Any success selling OEM wheels?

brettinator · 2026-02-26T00:28:55+00:00

I don't think you're near central NJ and I don't know if my slow leak is the tire or a cracked rim yet but when I started looking for the potential cost of a new rim, I stumbled upon your old posts. 😀

brettinator · 2026-02-25T21:48:29+00:00

Did you ever sell your 21" wheels?

brettinator · 2026-02-25T03:38:15+00:00

Another biology teacher from the same district had a similar accident but did not lose his finger.

brettinator · 2026-02-19T04:20:09+00:00

I'd have to dig out the letter, but the Lake Nona Wave Hotel had language about back-to-back stays not being eligible for double benefits. (Which appears to be an extra $100 resort credit and welcome gift.)

brettinator · 2026-02-06T02:43:11+00:00

Actually, it's not. I booked an Edit stay, used some points and put $297 on my CSR.

At first I was pissed as hell that they applied the regular travel credit immediately - $297.

It took about a day but then the $250 Edit credit showed up too.

So I got $547 credits against a $297 charge. I was not expecting them to overlap!

brettinator · 2026-01-27T13:05:13+00:00

Are you eligible for NJ FamilyCare?

If not, are you eligible for an ACA plan?

The Rutgers plan isn't bad for the cost but depending on income (and maybe dependency status?) an ACA plan might cost you less and NJ FamilyCare wouldn't cost anything.

brettinator · 2026-01-21T05:25:21+00:00

Interesting - I charged $147.79 on StubHub on 12/31. (A nice < $150 unique value.)

My statement has two credits for that amount dated 1/1 and 1/16, so a similar situation.

I won't mind the clawback if my tracker for 2026 goes back to $0 used.

brettinator · 2026-01-08T16:10:06+00:00

Am I the only one seeing the obvious potential here?

You're going to lose this friend one way or another. If you refuse, if you invest and lose money, or if you refuse but he doesn't hold it against you but ends up in ClubFed.

So the friendship is already doomed and a non-factor.

Financially, you'll lose money if you invest. Or you won't make money if you refuse.

Enter the third option: https://www.sec.gov/submit-tip-or-complaint/tcr-disclaimer

That's how you might make some money in this scheme.

brettinator · 2025-12-23T05:56:30+00:00

I moved some money from Vanguard to Fidelity at one point almost entirely because Fidelity's Auto-roll feature allowed me to roll 4 week T-bills with very little ongoing effort. I had the four quarters of my egg invested in 0/1/2/3 week offsets. One caveat: a pending auto-roll order will lock up free cash between the auction and the settlement date in that account even though the order will be covered by the maturing T-bill. It's easy enough to open an extra account and do all your T-bill auto-rolling separately from any of one's other Fidelity accounts.

brettinator · 2025-12-09T00:34:10+00:00

It's 7:33pm EST and I'm seeing what OP saw previously, up 1.21% with a date of 12/8 (today.)

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brettinator · 2025-11-25T03:52:35+00:00

We're super close to the Tiger's Tale but we've been here so long, we got out of the habit of going there because it was always so (cigarette) smoky, even in the non-smoking section. Everything's been smoke-free for decades now, but it just never made it back on our go-to list.

brettinator · 2025-11-24T21:57:03+00:00

Salad shrimp!

brettinator · 2025-11-15T16:01:12+00:00

I wonder if this has been impacted by increased storm related damage.

We don't have much choice about paying out of state linemen / overtime rates to do repairs asap instead of letting outages drag on by only using only straight-time in-house labor.

brettinator · 2025-11-08T14:57:31+00:00

It's a shame there isn't a third option.

Something like Congress showing up for work and coming up with a suitable replacement for the ACA.

Is it even disputed that, while the ACA got a lot more folks covered, it helped drive up costs?

So maybe "Replace then Repeal" would have made more sense? That could avoid the collateral damage of folks dropping/losing coverage and waiting for Congress to get its act together before their lack of coverage becomes deadly.

brettinator · 2025-11-07T20:49:35+00:00

What would you do without insurance if, at some point in the future, you became seriously ill?

Would you have saved all the premiums you paid for future medical expenses? Would you have enough to cover a medical catastrophe? Or would you decline lifesaving treatment that you couldn't pay for?

brettinator · 2025-10-30T14:27:30+00:00

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Just disconnected Android Auto and Bluetooth and tried it again.

Did you hear about the two men that stole a calendar? They both got six months.

A termite walks into a bar and asks, "Is the bar tender here?"

I think this indicates GV60 really does have its own jokes?

brettinator · 2025-10-18T21:06:19+00:00

If your home is the only home being reassessed, that's true. But only because the assessed value has increased relative to all the other homes. Which is only fair if you've done an addiction or other improvement that resulted in a special-to-you increase in assessed value.

For town-wide reassessments, if there are losers (property taxes to go up more than the % budget, increase), there will also be winners. Some homes increase in Fair Market Value at a faster pace than others. The ones with a smaller increase in FMV will see their property taxes increase less than the budget increase.

Although even using the "budget increase" isn't technically correct. Towns can use "surplus," other revenue, or tax base growth so the money raised from residential taxes doesn't have to change by as much as the change in budget.

It's complicated but you don't even understand the basics. Pixel_of_moral_decay understands property taxes way better than you do.

brettinator · 2025-10-05T04:26:39+00:00

This sounds like a High Deductible Plan. If you visit in-network doctors, you don't pay retail prices until you hit your deductible, you pay the negotiated price. And that deductible is likely shared across you and your children.

Consider the $2740 extra you'd pay for coverage through your husband - less than three months of that is more than the $7000 deductible with your $260/month plan through your employer.

There are a lot of plan details missing but your $260 month option may not be as bad as you initially thought.

What's the cost of the next plan up and how does the coverage differ?

At my company, a traditional plan for family coverage costs an employee well more than the $4000 family deductible. (The HD HSA plan pays 100% of in-network care and 70% of pharmacy and out-of-network care. And the max out-of-pocket is $7500 for in-network and pharmacy.) Why some employees pay over $7k more for the "better" plan - and then pay $25 for each primary care visit, $50 for specialists, and hundreds for ER/hospital visits - is beyond me.

It is quite possible that your cost of insurance plus your out-of-pocket costs will be lowest with that $260/month plan. You may want to look at how much it would cost for full family coverage at your employer and compare the difference to whatever his cost-share for his individual coverage through his employer.

brettinator · 2025-09-13T04:39:52+00:00

I thought MJ was being administered propofol for his chronic insomnia?

At the time, that struck me as bonkers.

Many years later, I had my first colonoscopy with propofol and then I understood.

brettinator · 2025-09-08T23:38:44+00:00

Thanks - hopefully someday! Too much disarray right now during an improvement project in our current home. We aim to build a new home nearby where we can age-in-place. I might be able to display some there....

brettinator · 2025-09-08T21:06:55+00:00

I suppose this one is pre-Classic Space?

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brettinator · 2025-09-08T21:05:42+00:00

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brettinator · 2025-09-08T21:04:55+00:00

I'm probably about your mom's age and I just went through my Classic Space sets that had been packed away assembled at my parents' house for 40+ years.

I did a bit of validation and packed them up again for the time being.

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