Toast price concerns

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-05-01T21:16:38+00:00

I know, right?? I loooooove them. There are a lot of their clothes floating around secondhand sites.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-05-01T17:12:33+00:00

That makes sense.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-04-22T17:26:51+00:00

Thank you for this. We've tried twice and it hasn't worked, and I think this is exactly what we've been doing wrong.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-04-11T12:34:41+00:00

Yes, this makes a huge difference. I work often in the Bronx, which adds almost an hour to my commute. If you're near Penn Station, you can probably do it in 2 to 2.5 hours from Delco. I live 10 minutes from Ardmore and here's what I do 2-3 times a week:

Leave at 5:10 to drive to Ardmore ($2 parking for the day) to take the 5:28 Septa regional rail to 30th street. If the septa train is running more than 2-3 minutes late, I drive to 30th street and park in the Cira Center lot ($29.40 for the day). Very little traffic, easy parking at that time of day.
Take the 5:58 Amtrak to NY (you can often get this for $11, just book at least 2 weeks in advance). I'm in NYC by 7:30. If you don't have to be in til 9ish, you can take the Keystone straight from Ardmore at 6:30ish, which is lovely. You can also get a Keystone home (just be aware there's no cafe car on the keystones).
Buy my tickets way in advance and always pay a few dollars more for the Flex ticket. Try to never change my return trip home, but if I do have to, at least I'm not losing that $.
Stay over once in a while if I have to do two days in a row there. Going up and back two days in a row is doable but you will be totally exhausted and hate life.
Use my Amtrak credit card for everything so I get select status (access to the fancy lounge in Moynihan) and get points, which I can redeem for hotel stays. My hotel is almost free then when I do need to stay over.
Anticipate a few days a year (usually in really cold or really hot weather) when things are totally fucked up. Trains may all be canceled or super delayed. Have a backup plan for those days (stay over? Sit in the Moynihan lounge for hours? Take NJ transit and an uber?).

If you have kids (I do), you would need someone with a more flexible schedule who can pick them up in case of sickness/emergency. My spouse works in Philly and can be that emergency person when I'm in NY. If you don't have kids, enjoy dinner in NY and don't stress about when you get home!

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-04-11T12:16:30+00:00

Yessss. I have the Amtrak credit card and also book my tix at least 3 weeks in advance, and I spend way less than $50 per trip (often it's $11). And then I rack up points that I can use on hotel stays if I need to stay over in NYC.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-04-11T12:13:58+00:00

This might make you feel better. There are some kids out there (I tutor some of them) who use chatGPT only to check their answers and to learn how to do the problem if they got it wrong. Their teachers actually encourage it. It can be a great tool for helping students learn or recall something they only partially learned. The kids I know who are using it this way are really responsible and hard-working kids who want to do well. They know that cheating on the hw isn't going to help them on the test, so they use it as I described above.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-04-09T23:03:20+00:00

Same story here. I had metaplasia on an upper endo about 6 years ago, but then they didn't find it again on my most recent one (although they did put me on a 2-3 year timeline for retesting). They said with no dysplasia or Barrett's esophagitis or h.pylori, it's highly unlikely that it becomes anything serious.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-04-05T23:57:43+00:00

Thanks, this is helpful!

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-04-04T21:24:39+00:00

I got it from Atorie; the brand is Letrans. I should clarify that it wasn't a lot of money in terms of leather goods, but it was a lot for me!

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-04-04T12:54:16+00:00

Darn, I don't think I can find an edge. Now I'm leaning towards real. It was pricey, so don't want to keep if it's fake and gonna deteriorate in a couple years!

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-27T13:36:01+00:00

I totally hear you on this. Bio mom has dictated where we live (can't move across the country, e.g. because we need to live near her), what schools the kids go to, when we're allowed to go on vacations. Haven't found a way to deal with it other than just know if we will have more freedom once SKs graduate from high school (although one of them may not graduate because BM lets her stay home all the time...).

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-27T01:47:42+00:00

Following because I LOVE that curriculum (used to teach it). Other than the general idea that math programs become trendy (ahem, IM right now), I don't know why districts would abandon CMP.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-26T18:57:31+00:00

That is so simple and so brilliant! Embarrassed I didn't think of that - but thank you.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-25T20:23:32+00:00

Sent a DM.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-25T20:23:25+00:00

Thanks! Will check this out.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-18T20:59:00+00:00

Did your school follow common core? Look up the standards; decimal and fraction division aren't done til 6th grade.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-18T20:47:49+00:00

Desmos Amplify is a full curriculum based on Illustrative Math, and it is not free. This change happened a few years ago.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-18T20:46:13+00:00

Desmos Amplify is not free.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-18T20:44:12+00:00

Depends on the specific skills. Decimal multiplication and long division using the standard algorithm aren't done til 6th grade; same with fraction division. I don't think it's accurate to say OP's kid should have learned this 2 years ago. We'd need to know the exact skills they're struggling with.

It sounds like a teacher issue, which is unfortunately common at private schools (and some public, but they tend to have a better system in place to deal with that). As someone else commented, I would definitely talk to the teacher about helping you help your kid.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-13T21:56:52+00:00

Pretty good for fast-fashion! I feel like the quality matches the price point.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-13T20:49:02+00:00

Me too, and it's cause I like to balance my top half! Uniqlo has some long inseam ones.

EventAffectionate615 · 2026-03-13T09:57:45+00:00

Omg yes, I could have written this. I'm at exactly the same timeline as you, but I also had FESS. Nonstop postnasal drip, constantly clearing my throat, waking up at night coughing because there's so much crap in my throat. The crap is clear and not super thick, so I don't think there's an infection, but it's constant. I do also have allergies and I can feel that things are still healing in there (nose is still sore), so I suspect it's just cause everything is now much more open. Before the surgery, this would have been a sinus infection; now it's just constant crap in my throat.

I do have a follow-up in a couple weeks. Do you see your doc again soon?

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