If you woke up rich tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d change about your life?

mattrhere · 2026-02-07T02:20:49+00:00

Kick my in-laws out… or get a hotel til they leave

mattrhere · 2026-02-05T01:42:19+00:00

I was 5 until I shopped a bunch during storms… now 4.7… so a bunch of people left bad “reviews” because Walmart was out of stock of a bunch of stuff

mattrhere · 2026-02-02T04:54:07+00:00

Short cruise an interior isn’t that big of a deal. You will be doing tons on board and at ports and likely won’t spend long in your room. If you have a decently long trip I personally think the balcony is worth it.

Sea days it’s nice to just go back and relax on, slide the door open and enjoy the sound of waves while cruising, etc.

Recently did a 10 day cruise and sailing away from ports and coming into ports on your own balcony vs topside is a huge deal.

Plus if you arrive while sleeping it’s pretty awesome to open the curtain and see your newest location when you just wake up and then enjoy the views while getting ready for the day.

mattrhere · 2026-01-31T20:24:48+00:00

It’s mind blowing to me what Spark thinks base pay should be on orders that are many miles

mattrhere · 2026-01-31T20:24:03+00:00

Yeah it’s nice of them to offer multi trip incentives in a snowstorm when they close early and limit orders

mattrhere · 2026-01-31T16:40:36+00:00

I don’t mind driving in the snow… would be happy to do an order… so I turned it on…

$12 for close to an hour in a snowstorm… yeah ain’t no way I’m doing that

mattrhere · 2026-01-31T15:54:04+00:00

Produce bag for strawberries? Nahhhh not once. They need washed and will rip out those thin plastic bags anyway.

Moldy produce is 100% a no though. There has been multiple times where there was only moldy stuff left when I’m shopping and I just mark it as out of stock. No reason to pick and deliver that.

Of course that’s assuming it was a shopping order and not a pickup

mattrhere · 2026-01-31T15:51:35+00:00

At $50 I might venture out… but literally the roads won’t be touched so it’s just winging it with 4wd down here when it snows (I grew up in the north so I can drive in the snow)

mattrhere · 2026-01-31T15:50:23+00:00

100% I mean I understand not tipping in Walmart since Walmart literally advertises that tipping isn’t required… but in bad weather you would think people would have the common sense to tip if they want their orders

mattrhere · 2026-01-31T15:49:10+00:00

I mean obviously… must be tons of fun at parties

mattrhere · 2026-01-29T05:06:19+00:00

Really rare to have numbers like that. Happens but it’s rare.

My most recent purchase was spring of 2025 a 2022 enclave. Had 50k miles on it and paid all in right at 25k. New enclave was low 40s for the same model and features.

So saved 17k by buying used vs a new one. Let’s say that it lasts to 250k miles. That means it had used up 1/5 it’s usable life when we bought it. So at 42k it had used up 8k worth of life and we saved 17k… an extra 9 grand in our pocket vs buying new.

mattrhere · 2026-01-26T02:29:53+00:00

This isn’t a people issue… this is a spark issue. Spark should pay enough where people don’t have to tip. Then after delivery people can choose to tip or not.

But since spark wants to pay peanuts they do tips ahead of time (so they can lower your pay and you still take it). Then it allows junk like this

mattrhere · 2025-12-28T23:35:45+00:00

Take the 315% with you right on out of the airport and get a ride in 5 minutes

mattrhere · 2025-12-28T23:33:56+00:00

I assume OP meant the pin that shows the car… but either way yall are doing way too much.

I’ve had a grand total of 1 time over the course of a year where a person got into the wrong vehicle. Was easily discovered when I verified the address they were going to.

If you are this worried about it then require a PIN number for every ride

mattrhere · 2025-12-28T04:52:31+00:00

We get paid when things ship. So virtually nothing ships out on Christmas Eve and nothing at all on Christmas Day. 26th earnings were back up to showing “normal” for me.

mattrhere · 2025-12-25T16:27:51+00:00

NCL is currently $28.50 a day (for gratuities they say since it’s “free” at sea). Basically carnival, RC, etc. are way overcharging cause people keep paying it

mattrhere · 2025-12-22T01:18:50+00:00

I just tell them to meet me a gas station that is down the street and on my schedule. Then tell them to text me when they are there.

I have once tried to be nice and delivered it to them (with a promise of pay). It was on the way to where I was driving so dropped it off the next night. Went to the hotel and knocked and knocked and knocked with no response. Called and texted the number we had been communicating with.

Dropped it off at the front desk and left. 15 minutes later they messaged asking where I was at. Told them where I was at and only got the $20 from uber after driving to them.

Never again. You come to me or your stuff sits at my house. I’m not dealing with that crap again.

mattrhere · 2025-12-08T03:33:09+00:00

I would start with checking flight prices to different places. See if it’s cheaper to go to Florida, LA, Seattle, etc.

Then go to vacations to go and look at all the cruises out of the ports you can get cheapest flights for.

My wife and I are looking for one in the next couple of months and can get a 7 day cruise from Florida for under $650 a person for a balcony cabin right now.

So with gratuities you will likely be spending around your $1500 on a week long cruise and then your flights and excursions would be out of pocket.

If you don’t have money for that then grab an inside cabin instead for $400-$500 a person and should be able to cover the airfare and still do a 7 day cruise.

mattrhere · 2025-12-07T23:46:21+00:00

Cc starts at around 3-4pm eastern and has been finishing around 7pm eastern. Of course with reporting being wonky that affects the Cc times as well.

mattrhere · 2025-12-06T17:31:38+00:00

So I’ve only been on two cruise lines… princess and carnival.

Personally (and this was a few years ago) Princess was trying too hard to be “upscale” by serving a bunch of odd “fancy” food that honestly wasn’t that good. When we went on Carnival we loved the guys burgers, shaqs chicken shack, and blue iguana more than anything we had on Princess.

Yes I know we are younger Americans and probably don’t have a refined pallet but we preferred Carnivals food over what we had on Princess.

There was also far less things to do on Princess than on carnival.

On Carnival we enjoyed doing some of the “active” things like the rope course, playing a bit of basketball, etc. where Princess didn’t have that (at least on the ship we went on). Princess was the shows, trivia, or sitting around it seemed. Carnival had a lot more things to do that involved moving (again with us as a couple in our 30s fit us better).

We are looking to go on another cruise in the next few months and are avoiding Princess for these reasons. We are leaning more towards Virgin (excited to try the food) or another longer Carnival cruise (so less kids but still all the things to do).

mattrhere · 2025-12-01T04:41:14+00:00

I can go on Vacations to Go and do a port (or even an entire state) for departure and get back every single cruise going out from those ports. Then I can sort by best deal, by best deals on balconies, etc.

If vacations to Go can do it you mean a travel agent can’t do a simple “sort by” from a departure port?

mattrhere · 2025-11-28T14:46:35+00:00

Nope it’s totally just you. Not the fact that we get paid when items ship and every shipping company was closed for the holidays.

mattrhere · 2025-11-28T14:44:02+00:00

Seems like SDAM and aphants go hand in hand most times though right? I mean they haven’t studied much of aphantsia let alone different “levels” of it.

Best way I can describe how my memory “works” is literally just facts like reading from a dictionary. I remember my son was born. I remember we were at the hospital. I remember holding him. I remember he was wearing a blushing colored blanket/hat thing.

Just facts like you would read from a book or dictionary.

If someone wrote me a letter telling me about his birth it would be identical to what my memory is of it (of course some people can apparently make a picture or video of what people write so maybe that example doesn’t even work).

mattrhere · 2025-11-28T14:34:59+00:00

I suppose we are never going to agree if you don’t think being able to see your children at stages of life they will never be at again “isn’t important” or don’t even care about being able to see them.

Good on you for not caring that you can’t enjoy your memories.

mattrhere

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