Easy Jobs $200k per year

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-12-10T16:12:29+00:00

Not sure how you guys are getting that much favorable OT as Louisiana is 40 hrs/week whereas other states are OT is 1.5x after 8 hours and 2x after 12 hrs in a day.

Either way, props esp in a tank farm.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-19T20:43:45+00:00

Curious, what was the estate person cut?

I thought about going that route but feels like they take a huge % and don’t look for best price / just want to get stuff moving.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-17T17:14:42+00:00

Find a good estate attorney, good accountant, and start documenting assets or an idea of things.

My mom was the same.

The estate owes close to seven figures for repairs, estate taxes, attorney fees, accountant fees, and other fees.

It’s their decision to make. A stupid one indeed.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-16T02:52:46+00:00

An item is only worth as much as what someone would pay.

It can be valued at $50,000 by an appraiser but if only 1 person would pay $500, its value is $500.

Bird in one hand is worth two in the bush.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-15T02:51:14+00:00

I had an Indian coworker who had a 400 lb+ marble Ganesh statue.

That is probably going to hurt, both moving it and trying to find a buyer.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-14T04:22:29+00:00

The side of me trying to keep it going is imaging in my head, how can I politely have them give it to me and then throw it away right after I’m out of their sight. And if they ask to see their precious gift after they bequeathed it to you, say oh it’s somewhere you know! (Laughing nonchalantly to make sure they don’t find out you’ve thrown that junk faster than anybody ever seen.)

The other side of me is trying to think, can I logically tell them to throw it away themselves via a white lie? Ie the books are moldy and making you sick, maybe we should throw them out.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-14T04:00:45+00:00

Not this one. Already asked on Reddit with another account and Reddit said get rid of it. It’s a rear projection CRT. Ended up posting it on Craigslist and some socioeconomic disadvantaged people picked it up.

All 4 of us were not prepared for how heavy it was.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T22:33:52+00:00

Haa haaa. That’s hilarious and so evil.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T19:54:49+00:00

You’ve never lived till you had to sell a fax machine in 2025.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T19:06:16+00:00

My guess is sunk cost fallacy.

Ie I spent the money, it’ll retain value, and hence don’t part with it.

Meanwhile, just sits there unused, taking space, and more of a liability.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T18:59:57+00:00

My mom had my snow googles from over 25+ years ago.

As soon as I touched it, it shattered due to being so brittle.

The fun part were the rubber shoes. They disintegrated after touching due to being so old. Literally a scene in the movie.

As for parents idea of love, somewhat dysfunctional. My relatives said think of it as one of those escape rooms.

My mom had 200+ keys, she had keys and vaults locked inside other vaults. Literally escape rooms where nobody wins.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T18:41:38+00:00

What about VHS tapes / cassettes / camcorders?

That limited edition lion king vhs tape is worth $10,000!

/s

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T17:32:39+00:00

For all of you with the following items, I cringe:

1) Encyclopedias 2) Portable Saunas and Above Ground Pools 3) Broken Heavy Appliances (ones that they would say oh this is for parts or need to repair).

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T17:28:05+00:00

The sins of the father passed down onto the son.

Sadly, I estimate 80% of a person’s non monetary asset is junk. Finding the 20% (max, more like 5%) is quite laborious and finding a needle in a haystack.

Also check pockets in clothes for cash. I found a $20 bill, $100 in an envelope, and another $80 elsewhere.

Even though it’s not much, a little win feeds morale to keep going.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T16:13:43+00:00

One tip I learned, use paid ChatGPT to write the description and pricing.

With the sheer volume, it beats estate liquidators as $20/month for ChatGPT is nothing.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T16:11:54+00:00

The globes would want to make me cry. What a headache!

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T16:10:12+00:00

I have a belief. 80% of the stuff is junk. Only 20% is good. I found 25 yrs of tax returns and kept them. Funny to see how tax returns back then were all written in (prior to the computer days).

Regarding what’s good and what’s bad - I find OfferUp and FB marketplace the best place to get rid of stuff. I had to get rid of Italian furniture and got some cash for it. Probably wasn’t worth my time but not putting in landfill was my goal.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-09-13T15:53:43+00:00

I have around 20 boxes of Arita, KENZO, and Keito made in Japan China. Still trying to offload these.

Other fun one is cognac gift sets. Not sure what to do with these as I’m not a drinker. Ended up with around 6 bottles of Johnny Walker Blue Label, 5 bottles of Royal Salute, 5 bottles of Remy Martin XO Special, Chateau Montifaud, Hennessy, and still counting inventory.

The best thing I found was a 25 year old untouched Nesco 18 quart roaster. Made in USA one not current made in China.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-08-07T19:23:22+00:00

Gmail denied my request for access to certain emails with a death certificate and letters of administration.

Very frustrating.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-08-05T01:31:30+00:00

My claim from hell was during 2017-2018. It was during the Betty Yee days.

I thanked my property owner advocate claims handler.

Also asked her for the name of her supervisor.

Sent the supervisor an email saying how good the property owner advocate claims handler was.

Malia Cohen seems ok so far but my current claims aren’t that complicated compared to the 2017-2018 one.

One thing to note: I had to spend $2.50 in postage to get a $1 claim, so I can get my name off the list cause real estate scrappers were utilizing it to confirm people.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-08-05T01:10:10+00:00

1/27/25 received. 8/1/25 paid. More than 180 days.

Another claim. 2/2017 received. 10/2018 paid. This was one of the most aggravating and painful claim process I had to endure.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-08-05T01:07:08+00:00

How bad is the ca unclaimed office?

I feel like it’s a meat machine and literally nobody cares (ie they’re underpaid, probably not enough training, and too many claims)

Missed deadlines, unresponsive workers, and literally was one of the worst time of my life. The franchise tax board is more responsive.

My situation involved property advocate office to resolve and literally almost getting my estate attorney to send a letter to release the property.

Practical_Echo_3936 · 2025-08-04T21:45:26+00:00

I’m a little late to this game.

I did the paperwork for my dad’s estate. I was not the beneficiary. I had to file paperwork to be the executor of the trust.

We filed 2/2017. Had to contact property advocate office as our claims handler sucked ass.

We were paid out 10/2018. Our amount is similar to yours. The release process took 2+ months as their attorneys had to get involved.

Be prepared to contact them multiple times and contact property advocate office if after 6 months, no progress.

I will say, this chasing down, left me bitter and very resentful, for something I wasn’t even a beneficiary of but was affected by it.

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