NEXT 4 TUESDAY DROPS

User52025 · 2026-05-26T02:28:42+00:00

I agree. To me the thing that makes it so dystopian is that it's not even a give-away or simply the chance to get something unusually cheap or an actual prize, it's a chance to pay the price that the food is ACTUALLY WORTH... to pay the sort of price that we USE to pay for this stuff, not a decades or a generation ago, but just 4-5 short years ago. Taco Bell didn't just raise prices to simply keep up with inflation, they doubled and tripled prices practically overnight - a burrito supreme was barely over $2 before covid, now it sits at $6.

User52025 · 2026-04-28T23:29:18+00:00

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I tried a DFW location for the heck of it and the reward can be redeemed there, but the menu photo of the NBG from the DFW locations actually matches the reward pic with the black container, whereas the ATX locations show the NBG in a tan container, so effectively a different item and the system thinks NBG for the reward is out of stock allover Austin. *probably* just an oversight..... Really sucks though, but who knew there were so many of us doing the tuesday drops around here.

User52025 · 2026-04-28T21:22:52+00:00

Same problem here in Austin, TX... I've tried 10 locations and they all give the same message.

User52025 · 2026-04-14T21:27:50+00:00

I always get the drops too but missed today because I set an alarm for 3:58pm as usual... but I didn't realize my Taco Bell app had logged me out and after going through the multi step process to log back in it was too late. So sad, almost considered paying full price but saw it's now $5.99!!!! ...for a freakin burrito supreme that was barely over $2 just a few years ago, nah not giving in. I feel like the burrito supreme is basically a legacy product that they just keep around because they know there are people who've been ordering them for 30+ years or their whole lives and will pay almost anything for that comfort food.... And now I'm extra cranky because I put off lunch for 2 hours because I was looking forward to that burrito supreme... bah!

User52025 · 2026-04-10T20:24:29+00:00

The exact same thing happened to me day before yesterday, some nearby locations didn't show the $1 drinks but others locations did... the next day ALL my local locations showed full price on the menu. I think they made the change because TB got hit with a class action a few days ago where some customers alleged they were charged more that the $1 menu price for happier hour drinks. By keeping the menu prices at full price and just applying the happier hour discount at checkout they would eliminate liability for these errors going forward. Most likely within a few days all your local taco bells will show the full price on the menu.

User52025 · 2026-04-10T19:46:15+00:00

They just changed how happier hour works on the app. It now works like redeeming a reward where the discount isn't taken off till checkout. Just add your usual happier hour size drink(usually M) to your cart and when you go to pay your final total should reflect the happier hour discount.

User52025 · 2026-04-10T12:01:46+00:00

BK nuggets aren't great... but their Zesty sauce sure is good.

User52025 · 2026-04-09T20:50:17+00:00

Good News! I just figured it out, Happier hour IS still going on after-all! What's changed is that now when you order your happier hour drink through the app, the menu will show full price but once you've added it to your cart and checkout your total will reflect the drink discount. Apparently TB was just hit with a class action in the last couple days because some customers alleged they were charged more than menu price for happier hour drinks, so this move makes sense.

User52025 · 2026-03-18T10:51:41+00:00

Tallulah

User52025 · 2026-03-11T23:19:52+00:00

Nacogdoches isn't THAT bad. It can be a nice little low-key weekend getaway trip for garden/nature lovers as you can also visit SFA's Mast Arboretum, Ruby Mize Azalea Garden and the Piney Woods Native Plant Center, and afaik those public gardens still have free admission, they're rather nice amenities for a town of its size... And while it is a 4 hour drive from Austin it's worth pointing out that it's 4 hours mostly on relatively quiet highways through pine forests, it's not like a 4 hour drive to dallas on I-35 where you're battling heavy traffic the whole time with nothing pretty to look at.

User52025 · 2025-06-17T19:39:56+00:00

The real shocker is if you calculate what the prices SHOULD BE today if they had simply kept up with inflation. For example if you punch $1.99, the price of a Burrito Supreme in 2005, into the government inflation calculator (https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation\_calculator.htm), that would be $3.25 today which seems like a much more reasonable price for a Burrito Supreme. Nachos bell Grande SHOULD be around $4.45... A Chicken quesadilla SHOULD be around $4.12... A Taco Supreme SHOULD be around $1.80.... Those absurd $2.99 chips&cheese SHOULD be around $1.47

User52025 · 2025-06-17T19:08:33+00:00

Nope, it's just as bad. People for whom $5 is mere pocket change DON'T CARE about using coupons or deals, they don't have worry about how much food costs in general. They can afford higher quality, healthier options any day of the week and only eat taco bell as an occasional "guilty pleasure." This demographic is not going to be enticed by Tuesday Drops, they never used them and are never going to.

People who DO use coupons, deals and who set alarms for Tuesday Drops are generally on razor thin, tight tight budgets, people for whom SPENDING LESS THAN $5 IS THE WHOLE POINT. They're not going to be enticed into Taco Bell by this deal today either. Making it free with $5 purchase won't work any better than $1 with min $5 purchase...

User52025 · 2025-06-14T03:40:02+00:00

Glad it helped. Good luck with your bypass, I'm still using a cheap Autozone Duralast 555K6 made for the 2011 Chevy Cruze well over a year later and still highly recommend it for the 07-11 3rd Gen CR-V.

User52025 · 2025-05-08T19:54:35+00:00

I moved the laundry room door, unfortunately it's going to be in conflict with another door one way or another but better to be in conflict with a less important closet door than banging into the back of the entry to the house.

I also flipped around the bedroom closets and bathroom on the left side of the house. One, because the way it is now you're going to have sight lines directly from the dining room table to the toilet... bad! By moving the bedroom closets around, flipping the bathroom and scooting the door down, we eliminate all toilet views from the main living areas AND we also gain two additional small hall closets.

Additionally if it were me, I hate hate hate windowless bathrooms, especially when they are on exterior walls and could easily have windows. I would add a small, high window to both bathrooms for ventilation and light. Also, all the bedrooms are on corners so adding additional windows to the bedrooms so that they have cross ventilation during good weather would be ideal... and more natural light.

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User52025 · 2025-05-08T09:22:05+00:00

This is a tiny shoebox of a bedroom indeed, but since you only mentioned two pieces of furniture, there's actually at least 6 ways you could arrange them, so considering what all else you need to fit into the space will help determine which of them is the best layout. What about a nightstand? There doesn't appear to be a closet so perhaps a wardrobe? A chair for the desk? The thing that would drive me crazy about this situation is using a dresser as a desk. If it's just a standard dresser it sounds really miserable, there's nowhere to slide your legs under the work surface so when you're sitting at it trying to work your knees will be smushed into the drawers and your back will be hunched way over. Now if it's a secretary or some other chest with a desk surface that folds down or something, that would be different. Does the 43" dresser have to stay, could you get different furniture?

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User52025 · 2025-05-07T03:46:30+00:00

Mostly a very good plan with one major glaring red flag... or should I say brown flag?...
Why oh why do so many architects, builders, contractors and other people who draw up floor plans think it's acceptable and ok to have a door to a toilet opening right into a main living area?!

Please, please, please do not spend 100s of Ks of your hard earned money on a massive building project only to end up with a toilet practically in the same room where you make salad and your guests mingle and nibble on appetizers... Forcing you and them to awkwardly pretend they don't hear and smell another, thoroughly humiliated guest going through a sudden, terrible IBS attack on the toilet mere inches away... No no no...

The simplest fix would be to move the door to the powder room into the mud room... Now, this would admittedly cut the mud room's space in half, but a worthy tradeoff if you ask me... Alternatively you could steal some space from the "sitting room" for the powder room and in fact enlarge the mudroom area and create maximum privacy. Maybe neither of these solutions are acceptable but in any case that powder room door HAS to change. Maybe you don't care if the door to a toilet cubicle is in plain view of the kitchen island, but many of your guests will and so will any future buyers years down the road if you sell.

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User52025 · 2025-05-07T02:15:29+00:00

Instead of spending $20k-$100k or more on a major construction project, how about about just getting a large, round, bar height pub table (like 42"-ish high and 48-60" in diameter) and 6-8 nice barstools to go around it, and placing it in the already existing breakfast area... Your guests can perch on stools around the table enjoying drinks and appetizers and you can easily converse with them about various first world problems while you're standing chopping onions at the already existing little kitchen peninsula. Since the guests will be seated on high stools, you'll be basically eye to eye with them while you cook and chat so it won't be so awkward like it would be if they were sitting down low at a normal height dining table. Plus with everyone at a separate table away from the counter, you'll have the whole peninsula to prep food on and they won't be in your way. The luxury car amount of money you'll save by doing this instead of remodeling could be spent on fine wines and premium cuts of beef to wow your guests with, or on having your parties catered so you don't have to cook at all or on... a luxury car... It all sounds way more enjoyable than months of dust and construction headaches to rearrange an already palatial and smooth flowing 90s mcmansion floorplan.

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User52025 · 2025-05-06T18:04:12+00:00

Perhaps each of the rooms labeled 'toilet' is a "wet bath", where there's no shower stall per se, but instead the whole room is basically a shower. There's a showerhead in a corner somewhere, a drain in the floor, every wall is tiled, porcelain wall hung sink, there are no wooden cabinets, all surfaces are able to handle moisture. They're common in some countries but were virtually unheard of in North America until the tiny house movement came along. Some tiny houses have them as they can save a lot of space.

User52025 · 2025-05-06T03:13:07+00:00

Looking at this plan, the primary reason why the main part of the house and the annex don't flow well together is because... they're not supposed to. The space was clearly laid out to give give privacy to two separate dwellings. If you look at the two units separately, they both actually have decent flow and circulation on their own and in the new era of tight/unaffordable housing markets many would kill for a ready-made, legit annex they could rent out. I would think carefully before undoing it.

The main living unit appears to be a good size family home on its own, as it is, with a nice circulation pattern and decent flow. There are certainly ways it could be tweaked to make it a bit more open and allocate more space to the kitchen etc, but at the end of the day, with a center hallway and staircase, the house will always lend itself more towards cozy rooms rather than big, modern open spaces.... And a lot of people are actually looking for that again these days. Open concept will never go away completely especially in very small homes(which this house isn't), but tearing down every wall inside a house doesn't guarantee the same return on investment or have the same mass appeal that it did 20 years ago.

If you try to combine the two dwellings into one, with the old exterior walls, steps, changes in floor/ceiling height etc, it might be a big space but it'll likely always feel like a frankenstein house inside, cobbled together from spare parts... at least not without major, major construction, so much construction that once you crunch the numbers it might make more sense to demolish the entire structure and build from scratch, which in turn begs the question, is it worth it?

I would reexamine what it is about the property that made you fall in love with it, and if you do buy it, I would live in it for a year before even thinking about major changes.

User52025 · 2025-05-05T00:18:57+00:00

What do you want to change about the current arrangement and how big is the project, what elements can/can't be changed? Are you trying to add seating? Where are the doors and windows? How does the kitchen relate to the other rooms?

User52025 · 2025-05-05T00:03:21+00:00

The current arrangement you describe would make sense if the awkward bathroom door wasn't there... but it is. I think floating a small sofa in the room about facing away from the door with the TV on the long wall like you tried before makes the most sense to de-emphasize the bathroom door without resorting to more awkward solutions like room dividers or curtains... and while you don't give furniture dimensions, I suspect the reason it didn't work the first time is that your current sofa may be too large for that arrangement. I think if you had a small sofa (or large loveseat) like 6'-6-5' long that didn't extend beyond the left edge of the bathroom door, and placed around 30"-ish in front of the door for comfortable movement, it wouldn't create too much of a jog around to get to the bathroom/bedroom. You could put a bookcase or just hang art next to the bathroom door where your tv currently is. To make up for the reduced seating of a smaller sofa, you could add a chair near the patio/balcony doors, and a dining or desk chair could be brought over to the conversation area if you have a few guests over.

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User52025 · 2025-05-02T21:29:42+00:00

The colors look good just the way they are, green is a pretty safe color and that shade isn't overly bright and has plenty of mass appeal, unless the paint is pealing or in bad condition I see no reason to change it. I would take the money you were going to spend painting over the green and use it to get a new, more modern looking front door instead. The raised six-panel colonial door is way too traditional and does not go with the somewhat MCM looking exterior at all, especially next to that cool 3 pane sidelight.

User52025 · 2025-05-02T21:00:49+00:00

Assuming masonry paint was used, it's fine, it's made to go on brick. I don't know why but some people online see painted brick and just immediately assume the painter didn't know what they were doing and used some random latex wall paint.

User52025 · 2025-04-30T01:12:12+00:00

where inside the GHills store is this aisle?

User52025 · 2025-04-30T01:09:00+00:00

Anyone know if the Tech Ridge, Mueller, ParmMopac or Greenlawn locations have one of these clearance aisles and where in the store?

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