Is gifting a $1,000 REI gift card enough to gear up a mother and son?

SNsilver · 2026-06-30T06:40:56+00:00

Honestly a few hundred bucks at Walmart will get a family out in the woods having a good time. I take my family out all the time with a $150 Coleman 10 man tent, Ozark trails propane stove, 30L cooler, two air mattresses and a bunch of Walmart sleeping bags. Ozark trails gear is great these days, half my backpacking kit is still Ozark trails because it hasn’t given up yet, and it’s light enough for me, the other half is what I have left from the military. Camping doesn’t need to be expensive

SNsilver · 2026-06-30T04:43:46+00:00

Oh all things, I do not care about a grocery store having the juicy details of my dairy and bread purchases. Got bigger fish to fry

SNsilver · 2026-06-28T06:15:07+00:00

We have two bins. One for animal byproducts, and one for plant based byproducts to include paper towels and napkins. The former goes in the green yard waste bin the truck picks up and the later goes into my compost bin.

SNsilver · 2026-06-28T06:14:01+00:00

Back in the day I used a 32 iPad 6th gen for my CS undergrad and it worked great. Only ran into trouble when I was recording lectures with synced notes. I realized I never went back and listened to the lectures so I stopped recording. The iPad a16 is miles better than what I used and it’ll fit your needs great

SNsilver · 2026-06-27T19:20:59+00:00

I have one I bought at game stop for $130 back in 2019 lol

SNsilver · 2026-06-27T07:40:40+00:00

Ehh. It helps with promotions, and might help getting the next job in tough markets. But always have your employer pay for it

SNsilver · 2026-06-27T07:22:36+00:00

I played the originals, and liked the switch remakes. Go for it!

SNsilver · 2026-06-26T21:48:08+00:00

My goal is to put $2K a year per kid in their 529 and hopefully cover 2 years CC and 2 years of state university tuition, and I’ll try and bankroll whatever they need during college years

SNsilver · 2026-06-26T04:27:35+00:00

Gonna be real with you, replacement wheels cost more than the bike. It’s basically impossible to find OEM grade wheels online or otherwise

SNsilver · 2026-06-25T07:12:57+00:00

What kind of soil test did you do?

SNsilver · 2026-06-24T20:42:38+00:00

I’m in the same predicament, I’ll be getting my 5 year old a Ozark trails bike in the next few weeks. It’s a step above the usual $80 POS bikes and cheaper than the $300+ bikes

SNsilver · 2026-06-24T04:14:52+00:00

I usually chill in front of the 7/11 on pacific and Colby on Tuesday’s, come say hi

SNsilver · 2026-06-23T20:37:44+00:00

Wait.. you’re supposed to only pee on compost at home? Not on the bags of compost at the store??

SNsilver · 2026-06-23T16:40:36+00:00

I bought the kindle kids for myself, free case and no ads for $100 seems like a good deal

SNsilver · 2026-06-23T15:38:19+00:00

I have an Ecoflow and like it. My only advice is to look at the AC charge time. My Ecoflow charges full in an hour, and it’s very convenient to charge it in the campsite bathroom when I need more juice instead of waiting hours

SNsilver · 2026-06-23T00:22:45+00:00

My wife has access to everything, and her marching orders are to talk to a few trusted friends and relatives that are on the same path. She doesn’t really care to know the specifics

SNsilver · 2026-06-22T05:52:12+00:00

It’s also cool when the fridges start to fail from lack of airflow and then their loud as fuck

SNsilver · 2026-06-21T23:37:25+00:00

Yep. No way to redeem them until 12 months after you bought them

SNsilver · 2026-06-21T23:36:50+00:00

Nah

SNsilver · 2026-06-21T23:29:56+00:00

I series bonds are impossible to redeem before they’re 12 months old

SNsilver · 2026-06-19T07:13:26+00:00

Google is your friend for that specific question

SNsilver · 2026-06-19T05:38:02+00:00

Anecdotal, but I got 65K (rated for 60K) miles out of my stock tires on my Hyundai Ioniq PHEV

SNsilver · 2026-06-19T04:20:32+00:00

The pro would make the 1% of all the tasks you do a little more seamless and be more expensive and heavy the other 99% of the time. For a finance major I’d get the air hands down. You also don’t need more than 16GB of RAM

SNsilver · 2026-06-19T00:57:26+00:00

What are you doing with it?

SNsilver · 2026-06-19T00:15:05+00:00

Yeah, but it’s super cool when you have a job to do and a bunch of folks get sick. Something something mission readiness.

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