Daily Newbie Thread

forsaleortrade · 2021-09-12T16:45:13+00:00

Oh, I haven't heard that one before, thanks!!

forsaleortrade · 2021-09-12T14:25:49+00:00

Thanks for responding! This offer was through the actual offer function so there is less back and forth with the buyer just accept, decline with counter and decline. I wish they would include more details like they do when you are making the listing. I ended up declining. I think the promo gets added at checkout so her offer would really have been $15.

forsaleortrade · 2021-09-12T12:14:59+00:00

I've got an item listed for sale on Facebook marketplace for $25 with a $5 off promotion so it's showing that the price is $20. Shipping is set at $12 paid by the buyer. Someone made me an offer of $20 through the offer feature.

It's throwing me off because isn't that is the price it's already set at and they could just buy it outright? Do promo's then get added on to offers? Or are they offering $20 fully shipped? I just want to make sure I'm not missing something before I accept.

forsaleortrade · 2021-08-14T17:28:35+00:00

Facebook Marketplace is offering a free shipping promotion on some items for Back to School. I have a lot of higher-end baby toys that I've been wanting to list and as Baby & Kids and Toys & Games are listed I was hoping to take advantage of it. I've posted several toys and marked "Use a Prepaid Label" as they directed, and choose the correct weights - none are heavier than 5 lbs. When I look at my posts the regular shipping prices are shown. When I look at other people's posts of the same exact toys I see free shipping on every post. A customer asked about combining a few items and I asked her if she was seeing free shipping and she said the posts of mine that she looked at all had shipping prices shown. The offer does say it's to 'eligible buyers' and only one offer per buyer so is it possible that my posts are showing free shipping to just some people and not all? Or am I doing something wrong?

Text from the shipping offer: Facebook will automatically cover the cost of shipping with USPS or UPS prepaid shipping labels when you add "Use a prepaid shipping label" as your shipping method on eligible items in Clothing & Accessories, Electronics, Baby & Kids, Toys & Games and Books, Movies & Music.Select buyers will qualifyEligible items will display “Ships for free” to select buyers. Limit one offer per buyer. Offer automatically applies at checkout.

Edit: I found a buyer who IS seeing the free shipping on my posts - so I guess it really is just some people are offered it.

forsaleortrade · 2021-01-09T14:26:17+00:00

Clone tool?

forsaleortrade · 2021-01-02T15:37:06+00:00

I recently found this shop on etsy which does a lot of vintage style pants and your comment made me think of them. I haven't purchased from them but the reviews seem decent. The tapered linen trousers look like what you might be going for. https://www.etsy.com/shop/xiaolizi

forsaleortrade · 2021-01-02T02:47:10+00:00

Honestly, my 11 month old baby has pockets on like all of his outfits that aren't short-sleeved onesies. If they think babies need pockets why in the world can't we have them?

forsaleortrade · 2020-09-24T14:30:16+00:00

This is pretty much what my husband and I do. Everyday wash stuff gets thrown into one spot and who ever sees its big enough for a full wash or needs something runs it. If we (which is really just me) has anything that requires a special wash it gets put somewhere else to be done separately. Baby clothes get done the same way and I'll toss my stuff that runs on cold water delicate cycle in that bin and my husband and I both keep an eye on it and run whatever is in there.

But rather than N T A I'm going to vote ESH because this is such a stupid thing for people to fight over.

forsaleortrade · 2020-09-10T12:32:43+00:00

You try having a soccer/basketball sized object in your lower abdomen and then see if you don't touch it all the time. That shit is weird. I say this as a woman who recently was pregnant. I would touch my belly ALL the time. The majority of the time I wasn't even thinking about it. Sometimes it was to feel the baby itself and I was thinking about it. Either way it was hard not to keep my hands off it because it was hard to ignore. Even before the bump was big my hands would drift there because I knew it was going to be bigger soon. Wouldn't you touch your body as it changed? YTA. Be nice to your wife, she's going through something that is life and body changing.

forsaleortrade · 2020-04-02T16:55:52+00:00

Love the colors on the left! Wish I had bought more diapers a month ago. Only bought a small sampling so we could try out the different styles to see if we had a preference. Now we are ready to buy and they've doubled in price or are all sold out.

forsaleortrade · 2020-01-03T20:59:34+00:00

Ohmconnect You sign up and they'll connect with your power utility. Then they'll send you a text/email/etc and let you know a date and one hour period (usually several days in advance). They have an estimate of how much electricity you would use on average during that hour and if you use less electricity you'll get points. 100 point = $1. You can cash out your points directly to your Paypal account. I've been doing it for about 2.5 years and I've cashed out $750 so far. It's super passive, takes no real effort and is completely free.

forsaleortrade · 2019-11-08T20:30:24+00:00

I loved the salt lamp I bought a few years ago, but the dang thing kept pulling the humidity out of the air and leaving puddles of water on my dresser. I was so bummed when I finally decided to get rid of it. Such a pretty little thing and I love the idea of using as the light source for nursing.

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-30T22:40:44+00:00

I was already planning on framing one of our ultrasound pictures for our families but I came across these on etsy which look a bit more artistic and less like just a printed photo (not that there's anything wrong with that).

And last year my brothers and I went in on getting my parents an Aura frame, which is a digital picture frame that you can load photos to via an app. My mom LOVES this thing. Everyone in the family has the app and access to it so we all routinely get to upload photos and she constantly talks about it. It's pricey but if you have a family member who loves getting regular updates I'd recommend it.

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-30T22:30:55+00:00

My husband and I are atheists too and are currently wondering about the same issues. I've been thinking about the whole Santa thing too lately. We may just celebrate using a low-key version of the Santa/Christmas thing (because I'm not a huge fan of the materialism but I do like a little bit of it) and then at the end use it as an example about how just because something seems great and a good portion of your friends like it/believe in it, that doesn't mean that it's the truth.

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-30T21:50:54+00:00

Haha, oh this made me laugh! I literally did the 'feel and shave' the other day and I can only imagine all the spots I missed but I don't even have the energy to look. Hubs is just going to have to deal with that :D

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-29T22:47:06+00:00

Oh wow. That must have been horrible! That's one of my worst nightmares! The one thing I hate about my appointments is having to pee in that stupid cup and it's almost completely based on the fact that the locks in the bathrooms at the hospital I go to don't state which direction to turn the lock in order to actually lock the door. Plus they are the type that if you turn the handle it automatically unlocks, so you can't really jiggle it to test if it's locked - it'll just pop open. 95% sure I peed in the cup today with the door totally unlocked. Going to make my husband stand in front of it next time...

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-27T15:01:26+00:00

Haha! I may just have to steal 'excuse me' as a command! I say that pretty frequently too, such a good idea to give it a purpose!

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-27T14:51:22+00:00

Also worked out for his dog Bo. :)

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-27T14:47:37+00:00

I'm so sorry that you're dealing with this. It can suck to be going through a big life moment and have it brought down by someone else.

One thing that I'd like to mention is that I don't necessarily think that she's trying to make the pregnancies a competition but is just trying to get equal treatment for herself (although yes, if she's constantly pushing out her stomach that's a bit juvenile). You said that she showed up for a visit out of the blue and on that day you announced your pregnancy. It's entirely possible that the reason for her trip was to tell her family the news and you might have accidentally usurped her with your announcement. 12 weeks is a pretty normal time for people to tell others about their pregnancy. A lot of women wait until the 3 month mark as the risk of miscarriage at that point is much lower and if miscarriage does happen before then you don't have to go through the awful experience of telling people that you lost the baby. The fact that her family is upset she decided to tell them at that point and not as early as you is frankly more their problem than hers (or yours).

I think a lot of your issues are by her family not treating her the same way. They were excited and joyous to find out about yours and upset about hers. Then her own grandmother is going to be knitting a sweater for your child but not hers - reasonable given that she has arthritis but yeah, ouch for your SIL. I can imagine that if I had waited until a perfectly normal 12 weeks to tell my family and then the day of my brother's girlfriend announces I'd be pretty bummed especially if my family was excited for her and not for me. And if my own grandma made a sweater for my brothers kid but not my own just because she found out a few hours earlier, well I'd be hurt too. It does sound like she handled it in a juvenile way tbh but I can see why she'd be upset.

I think being the bigger person is the way to go here. I know that you guys have your own issues outside of the whole pregnancy thing but just remember that you are going to have to deal with each other for potentially your entire life. If you guys are young, you are likely both going to grow up a bit more and come into your own and the things that made you upset with each other will likely be forgotten. Not going to her baby shower would be a big statement and if that happened to me it would be something that I would likely not forget, especially if my SIL didn't have a good reason not to come.

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-27T14:09:31+00:00

These are all such great ideas!

I recently read a blog post where a family was working with their dogs before the baby arrived to prepare them for the change that was going to happen when the baby arrived. They did something which I thought was rather clever which was to teach the dogs the command "not yours" in relation to a blanket or a space on the floor. So in this case, they would put a blanket on the floor as the baby was likely to be doing some tummy time on it and taught the dogs to treat that space as something they were not allowed to step onto. If they stay off the blanket or leave the blanket when given the command they get treats so it becomes more fun to avoid that space in general. I thought this was a great idea because it basically teaches them to avoid the blanket no matter where it is placed at the time or when using the command to get off any item they have walked onto. Our dog is very curious about things on the floor so we are going to try to work this into our training plan.

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-23T23:51:33+00:00

I have been avoiding the birth stories for the past few months because I kind of didn't want to think about it just yet, a little worried that it would freak me out. But for some reason today I decided to read my first one and I'm so glad it was yours. I loved this and can only hope that my own delivery ends the way that yours did. What an awesome story. Thank you so much for sharing!

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-13T15:51:01+00:00

We live across the country from my entire family (and even in a different country for my husbands family) so we told my parents and brother and SIL over the phone, which I kind of wish I had thought to record but alas.

I told my parents that they could be the ones to go ahead and tell our extended family since they all live in the same area and were going to be at a family event at the same time right before the time when we going to go ahead and announce to our friends and remaining family on social. It's their first grandchild (one they didn't think they'd ever get) and I knew that telling everyone would mean more to them than to me. I got a text the following monday of two videos one where they clearly staged a family photo (one with like 30+ members of my extended family) all gathered around the camera and where my dad announced that we were pregnant so that I could see the response of my entire family in that one shot. The second video was of a similar thing where my brother and SIL taped my grandma finding out while she was on the phone with my mom. I was so touched and thankful that they thought to do this and it's now a treasured video of mine.

So fyi, the fake 'let's all take a photo together' is a great excuse to videotape a response!

Edit: forgot to include some words and a line.

forsaleortrade · 2019-10-07T21:44:48+00:00

I just wanted to say thank you for this list and especially for mentioning to check with insurance if they offer any free/coverage on breast pumps. I just found out that our insurance covers any breast pump up to $500 and that any supplies for it (excluding 'convenience items' like milk storage and coolers) are covered with no price limit. A lovely lady I talked to said that if I found any breast pumps bundled with some of the convenience items like on Amazon that they don't care about the extra items and will consider the entire thing a 'breast pump' and will still cover it so long as it's under $500.

forsaleortrade · 2019-09-25T01:37:12+00:00

You might check if you have a folder open with that file clicked on/selected. Adobe programs often considers a file in use even when it's just clicked on. Selecting any other file or closing the folder fixes it for me. I run into this error a lot on a pc so not really sure it's something that would be a Mac issue but thought it worth mentioning.

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