LPT – If you can smell it, you should probably check on it. I said this about my car the other day when I smelled some oil burning. Then I realized it fits with damned near everything in life. From cooking to your breath to the baby’s diaper to car issues, fireplaces, body odor, the inside of your fridge, your kitchen drains… All of it. If you catch a whiff of it, stop and have a look, you just might c…

How to check/decide whether I need to continue running my ecommerce site or shutdown it? A few months back I started an e-commerce site for selling my ebooks, software, and chatGPT/Gemini course. I put significant effort into promoting them. But I am not seeing any sales. Even tried offering a 75% affiliate commission. I tried offering a 100% discount code without success. I would like to know whether I need to continue my efforts t…

Check out the incredible looking HONŌ Studio Wolverine, in Sideshow’s latest unboxing What seems to be a phenomenal (comics based) Wolverine is coming up from HONŌ Studio, and Sideshow’s got an in-depth look. Snikt There’s been a heck of a lot of Wolverine stuff hanging around as of late. That makes sense of course, since the superhero celebrated his 50th anniversary this year, and he’s also about … The post Check out the incredi…

Japan itinerary check please? It’s my first time visiting, I’ll be arriving on September 15th and plan to stay for 15-18 days, since I’m a Chef I’d like to experience a lot of culinary attractions, I’m also avid for nature and hiking. I’m traveling by myself as well and I’m planning on staying in budget hotels or hostels. Day 1-3: Tokyo Day 1: Arrive in Tokyo, settle into…

Australia trip – sanity check Planning a trip to Australia this December and would love a sanity check if this itinerary seems feasible / any suggestions you have in terms of time spent in each location! Still needs work to flesh out (things like dinners, etc.) but here’s a starting point. We’re big on active / excursions-based vacations instead of relax-on-the-beach-for-a-…

How do people manage hotel check in times? First time planning a holiday for my family, I want to know how people mange hotel check in times? For example, I’m looking at British Airways package holidays and the flight arrives at 3AM, the hotel reservation is for the same day but their check in time is 3PM. Does that mean if I book that package that we have to wait till 3PM to get our roo…

Mother got check from grandmother’s nursing facility after passing but bank wouldn’t cash it. It is made out to the estate of my grandmother C/O my mother and is from the nursing facility. The state this is taking place in is Virginia if that matters. My grandmother had no estate, no property, no will or anything of the sort so she didn’t have any executor of estate or anything of the sort. When we took it to the bank to cash it they tol…

University wants back $ from a check they issued to over 3 years ago. In April 2021 the university I attended issued me a check for about $1700. I didn’t think much about it, I thought it was refunds for excess scholarship, relief, and grants. Like each semester I receive a check a few months after the start date for refunds. In addition I thought a part of it was also for our parking pass refund which was never r…

Can I get a financial health check, what more can I be doing? I am 25 and make a bit over 60k a year. With some overtime I was able to make just under 70k last year and am hoping for the same this year. I take home 3600 after taxes and retirement. I am saving 600 a month on average. I have 8k in my savings account (hysa). 5k in my emergency fund, and 3k in my checking. I have a new car with 350 monthly pay…

school gave me a check My school personally handed me a check because i supposedly “overpaid”. i didn’t believe it at first, not because i didn’t think i paid enough. i didn’t think i overpaid because i paid exactly what they asked for every month. i kept asking and they told me it’s fine, you did overpay. so they gave me 211 back, which is my monthly payment. i depos…

Getting a settlement check and don’t want to blow the money Hi All I am getting a settlement check of about 64k and I want to make sure I do right with this amount of money as it will be life changing for me personally. I am a single parent of one. Credit card debt of about 3300. A car loan I pay monthly 720 and still owe 28k. Student loan debt of 28k. Borrowed 7k from my 401k and pay it back biweekly. C…

Traveling Portugal? Check out Monchique! I’m traveling Portugal at the moment with a friend and wanted to recommend an AMAZING village in the mountains for a day trip: Monchique. Monchique is extremely accessible if you’re in the Algarve region (20min Uber or 50 min bus ride from Portimão), as well as quite close to Faro, Lagos, etc. it’s also a nice way to take a break from the beach…

Just got the largest check of my life and I don’t know what to do with it I’m 24 and have been working at my job for a little over a year. I just hit the vesting date for my stock allocations, so I just got a check for $19.5k after tax. I am fully funding my 401k, have an emergency fund of ~$25k and putting like $2k into long term savings per month. I owe $12k on my car, but the interest rate is pretty close to what I…

LPT before you unpack in your hotel room, check your room’s: water pressure, water temperature, facilities, and HVAC. If there’s a major problem with one of them, it’s easier to move to a new room while you’re still packed. I travel a lot for work and have been pretty lucky over the years. But in the last few trips I’ve taken I’ve had no hot water and facilities that would not work. Both of them required me to swap rooms as they couldn’t be fixed there and then, and luckily, I had unpacked so it took me a couple minutes to move versus having to pack up and move ev…

LPT ceiling fans can be reversed to heat or cool, so check your fans! Friends of ours we unaware this is a thing — so I thought I’d spread it around for folks who run heat in the winter and a/c in the summer. Ceiling fans run clockwise or counter clockwise based on an internal mechanism. The switch is usually on the side of the body of the fan somewhere. In winter, you want to blow hot air down to warm the room, …

LPT – When an entity owes you money, put the due date on your calendar to directly check that you got it. Even with supposedly reliable payers like your bank, your credit card, your buddy, an airline, or your employer. Yeah it seems obvious, but most people I talk to don’t do this. And the ones who are inclined to check at all usually just intend to remember to check, which is needless brain clutter and unreliable. Or have a general “accounting day…

Japan Itinerary check Hi everyone, I’ve got just under 2 weeks in Japan in mid to late November, and was hoping to grab some feedback on this itinerary. This will be my first time here and am wondering whether you think this is a feasible itinerary and whether there is anything I could do to improve it. Thanks! This is where I am thinking for accommodation: Tokyo – S…

Lost laptop during TSA check. Advice welcome! I went through a TSA check yesterday before a flight, and my MacBook Air was missing when I went to retrieve it from a bin. There was a different unaccounted for laptop, so it may have been that someone mistakenly took it. I immediately told TSA and filed a police report. After exhausting my other options, I remembered to check Find My, but my f…

LPT Check and see if your car has locking lug nuts. Many new cars have them, you will not be able to conveniently change your tire without the key that’s supposed to accompany the car. Often the key will be missing when buying used. I had a flat this morning and couldn’t use my spare tire because I didn’t have the key used to unlock lug nut. submitted by /u/Hbtoca

Taiwan – Early Hotel Check out / Super late flight home Hello guys May I please have some recommendations on where to go or where to leave luggage until we’re ready to go to the airport We are going to stay in Ximending and on our last day we check out from the hotel at around noon but our flight is waaay later at 2:00 AM submitted by /u/Sufficient_Ad_8989