What are y’all buying from Sephora?? submitted by /u/Sclifford36

LPT If you’re buying something expensive online, start the checkout process and close the window. If you make an account where they have your email, chances are they will email you with a special discount to come back and complete your purchase. submitted by /u/Ok_Peanut5762

Buying extra life insurance for myself, and making my best friend with a disabled husband, the beneficiary My best friend’s husband had a devastating stroke. She was already home on disability. Money is tight for them to say the least. It is open enrollment at my job. I already have enough life insurance and disability insurance, etc. for me and my family. But I can add on an extra life insurance policy for $40 a month that would pay her, as my benef…

LPT – buying a used car I have been buying new cars for the last few years but the dealerships I visited suggested considering a used car option due to budget. The options I saw are either an Elantra, MAZDA3, Sentra or a Civic. All three cars are 2022 with about 20k miles. They are all priced about the same ~ $21k. All three dealerships said that I would get a warran…

LPT: When buying event tickets on Reddit, don’t include the word “ticket” (+ more safety tips) I buy tickets on here all the time with zero issues, but I ALWAYS see people getting scammed, and it breaks my heart, so I thought I’d put a PSA out. If you post in any music artist sub looking for tickets to a show, you’ll get 10+ DMs from scammers within a few minutes. They’re clearly just searching for new posts with the word “ticket” and rea…

BP Will Spend $100 Million Buying Tesla Superchargers BP has ordered $100 million worth of Tesla Superchargers, Reuters reports. This reportedly comes as part of BP’s electric charging division’s plan to invest $1 billion in chargers across the U.S. by the end of the decade. It also gives Tesla a new way to make money. Read more…

Advice on buying new lems I have Sony a6700 and bought kit lens 18-135 with it. Now I am looking for a new lens mainly for portrait, family and street photography. A lot of people are suggesting 24-70 f2.8 lens. I am thinking of sigma 56 f1.4. My thought process behind that is, I already have a 18-135 which I can use in good daylight situations. I don’t need another vari…

Sanity check: Someone please talk me out of buying this house. I currently work in IT making $140k (pre-tax) in Virginia, and my wife is a nurse making $80k. After years of stalking listings in our area we came across our dream home with a considerable amount more space than our current one for $750,000. We currently have a $250k mortgage at 3.5% on our current house (original value 320k, current value 500k…

Bake a Taller Cake Without Buying a Deeper Pan There are times when I’ve needed two identical cake pans, and only had one shallow pan to work with, and there have been times when I just needed a deeper pan, for something big, like a Basque cheesecake. Instead of making one cake layer at a time, or sacrificing a deep dish apple crisp for multiple shallow ones, just… Read more…

Cash for buying a home I have cash in Cds, treasuries that I plan to use to purchase a personal residence. It may or may not involve a small loan also depending on what I end up buying. With that being said, I seem to remember the cash has to have been sitting in an account for a certain number of days before it can used? Does anyone have any information on that and d…

The Case for Buying ‘Dumb’ Appliances Technology is supposedly getting smarter all the time. The sudden rush of AI services and products like ChatGPT has reinvigorated the conversation around the capabilities of sophisticated, connected algorithms that can automate our lives, but it’s just the latest in a trend that started years ago with “smart”… Read more…

having issues buying stuff with my german creditcard hello, basically for our upcoming travels this December, I’m trying to get a couple of things beforehand. a.) tickets for two parties in Medellin and Cali. Since it’s a pretty well known dutch techno label/collective hosting those parties, I want to get presale tickets. b.) domestic flight tickets (Bogota-> Medellin and Medellin –> St. Marta) i…

Is Home Buying an Insane Choice? Disclaimer – I know I’m extremely fortunate. My wife and I paid off her medical school debt when we sold our townhome in 2021 and were able to still sock away 150K toward a down payment. Because she was in residency and we didn’t know where we’d end up, we decided to rent. It’s now 2023 and we’re paying 2100/month in rent in a great neighborhoo…

Camera buying advice Hello all, I want to buy a camera to bring on my travels. My preferable budget for a body + lens is a max of around +/- 1100 euro’s. In the beginning I will use the camera mostly to shoot video’s and pics on my travels. 4k60 video is definitely something I’m searching for. After that I will invest more time in photography to use it for other thi…

Absolutely screwed myself buying a house and need advice on next steps So my wife and I bought a mobile home in 2019 due to being unable to afford rent anywhere and had a monthly payment of $800. In the end of 2022 we decided to buy a house, we both had good raises and thought we could afford it at $1600 a month. We put our mobile home on the market and had a buyer, and the day after we signed papers on the new hou…

Buying E-commerce Business I’m interested in other people’s experiences. A few years ago I bought an e-commerce business. It’s gone OK, covers all costs, has grown, but doesn’t yet make enough profit to pay a significant wage. With this one I can see multiple ways it could scale, but without going in full time (which is just a non starter) there isn’t the time to do it. …

How does buying a house work Im very young and i wonder how people buy houses that are obviously wayyy over their yearly salary which is on average 30-70k. And then buying stuff for the house and having rent and other bills it is confusing most of the houses i look up on sale are like 200k-400k. Im clueless i know but i want an explanation to it all submitted by /u/O…

Here’s The Worst Car Buying Advice You’ve Received Car buying can be a harrowing experience and can, more often than not, totally suck. From psychological tactics like the dreaded four-square to down right intimidation from greedy managers, it can all be a lot. Worse yet is if you go into negotiations with bad advice. It can be anything from financial advice down to… Read more…

LPT: Buying Christmas gifts from Amazon When buying Christmas gifts from Amazon, make sure you check the box to deliver in an Amazon package at checkout. A lot of items you get from Amazon sellers come in packaging where the item is shown to anyone that even glances at them. It’s fairly often that they take the box, as if picking from the shelf, and slap a sticker on it with your name…

First time buying car, wondering if a loan makes sense TLDR: Suddenly need a car now. Considering taking 72 month loan at 11% for peace of mind given that I’ve been unemployed and only just got a new job that I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep. Fully aware that I’ll end up paying more in the long run, so my plan would be to pay it down quicker assuming I keep my job. I’ve owned a car before but pa…