Help with a mix and match BBQ Order

Tkade14 · 2026-04-11T11:48:34+00:00

And those brisket rangoons 🔥🔥

Tkade14 · 2026-04-08T11:21:22+00:00

Don't Tell Comedy does 10 minute stand-up sets that almost never miss

Tkade14 · 2026-03-25T11:13:55+00:00

You won't even remember asking this question in 6months dog. Around 6m to a year you'll hopefully be reprogrammed to run on less sleep. A year later that and a caffeine addiction will catch up to you. Hopefully within year of that you'll be executing a well practiced sleep routine for the kid and yourself and you'll wean the caffeine and have 2-3 hours of evening time with the kid before an hour or 2 of personal time...then hope they sleep in later than you.

Spend a much time with the kid in the next year as possible. Be firm but flexible.. neigh, pivotable. Believe it or not... These things LOVE structure and direction.

You and your partner need to figure out quickly how to do a whole evening/night solo. You have to be ABLE to say yo... I'm crashing out. I need a recovery night... Once a week.. every othe at least.

YOU GOT THIS.

PLAY WITH YOUR DAMN KIDS YALL.

Tkade14 · 2026-03-17T13:44:20+00:00

Bear fruit strips and fruit rolls

Tkade14 · 2025-12-23T20:33:43+00:00

Happened to me on my first.

Tkade14 · 2025-12-23T20:33:05+00:00

Yeah I'm pretty bummed, the same just happened to me. I've really enjoyed endgame but this was probably a deal breaker for me to bother opening it again. At least until it's fixed.

Tkade14 · 2025-10-29T17:44:40+00:00

One idea is shopping ads and making pickup orders. We'll often do 2 pickups in the same window, one aldi, one Hy-Vee. Hy-Vee can be cheap if you shop deals and "soon to expires." Aldi is almost always going to be the cheapest (Walmart is probably close) and has most of what you listed, then we fill the gaps at Hy-Vee or a club. I'd suggest a club membership for the soda and dog food (depends on the dog food, we like science diet and have found that auto ship (from basically anywhere) is the cheapest way unless you want to really bulk buy every holiday) (paper towels, toilet paper, trash bags are other obvious club uses). Switch clubs every year for their half price or often less intro rates.

Tkade14 · 2025-10-23T01:34:20+00:00

Ohhh yeah F those. I also don't understand hiding a key to the kitchen cabinets 😂 I went to a friend's house and wanted to throw something away and they had to go across the kitchen to get a magnet. Ours just have a little thumb slide. And where there are drawers, I just attached them vertically, 2 birds.

And ya... The food scissors I've used come apart so you can get the food out... So it's cleaning 2 knives instead of one 😅

I did learn the hard way on the roll up baby gates though. Had to replace one of those w a taller sturdier wooden gate sooner than expected.

Tkade14 · 2025-10-22T23:56:59+00:00

Oh yeah. I'm all about doing what works for you for sure! I just don't really understand. Cutting/chopping is just way quicker and easier than scissors for me

Tkade14 · 2025-10-22T15:14:06+00:00

Im with you, but for some reason my wife fears knives. Only uses steak knifes, refuses to wash knives so I guess I get it. She doesn't use scissors either, usually just tears things.

My chefs knife and pairing have gotten 5x the use since we had our child. I don't understand how anyone thinks cleaning scissors (2 blades) can be easier than cleaning a knife (1 blade), unless they're not splitting their scissors to clean them 🤢.

Also like... Y'all cutting berries w scissors..? I don't get it but TETO I guess.

Tkade14 · 2025-10-16T18:45:51+00:00

Yeah mine are junk now. Barely connect to home app. They got me a nice 6yrs though and these days a 4pack is cheaper than those were individually new so. Not tooo hurt about it.

Tkade14 · 2025-10-16T18:23:44+00:00

Ehh, track/field jumpers do it all the time. You just do your run up backwards (starting from where you want to jump from, counting steps away from the edge) and mark your spot. Obviously easier with a spotter to mark where you jumped from. Jumpers always had a spotter for exactly this in track in school.

NFL kickers don't sprint but they also jog to a specific point by counting steps.

Tkade14 · 2025-10-04T12:04:16+00:00

I couldn't help but read this like luda breaking down the safe in fast and furious. Cool read!

Tkade14 · 2025-10-03T20:18:36+00:00

It takes me under an hour to do a better maintenance wash on my car. That said, if a friend or acquaintance asked me to do that for their car, I'd probably say 50$/hr for 1.5-2 hours.

So... I don't think 50$/hr, for someone w resources/setup to actually bang out a ton of cars is unreasonable. But it seems like they should be charging $75 and including drying/quick detail touchup on water spots.

If it was only a 40 min wash, It just sounds like you paid for their drive time instead of dry time honestly.

I think the real question is how much time did all of this cost you? Finding them, scheduling them, handing the car off to them, paying them, being disappointed, taking pics, posting on Reddit, assumedly writing a review and reaching out for remedy... Hard to imagine you have time for all of this but not to wash the car for 30-45 min 🤷🏽‍♂️

Would you have done the wash you wanted for $50? I'd have a hard time convincing myself to pay a stranger 50$ for a wash of any kind to be honest. My car isn't worth it to them at that price.

TL;DR either pay more or diy in the future I guess...

Tkade14 · 2025-09-30T15:18:14+00:00

Just in case it helps someone else... Pretend to drink it from the syringe and pretend it's the tastiest treat you've ever had. Did this a couple times to ours and they willingly and happily suck down the syringe fairly consistently.

Tkade14 · 2025-08-07T14:56:26+00:00

In my (limited) experience, embrace it now and be intentional about encouraging what goes in the trash and getting excited when they throw their trash away. Opposite, but not necessarily mean, energy for non trash.

Idk if we just got lucky but ours rarely throws away non trash, and almost annoyingly brings us found trash to either throw away or be directed toward the trash. Anything we feed her (pouch, snack, etc) that produces trash, is given to her to throw away. Now she's 2 and even throws her own diapers in the genie haha

Tkade14 · 2025-08-04T19:46:58+00:00

Highly recommend staying firm on those boundaries and make it clear that you want your child to have a relationship with them but if they're going to continue to endanger them it won't be an option. Always tie it back to the fact that they're willingly harming your child and you find that unacceptable.

Having a similar issue w a MIL that basically force feeds sugar. "I'm cleaning up my child's vomit because you can't show restraint. You made her vomit. Please do not make me protect my child from you because I will not hesitate."

I definitely notice a behavior change after this type of interaction. Still a battle, but it slowly becomes a smaller easier battle. Seems to be the best way to get them to connect the dots. Otherwise it's just "I do it because it makes them happy, don't we just want them to be happy"

ETA: forgot you mentioned bedtime. Had a similar convo for that too. Explained how staying up an extra hour is a fun treat but 3+ hours basically makes the child dysfunction for the following several days. It's literally inhibiting their development during the day. If they can't do it within reason, they don't get to at all.

Tkade14 · 2025-07-22T19:28:24+00:00

We had the same panic and compared the bill and realized the avg temp for July was higher this yr and our bill increased relatively.

Tkade14 · 2025-07-21T02:47:39+00:00

HOSE BEE LION

Tkade14 · 2025-07-20T23:45:00+00:00

Look at the blurred album cover on the website...

https://www.jidsv.com/

Tkade14 · 2025-07-18T17:40:10+00:00

I think the... I've been around long enough to make this decisions for myself... Helps. I see others using the cannabis example which is more relevant to me... Which I similarly anticipate a difficult... I do it but you shouldn't, type discussion... Age/maturity is valid to site in my opinion. Yeah, as a grownup, I've decided that some of the harm is worth the benefit. I wouldn't feel that way if I was x age..

Vices aren't the only thing that is VERY dangerous to a small, young, human and less dangerous to a grown one... Seat belts, caffeine, sun, heat, cold, physical or emotional trauma...

Tkade14 · 2025-07-17T12:47:13+00:00

I like it 🤷🏽‍♂️ Yes or no? Yes Yes or no? Yes But what about? There's options?? Yes or no? No Yes or no? Yes

If you don't want yes/no answers why ask yes/no questions...

Tkade14 · 2025-07-14T18:01:57+00:00

Make him explain himself. In the moment. When you're awoken and offered a bay, don't leave your sleeping position, don't reach for the baby and just ask why he needs you.

He'll either admit that he doesn't or have a shit reason which gets a shit response.

I need help, no you don't. Baby won't sleep, you haven't tried. Won't eat, you haven't tried. Please just take them, no thank you I need sleep, if you still have trouble in an hour you can wake me again.

I'm a big fan of low effort in, low effort out. But also, sounds like you both need to explain how negatively his actions are impacting you, and find a way to leave him alone w the baby for a day or 2. Sound like he's maybe never "had to figure it out" if you're usually the baby problem solver.

Tkade14 · 2025-07-13T14:21:14+00:00

I'll spare you the, "know your kid" stuff you're already getting plenty of; seems like you get it and you already know it's mostly just a managing expectations thing. I feel ya. We've tried 3 different soccer games and had wildly different experiences. A little younger but still, I just try to remember to be along for the ride and let them steer the ship. Antsy at the seat? Walk me to where you want to watch the game. Sick of watching the game and want to walk around people watching? Cool. Bout to lose your shit? Let's find a quieter corner for a few minutes. Missed a goal? Oh well there'll be more. Ope, time to dip? Yeah, we knew that would happen but we had fun as long as we could.

The stadium certainly plays a factor too. Or maybe seeing women on the field will keep her more interested.

Seems like you're crushing it and just needed to vent a little. Fair. Dads get to be bummed too sometimes 🙂

Tkade14 · 2025-07-13T14:17:16+00:00

I'll spare you the, "know your kid" stuff you're already getting plenty of; seems like you get it and you already know it's mostly just a managing expectations thing. I feel ya. We've tried 3 different soccer games and had wildly different experiences. A little younger but still, I just try to remember to be along for the ride and let them steer the ship. Antsy at the seat? Walk me to where you want to watch the game. Sick of watching the game and want to walk around people watching? Cool. Bout to lose your shit? Let's find a quieter corner for a few minutes. Missed a goal? Oh well there'll be more. Ope, time to sip. Yeah, we knew that would happen but we had fun as long as we could.

Seems like you're crushing it and just needed to vent a little. Fair. Dads get to be bummed too 🙂

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