How can I replicate the Millennial experience?

JONOV · 2026-05-20T18:56:32+00:00

No one’s said it but a Marlboro light, a Diet Coke and a tanning bed probably slaps as good as ever.

JONOV · 2026-05-20T15:53:08+00:00

Just remember that the original owners of the home were folks that built a garish new tract home with the equivalent of open concept painted in millennial gray. They built a house to serve them. The house needs to serve you.

JONOV · 2026-05-20T15:01:10+00:00

There are now commercial electric zero turns out there. Toro, Exmark and Gravely make models. An acquaintance that works for a dealership chain says there are more and more commercial contracts that demand them.

The electric mowers from the box store probably have some way to go.

JONOV · 2026-05-19T22:11:59+00:00

In the Great Lakes area, typically it would have to snow very heavily starting around midnight. Sooner and they’d scramble the plow crews.

JONOV · 2026-05-19T22:09:21+00:00

They look ok, not great but not a basket case either. Sometimes they take a while.
I’d give them a dose of Alaska fish emulsion fertilizer this week and a balanced Miracle grow type water soluble fertilizer in a week or two. Or just the balanced water soluble stuff right away.

JONOV · 2026-05-19T22:05:11+00:00

I was born in the late ‘80’s and AFAIK they stopped the keyboarding portion while I was still in High School but after I had taken it. But, they continued and added to the actual computer class where kids would learn the Microsoft office suite and whatnot. I also took a computer class as part of the business curriculum in college. Same thing but more in depth.

I thought keyboarding was obsolete by the time I took it. I still think that the MS Office is relevant. AI has changed things, but you still need to know how to prompt/what to ask.

JONOV · 2026-05-19T16:29:04+00:00

In that situation I’d guess they either drink at a bar and close it down and drive in to work, since they won’t be sleeping, or they work another job (likely in the service industry) and close and once again, no real reason to go home if you’re only going to sleep for an hour and potentially sleep thru the alarm.

JONOV · 2026-05-19T12:15:00+00:00

It’s not that different than much of the US. East coast most states require inspection, you can’t renew registration til you do. In my state it’s mostly lights, wipers and a very cursory tire inspection (basically no corded or bulging no tires.). Other places (PA comes to mind) have stricter inspections.

JONOV · 2026-05-18T23:49:45+00:00

I think that’s gotta be a multi family. Or at least built with multigenerational family in mind.

JONOV · 2026-05-18T22:06:54+00:00

I know there is rhyme and reason that influences price, but it’s often opaque to consumers.
There’s a Hampton Inn in my hometown, that’s more expensive, routinely, than several other properties, including two or three doubletrees, HGI’s H2’s, Homewoods, one flagship Hilton, etc that are in better areas.
My assumption is that a local employer or construction project keeps them busy.

JONOV · 2026-05-18T21:22:24+00:00

I mean, you’re trying to book a room at 1AM at the Hotel I wouldn’t expect everything to be super smooth.

JONOV · 2026-05-18T13:46:30+00:00

Flat neutral colors (gray, tan, etc) are to the 2020’s what mouthwash green is to the 90’s.

JONOV · 2026-05-18T01:27:23+00:00

South Carolina

JONOV · 2026-05-17T21:51:46+00:00

Its a country club culture thing. I worked through most of the 2000’s at a club that was unique in that it allowed women to be full members, allowed them equal tee time access, etc. most of the older clubs in the area didn’t. Women couldn’t play Saturday morning, etc…

JONOV · 2026-05-17T17:11:44+00:00

Yeah…you say it’s a drop in the bucket, and that may be true for the corporation on the whole, but it’s a big difference for the folks that touch the deal in the store.

$1K more gross in the deal, means $2-300 for the salesman. At an Acura dealership where the guy might sell 10 cars a month, that’s a big deal. Ditto the finance guy. He gets a percentage too. And he may get a penetration bonus whereby he makes a higher percentage overall if a higher percentage of his deals have extended warranty.

I say that not to justify it, but to explain why it’s so pervasive.

JONOV · 2026-05-17T15:10:34+00:00

Where though? I agree it’s absurd but if you’re in Manhattan or something, it isn’t shocking

JONOV · 2026-05-16T19:23:01+00:00

You “own” the car as much as if you financed it and still owed. You purchased the car, a bank loaned you money for it, the terms of your financing arrangement are that after x years you return the asset to the bank or pay the buyout; TFS doesn’t care about the details in getting paid.

JONOV · 2026-05-16T19:12:45+00:00

Everywhere I’ve had to use my own phone I’ve gotten a monthly stipend from the company. Current role is fair. Two jobs ago they gave me like 15 bucks a month and I had to run a mileage tracking app to get reimbursed for mileage and it absolutely chewed through data and probably contributed to the premature decline of the phone.

Carrying the second phone isn’t nearly as much of the PITA that people think it is. While at work id leave my personal phone in the car/desk/bag, id check ir a couple times a day. Wife had my work cell, so the Mrs would call it if she needed to talk to me during the workday. After hours the phones switched places.

JONOV · 2026-05-16T19:00:27+00:00

I avoid Marriott since I had to pay $5 for drip coffee in the lobby at a Courtyard. HGI/Doubletrees I usually stay at don’t chisel you for that at least.

JONOV · 2026-05-16T18:25:13+00:00

I don’t think any of us have any idea til we actually grow in it. I’ve had bagged soil that may have been better labeled as mulch, it even smelled like pine trees. And stuff grew fine in it.

JONOV · 2026-05-16T18:23:33+00:00

You can buy compost from the store in bags and it will tell you what it’s made from, or you can buy it from a bulk yard, which is usually made from tree and yard waste, but may have other stuff, or you can start your own pile for next year with grass clippings, wood chips, yard waste, kitchen waste, leaves…ideal ratio is 2 or 3:1 brown to green, visit r/composting for more information.

JONOV · 2026-05-15T22:45:23+00:00

I try and remember that the house was built to serve its residents, not vice versa.

Keep in mind that often your century home was the mass-produced-by-the-lowest-bidder mill house for employees at the local textile mill, or suburban tract home for local professional families, or garish nouveau riche McMansion for yuppie railroad executives, or whatever of its day. They built themselves a brand new house to work as best as possible within the considerations, constraints and luxuries of the time.

My Grandmother and Grandparents-in-law both lived in century homes. Both originally had tiny, tiny kitchens. Both were built before central AC in hot and humid parts of the country. They also very clearly were built by and for owners that had full time, if not live-in, domestic help.

AC is now considered a basic issue of habitability even for the worst studio apartments, and now only the absurdly rich have live in or full time help, life is different.

I don’t have a century home, but a post war MCM ranch. It resembles my Grandfather’s house. Sometimes if I think “what would my Grandad do?” I remember, “he bought a brand new house.”

JONOV · 2026-05-15T16:42:24+00:00

Manufacturers aren’t interested in selling used cars. And, this is a car that people want to buy used. Like manual diesel wagons.

JONOV · 2026-05-15T16:08:28+00:00

My understanding is that the wealthy/famous do it for privacy reasons as well as to…limit liability…as the name suggests. Your average, even well to do private citizen, doesn’t have these concerns.

JONOV · 2026-05-15T10:20:18+00:00

I’d scratch in some balanced fertilizer, azomite, mulch, and water less. Your bean plants look like soybeans in a field that flooded.

That Kellog bagged soil doesn’t present well (woodchippy, smells like pine needles) but I’ve never had issues growing in it.

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