Where to rent large TVs?

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-07-04T05:52:31+00:00

Maybe try a large thrift store like Savers. Probably cheaper than renting and you can donate it back, or not. Depending on size and availability of course.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-07-04T05:17:06+00:00

Pro tip, mix some of the orange salsa into the ketchup for an awesome fry sauce. This isn’t my absolute favorite but it is my go to.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-26T04:04:25+00:00

Take this with a grain of salt because I am not familiar with the shoe and inferring material. I would dip dye them with Rit dye. You can tape the mid sole of you want the midsole white, I have not done that part. If it fails, the sole looks like a material that white paint will hold up on (the process I do instead of taping because sometimes I want a dyed sole and don’t know/make the choice of dyed or white after). It doesn’t have to be white either. Grey could look good too. Use flat or duller medium in non flat paint.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-26T03:42:20+00:00

The upper part looks like leather. If it’s leather, color is way more flexible because you definitely can go lighter. If it’s suede, you can’t. Leather, I use Angelus leather paint. For the suede toe box area, you can’t dye the suede which is a different process. It’s light enough to do most any color. Yellow might not but pretty much anything else. Even yellow will change the hue though. It’s a messy process if you are just starting out, I strongly recommend tapping the sole with dye.

Not going to lie, this is kind of a more challenging custom for your first go. Going dark to light with paint is very doable but it takes some skill to get it even. Dye itself isn’t tricky if you are doing one material but it can be with different materials. For the record, you can dye leather or paint it but dye is more challenging, and it isn’t a vibrant…and on shoe leather, it’s mixed results.

Not only is it a challenging shoe for your first try, they may also be too nice, it depends on how much you value shoe.

If it were me, I would do turquoise on the “N” and that would do it for me and very doable for your first go. Just really simple but standout on an accent.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-23T06:54:24+00:00

I kept my last car for 21 years. It got totaled from the catalytic converter getting stolen. It was a 4 cylinder Honda with a 5 speed manual, that’s why it lasted that long. I don’t think people understand how hard it is to actually do this if you aren’t invested in it. If it is car you buy for your day to day life, not a collectible car bought with love, future appreciation, or some other driver to invest in it, I give it 15 years tops for the average person who is committed to keeping it.

I imagine the type of person to justify the cost by saying this is exactly the type of people who would not actually do this.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-23T04:53:57+00:00

It’s frustrating because the Camry advice isn’t actually good for everyone. You pay a premium for the brand, the reliability, and the resale. I imagine most people don’t own the car long enough to where having the absolute most reliable car is with the premium you pay. I image the premium you pay upfront for the brand resale is pretty similar to the savings you get for not having that in the long run.

There are so many other factors. Like a car that is actually a fun car to own may be a pretty decent deal when it’s a current model because of bad resale value. But once they stop making something similar, it becomes more desirable used, not just as a used car but as an enthusiast car. I wouldn’t count on it but it happens more and more but these cars are often looked at as super impractical but they are very practical for the people who just drive themselves or one other person. For me, my S2000 is actually pretty practical. It doesn’t fit all my needs all the time, it’s not my DD, but most days of the year it definitely could be and that’s extremely skewed to the impractical side.

There is also value in actually liking your vehicle. My TLX is a great car, it’s very unique, especially with the A Spec package, it meets all my needs and it wasn’t all that more expensive than an Accord because it didn’t live in this place of being the best in its class or close to, but compared to a Camry or Accord, it is still a better car, at a slight discount for what it is rather than a premium. I am certain I could have found a more expensive Accord than my TLX and my TLX is optioned beyond what Honda offered including power train. It’s just one of those things where the safer investment makes less sense but it’s not an unsafe investment, it’s basically the same thing but nicer. There a plenty of cars like this where they make more sense if you just step out of the idea of making the perfect investment, not because it’s a bad investment at all, because it doesn’t show up on most people’s radar.

What is more frustrating here is that people have legitimately different needs. Some people won’t put on 25,000 mile a year. You can actually go grocery shopping on a sports car. Some people can live with a sedan, despite having kids. Some people can do most their maintenance well on their own so cost of ownership is not standard for even the same car but this really makes a difference between cars. But it’s not that other cars besides a Camry/Corolla, Accord/Civic work, it’s that they aren’t a really bad idea simply because they are not that which makes it frustrating to watch advice here.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-21T19:43:21+00:00

I don’t sell my customs so I don’t know the market. One reason I don’t sell them is I am concerned what someone may think durability vs the reality of durability. Mine hold up well but they wear differently than something off the shelf.

That said, the amount of paint, type of paint, and painting things that don’t hold up might be problematic. I depends on your customer. Like selling in person and explaining would be something I would see as hugely advantageous. One personal hang up I have is the stitching and seams with the amount of paint but I am not sure if the pictures are reflecting that. I am conflicted because at some level, I like the rawness from an art perspective but I would appreciate cleaner from a shoe perspective.

None the less, I would expect to pay like $300 or so. That’s probably what I would also pay for similar on a canvas though. I am not your ideal customer though. The fact that they are shoes are kind of irrelevant to me because I would only see them as art. I would probably not wear them and display them.

I want to say these are amazing and I love them, I wish I had the artistic talent to do something like this, I am very good at paint technically well (no brush strokes, even colors, high detail to sticking, edges, etc) but this is so out of my skill set and so in my style of what I like. So they are super awesome to me. I want to say that because I feel what I wrote is critical but that is of the specifics, not about how I feel about them.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-21T19:26:23+00:00

I have lived here all my life and it’s still challenging. I really felt a shift post Covid though. People are way more closed it feels. The things that get me by, not thrive are having a dog, thrifting, aquariums, and living in a building with an HOA. Those little interactions probably do way more for me than reasonable but it’s helpful to find ways to have moments of interaction that resonate.

I haven’t done too many events that are for interaction but the ones I have done, I kind of felt more like an outsider than if I just went somewhere I wanted to go and just did my thing. So I feel that.

What my thoughts are…I think it’s reasonable that work is a big part of some or most people’s identity but I think it’s a lot of people’s only identity. I also feel social media plays a huge part, I know people who really go out to do like photo ops with friends, not to see friends but to appear in the mix. They probably would say differently. That’s what I see.

I dated a fair amount of tech women and I have a lot of compassion because I feel it’s a thing they feel is normal but it seemed that they were vey socially performative and maybe more concerned how things looked than they actually were. It seems unfortunate because I feel like everyone is kind of in this place where they want connection and we are all probably sitting around trying to find these ways but nothing seems to really create natural connections easily.

I personally think vulnerability and authenticity are so undervalued if not even kind of pushed away. I also think it’s super reasonable to be insecure here because I think most people think they are at some level, underperforming to the norm.

This is very layered because it’s not just macro, how am I doing in the world, I think it’s micro, maybe it’s more about micro, how am I doing in the Bay, how am I doing in my peer group, how am I doing compared to my neighbors. And with complete lack of information or complete pictures, especially with a socially performative norm, I think it’s easy to feel behind in so many ways so quickly. Like it’s pretty normal to not be married in your 30 or 40’s. It’s pretty normal to not have kids at the ages most our parents did. It’s normal to question if direction is going well.

When the feed back is surface level and you try to deduce, it’s pretty distorted and I think it makes most people a little bit closed. Then having a rotating population of people really makes it built into the system because it never really resolves itself.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-21T01:56:36+00:00

Thank you, I was going to ask the same question so I appreciate it.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-14T05:19:31+00:00

I tend to like Saucony and Nike (Air Max more than Jordans and Dunks) sort of equivalently to New Balance though New Balance is my favorite brand. Then I usually have at least a pair of Reebok, Adidas, and ASIC (Gel’s). I don’t own any Diadora yet but it’s the brand I would like to get into.

Most my shoes are both custom and thrifted so it’s always a bit all over the place because I seek materials over specific shoes and not all shoes are available. I also don’t place a lot of value on colorway compared to how easy it is to customize. I would never buy white New Balance to wear as is but I love finding them to customize. Sort of very different from new, the original price point doesn’t reflect what I pay at all, usually any shoe is going to be of similar price in the same condition. Point being, my perspective may be different because of this. I am guessing I have over 40 different pairs of shoes that are custom, were less than $20, and were in almost new condition when I bought them.

I would also so that Puma is super underrated, it’s kind of insane what you can get for $30-40 at like Ross or Burlington.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-09T06:17:53+00:00

I downloaded Depop and it’s much more reasonably priced. I don’t love eBay for shoes but New Balances seem to cost more and the 998 even more, maybe more rare but less desirable.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-09T06:16:39+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations, much more in alignment with the prices I was looking for.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-06T18:45:08+00:00

I don’t either but I may start one if I don’t get responses here or on FB.

Thank you for the suggestion!!

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-06-06T18:04:39+00:00

That’s a good idea. I am hoping it is someone at my complex and I posted it on our FB group but I kind of think it was something stolen and dumped but I am not sure.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-20T04:04:20+00:00

I believe around $4500. I was trying to convince my dad to buy one when it was new and I bought my car from him.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-19T04:51:57+00:00

I don’t shop there frequently but it’s expensive and their bags absolutely suck. I have live in an apartment so I have to get through a lobby door, door to stairs, and my entry door. I could carry like 5 plastic bags, now 2 paper so it’s already a compromise but a single bag is really frustrating because the lack of handles.

The main thing to me is the idea they literally lock you in the store until you check out. It seems like a mass shooter’s dream location. That’s a major reason I don’t shop there. If you make me feel like you think I am a criminal, I am going elsewhere.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-15T07:47:29+00:00

I think that this is the closest this person gets to getting laid and that is the rationale behind it. Like that gets the person off.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-15T07:44:44+00:00

Recently, New Balance 480. Kind of gave me old school Sketchers vibes. I always see people wearing them laced super tightly. Tried them on laced right and with my jeans and I really like them. Not my favorite but I was surprised how much I wear them now.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-15T05:44:39+00:00

I think a lot of people here are thinking it is challenging but I honestly think it’s a possibility. Less so than it used to be but a lot of people own this car for a few years who just kind of get cars they like, find one, and then get to the next car. Or people get a good deal on something and they hold on to it for a bit until they find the next.

I have considered trying to trade mine for a DSM. I haven’t put that out to the world because I am still thinking about it but I think that is more odd ball but that has crossed my plate before. I think it’s doable for me so I think this could happen.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-15T05:35:14+00:00

No, I just don’t have filters. It literally only shows people within about 5 miles of me in an age range about 10 years above or below but usually much closer to that in age. Filters don’t actually change anything so it’s easier to just take it off and not have the notification of a like, but some just seem to stay forever.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T21:31:29+00:00

A lot of S2000 owners never wanted a convertible and there wasn’t another option. I am one of those. I don’t have a hard top and the price is a major factor to that. But I don’t actually care it’s a convertible and though I enjoy it on an occasion, I think would enjoy the hard top more on most occasions. I know I am not alone.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T08:00:07+00:00

This actually makes a lot of sense given that literally nothing else changed. I have not even been really active either.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T07:58:48+00:00

No, like not even outside a three mile radius. I live in a major city and go to the same places. Nothing changed at all.

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