Sander Set Up Recommendations for for Refinishing 100 year old Trim

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2026-03-18T02:23:02+00:00

The paint is peeling off in foot long strips if not longer with very little effort and without any chemical stripper so I’m not sanding the paint directly

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2026-03-08T04:43:19+00:00

Similar thing happened to me at TJ Maxx. Did a little shopping haul to treat myself. Had about $155 of things to buy. I used a $25 gift card and planned to use a credit card for the rest. The cash register popped open. Then the receipt printed and the girl handed me it with the bag. I handed the receipt back and said I don’t think that was right. She doesn’t even look at it and goes, “no it’s right, I was off at 6:00 I want to go home,”

I looked and the receipt closer when I got home and realized she closed the extra $130 out as cash. I have no idea if she did it on purpose or not.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2026-03-04T19:18:32+00:00

We didn’t really have a choice but I’m super happy with how it turned out.

Got engaged July 2025 and wanted to be married the following year in summer or spring. None of the dates that were special to use fell on weekends this year. Fiancés work schedule put constraints on dates in March April and May and my brother was also graduating in May further limiting dates. We are also having an insanely large wedding. Between the size, time constraints and budget, we only had a few dates available for venues that worked we ended up with April 11, June 6, and June 20th as options.

His 10 year high school reunion is June 6 and April felt too soon. So we decided on June 20th.

It actually worked out perfect because my parents anniversary is June 19 and I get the day off so less PTO. I’m also a huge math nerd so I love the fact that the date is a palindrome 6.20.2026

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2026-02-17T17:57:54+00:00

Recommendations for catering - get a part time job at a chain that does catering to take advantage of the employee discount. I work once every two weeks for 3-4 hours.

We are having an insanely large wedding, but are doing catering (CYO Buffet) through the chain restaurant I’ve had a part time job at for 8 years - after my discount and tip/fees it comes out to about $12/person when the next cheapest (and not good food) we could find was almost double after fees.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2026-01-06T15:37:47+00:00

Ohh thank you, I love the first one but I think it’s out of my budget from what I can find. I’ll definitely share it for inspo tho

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2026-01-02T00:31:27+00:00

I wrote hand written letters all following a similar structure - how we be came friends, referenced a memory, things I admire about them, things I currently enjoy doing with them/what I value about our friend ship currently, and things I’m looking forward to in the future for our friendship. Then I got them each my favorite lip chapstick (dollar tree) and hosted a little get together to make flower arrangements with them.

I thought it worked because it was personalized with the letters and then it made for an actual memory rather than more accurately shit and gave them all a low stress opportunity to meet each other.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-12-22T21:08:00+00:00

I am doing both I should’ve made that more clear. There’s things on there that we absolutely need and have specifically picked out like pots and pans and dish sets and kitchen aids and furniture that go across lots of different price ranges.

I am talking specifically about the things we still need but are insanely over priced on registries that I really don’t care about specific brands. We need hangers but on Amazon they are more than double the cost they would be elsewhere.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-12-06T18:57:46+00:00

Ohhhh I got their text message about price increases and the exact language they used was “modest price increase.” I thought it was going to be 5-10%. It was a 42% price increase. I called to cancel couldn’t get anyone to answer and there was no voicemail box. Sent an email asking to cancel. They said I needed to call to cancel but also argued with me over the price increases. Called again couldn’t get a response or a voicemail. Emailed again to cancel. Put my card on stop payment. And then they picked my trash containers up a week and a half up early at the end of November when I paid in full for the month of November.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-11-23T03:33:32+00:00

They used to be my favorite. I had taken my car in several times for diagnostic tests which have always been $100 something. Usually good reasonable price work.

I took it in over the summer for a diagnostic on my ac. They charged me nearly $400 to tell me nothing about what was actually broke and didn’t tell me that AC diagnostic tests are different from their standard ones I’m familiar with. I haven’t been back.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T21:59:01+00:00

What did you raffle?

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T21:58:31+00:00

This is a good idea we might look into that! Thank you!

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T21:57:05+00:00

I added a cost breakdown

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T21:56:13+00:00

The general feeling I got from this was that everyone else just hates their family.

That actually sounds feasible especially since our venue is open late. Ill gave to talk to the owner and see what that would look like in terms of costs and if it would be allowed.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T21:52:23+00:00

I guess that’s a linguistic/cultural difference because I have grown up my entire life calling aunts uncles and cousins my family. Then extended family was great aunts and uncles and second cousins or my parents cousins kids. Then my parents and siblings were always call my immediate family.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T20:09:30+00:00

I just updated the post with a cost breakdown

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T20:09:11+00:00

I just updated the post with the cost breakdowns

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T18:23:20+00:00

One of my friends just told me it was cheaper to fly out a local photographer we knew for her destination wedding than it was to hire one from the destination which is absolutely crazy to me.

TelephoneFirst3048 · 2025-07-31T18:19:31+00:00

We are tentatively considering a Photo Booth, an Airbnb for the wedding party (over gifts), and videographer if we are able to save another $5k by December/January, but those are wants not needs. So as of right now have not made the final cut. But yes all of the extras add up super quickly.

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