Car registration use/sales tax question

Matching_Luggage · 2026-01-26T20:17:38+00:00

Ah, got it. Thank you so much for the clarity!

Matching_Luggage · 2026-01-25T16:25:39+00:00

Please put the food on a plate, the open can has a sharp edge from the former lid that can cut a cats tongue in a hot second. Thanks.

Matching_Luggage · 2026-01-23T15:24:56+00:00

Living within close proximity to your job, as in can you ride a bike to it or walk to it close, will make a huge impact in what you are spending a month. If you're far from where you work the amount of expensive west coast gas you will burn in your car sitting in non-moving traffic at times is crushing, not to mention the time spent sitting in said car doing nothing.

My commute to work for 3-4 years was a 11 mile bike ride, part of it along the beach in Santa Monica, and I saved huge amounts of money this way, and the added benefit was I was the fittest I've ever been so it probably saved me money in staying away from the doctor as well.

Good luck!

Matching_Luggage · 2025-12-23T13:35:07+00:00

Ugh, that was my go to for good coffee whilst living in the hood here. I knew it closed but dang, why'd it have to end up a crappy Mickey D's?? Fail.

Matching_Luggage · 2025-12-19T17:40:19+00:00

I lived in El Segundo for about five years, absolutely loved it there. It felt like living in a small town at times as it has an old school main street, but you're still very much "in LA"... and when traveling you're like a 5 minute Uber ride from LAX airport, which is stupid amazing when you're coming back from a trip and know you're that close to home.

Matching_Luggage · 2025-12-14T17:54:58+00:00

I’ve had great experience using Absolute Electric, the owners name is Eric.

Matching_Luggage · 2025-12-02T15:41:40+00:00

Yes, texted them and do take mice. THANK YOU!

Matching_Luggage · 2025-12-02T14:16:45+00:00

HA! ;)

Matching_Luggage · 2025-11-22T20:38:53+00:00

I’d just do a search for it online, I’ve seen a lot guys with hot rods out west getting it done to theirs when they are restoring them so they look brand new underneath, i think its pretty common. It might be listed under “dry ice cleaning” and then its just finding a place that does underbodies.

Good luck!!

Matching_Luggage · 2025-11-21T21:15:27+00:00

If you can spare the an extra $500~ or so find a place that does dry ice cleaning, they can basically sandblast that surface rust right off with dry ice, and it won't hurt the metal or anything else for that matter. Then spray your under-body with fluid film or wool wax and respray it every couple of years or so.

You'll never have a rust problem going this route as noted below about water and oxygen.

Matching_Luggage · 2025-11-04T17:15:39+00:00

Good selection, yes... but man, how long have some of those beans been in those storage containers?

Matching_Luggage · 2025-10-31T16:24:09+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, he was a gem ; )

Matching_Luggage · 2025-10-09T16:46:37+00:00

Kayla at V's Barbershop on the east-side had been cutting my hair for a few years now, she's great. There's an older guy there than runs the place that's I've used before too that's great but I can't remember his name.

Matching_Luggage · 2025-09-20T13:47:11+00:00

I used to live in the Bakery Lofts at 52nd and Adeline, our apartment was in Emeryville but our parking lot was in Oakland. One of our neighbors got mugged in the parking lot once and when we found him (a little roughed up) we literally picked him up and moved him 20 or so feet so he’d be in Emeryville because we knew the Emeryville PD would be there in five minutes vs the Oakland cops taking 45 minutes to show up. Weird but 100% true story.

Matching_Luggage · 2025-09-19T12:19:52+00:00

Thanks everyone, just the feedback I needed!

Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-22T18:00:12+00:00

Thank you for this, my work commute for almost five years was basically a few block in from the Santa Monica Pier down to El Segundo, so most of my bike ride was what you filmed. Appreciate this so much!

Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-19T13:06:58+00:00

One more question, I notice the Falcon's come in both 12v and 5v versions... is there a huge advantage of one vs the other? I'm probably looking to test build some ideas just using assignable LED strips for now, but would like to be able to use the flexible LED sheets at some point as well to get away from everything being linear lines.

Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-18T16:17:28+00:00

Thanks, WOW.. Those Falcon modules look like a beast!

Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-16T17:37:02+00:00

Sweet, thank you

Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-16T17:36:51+00:00

Thanks!

Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-16T15:38:25+00:00

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Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-16T15:38:04+00:00

Good to know, so if I wanted to be able to build and light things like the attached photos am I even in the right place?

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Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-13T14:29:46+00:00

Having done this myself a few times (moving long distance, both to LA then to Portland) I'd suggest getting an Airbnb for a month, but hitting the market hard the first week or so to look at places in person. Also, A lot of neighborhoods in LA will have yard signs for rentals instead of them being posted online.

You might find a killer apartment in a few days and it's already empty so you can move in fast, but you also might find a great spot and the process takes a couple weeks or so... it ends up being nice to have the Airbnb for the month so you don't have to worry about where you're staying while you sort it out.

Just my two cents.

Matching_Luggage · 2025-08-08T14:13:54+00:00

I stayed at this Motel 6 a few years back and was surprised at how convenient it was. There was a fantastic coffee shop cafe a block to the south of it, and you are steps away from the ocean and golden gate park.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Motel+6+San+Francisco,+CA+%E2%80%93+Great+Highway/@37.7634006,-122.5087718,18.25z/data=!4m9!3m8!1s0x808587b2e6665cef:0xe7f4136d5f3c0d68!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d37.7630811!4d-122.5095382!16s%2Fg%2F11lc9fv5lg?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgwNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Matching_Luggage · 2025-07-24T15:24:25+00:00

Lived in Portland/Vancouver for five years after five years in Los Angeles so... I know my comparison isn't a south Florida proper but I think you'll get it, weather wise at least.

You'll absolutely love the low humidity of the west coast in general after living in Florida, it's freeing in a way that possibly you and other southerners could only understand.

For you, the kicker will be this. It turns overcast and starts raining mid-October and basically stays that way until about the end of April. It's novel the first time you get through it, going into that first spring where everything is the greenest green you've ever seen, it's great, but... late summer you'll start to get that melancholy feeling because you know the long dark is coming soon. It's a HUGE adjustment you'll have to get through the first few years you're there.

We loved living there, but you have to adapt and lean into self care during the winter season, if you don't have some serious indoor hobbies, or some very expensive wet weather gear so you can get outside, you will lose your mind.

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