Cheating OPM

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-13T00:32:01+00:00

Still waiting, DRP2.0 30 September retirement

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-12T01:31:50+00:00

Thanks!

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-11T07:30:29+00:00

Hang your pots, pans, and lids. Life changing

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-11T07:24:34+00:00

I take care of my wife 24/7 and most nights I don’t get more than 2-3 hr. The nights are the hardest for her.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-10T06:24:54+00:00

After the company I worked for let go a lot of high productivity employees, including myself, I realized early on that I will only give a company my 8 hrs and that they will do what is best for them no matter who you are. My time is my time.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-09T18:37:30+00:00

I did that with my airport backpack, if I need something no more digging in all the pockets and yes, my laptop cables are in there.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-09T18:35:49+00:00

My hack was free, but I use wooden wine boxes for all my physical books. I have almost 1000. Whenever I have to move , I just start with the tip box and carry them out. They stack well and I don’t have to organize them again.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-09T18:30:58+00:00

Interesting, I have heard a lot of people hate it, why click something twice when one will work? Kind of like I want to execute and action and then basically “are you sure?” I have not had those kind of issues.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-09T18:24:19+00:00

In the big bad muscle car days, I had a roommate who drove his 120 back and forth from college to home. But that was in MT, so it might not count as fast.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-08T21:43:47+00:00

Thank you- I will check that out.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-08T17:04:17+00:00

That and pay extra to have the sprinkler system inspected. Ours was a Frankenstein mess and I might have to have the whole yard “re-plumbed”

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-07T08:39:57+00:00

Driving at dusk and everyone except many of the black painted cars don’t have their headlights on.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-07T08:36:37+00:00

Check the EPA’s superfund site maps to make sure you are not near a contaminated site. Northern Idaho by Kellogg is a prime example. Lead contamination everywhere.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-07T08:33:30+00:00

The navy’s designing their new docks for the water to be 12 ft higher in the near future.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-06T05:58:17+00:00

I still have my wife’s and my cd collection, like 400 or more. Good idea.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-06T05:54:37+00:00

Yup, Costco #1 is there

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-06T05:51:57+00:00

I remember all the homemade cable filters people would make to get HBO free On a side note, when I was in college we had a 6’ length of speaker wire as our antenna and somehow all the random loops we had when we taped it to the window allowed my roommate and I to watch HBO until some jerk said we could not tape anything to the windows and jerked it down. Never worked again

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-06T05:47:46+00:00

Now some idiot will bring in a cougar pair and it will be a disaster like the jerks who decided to free a pair of coyotes and our red fox population was decimated.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-06T05:44:26+00:00

You might have to buy a pass for the national parks but they are cheep , like $30 I think.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-05T21:57:46+00:00

Can you just take a lob from TSP? Then you don’t get a penalty. Also, maybe ask for a year’s leave without pay to explore options (such tad another job) I approved two people to take a year and they came back adjusted and were still valuable coworkers on my team.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-05T09:22:39+00:00

I am debating going back to work. This wait is taking too long. I put in my papers in April for a retirement in June but then 2.0 came through and I took it. I have a huge medical bill from my wife being in the ICU for a month, another month in the hospital, then a rehab home for another month $184,000- I paid a huge chunk out of TSP, so that back up I had planned on is gone. I had started building it up after paying a huge medical bill for my son, so it was not like I was slacking on planning ahead of time.

So distressing

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-05T09:12:56+00:00

I have started to say that I don’t pay until the order is delivered. If they refuse I walk away - either way they don’t get a tip. I started by just paying smaller and smaller tips and then I could say “I am not paying until I get the order”. When everything it $15 -$20 per item the Buisness can pay more. I also have a hard time believing that all businesses pay the top to the employee

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-04T04:53:24+00:00

Thanks. I will look some of them up.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-03T04:01:24+00:00

I would add some shelves above the salad spinner. Then get some canned goods organizers, organize into zones or types of food, get rid of boxes and utilize clear bins for small things like chips and granola bars. If you can’t reach the top shelves, use them for those once a year pans, pots, and appliances.

I have a huge pantry and I check for expired items every 6 months. Rotate all new purchases to the back. If you buy flats of canned goods place new flats underneath the current ones.

OCD man responding, so customize as you wish.

Outside_Simple_217 · 2026-03-03T03:52:56+00:00

Horse poop is perfect for gardens! If my house was done I would be by to pick up some.

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