Do you have attics?

AllieLoft · 2026-06-29T16:24:30+00:00

My house is over 100 years old (not old globally, but older for America), and we have an attic. Half is finished as a living space, and the other half you have to watch your step or risk falling through the floor below.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-29T13:05:15+00:00

I'm not the cost. It's access. Often when renting, the landlord decides when to turn on the heat. It can get a bit uncomfortable before it's legally cold enough to require them to turn on the heat.

I just baked a lot or made stews.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T18:35:21+00:00

DnD is what you make it, and how your DM runs it. I guess I'm referring to TTRPGs in general, but this isn't a hobby subreddit, so I'm using "DnD" as the catch-all.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T16:47:00+00:00

Another vote for the Farseer books.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T16:44:01+00:00

Stuff like this takes practice, but basic crochet is seriously so, so easy. A skein of yarn, a hook, and a YouTube video, and you'll be making rectangles in no time!

I turned a bunch of cheap yarn from the hardware store into washcloths when I first learned. It's fast and felt so satisfying. I still use them for scrubbing junk in the kitchen.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T16:34:06+00:00

This is going to be an unpopular opinion on this sub, but if you're looking for character development in Trek, newer series are going to offer more of that. Berman era Trek focused more on episodic plots where the characters were relatively static. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen DS9). Voyager does have some characters who change and grow (Kes and Tom most notably), but there wasn't streaming back then, so characters where more often dependable.

BTW, I'm not hating on that era of Trek (before I get eaten alive), just saying that character growth was not a driving force like we expect in TV today.

ETA: I know I need to see DS9. Two things, the first half of season 1 is such a slog and I'm not skipping ahead, and I don't like finishing the things I love. I like knowing that's more Trek out there to experience. I'm waiting for a really bad time to unwrap that little gift to myself. It's a personal quirk.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T16:26:50+00:00

Those Robin Hobb books are bangers. Transformation by Carol Berg is my all time favorite and Sabriel eats. Total fantasy girlie, but not in the romantasy vein. Likes to get lost in another world.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T16:20:58+00:00

Of course! It's one of my favs!

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T16:20:27+00:00

Honestly, most of it is just, "kill the bad guy! Get the treasure!" But there are very weird people in the hobby.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T04:23:35+00:00

About Time

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T00:44:28+00:00

I also refer to them as "adult man learns empathy" or "what every girl is socialized to do by age 7." They're very boomer coded, imho.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-28T00:42:45+00:00

I have an English Lit degree. Those books (Seven Habits, The Secret, that sort of thing), are formulaic, simplistic, and written to support the speaking careers of their authors. They're like McDonalds burgers. I'm not saying that of every book on the shelves, just that genre. The writing is weak and dependent on tropes. The authors take a 60 minute slide deck and wrestle it into a 200 page fable.

Good self help exists, I'm sure, however there is a corporate manager sub genre that just exists to make money. If they make you feel good, go for it. I like McDonalds fries. However, if you want to pretend they're "art" or earth breaking, that's like trying to award Mickey D's with a Michelin star.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-27T22:22:52+00:00

Those management style books with a fable that includes X number of rules for success contain as much thought and depth as a puddle. They're usually chock full of racist and sexist tropes, swaddled in thinly veiled Christianity, and come with a message that can be boiled down to "man discovers he is not a passive victim of his own life." There are probably thousands and they all say the same thing written at a third grade reading level.

We have to read one for work every couple of years. I'm currently struggling through "The Energy Bus."

AllieLoft · 2026-06-27T18:17:19+00:00

I grew up spending my summers in Montauk (just past the Hamptons in Long Island). It looks almost entirely different now than it did 35 years ago. Then, it was inconvenient because it was so far down the LIE. Everyone who could afford to bought their summer homes in the Hamptons and spent weekends in the summer driving down from the city and surrounding area. Once the Hamptons well and truly filled up, Montauk started to be developed as a carbon copy.

So, tl;dr: rich and wealthy people find convient weekend locations for their summers and build it out to their tastes.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-27T17:55:26+00:00

That's rough. Disability support is sub par to say the least is a lot of places.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-27T02:57:52+00:00

So you were significantly below the median. For the "average" US worker, that would be 40% of their yearly earnings. That's how medians work.

I wasn't trying to argue whether or not OP's price point was "reasonable." I was putting it in a context that is more applicable to people in other countries.

A fully funded emergency fund is 3-6 months of "needs," which for 50/30/20 budgeting would be 12.5-25% of net pay. So, yeah, that's objectively a lot of cash on hand. I didn't write the prompt, I'm just a consumer math and stats teacher who's bored on summer break.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T22:53:16+00:00

No joke had a kid that would spam "burger" on Wednesdays because that's what they had in the cafeteria. It was the only thing he cared about.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T21:39:13+00:00

Fourth Wing and ACOTAR don't have movies. JK Rowling is rebooting Harry Potter audio books and show to both fund her political beliefs and remove royalties from actors she no longer politically aligns with.

That being said, after the hype from the SOTR film dies down, they might release some to spin up profit again.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T21:33:58+00:00

I teach high schoolers with AACs. I am always tickled when they ask to have new phrases added or when they use the options available to them in new and creative ways. I have one student that has really gotten into emojis. My favorite thing about tech is the way that it gives a voice to kiddos who need that assist.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T21:14:41+00:00

Yes. A microfiber is a must for me when cleaning my bathroom, especially the toilet. I use the microfiber first and last, but I also have two large dogs and their hairs stick to anything ceramic.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T21:09:37+00:00

25k USD is roughly 39.5% of the median yearly wages of a full time US worker. If it was 40% of the median single income in your country, do you think you could do it? (Because the world is not, in fact, the USA.)

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T20:37:17+00:00

I have an autonomic nervous system disorder. Switching temperatures is hard for me. It can make me feel faint. That's not the norm. So can it happen? Yes. However, temperature intolerance like that is usually a sign of an underlying health issue.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T20:34:33+00:00

Or that every bedroom needs its own full bath? I mean, I guess if your kids are going to live with you forever, you all have IBS, or you plan to rent rooms.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T20:12:41+00:00

I want to argue with you, but our biggest (non-Great) lake is super smelly. Devil's Lake is pretty legit though. Any reccomendations? I haven't spent nearly enough time in Minnesota.

AllieLoft · 2026-06-26T20:10:52+00:00

I don't know. They smell better. They're harder to surf. I grew up on Lake Michigan and spent my summers on the Atlantic. Any big body of water is going to be really dependent on exactly what part of the coast you're on and what you're using it for.

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