DW Community Catch-up Thread
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Wait, what? He gets charged for forgetting his ID? Oh, it’s for replacements. That still sucks! Hopefully the financial repercussions will help him remember. That’s actually a far better punishment. I feel you on the grounded thing.
Ya, I think they give the first replacement free but then start charging after a while. I am sure in a bid to get them to remember them. I mean he works minimum wage and minimum hours so that amount of a money is a whole paycheck at least so it should hit home. He’s been getting a new one about once a week, sometimes more. So that level of forgetting it is not ok!
Truth. I don’t like to lose $150 now on something I could have avoided. That’s a new pair of jeans! Or a massage!
Exactly my thought. It isn’t that we can’t pay for it but that money has far more important, or desired places to go. I HATE wasting money on things we really dont’ need to be paying for. We have medical stuff, new cars, a car for him sometime if he doesn’t keep this up, a house when we move, a child…or even just a dinner or couples massage or taking him somewhere fun! I cannot stand wasting money on something so careless. We have been trying to explain that even if WE do buy him a car he is required to pay for gas and some amount of maintenance and insurance and his paychecks now won’t cover it so he needs to not waste it. We let him kind of play around with his money for his first two checks, just so he could have fun with it, but now a certain amount is going directly into savings.
I even refuse to waste money on any not fun household essentials. I calculate my per person per meal costs, shop deals, etc so thay when we want to buy something we WANT not need the money is there. Every trip to the grocery store is me thinking “that could turn into pair of shoes I’m not spending THAT much on whatever item when it can be had cheaper!”
As a teenager (back in the day…) before every single person had a cellphone, i wasnt able to get my own cellphone until i had a job and could pay for it. I still remember my first phone and how awesome it was. My parents bought me a (used, old) vehicle for my first car too, but i had to pay insurance. I do, in hindsight, really really wish i had started a high yield savings account when i was younger. I can only imagine where it’d be now !!! My parents did not tell me what to do with my money beyond ‘pay your bills.’ which i appreciated.. I am the money saver of me and both my siblings though (Now at least!) so they didnt worry about me too much lol
No cell phones in my days but he has had one for a while and of course now that he walks home from school and to work. He did get a nice downgrade when his was “stolen”, aka, he was too lazy to use a lock on his gym locker so it was taken out of the locker. His mom is actually supposed to pay for his cell phone, but, of course that doesn’t happen. We haven’t really decided what we are doing for the car. He keeps saying how his friend keeps buying $500 cars and he now has $500 so he can. We attempt to explain to him that his friend KEEPS buying them because the work needed to fix it costs more than the car, so this is not a very logical way to go about it. He doesn’t have his license yet and is really not ready to drive, although has completed drivers ed, so that is a way off but we want him to get it before next school year. I think we might match what he has for a car, within reason. We just want something that is not expensive to fix (husband can do most repairs with him), safe enough and will keep his insurance cheap. I do NOT even want to imagine what the insurance rates will be to add him. Ignorance is bliss for right now. You’d think mom might help with some part of it, but I’d also think she would do a lot of logical things she doesn’t so doubtful.
Side note, i have been sooo tired the past two days. Wondering if my body is fighting something off. I wake up early usually but I cannot get out of bed lately and could easily sleep the day away today. I wanted to lie down at 7 last night.
I was super tired yesterday too though I don’t think I’m coming down with anything. Today is better.
Went back to looking at some new living room furniture. It’s all so expensive anymore! And after finding a couch we loved I did some research on the manufacturer – who is supposed to have a good reputation. But the couch was so expensive I wanted reviews first…and found that their stuff usually only lasts 2-3 years before wearing out. The couch was going to cost over $6000 (after taxes and such) (it was a leather sectional with auto recliners). NOT spending that much for it to wear out in such a short amount of time. Back to the drawing board. And maybe to regular couches with no recliners.
I don’t feel like I am coming down with anything physically but my sudden energy level makes me wonder. We shall see, hopefully not, maybe I am just tired and that’s it. 🙂
We are also sectional shopping, although over my dead body would a recliner be an option haha. Husband and I were getting into a partially lying down position on the couch the other night, face to face across and I looked at him and said “Do you know what we are doing tomorrow” and he replied “going couch shopping?” Ding Ding! He had a sectional with his ex but didn’t take it upon my request even though she offered it, because frankly I HATED it with a passion as I had seen it. I think it is where brown fabric goes went to die.
We have my couch, which is just a normal three cushion wide couch and fairly new but a big husband, myself, 2 dogs and a son and it appears my couch no longer works! We went and found one for a REALLY good price, decent quality, that I liked fine, not crazy about but could be sold for the price. I am going to look at bit more though at other options before I commit though. I really want the Pottery Barn sectional my mom has. She optioned it out a more expensive way but basically each seat is a separate piece, they click together very secure…BUT because they are each separate you can configure it in a ton of different ways (two love seats, a regular size couch with two armless chairs, different sectional configurations). I am not wanting to spend that just now though (she paid almost 6k). I have surgery to pay for so that is for later.
I feel you @rangerchic. We’re in the midst of replacing all of our living room furniture. It’s definitely not cheap. Our new couch and ottoman should be delivered in a couple of weeks. We just ordered two chairs on Sunday. Next up are side tables and a rug. UGH!
ETA: We are getting two recliners. I’m pretty happy with them. The hardest part was choosing the leather, which is not the same that’s in the pic.
https://www.eurofurniture.com/vida-reinvented-recliner
Oh, and our couch is blue velvet!
https://www.interiordefine.com/ms-chesterfield-custom-sofa#LK-14342-43/Leg016-1
I love that couch @Ktfran! Blue velvet would be so much fun! Not sure if my husband would let me go for something like that though.
Did you order online with out trying first? Just curious. I can find a lot online I like but, even with reviews, it’s hard to know if I would like the seat/feel/comfort levels. And it’s such a huge purchase (physically) it’s not easily returnable. So I can’t see myself ordering online without being able to try it out first.
Oh i like those recliners since they don’t look like they are. I fear those big puffy ones.
I also would buy that couch if husband would let me. Although he did say the other day “it’s your choice anyway”. Hmmmm…wondering how far I could push that logic.
We bought a new bed in November. After the wedding we plan to re-do some floors.
Eventually furniture will be on that list. All the furniture is mine and from 2010 and lasting pretty well. But he is rough on my couch. Poor couch.
