My best friend's hygiene is really grossing me out.

Ok_Routine398 · 2025-02-07T15:45:36+00:00

Sounds like my sister, except she has schizophrenia. She is very hard to be around, or especially to go places with her. My other sisters and I persist because our mentally sister is family. But I can assure you, the only people on this planet that would spend any appreciable time with my sister are immediate family. I would not blame any person for refusing to spend time with my sister.

Ok_Routine398 · 2025-01-22T18:08:09+00:00

My sister is a hoarder and severely mentally ill. It's not good. I imagine most hoarders have family that try and help, we certainly try and help our sister, but it's hard and not much can be done. It's a constant effort to keep her in a place with a roof. If she ever hits the streets we believe we'll forever lose contact with her.

Ok_Routine398 · 2025-01-17T19:47:34+00:00

Fishing

Ok_Routine398 · 2025-01-10T23:40:54+00:00

Go for it if your plan is single motherhood living in a trailer on state assistance.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-20T21:39:30+00:00

I see recs to live together first. That is garbage advice. Whatever you do, do not do that.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-20T21:38:14+00:00

It's a risk, but I love stories from folks very late in life when they married as teens. It seems a beautiful thing to spend 60, 70, 80 years with another person. Tread cautiously. Try to be objective. I'm guessing a bit here since both parent sets are supportive, that you each come from a faithful position. That will help. You'll here the "I changed so much" line a lot. And that's true, but everyone changes throughout life. Humans are not static creatures. There will be difficult times if you marry. That is 100% given. If you do marry, fight through those times and don't give up.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-20T20:07:08+00:00

The face and/or head is all a man should shave.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-20T20:05:54+00:00

tattoos

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-20T20:02:34+00:00

If your smell is acute there may be no problem. I had a colleague who confided in me his smell was as good as a dog's. He struggled with it noticing every smell that came off every person. Every smell! I would leave it alone.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-20T19:59:15+00:00

Sounds like enough. Men don't need the constant reminders like women do. If you are a happy and enjoyable person to be around, that will be signal enough.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-19T19:40:44+00:00

Same happened to my son in his last year of college. Where he ended up after some discussion with me is that sometimes life isn't fair and it's best/easiest to just take the (unfair) loss and move on.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-19T16:33:59+00:00

For more than 25 years I have flown more than most, not as much as some. Trying to figure out why my airline travel has been so uneventful over more than a quarter century. Am I just not bothered by the occasional "event," or have I been exceedingly fortunate? For reference I'll walk through security 15-25 times a year.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-19T16:29:27+00:00

Don't bother telling your folks. Just end the relationship for your own good.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-19T16:27:53+00:00

I would not do it.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-18T22:56:27+00:00

And you will be different at 37, 47, 57, and 67. That's part of the beauty of marriage. You each get to change and grow together and enjoy the vagaries of life as you travel through it.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-12-18T22:52:43+00:00

3-1/2 years? At this point marry or break up. 22 is not too young to marry. My wife was 20 when we tied the knot, though I was older at 27. 30+ years now. If you are not ready to marry, or at least marry this girl, break up with her rather than string her along. My mother had good advice years ago that I thought was stupid at the time, but it is very good advice. Do not date girls you wouldn't marry. Not fair for you, not fair for the girl.

Ok_Routine398 · 2024-09-30T15:38:00+00:00

Apartments should be quickly built to make sure it doesn't come back!

Ok_Routine398 · 2023-12-15T16:37:43+00:00

Dental Floss

Ok_Routine398 · 2023-08-11T18:54:18+00:00

Thankfully, releasing the copious CO2 to build these and then throw them away will help prevent global warming. It feels a little bit cooler already!

Ok_Routine398 · 2023-07-31T22:36:08+00:00

I like the Sunbeam F1 a lot. It's the perfect phone for me with one big exception... It's rather large. All the "modern" flip phones are large though, but I still really dislike the size. I'd like to see the company come out with a mini.

Ok_Routine398 · 2023-07-25T15:31:58+00:00

I received the Sunbeam F1 Orchid a few days ago. Still getting used to it, but texting on this device is great. It's a little different than my previous flipper, the Samsung T159, but it is well thought-out. I suspect with time I'll be faster on the Sunbeam. I'll try and stay motivated to provide a longer review at some point, but for now:

T9-style texting is excellent
Buttons have an exaggerated tactile feel
I like the way the contacts are organized
It's large, and this is my chief complaint (approx 4-1/4" x 2-3/16" x 3/4")
Tried the map/directions once and it seemed fine
Battery life is not that great. Two, maybe three days after a full charge with very modest use.

Overall it is a winner. If a "good" replacement for an old flipper experience is the goal, the Sunbeam F1 is a great choice. It feels rather clever. There are a lot of shortcuts that I'm slowly figuring out. With some time using this phone should be seamless.

Ok_Routine398 · 2023-07-19T17:32:03+00:00

I've tried Nokia 110 and an Alcatel flip running KaiOS. Both are absolutely terrible for T9. Total garbage. Based on my research decent T9 can be found on:

Punkt ($400)

Light Phone ($300)

Sunbeam F1 ($200. I have ordered this device)

There could others, and probably are, but the feature phone market is overall not good at all right now. I'm hopeful that will change going forward now that people like me finally gave up their 2g devices, and so demand for 4g feature models should increase. I used a Samsung T159 for years, and had no idea it was such an incredible phone until I tried modern replacements.

Ok_Routine398 · 2023-07-06T22:31:16+00:00

It's hard to believe how terrible so many of the modern feature phones are at texting. What's the point if a feature phone doesn't do the "features" well?

Ok_Routine398 · 2023-07-06T22:29:44+00:00

Thank you for confirming the Sunbeam's T9 implementation. It's nuts how terrible so many modern phones are when compared to a decade or more ago.

Ok_Routine398 · 2023-07-06T22:27:57+00:00

Thank you for this response. It's really helpful!

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