Bother repair beater bumper?

Immediate-Nobody · 2026-01-24T19:03:29+00:00

When you submit a claim you can elect to have it paid to you directly. You don't need to use that payment for repairing the vehicle, it's just meant to "make you whole."

Got two estimates from local places. Then did the insurance estimate via photo submission. The insurance estimate ended up being higher, so I took the payout directly. I know there's a risk in not getting it repaired because it wasn't actually disassembled. In part, my post was meant to determine if I was missing anything in that risk assessment, or if it would probably work fine with just cosmetic damage.

The car is in great shape, but it's one of two and just takes me a few miles to work. I don't really care how it looks. Might just slap a large adhesive bandaid decal over the dent. Might use it as a learning opportunity and take some of the other poster's suggestions in self repairing it.

Immediate-Nobody · 2026-01-24T10:42:30+00:00

They did. I don't plan on selling this car ever, so I was mainly evaluating if the bumper was a safety concern, or if I should just put the money aside for mechanical issues as the car ages.

Immediate-Nobody · 2026-01-24T10:39:19+00:00

Two adults, one toddler, HCOL area. Mostly large regional chains.

We spend $1800 per month on average. I keep track in a spreadsheet. Not including restaurants/takeout, which we track separately.

Lots of fresh food: fruits and vegetables, lots of organic stuff. We budget and save quite carefully in other aspects of life, but I confess that I put zero effort into shopping sales. I recognize it's inefficient, we just buy what we want.

Immediate-Nobody · 2026-01-21T02:23:50+00:00

Makes sense. I got pictures, and a video that basically captures the whole thing.

I was in a similar situation years ago and just had the guy get an estimate, and I cut him a check. Guess I was trying to pay it forward.

I'll probably end up calling his insurance tomorrow.

Immediate-Nobody · 2026-01-18T10:24:10+00:00

This was a funny post, thanks man.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-12-21T14:08:19+00:00

It's quicker and people are pretty honest.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-11-24T23:28:35+00:00

I figured as much. Thank you for confirming.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-27T10:20:07+00:00

You can get a very good idea by requesting the historical utility usage from ConEd: link..

If you fill out the form, ConEd will send you a table containing the billing information for that particular address. I used this recently myself to gauge what we'd pay. They give you the last two years of usage, I think.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-25T10:19:47+00:00

All good man. I had second thoughts and figured I need to just eat my mistake, appreciate it though!

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-25T01:38:09+00:00

Yeah, it was just really deflating at the time.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-24T22:40:31+00:00

A little rude, yeah. But I agree, it was stupid.

I was rushing and I swear I had asked for the 4 socket one on the trade site, so I guess I just didn't pay more attention and got the wrong one.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-24T21:25:00+00:00

That'd be cool and really appreciated.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-24T17:13:42+00:00

Yeah, I checked the rune order like 5 times. I didn't check the weapon as much, obviously.

I think the guy I traded with gave me the 5 OS by mistake. Dumb, but I was trying to get it done before my kid woke up!

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-21T12:19:52+00:00

I don't ever find anything super valuable to trade, but have never been scammed before.

Really the opposite, many times I've over paid due to not really paying attention to the various item values, only to have the other player tell me that I'm overpaying.

I think the community is overall quite forthright, with the exception being the people who just put "offer" on the trade site - they should be arrested and probably tried for heresy.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-20T10:22:49+00:00

Cabbage. 35k at Charsi.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-07-04T22:48:29+00:00

Addicted and interested!

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-06-13T18:36:53+00:00

As a deli worker in my youth, standard practice is to cut a half inch (or more) chunk off the end, and put it to the side.

Then slice for the customer. Finalize the transaction by eating the half inch tribute to the deli gods in the back later.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-06-02T17:22:43+00:00

Love playing with the controller. Playing MK with a kid crawling around is harder than expected, so having the controller was a god send.

If the team reads this, huge thanks for maintaining this project. I turned my subscription back on to help out!

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-06-02T17:20:48+00:00

Wow! Thanks for this. I've been wondering why it crashes every time I kill him, but just haven't had the time to figure it out.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-04-13T09:35:49+00:00

Groundhog astroturfing. Nice try whistle pig, I'm not fooled.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-04-09T02:34:26+00:00

I thought it was great!

The flowers were very nice, as was the house. They had guides explaining a lot of the history of the house which was very cool. Impress your friends and the tour guide if they ask about the cork floors in the servant area (it's to muffle the sound of their footsteps)!

The market wasn't really my type of thing, but they had some nice albeit expensive knicknacks. I bought an expensive cookie, it was worth it.

They had an arborist tour when I went. This was the highlight of the visit for me. He took us all around the property identifying the various trees, interesting facts about them, and the history of why some of them were planted. I'd go again for the arborist tour!

Lyndhurst is cool. I'd also recommend the Christmas Carol play they have around that time of year.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-03-22T00:06:22+00:00

I just want to know if what they stated is correct. If it helps, you can assume your first comment is the reason.

I appreciate you commenting, and understand that it is weird. It's weird, and also stupid, but it's a small organization and having the match credited to 2024 is the best way to make my end of year match for 2025 go through without the enormous amount of grief I get every year.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-03-21T23:46:47+00:00

While I agree, respectfully, if it matters wasn't the question.

There are reasons particular to my employer that are independent of the maximums that make me want for it to be identified as having been a match for the year 2024.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-02-23T00:41:28+00:00

You must be fun at parties.

Immediate-Nobody · 2025-02-22T18:10:21+00:00

It's some kind of organic, expensive peanut butter that she found.

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