it started an argument between husband and wife that evolved into a screaming/throwing things event, shattering their front window in the process. They only arrested the husband, who screamed the entire time that he was going to divorce her, and she would take the fall for the puppy mill by herself. I haven't seen him since, but a lawyer showed up at my door on accident looking for her. I looked her name up; she's a divorce lawyer. TLDR; call my kid a retard while you abuse animals? I'll have you removed from the city and ruin your marriage. Update: Wow, I did not expect this response! A lot of people have made the same comments, so I'll fix a couple things: First, I'm going through chemo right now, so my brain is wonky and I typed something confusing to a lot of people. I started reporting her years ago more seriously after her comment about my son, but it wasn't until RSlash that I found there were so many ways to do it, and there can be heavy penalties for it. I had originally only intended to report for a little while, but after seeing her dog during an ice storm, huddled in the cold, I knew I couldn't stop. I had to do something, anything, to help those dogs, so I did the only thing I knew how: I kept reporting, escalating the variety when I learned I could. Secondly, I don't have an issue with RSlash making money off of my story. I look at it as when a singer does a cover song; he's giving his interpretation of it. It's also great for a couple friends I have who are dyslexic. RSlash is a YouTuber who reads Reddit stories out loud. I appreciate being in the video, but no, I didn't lie just to get on there. I get nothing out of this; I don't have a YouTube channel, and I've only posted to Reddit twice. I just hope this story helps someone help animals. Third, No, I didn't fully go nuclear just because she used "retard." Lots of people use it. (I'm a gamer. I hear it a LOT) It was the way she said it, meant to hurt him, and if you've ever looked a kid in the eyes when he asks what that word means, you'll know the pain it brought us. The crying, his wondering why he's different and not like other kids, and if others would always hate him just because he's different. My neighbor's kids walking by the house, throwing that word and others at us. He went into therapy and has been much better! It still hurts when someone calls him that, but he can handle it now. (he's also turned into a freaking awesome person, but that's another story.) Fourth, I can update after court, but I'm told I won't know the results. I can probably guess if she never has dogs again or puts the house up for sale. Or if she comes screaming at me again. Fifth, I can't upload any pictures because I don't know how. XD Her dogs were a pit mix, something black and fluffy (the one that got hit), and a dog that looks like the Target mascot. My dog is (we're guessing) a Belgian Malinios. We have to guess; he was rescued by police. We think he was used as a bait dog for dog fights. He had no concept of a car ride with the window down, a bone, or even a ball. (Crud, I'm tearing up again!) He was malnourished and had heart worms. We've had him for a few months, and he's much better now! He loves snuggles, doesn't flinch when we reach for him, and he will chase a ball, even if he just stands next to it when he finds it. We named him Drax the Destroyer of Cats. My cat was rescued from the side of the road as a kitten, too young to be away from her mother, but no one found her mother, and no one came to claim her. She is my best friend! She greets me every time I come home, and is always snuggling near me. When I'm sick from the chemo, she leans against me and purrs. Her name is Molly Quinn McGonnagal, only spelled correctly. She seems to be a type of calico. When I first brought Drax home, he tried to get her, either to eat her or play with her, thus his name. Sixth: There is one way on my property: the driveway. I'm surrounded by trees. I could not get past the snarling dog to try to get my neighbor's attention, and I didn't have her phone number. I could not keep a gun in the house with an autistic child, who is somehow a master at all things electronic or locked. We've been through a lot, stuff that isn't relevant to the story, but we moved here to get a fresh start. I've worked hard to ensure my kids look at their home as a safe haven, a place where they can always come when stressed. It shouldn't be a source of stress. I did not install a security system because when we moved here, it was to start over. We were broke, literally nothing in the bank. We moved here with some clothes and a car. We've been rebuilding and have a really nice life, but money is still tight, so I couldn't afford the security system. Seventh: We never saw or heard any signs of physical abuse, but judging from the way the first dog was scared and the vicious one was... well, vicious, I suspected. During one report, animal control couldn't catch the vicious one because it was.... well, vicious. (I need a new word... danged chemo brain!) They told me to just try to avoid it, as they couldn't come to collect it if I called, as it was a danger to them as well. I didn't make any false reports that they were abusing them. I felt that would be counterproductive; if they weren't, it would've been a lie, and it could've gotten all of my other reports thrown out. Eighth: Yes, someone suggested I poison our trash, so the dogs would eat it if they got into it. I couldn't do it. it's not the dogs' fault. It seemed a cruel thing to do. On the one hand, it would have put them out of their misery, but I don't feel like I should make that call. Also, when the vicious one was hit by a car, they immediately replaced her. I assume if I had poisoned them, she would just have gotten new ones. It would not have done anything. Ninth: No, I don't feel I went overboard. If I were reported even once, I would fix the issue. They refused to be good neighbors, and they repeatedly neglected those dogs. Other than leaving water out and not chasing them off my property if they were drinking from the sprinkler, I didn't know what else I could do. People with autism tend to be sensitive, especially to animals. I have two on the spectrum, and they had to see these dogs mistreated for SIX YEARS. They had to hear the car's tires screaming as the driver slammed the brakes, trying not to hit the dog. Until she was hit, they couldn't play outside without me. Additionally, my husband has cerebral palsy, so he couldn't (and shouldn't) try to handle the trash and/or poop their dogs made. I had to handle it, and going through chemo opens you up to a lot of dangerous things. I also should not have handled the trash or poop. I did try to ask her to come clean up after her dogs, but she laughed at me and said I couldn't prove it was her dogs. She still doesn't know all the evidence I have against her. No lie, I'm looking forward to showing up at court with my other neighbors (remember, I'm not the only one who reported) and seeing the look on her face. Lastly, the husband came to get his stuff yesterday. They didn't say a word to each other. He loaded his boxes into his car and just drove off. He always seemed nice, other than the dog thing. I wonder if she did it when he was at work or something. The two dogs were taken away pending court, so a big win right there! Animal Control says one dog is terrified and snarls at everyone, inhaling her food the moment they put it in bowl, all common in abused animals. The other dog started off crying a lot, but when she realized she wasn't being hurt, she has started warming up. She's a real sweetheart! She's not allowed to be put up for adoption yet, but she's being used in our library's Read to Puppies program. I've seen some pictures posted of kids hugging her as they read, and she has a doggy grin. I would do it all again. submitted by /u/Midorrian to r/NuclearRevenge [link] [comments]

My meal planning and grocery shopping habits are something I really pride myself on. Over the last 3 years, I've worked really hard to maximize efficiency in this area, therefore saving me a lot of time and money. I thought I would share my process and tips to help anyone out who might be struggling in this area. Please feel free to share any additional tricks you have! Get started. Take a look at your bank account history and add up all the money you spend on food each month. Factor in your grocery expenses, fast food, coffee, snacks from the gas station, etc. Find the average and use that as a point of comparison for how much you spend while meal planning. This part isn't mandatory but I find it really neat to compare. Commit to 1 month of meal planning. Your comparison results will be skewed if you go off track. Meal planning First you need to think about how all the parts of you life, habits, and preferences should factor into your plan. How many people do you need to feed? How many nights do you want to cook? How long will you realistically eat leftovers for? Do you have an obligation one evening that could affect your plan? It's really important to think about all of these things and seriously consider your family's habits. For example, I won't eat leftovers twice. If I plan for that, I always end up going off track because 3 day old food is just not appealing to me. Also, I don't feel like cooking a big meal every night, so I build in an "easy" meal that I can make with my toddler that doesn't take a lot of time (think Grilled cheese and tomato soup). I also enjoy spending Sundays preparing a big meal, so I know that will influence which recipes I choose for the week. Choose your recipes. It's important to read the instructions and ingredients before adding them to your list. There is nothing more frustrating than getting home ready to make your meal, and realizing it should have been marinated overnight. Also, if you see an ingredient you are not familiar with, check google for substitutes. That way if you get to the store and they don't carry it, you already have an alternative in mind. This happens often with health foods which might only be carried at specialty stores. If you're trying to save money, consider which ingredients (such as meat) will be more costly. Bonus: If you can find recipes that use the same ingredients, this will save you money. Figure out which recipes will be made which night. I personally plan my healthier meals at the beginning of the week because I'm more motivated. By Friday, I might want some comfort food to take a load off the stress of the week. There is some flexibility to switch around meals by night, but I like to space out my meals so that I'm not eating similar things two nights in a row. If you plan to eat out, be honest with yourself and add it in your plan/budget. Don't plan 7 nights of cooking if you can't stick to it. If you plan a meal and eat out instead, you're wasting money and food. I personally plan 4 nights of real meals, 1 easy night, 1 "fend for yourself night" and 1 night of eating out. Plan your lunch. Some people meal-prep lunches at night, but I find that takes way too long. I also don't want to meal prep 5 lunches on Sunday that I am sick of by Wednesday. I always make enough dinner to have left overs for both my husband and I for lunch and plan one free day to buy lunch. I would recommend this to anyone on a budget. Plan your breakfast. The costs of coffee and breakfast sandwiches really add up. A quick, healthy breakfast is not hard to plan. I normally do oatmeal, fruit, eggs or english muffins. I pick one of those things and eat them all week. I will switch it up the following week. Each of these are good for a "grab n go" breakfast. Make your grocery list Throughout the week, keep a sticky note on your fridge. Every time you run out of something, write it on the list. Make a list of all the ingredients from each recipe. Take inventory. Anything on your list that's already in your pantry you can cross off. If you notice your low on a staple, add it to your list. Don't forget to consider non-food essentials (toilet paper, cleaning supplies, toiletries, etc) Add all items from your collected list from the past week. Share your list with family/roommates. They can tell if you if there is something you are forgetting or if they have a request. Now re-organize your list by department. This is important. It will help you move through the grocery store more efficiently without having to go back for something you missed. I separate mine by: Dry, Frozen, non-food, dairy, bakery, meat, and produce. Get to the store Don't forget to grab your coupons! At the store, stay focused! If it's not on your list, don't buy it. Period. Impulse shopping is no good. Start with the inner isles. Canned goods, non-food, etc. those are heavier and nothing is worse than having cans on top of tomatoes. Finish up with bakery, meat and produce. If you are planning healthy meals, this should be the bulk of your cart. Produce is cheap relatively cheap and if you fill your cart with it, you will save money! Double check that you've crossed everything off your list before you leave! TIP: Don't forget to buy on sale, but only if it's a smart move. DON'T "buy one get one half off" on perishable items that you won't eat within the week. DO take up good deals on your essentials (rice, frozen vegetables, oils, condiments). Make sure to compare sales. Sometimes the store brand price is already lower than the name brand sale. There you have it! That's really my entire meal planning and shopping process. From there, all you have to do is start cooking. It takes practice to get it down, but when you've got it figured out, it starts to get easy. Here are some additional tips I would recommend: Type your meal plan with links to recipes and save them. When you don't feel like meal planning, you can resort to the archives. If you don't have a food processor, get one! It's cheap and saves you so much prep time. Crock pot meals are amazing for those nights you want to get home and just relax. Only problem is you have to prepare them the night before or in the morning. Sign up for emails from sites like MyFitnessPal or Cooking Light. It's a great place for inspiration. Plan to have a night that you don't need a recipe for. Grilled chicken and frozen broccoli requires like... zero brainwork. After a long day, that's important. Remember that cooking is an art! Once you have enough experience in the kitchen, you don't need to spend as much time finding recipes. I'm at the point where I use recipes for inspiration, but I change them depending on my preferences. Remember to bring your lunch! What's the point in all this if you end up buying lunch everyday anyway?! Seriously, set an alarm on your phone if you have to. But DONT FORGET YOUR LUNCH. Plan desserts. I have a weakness for cookies. I actually might be addicted. If I plan in a night of cookie baking, it helps me from running to McDonald's at 9pm. Remember to stay stocked on your pantry staples. This list can help you determine what those are Edit: sorry guys I really dont know how to format so I've had to mess around with this a lot! EDIT 2: I've gotten some requests to share a sample meal plan. Here is an example. It's not fancy at all! This is from a couple months ago, so I've made some changes to my eating habbits since then! Not drastically different than what I outlined in my post. submitted by /u/atworknotworking89 to r/LifeProTips [link] [comments]

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