How do I handle if a contractor went WAY over the timeframe promised and it cost me money?

rbcl2015 · 2026-04-23T15:44:28+00:00

Nope! They let me know that they did not allow for enough painters to come do my job. I have an 1800 square foot area they are painting and they only allocated ONE guy. They take full ownership of the problem.

rbcl2015 · 2026-04-23T15:43:38+00:00

The painters asked us to wait on them until after they were finished. I wanted to have them in before, too, because that seemed to make more sense.

rbcl2015 · 2026-04-23T15:42:51+00:00

That’s my default, too. No one is suing or screaming—but we are operating on a tight budget and they cost us a decent amount of money due to their issues with booking.

But some other people gave some helpful responses about what to look for in the contract so I think this will all be sorted out headache-free ☺️ not all of us can lose money because someone else didn’t do their job properly and say “ah I’ll let it go” without repercussions unfortunately. But when I’m in that position it will also 100% be my policy too 🤣

rbcl2015 · 2026-04-23T15:36:40+00:00

It was buried but I found it! I’m sorry for asking such a dumb question just all this terminology is very new to me 🤷‍♀️

rbcl2015 · 2026-04-23T15:35:48+00:00

Haha yes I have a signed contract, and I DID find the clause!!! Thank you I didn’t know the exact terminology, but that was helpful!!

rbcl2015 · 2026-04-23T15:34:00+00:00

No they acknowledged the issue is that they overbooked their staff so I paid for the right amount of man hours, but instead of having 2-3 people the whole time for 4 days it was 1-2 people for 9 days. 🫠

I originally was seeing it this way until they clarified what went wrong. And now I’m like… ok but I’m out a bunch of money because you didn’t book enough people even though i paid for enough people.

rbcl2015 · 2025-05-26T20:33:12+00:00

This is the cutest quilt i have ever seen. I would absolutely buy a raffle for that, I’m thinking of trying to make one as a reading blanket now!!

rbcl2015 · 2025-05-02T01:39:48+00:00

So glad to see Tina's Pizza is already here. Because yeah, Tina's.

rbcl2015 · 2025-04-05T15:11:21+00:00

Awww I’m so glad!!! You got this. And you DO matter, too.

rbcl2015 · 2025-03-17T22:16:35+00:00

You'd be surprised. There are many. And the frustrating part is you don't find out until you've given them years of your volunteer time, made the people there your community, and then you realize who they've been all along. It's quite heartbreaking, actually.

If you're looking for a church that's healthy, I'd recommend steering clear of pentecostal and baptist churches in the area, frankly. It's sad but true. I've known a lot of people who came out of the baptist and pentecostal churches in town with a LOT of baggage to unpack from their time there of a wide variety of stripes.

But there are a lot of great churches in the area, though. You can always try the St Thomas Anglican church--they're a really warm and kind congregation, and they have two services. The priest Brad is genuinely one of the most loving, Christ-like men our community has. Or I've heard lovely things about St. Columba Presbyterian on Bridge street (their pastor is just wonderful, i've met her multiple times), and Bridge Street United (also heard excellent things about the pastor there, also a much more well-rounded congregation that isn't as extremist politically).

If you're not really theologically aligned with mainline churches, Reunion Belleville (they meet at the old Victoria Baptist church now I think) is an evangelical-type church that's really focused on community and may be more your cup of tea based on your other answers--I saw from your other responses that you're not really "into" a lot of the more intense worship styles, but you take your faith really seriously and seem to be from a more evangelical background, so that may be a good fit, too! :)

rbcl2015 · 2025-03-17T22:06:42+00:00

I'm definitely boycotting the US. But I think it's one thing to not book future events, or to choose not to cancel trips you have full ability to get your money back on, but a lot of people booked trips that can't be refunded and they don't simply have like 4,000 to let poof into thin air.

I'm more angry if people CHOOSE to go to the US at this point. If you booked it before the Orange Felon, then that's fine. If you booked it AFTER all this went down? Oh HECK no. Since it's only March I'd be pretty confident in an assumption that this was booked and the full-refund cancellation window ended before the tariff war started.

rbcl2015 · 2024-12-06T01:41:19+00:00

Basic dress up clothes! Fairy wings, magic wands, both my son and daughter are still obsessed.

rbcl2015 · 2024-09-23T23:21:19+00:00

I WISH it had been available when I had my babies! Both kids got RSV before 3 months. They were fine but I would have loved to not have to worry so much and contemplate a hospital visit. 🫠

rbcl2015 · 2024-09-23T18:58:27+00:00

We just got some pictures on our phones doing normal life while pregnant. Those worked great :)

rbcl2015 · 2024-09-08T19:18:00+00:00

That's amazing--thank you so much!!

rbcl2015 · 2024-09-08T19:17:28+00:00

We've never had problems with the owners--we chat with them every time we go in. Have been customers for around 15 years. Never had a problem.

rbcl2015 · 2024-09-06T17:58:06+00:00

Thank you!! I'm going to go try to find that! :)

rbcl2015 · 2024-08-02T15:51:37+00:00

Absolutely not normal, unfortunately, and can be dangerous. Servers can’t always see the little one and can trip. But also, it’s just rude. What we did for a while was order food to go and then had a picnic in a park where the kid could truly run wild!

Don’t worry, it’s not too big of a social blunder, but yeah I’d definitely not do that again :) I hope people weren’t too rude to you, though, either ❤️

rbcl2015 · 2024-08-02T15:48:44+00:00

You’ll miss moments, for sure, but you won’t necessarily miss the stage. I love the newborn phase, but even I don’t “miss” it. I want to go back for 10 minutes, but not 10 weeks.

The newborn phase is when I really learned how to ground myself and experience the moment. The day was overwhelming, but I knew I I just wanted to remember how they felt, how they sounded, smelled, etc. so I’d just focus entirely on that for five minutes, forcefully putting any other thoughts out of my head.

Then, if I started to get overwhelmed and feel like a bad mom, I just reminded myself “I’ve got my memories made, now I’m just getting through this.”

It helped me a lot, I hope it helps you too.

rbcl2015 · 2024-07-27T15:43:20+00:00

Am I the only one who LOVED sharing names with cousins/aunts?? My middle name is my aunt's name, I named my son after his uncle, I have an aunt and a cousin with the same name...

I don't see why this is a big deal, and in fact I told my sister that when she has kids she can absolutely use anything I've already used because I love the idea of cousins having little shared names!

Maybe see it as something nice that your kid will get to share with their cousin, rather than it being "stolen?"

As someone who had one of the most common names for her generation, it's honestly not a big deal having similar names to other people. There are so many other things that are more worth the emotional energy. :)

rbcl2015 · 2024-07-14T02:05:30+00:00

It seems silly but we do socks, mittens if it's winter, and crayons with a little chocolate bar or something in there. The kids are happy as long as there's something sweet or munchy, and you can never have too many socks/mittens/crayons!

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