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Yep. Unfortunately I have burnt 500 bucks or less a couple times with my wife's family. A few times involved famiy vacations and the splitting of costs. One time was for some material use for some home repairs.

We got out that game when one of her sisters asked for help replacing the ac condenser unit at hour house. Asked if I could just buy it and she would pay me back over time for parts cost... After I already agreed installing it for free.

We bought her a window unit and called it her Christmas gift. Drew the line there to never lend family money or buy materials for home repairs without cash in hand first. I'll do the labor for free all day, but not 1 dollar is coming out of my account towards fixes/improvements in their homes.

Averaging 12 years in my house.

Mines('17 silverado) currently 9 years and 200k miles in. Will likely push this one a little farther as I have very few issues with it so far. Only major thing I have done is replace the ac condenser at about 100k.

8th grade, trying to keep from killing a little brother. Dreaming about what it would be like to be an adult and not have to listen to my parents stupid rules.

My dad reminds me every day that God gave me girls for a reason. It's payback for all the hell I raised.

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had mistakenly been having anal intercourse rather than vaginal to conceive.

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Well shite. You mean I could have married asian, avoided daycare costs, And had lots of anal?

They didn't teach that in school.

CM Degree, work in power generation/data center or water/waste water for those that want to enjoy their college.

Mech E or EE for those that want to grind their way thru school.

My Cm degree and subsequent work experience has put me in a better position than most people I know. School was relatively easy/low stress and the types of work you can go into is endless.

Sounds like you are at or near peak amperage allowance.

It's like a sub par breaker. If you have the same breakers in the same panel, and aren't experiencing any issues, then you probably need to swap it out.

Sounds like you have load tested it. If you don't want to pay for a new one, try swapping another arc fault breaker in the panel. If it results in the same issues, then the load is the problem.

What happens legally in this instance if the homeowner starts shooting?

No warrant, wrong house, entering unlawfully, at night.

I'm shooting. Not saying that it won't most likely end badly for me, but would I go to jail if I survive?

Man, everytime you post with pics I get pumped. That piece y'all have is absolutely wild. The back story makes it even better.

I don't remember off hand, do y'all ever take any nilgai?

Rize, you ever look for help with the javis and hogs?

I've been known to shoot the shite out of some hogs and javis.

Just don't put me in front of those exotics. I'll start shaking so bad I'll fall out the stand.

Axil gs 2.0 ear buds is what I have.

Used a set of walkers active ear muffs, but they would always bump against the gun when looked down the scope. Would break the seal and end up with my right ear ringing.

I hear better/more detail with both options than I do with standard ear plugs.

Never.

I'm young into my gun journey. Plan on buying one a year.

I have the basics, 12g, deer rifle (7mag), and carry pistol. My next 3 years will be an AR, a lever action in 45/70, and a . 22lr.

I have a bad habit of buying something for a reasonable amount of money, then obsessing too much modding it. My 7mag is in an MDT chassis, cerakoted, with a can. I obsessed over learning how to shoot to 1000 yards over the last two years. It's been fun as hell.

If walls are open and existing is copper...

Don't hesitate to install a copper to pex Tee yourself.

It sounds like you have done quite a bit of diy. Soldering copper is almost dummy proof. If you are nervous, grab a piece of 3/4 inch, flux, solder, torch and a couple fittings and practice for an hour. Remember, you apply flux and heat where you want the solder to go.

Pex is even more dummy proof. Use pex-b and crimp rings. Can buy a manual crimp tool from home Depot for ~60 dollars. Don't use the pinch rings, use the real crimp rings.

You can buy all the materials and tools for what it would cost you to bring a plumber out to install a tee and faucet connection. Everything add/rework I do in my house, I convert to pex. It's just too easy to work with and parts are too easy to get. It's also more resilient than cpvc and cheaper than copper.

Discount tire


Pay the 25$ warranty for each tire.

Mysteriously get nails in the sidewalls every 6-months/1 year. Get brand new replacement tire of equal or lesser value.

Rinse, repeat.

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so I told her to just call you, that you wouldn't charge her."

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My wife does this, but with home repair/remodel/engine stuff for her family.

She's is one of 5 girls, only one other is married. We live 5 hours away, yet she still signs my arse up to do home improvement/repair for the old maids. Nothing like having to bring tools to family Christmas, cuz you can bet your arse I'll be under a hood or on a roof the day after the family party.

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deal with this stuff a lot. MOST people would be well served with a manual transfer switch and a portable generator with a proper backfeed cord setup. That's about $3000 if you go retarded fancy with it, and is perfectly serviceable for the rare extended outage event

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This is the way. While all my neighbors were spending 15-30k on whole home backups, I spent 4k for a 50amp plug, 13kw electric start tri-fuel, some poly gas tubing, feeder wires, and a soft start.
My generator is all the way at the back of my property, so I don't have to listen to it run, all I have to do to start it is flip a breaker and hit the start button on the remote.

Some of the joneses around me had to take out loans for their setup. Wild.

I was a big Dewalt guy for a long time.

Recently switched to milwaukee at work and it is night and day.

Milwaukee has better tech, more tools available, and they usually take part in better sales.

All my work stuff is m18 and gets abused. Never had any issues, my personal tools at home are M12. The m12 tools are cheaper and will do anything an average homeowner wants to do.