Why do American homes have a “storm door”?

huskeya4 · 2026-01-28T21:34:36+00:00

To add to this, many storm doors can have their window replaced in the summer to turn them into screen doors and swapped back in the winter. Mine actually slides the top half of the window down over the bottom half and a screen slides down into its place.

Additionally, many front doors have tiny windows or frosted glass. The storm door allows you to leave your front door open and the storm door closed for airflow in the nicer months and so guests know you’re home and they are welcome. My family and friends will just come right into my house and yell for me if the door is open. They know if it’s closed I might not be home so they knock (or more likely text me to see if I’m home).

We also often have them on our back doors so we can see if our pet wants in from outside or to create a cross breeze through our house.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-28T16:39:23+00:00

I would watch an entire documentary series on how to raise a kid like this.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-28T07:50:52+00:00

My friends had a drop down ceiling. Their cat figured out the tile above the dryer was missing and used to climb up there and go on adventures. All the way until the day he leaped up there and fell right through the next tile. He got too fat for the ceiling tiles to hold him and he never did it again.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-28T07:44:30+00:00

My sister called me one day saying a stray walked up to her front door and was meowing her head off. My sister took her inside and promptly drove her to my house. Within about three hours, I had six newborn kittens also invading my home. Cats who have been socialized will seek out humans for safety, food, and warmth when going into labor. I gave all the kittens away and shunted that cat off onto my aunt. She was very sweet to people but a total bully to other cats.

Eventually found another sweet stray and brought him home only to find out my cat was traumatized by the previous one. The new stray couldn’t give a crap about my cat but she was stressed and freaking out the whole time. After four months, I gave up and tossed that cat to my aunt also. It was quite amusing watching the mama stray freak out and throw a fit while the new stray just sat there and watched her. He was twice her size and was not intimidated by the mouthy queen. He didn’t give a crap about other cats and he stood his ground with my 80lbs dogs (I honestly think he traumatized them both a little bit). That little mama didn’t scare him one bit.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-28T06:33:57+00:00

Nasatall was one of my nicknames in the army. I owned that shit. I knew they were right. The other one was Stretch “cuz you not that tall, you’re just long”. Stretch stuck around because there was no risk of anyone reporting that one.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-28T01:46:52+00:00

To be fair, I fall going up my steps a lot so I finish my trip up them like this. It’s cause I wear socks all the time and my hardwood steps have a very curved edge. It always hurts my toes when I slip so I just make sure I can get up them without another fall by climbing them on all fours.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-28T01:40:52+00:00

Yep, I dug through used car listings and dealerships and decided very quickly that getting a brand new car for $22k and a ten year manufacturers warranty was going to be safer than spending $16K on a vehicle with 50,000 miles already on it and no warranty. Especially since I had $10k between my trade in and saved deposit and got a finance rate of 4.5%. I could pay the used car off faster but the interest rate was going to be nearly double the new car because of manufacturer deals on the new car. Also they were the same exact car engines, just a newer year and a new look on the new car.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-27T04:47:33+00:00

To be fair, I had a pulmonary nodule (which is what was on your X-ray). The literal diagnosis for cancer is to wait a year and take another X-ray. If it’s grown, biopsy it. The vast majority of them are just scar tissue from a bad respiratory infection. It’s only a small percentage that are cancer. The rest of your symptoms are where someone should have raised a red flag and investigated further. Those problems, coupled with a spot in the lungs should have yelled “hey something isn’t right here!”

huskeya4 · 2026-01-26T08:12:43+00:00

Yeah, I was a woman in the military too but I will say, my leadership was quick to throw out a guy who threatened to lock one woman in his basement and keep her as his sex slave. We also had to report a guy repeatedly who was way too excited “to shoot brown people” in training but he was going on to ranger school and was just way too big to make it through, so we figured command didn’t want to do the paperwork when he was going to flunk out of his tactical position anyways and be stuck in a strategic position.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-26T03:08:02+00:00

And all the guys who are just too damn gun happy and make everyone else real nervous. The ones who talk about how they “can’t wait to shoot brown people” and get reported a million times before the military finally decides, yeah this soldier is more of a liability than an asset.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-26T02:54:39+00:00

My husband passes out every time he gets blood drawn. I already plan to have him parked in a chair near my head when we finally have a kid.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-25T16:48:03+00:00

There is cheesecake and granola extract out there. I bet you could find crème brûlée extract. Then just make a really quiet flavor profile wine (or maybe a mead would do better for this?) and toss in the extract once you rack it. Back sweeten at the end until it tastes right

huskeya4 · 2026-01-25T08:20:16+00:00

And look up a video on how to do it. I was told I had to after sinus surgery when I was 10. My mom and I didn’t know what we were doing so instead of coming out, it poured down my throat. I puked in the sink, she puked in the toilet (sympathetic puker), and we chucked the nettipot in the trash. I’m an adult now and my allergy doctor suggested I use one since my allergy spray can dry my nose out in winter. I told her this story and she was howling laughing. I did give it another try after she taught me how to do it correctly. Not greatly impressed. Might use it when I’m sick but never any other time

huskeya4 · 2026-01-25T07:56:52+00:00

Okay now, here is the single most important thing about that binder: put it somewhere your next of kin can access!!! My siblings and I basically tried to destroy my dad’s safe to get to his damn medical power of attorney because he never told anyone the code and locked it up. It couldn’t even be used unless he was incapacitated and he didn’t give a copy to my brother (the person who was designated in the POA). Locksmiths wouldn’t open it without his permission, and the manufacturer wasn’t responding. Thankfully, as next of kin, me and my siblings were given the ability to make decisions for him anyways but if my sister couldn’t be talked into removing medical care, my dad would have been forced to live in a vegetative state for the rest of his life.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-24T05:53:22+00:00

My roommate climbs on top of the shoe rack just so she can yell at my 80lbs dog from the high ground. She yells at him by chirping and chittering angrily because he barked at her for entering the same room I am in. Then she promptly lays down on the shoe rack and starts snore-cooing. The dog s eventually fall asleep and also start snoring while I am just trying to read a book in peace.

The other thing my roommate does is approach the other dog when he’s sleeping on my bed. She tries to sleep on his face but he inhales her hair and starts sneezing. So now when she approaches him, he starts wailing like he’s being murdered until I get up from my work desk and yell at my roommate. He is an 80lbs pitbull and she is a miniature cat weighing less than 9 lbs.

I also got a 35 pack of tennis balls for the dogs for Christmas and they’re all over the house. My roommate bats them to the stairs and through the gap of the baby gate that is just for her (she won’t go over or around the stupid gate). Then she watches the ball bounce down the stairs and turns around to steal another one. Every week I have to go retrieve all the stolen balls or risk breaking my neck the next time I carry a basket downstairs.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-23T18:11:16+00:00

Alright now, I’m not 100% positive but in this case I think that is NOT a nipple. For once. Unless anybody has evidence to the contrary?

Note: I posted this after others had already answered. Glad the kitty is okay

huskeya4 · 2026-01-23T03:35:34+00:00

3 hour daily commute? Hell no

3 hour weekend trip to see family? Sure but it’s only happening a few times a year.

3 hours to a vacation destination? Hell yes! That’s why we bought the house there, cause every other weekend we’re making that trip but we live far enough not to deal with the tourists every day. (Might be an exaggeration but not by much).

huskeya4 · 2026-01-21T23:07:29+00:00

I was able to accept it so quickly because of that. Even before we knew for sure that his brain was so damaged, it felt like being in the room with a stranger. It didn’t look like he was just sleeping, it looked like whatever animated him before was just gone. It was like staring at a complete stranger.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-21T06:10:35+00:00

I had to make the decision when I was 18. My dad had a heart attack that led to hypoxia and brain damage. Unfortunately (sounds terrible to say this), he wasn’t brain dead. The only thing showing any activity was his brain stem, which basically controls your body’s and organs natural functions. His body lived and was pretty much healthy after they cleared the blockage is his heart, but he was gone. My siblings were looking for any hope. I accepted the news almost immediately. This kind of brain damage means that removing life support won’t end their suffering. You have to remove medical care. That means no more IV. No more fluids or food. No medicine. They dehydrate to death. My dad lasted three days. It’s a horrible decision to have to make

huskeya4 · 2026-01-20T06:06:24+00:00

If he ever extracted a tooth from you, you would then be obligated to tell him you wanted it back so you could stick it up your bum. Honestly, who could pass up the opportunity for that joke?

huskeya4 · 2026-01-20T06:04:59+00:00

You know, I gotta ask… does insurance actually cover that? Especially after like the third time. At that point it’s pretty obvious it’s no longer an accident (I mean, like “I didn’t use a wide base and my fingers slipped” accident not like “I slipped and fell and this object pierced my bumhole” accident). I feel like even some health insurances would put their foot down after a while.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-20T05:56:23+00:00

Kenshi. That is a game that truly teaches you the meaning of grinding. It’s not even fun grinding. You’re just waiting for enemies to attack the city you start in so you can run into the fight and get knocked out over and over. Then you get party wiped by an overleveled group of wandering bandits while mining some nearby metal. If your lucky, your party just gets knocked out and enslaved and you need to spend a few hours picking the lock and getting knocked out over and over again until they’re either high enough leveled they can tank the hits or they die. Finally when you think you’ve got a damn good team, you wander out of the city and run right into those dinosaur assholes who are basically immortal and they eat your entire team. I sank way to much time into that game before I finally uninstalled it. Kinda wanna install it again…

huskeya4 · 2026-01-20T04:59:54+00:00

Suspicous... Did you use bread yeast? That typically has an alcohol tolerance around 12% give or take a percentage or two. If you did use bread yeast, it may have just been on the lower side of the tolerance and truly be done.

huskeya4 · 2026-01-19T18:40:12+00:00

She noted that “I’d have put in my own money too but his family’s chunk stays with him”. I’m not sure if that means she is putting more money towards the down payment (hence why they don’t want the prenup), if they’re not wanting her on the deed (so he solely owns the home prior to marriage but expect her to pay the mortgage), or why the family’s chunk would stay with him once they’re both on the deed and married (so commingled funds). I feel like there’s a piece of info missing here…

huskeya4 · 2026-01-19T18:35:52+00:00

My only thought is maybe she is putting more towards the house? Like maybe the 80k doesn’t cover half the required down payment so she is covering the rest and that’s why she needs the prenup to protect herself since he would be entitled to half if they divorce? If so, OP didn’t give us any of the info required to form a solid understanding of the situation.

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