HeartString
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On 8/26/2021 at 12:16 PM, theelfqueen said:
Clearly the answer is, as it ever was, hire LeVar. A generation that grew up on Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG already sees him as the smart, instructive, charming option...
Seriously! Why is this even a discussion. LeVar is the clear choice.
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I’m in the middle of moving too. Can confirm, this sucks.
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My oldest is 19, no girl friend, and he says he doesn’t plan on having kids. If he doesn’t have any kids I’ll be sad, but I’ll respect the decision. I do.secretly hope he’ll change his mind eventually though. I honestly think having no children is a perfectly valid life choice, and I’ve told him that.
He sent this video to me and his dad a couple of months andI thought it was hilarious.
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Here’s what I’m seeing on Facebook…,
Just because it's now FDA approved doesn't mean that they may not say, "oops!" later on, just like they did with these drugs that were approved and later pulled from the market! 👇👇👇
FDA-Approved Prescription Drugs Later Pulled from the Market
Below are 35 drugs that have been recalled from the U.S. market since the 1970s, some that had been in use since the 1930s:
”lists 35 meds”
report states that from January 2013 to October 2018, almost 8,000 medications were recalled by pharmaceutical companies across the United States and abroad."
Source: https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/overview-of-the-fdas-drugrecall-process
8,000 RECALLS IN LESS THAN 6 YEARS
I don't care that it's FDA approved, that literally means nothing to me. Where there is a risk, there MUST be informed consent and it MUST be a personal choice. Coercion and mandates do NOT equal personal choice. ✌️
#protectyourfamilyI don’t think this is going to change many minds. 🙃
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8 hours ago, wilrunner said:
I think it would be a risk. Many people would be helpful, but I think there would be people who would be too demanding and cause further stress on the nurses rather than relieving some of their burden. I think it could be dangerous.
You’re probably right. I just can’t imagine being like that myself, so I didn’t think about it. I always feel like nurses are busy, I can pour water and fiddle with the thermostat.
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9 hours ago, KathyBC said:
If (vaccinated) family members were once again allowed in hospitals, do you think that level of minimal care would take at least some of the pressure? I'm thinking of making sure patients get safely to and from the bathroom, things like that.
Not an expert, but I have to think that it would. During hospital stays that my family has had, I’ve done all of that kind of work. It’s easier to ask mom/wife to help to the bathroom,etc. We wouldn’t want to bother nurses with that sort of stuff.
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Do you have a Mariel’s nearby? Some of them have large laminators that you can use.
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9 minutes ago, Not_a_Number said:
I think at the point one knows family of friends, it's already pretty close, though...
True! I’m just glad that most of my close family is vaxed at this point. I’ve made my peace with the high-risk,anti-vax ones, for the most part.
For a long time I didn’t know anyone that had even had Covid, then only a few people, now it’s gotten very close with people canceling plans to get together (outside)because they had tested positive day before.
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7 hours ago, Junie said:
Do we know that this is true?
One vaccine hesitant person in my family doesn't know anyone who has had COVID. (Or at least won't admit it.)
The other vaccine hesitant people in my family who have now gotten their first shot knew more people who got really sick from the vaccine than who got really sick with COVID. It took some work to convince them to get vaccinated.
I don’t know anyone directly that has been hospitalized or died from Covid. Several second order people, family of friends, but no one that I know personally. I know of 1 person who *may* have died of a blood clot from J&J.
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4 hours ago, Scarlett said:
@HeartString What part of AR are you moving back to? We have family in Hot Springs and I can see moving there in retirement. It is a beautiful area.
There are many beautiful areas in Arkansas. I really miss it.
We are from right outside Little Rock but are moving to Texarkana after living in VA for a few years.
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6 hours ago, KSera said:
like "we don't even know if the vaccines work" (saw that again tonight). I'm curious if they just aren't looking at the information themself, so really don't know that overwhelmingly, most people in the hospital are unvaccinated?
They just jump from one “reason” to another. Presented with numbers like that, many jump to thinking the numbers are made up, those are actually vaccine injured people not the unvaccinated, that the vaccine has killed as many people as Covid has (I see this one daily) , that it’s still the fault of the vaccinated because they are spreading it all over, on and on. There’s no consistency. It’s maddening.
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53 minutes ago, TravelingChris said:
Yes, that is what I think it is too but sure don't want to do things like LIKE Taliban trick photos, whether here or on Twitter or Facebook or wherever.
Last night, a US Census person calledmy cell phone asking about my dd2's phone # or how to reach her. Verizon had labeled it potential spam and I didn't think US Census called people. (I am very cautious because I have bad brain fog at times and he called after 8 (calling from Phoenix where there office is). I don't do complicated things at that hour because I am very fatigued by then.
This morning, I listened to the message and know remember that this call has to do with a follow up on my dd2. She was selected several years ago for a College Students survey or maybe College Graduates Survey and did fill out the survey when I told her then that it was a requirement of the US Govt (like Census surveys are). Called her this morning but she is quite ill with COVID or something- needing nebulizer every 4 hours and on high dose of steroids so I will discuss this with her another time.
I was a census worker last year and we did call people. I was also directed to ask people about contacts. We even asked neighbors for information on households if that address was troublesome to make contact with for whatever reason.
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38 minutes ago, Laura Corin said:
I read an interview with an investigator who is a specialist in identifying the hands of abusers in videos...
Then isn’t Duggar basically admitting he’s afraid of being identified? Cause now I’m thinking that he didn’t just “watch” these videos, he made some, a thought I didn’t necessarily have previously.
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2 minutes ago, FuzzyCatz said:
I did wonder if trip planning SIL sees she needs this and is taking charge and telling baby family what's what.
I think that’s the best idea. There might still be hurt feelings, but this seems like the best possible approach.
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17 minutes ago, Lecka said:
I think it is an open question whether it’s better to be a small-time landlord or invest in the stock market. Like — which one is *better.*
My family members have done small-time landlord and for one of my sisters, she turned out to live somewhere that it turned out to be a poor investment.
I think it’s one of those things where it can be hard to believe, if you live one place, that it could be different another place.
But my sister has had a horrible experience while doing “everything right” as far as what my family would say was doing things in a good way.
It’s just not a good market.
It is a sad thing to feel like — she had bad advice.
But she could have chosen to diversify, too.
She didn’t want to be in the stock market after the stock market crash and switched to rentals. Then the rentals — she is getting out of them now, and it’s break-even (slightly more than break-even I guess) over 10-15 years, and in the meantime, look at what the stock market has done.
And other rental markets have done great, too. But not her town!
I think diversity is always the best advice.
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25 minutes ago, Hoggirl said:
@HeartString - check out Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs when you move back to Arkansas. There is also a botanical garden in Fayetteville. No idea where in the state you are moving to. We no longer live in Arkansas but did for MANY years (my dh is from Little Rock) before downsizing and moving to Florida. Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville is not to be missed for anyone traveling to Arkansas.
I had forgotten about Garvin Woodland Gardens, I was stuck on the word botanical. That place is so nice at Christmas.
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33 minutes ago, Lecka said:
But he will save for the future in some other way, at some point, I assume.
His domicile won’t be his retirement fund.
My ILs have a lot of value in their home, but how do they retire, and get to live in their house while also having money?
They don’t want to sell their house. They don’t want to move out of the area.
What I am saying is more — we have less house value, but we have other assets. We can have a paid-off house. We foresee being able to stay in our house until we want to move or have to move.
My ILs want to stay in their house, too, but I don’t know if they will be able to. Because all their money is in their house, basically.
Do other people in HCOL just do better planning?
Edit: my understanding is that it’s always a rational choice to invest in more property value because it will appreciate so much and you are using leverage.
But then how do you pay off your house, and how do you eventually realize that money without also not having a house? Or really moving into a much cheaper house in some way?
I think living in a very high cost of living areas skews the whole idea, honestly. Buying a house in the 7 figures on a modest income is really choosing to invest mostly in a house at the expense of other investments. If most of your assets are in the house like your ILs and you are cash poor because you couldn’t invest elsewhere you are going to have to sell the house, wether you want to or not.
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I know my oldest (19) has no interest in owning a home, but he wants to own land. The dwelling isn’t important to him. A trailer in the middle of 5 or 10 acres would be fine by him.
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46 minutes ago, Lecka said:
I do not totally understand the house end-game for HCOL, because do they end up that you have to sell the family home to realize the profits?
I think this might be part of the shift now. Most people don’t want to inherit the family home anyway. So many adult children live far away and aren’t interested in moving back to live in the family home. Aging in place is also difficult with kids far away from home, most elders won’t make it through retirement without needing to sell the home anyway to move in with a child, or move to a retirement community or nursing home. I think all of that has kind of killed the concept of the family home being passed down. I would guess that more often if the elder has lived in the family home the whole time that the kids will sell it and split the money after they pass anyway.
I know for me, my family moved a lot so I have no “family home”, my parents live in a house that I’ve never lived in. My husband’s parents still live in his childhood home but it’s falling apart Tom deferred maintenance and has so much junk from border line hoarding that we have no interest in inheriting it and have it set up to go entirely to the sibling who has been living there doing care giving. We wouldn’t want to live in that area anyway.
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9 hours ago, Arcadia said:
My county property tax rate is 1%. The problem is that even a condo can cost over $1mil. So buying a single family home for $2.5mil would mean paying a property tax bill of more than $25k annually.
Oh my. I just don’t understand how anyone buys a $2 million home! Even my friends who make low 6 figures couldn’t afford that.
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3 minutes ago, RootAnn said:
It won't be NYC, but there is culture in flyover states. Maybe not political agreement with your values though...
There are pockets of blue in every red state. We can be found! It takes more effort, but we exist.
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51 minutes ago, Arcadia said:
Property tax is another issue that we are considering if buying now. Being able to afford the mortgage is different from being able to afford the property tax when retired (or unemployed).
Do you live in one of the crazy high property tax states? My property taxes are only a couple of thousand, so hardly anything to think about in retirement. Although renting means you are usually covering the mortgage plus property tax and insurance for the landlord, usually with some profit built in too.
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56 minutes ago, GracieJane said:
These are insightful responses, thank you!
If you live in a LCOL area, do you still have access to cultural centers like art museums, concerts, botanical gardens, etc.? Forgive my lack of knowledge, I didn’t grow up in the US.
If you’re willing to drive a bit. Even in backwoods Arkansas we have art museums, concerts, comedy clubs, nightclubs, a symphony, a ballet, a few different theater options, science and children’s museums, a zoo. No botanical garden that I know of though. Most things are smaller, but the trade off is that they are affordable enough to go very regularly. I can buy a year long pass to the Little Rock zoo for less than the cost of 1 visit to the zoo in Richmond. Same with the museums, 1 visit in VA equals a bit more than the cost of a years pass in AR. That’s why we’re moving back to AR.
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Does anyone here have a good explanation for why we signed a peace treaty with the Taliban and circumvented the Afghani government? Saudi Arabi couldn’t come to the US and sign a treaty with the Crips or 3%ers, so how did that work?
ETA: I’m not being snarky, just curious why we would go around a legitimate government.
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Prayer please Ida evacuation
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I’m glad he got out. I saw that the mayor is advising people to sit tight now because it’s too late to try to evacuate.