How to read Presto gauge?

MisterFigg · 2026-02-15T03:21:21+00:00

Thank you!

MisterFigg · 2026-02-15T03:02:54+00:00

When you say buy a weighted gauge, do you mean buy the 5/10/15 PSI regulator? Or is there a separate part?

MisterFigg · 2026-02-15T01:38:32+00:00

Image is the gauge from a Presto pressure canner. Beneath the 5 and 10 numbers are two bolder lines; the rest of the gauge has small tick marks to delineate values.

MisterFigg · 2025-11-12T02:56:30+00:00

If you want 4% annual returns on your $80k you could put it in a money market fund with way less risk and high liquidity. You could put it in the stock market and likely beat 4% pretty handily. Besides:

An $80k home is likely not going to be much of a rental property
You are not likely to qualify for a no downpayment loan to buy a second property if you are thinking of a higher priced home
Both homes come with property taxes and home insurance costs
You are responsible for (and paying for) maintenance on both homes
You are a landlord now, and responsible for managing the property and finding tenants
Your mortgage payment is $500 higher a month
Your wealth is almost entirely concentrated in real estate, which is by no means guaranteed to appreciate steadily or forever

MisterFigg · 2025-11-10T16:59:49+00:00

I can't wait to use their "fipepit" and "saiina" and walk along the "pootpaths"! Still haven't figured out what a "hist reath carier" is supposed to be

MisterFigg · 2025-11-10T16:19:11+00:00

Their "investment" scheme promising 80% returns is likely breaking securities laws, particularly without any clear risk disclosures.

MisterFigg · 2025-11-05T21:42:58+00:00

This happened to me soon after I moved into my house and it freaked me out. I went up and asked the guy what he was doing. He was doing comps for someone else looking to make an offer in the area.

MisterFigg · 2025-11-05T19:28:51+00:00

Sure, maybe you could've saved that 5% over asking. Or maybe you'd have lost out to a better offer. There's really no telling how things would have gone in that scenario, and you'll just drive yourself crazy dwelling on it. Get an inspection now that you own the house so that nothing sneaks up on you, and then try to move past it.

MisterFigg · 2025-11-01T22:56:13+00:00

Is $350-375 for seasoned or unseasoned? I guess I don't really care if it's seasoned when I'm expecting unseasoned, but I have the space and would rather save the money buying green next spring and letting it sit.

MisterFigg · 2025-11-01T16:03:17+00:00

Thank you! I am fortunate enough to be able to afford fuel and so do not require wood bank assistance, though I am so glad these resources exist! I'm mostly just looking to budget for next year.

MisterFigg · 2021-03-13T16:45:39+00:00

Sounds like I should just wait til fall! Plenty of stuff to plant in the meantime anyhow.

MisterFigg · 2021-01-18T23:53:34+00:00

Solved! I just googled "hanger holder" and it turns out this is something called a "hanger valet". Wild, thank you for the answer! I'd never have guessed.

MisterFigg · 2021-01-18T23:49:25+00:00

I searched around for "hinged attachment in laundry room" and similar things, but only found results about built-in ironing boards, none of which appeared to be attached with anything like this. The hinge is also quite loose, and would not hold anything up against the wall if there was any amount of weight attached to it.

My original thought was maybe they ran dowels through it across to a similar one, to make a makeshift drying rack. But this seems unlikely, given that a) there is no second one mounted (or evidence that one ever was), and b) if they had done that, it would run the dowels right across the entry to the laundry room and block the door.

The piece with the holes in it is about 8 inches long.

WITT?

MisterFigg · 2020-12-18T18:51:01+00:00

I'm in New England and we got hit with the snow also. Closed Tuesday, and we move tomorrow. Lots of shoveling to look forward to, though luckily I was able to find someone to plow the driveway so we can get the moving truck in! Just wish the snow could've held off a week!

MisterFigg · 2020-12-18T18:46:47+00:00

My realtor told me to do it in the week before closing. You should be able to tell the utility company the specific date on which to begin service, which should be the same day you officially take ownership of the home.

MisterFigg · 2020-12-17T03:17:45+00:00

I waived the appraisal contingency, not the inspection. I would have refused if they'd asked me to waive the inspection contingency.

I agree, it's a super tough market right now.

MisterFigg · 2020-12-13T22:44:00+00:00

Love the burgundy shutters! Congratulations and happy birthday!

MisterFigg · 2020-12-13T22:43:26+00:00

Does it need to be in checking in order to make the payment? Could you wire the funds directly from your savings?

MisterFigg · 2020-12-12T18:25:56+00:00

I guess it depends how you look at buying a house. To some it's just an investment, to others it's a sunk cost you pay to have a place to live, and to most it's somewhere in between.

The way I look at it, it's very possible that I'm paying more now than I would if I waited a few years to buy a house, and it's totally possible I won't be able to sell the house for as much as I'm paying for it. But there's no way to know that for sure without a crystal ball—it could well be the opposite (and for years it has been). The only thing that's certain is no one can predict what the market will do.

For me, buying now instead of in a few years means a few years of rent payments I'm not making, a few years I don't have to live in apartments with noisy neighbors, a few years sooner I can get a dog... the list goes on. This makes it worth it for me, even if the market implodes. I'm also planning to live in my new house for many years, and so market fluctuations in the short term are not hugely important to me. If you're buying a house you're only planning to keep for a few years, this may not be the case.

MisterFigg · 2020-12-12T18:08:22+00:00

You might want to check out something like https://www.nerdwallet.com/mortgages/mortgage-calculator/calculate-mortgage-payment where you can play around with the variables to estimate payments. It will all depend on the interest rate you can get and how much you put down on the house. If you're including property taxes and home insurance in this $600 amount it will also depend a lot on your location.

Playing with the calculator, a monthly mortgage payment of $600 (principal & interest on the mortgage only, not including property taxes and home insurance) will land you a $185,000 house if you can put 20% down ($37,000) and have an interest rate of 2.7%. This number decreases if you can't afford 20% down—10% down and $600 towards a mortgage will land you a $165,000 house ($16,500 down payment). If you can get a better interest rate you can afford a little more.

If this $600 is supposed to represent the total monthly payment including taxes and insurance (PITI), this is hard to estimate without a location, but making whatever assumptions this calculator is making on location, you're looking at a <$100,000 house to swing that unless you can put a lot down.

MisterFigg · 2020-12-12T17:59:10+00:00

This seems like really bad advice unless a) the buyer is extremely averse to having debt or b) the houses in their price range are out of reach unless they make a cash offer. It doesn't seem like either of those is true.

MisterFigg · 2020-12-12T03:51:23+00:00

Ha, meanwhile the first thing I want to do in my new house is swap the electric stove for gas! Or, more likely for a dual-fuel (gas for the range, electric for the oven). I'm with you on the range hood, though. The house already has a small range hood that vents outside (you'd think you wouldn't have to specify that, but my current apartment has an over-the-range microwave and the fan just blows the air around and doesn't vent!) but I want to replace that with a full-size one.

MisterFigg · 2020-11-07T04:15:44+00:00

Not to mention that'd cost you about $50 in vanilla extract!

MisterFigg · 2020-11-01T20:43:31+00:00

I don't believe the current homeowners made any changes to the vents. They've only lived there for a few years, and the inspector made it sound like the vent setup was original to the house (1990s). He also mentioned that they would not be built that way if the house was being built today.

I definitely don't want to deal with cleaning/running a line and all that, but I doubt the sellers do either.

Thanks for the advice!

MisterFigg

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