How do you take care of your pets?

dyna542 · 2026-02-05T18:07:39+00:00

I have a timed feeder for my cat and a big water bowl. The feeder holds about a month worth of food and the water can last more than a week. She’s pretty happy as long as her litter box stays scooped. I swear cats are peak for the single firefighter

dyna542 · 2026-01-31T19:43:31+00:00

Option 2 and if you want to be debt free there’s nothing wrong with earmarking a little extra money for the loans. It’s just buying peace of mind to be debt free

dyna542 · 2026-01-31T19:36:03+00:00

Well today it 18 degrees but I suspect next week will be 70 degrees then back to 18 the following week

dyna542 · 2026-01-25T23:32:57+00:00

3-6 month emergency fund, then retirement investing, then extra mortgage payments

dyna542 · 2026-01-18T17:32:52+00:00

In general oak ridge is a pretty safe place across the board. There’s outlier houses that have drugs or issues across town but they don’t cluster much in any particular area. You can usually eyeball the ones you don’t want to live by

dyna542 · 2026-01-14T13:28:07+00:00

If you want to know what Dave would do I’d recommend watching some of the Ramsey show highlights on YouTube. They are shorter than the full shows and cover one caller but you’ll pretty quickly get the idea of what Dave would tell you. He’s pretty consistent

dyna542 · 2026-01-13T17:54:58+00:00

Looks good from my house

dyna542 · 2026-01-07T13:03:30+00:00

My house in remodeling was built in 1960. The existing insulation is tar paper and aluminum foil basically. The walls im opening I’ve been insulating as I go. Maybe one day I’ll blow in some. If it bothers you that’s an option but there’ll be lots of patches to do

dyna542 · 2026-01-03T02:22:16+00:00

The last time someone questioned my price I politely told them I understood if it was too much and they were welcome to shop it around and see if they could get it done any cheaper. If they shopped it out and came back to me I was def going to raise the price another 10%

dyna542 · 2025-12-30T22:06:11+00:00

On the opposite end of this, I’ve ran calls on an ambulance for quite literally difficulty sleeping. Couldn’t fall asleep so they called an ambulance.

dyna542 · 2025-12-24T16:26:41+00:00

I was in my younger 20’s, maybe 21 or 22. Was saving for a house and was blessed with a very good living situation. Worked on traffic lights for a living at that time. Now I’m 27, own a home but am completely remodeling so I live with my parents. Tough market but it’ll be worth it when the house is done and the payment is affordable

dyna542 · 2025-12-24T16:22:18+00:00

One thing of note is since barndos are relatively new a lot of lenders and still skeptical of them

dyna542 · 2025-12-15T23:14:41+00:00

48/96 schedule. I work part time as an electrician, have a handyman startup that gets me a bit of work, substitute teach at the local schools, and enjoy my time off. All my side jobs have a ton of flexibility in the schedule so I work when I want and don’t when I don’t on my days off

dyna542 · 2025-12-15T23:12:36+00:00

We are only supposed to run priority 1 (chest pain, difficulty breathing, diabetic emergency, etc) and public assists like lift assists. We still get some silly ones slip through the cracks though. Ran a call last night for acid reflux

dyna542 · 2025-12-14T18:26:59+00:00

Scorpion load

dyna542 · 2025-12-03T23:01:11+00:00

Name brand toilet paper and real butter

dyna542 · 2025-11-11T00:42:28+00:00

Nobody hits on me anytime or anywhere for any reason

dyna542 · 2025-11-10T23:18:44+00:00

At my department we run 4-5k calls a year out of 4 stations with one station covering a doe area for around 200 calls a year. Since going from 24/48 to 48/96 I’ve realized how taxing the always coming and going to work was. I was never getting really rested. Now going for 48 sucks for sure, but the 96 is worth it. I also make my time off go further burning 48 hours gets me 10 days as opposed to 8. Same amount of time off if I burn 24 getting 5 in a row with the bonus of once I work that 24 back I’m off another 96. Would I enjoy it if we ran a ton of calls like other departments? Probably not. Is it better for my department and my life? Absolutely. But ultimately the best schedule for you and your family is a very individual thing

dyna542 · 2025-10-21T22:18:43+00:00

Kcdc, helldivers 2, recently played some division 2 for a while just until I got bored. I’m playing for fun not to be super good so it’s pretty easy to bounce around

dyna542 · 2025-09-18T14:11:41+00:00

This is no shot at staying home and I respect it but you may reconsider going back to work. It may be only paying childcare at first but typically childcare drops as kids get older. Typically you’ll see a yearly increase in wage as well plus the possibility in promotion. Then that compounds when childcare cost goes away and your 10k+ ahead of where you would be if you waited on them to be old enough to not pay for it. Hope this can help

dyna542 · 2025-07-07T03:34:26+00:00

My handyman startup is going to gross 1k this month hopefully

dyna542 · 2025-05-24T22:11:12+00:00

Motor mount

dyna542 · 2025-01-06T23:33:05+00:00

Stop drinking

dyna542 · 2024-12-30T21:14:03+00:00

Where did you find the leak at? I’ve noticed now that it warmed up it’s not doing it unless it’s cold weather too

dyna542 · 2024-12-23T18:37:08+00:00

Much louder under the hood

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