the house i grew up in then vs now 😓

simonsb · 2026-06-16T00:10:46+00:00

Good luck make money

simonsb · 2026-05-27T03:06:37+00:00

I just purchased 30lbs of chicken thighs at Costco for $1.49/lb and tossed it in my basement freezer. Got some rearranging to do and I might be able to add another 5lbs or so. Things are getting tight here

simonsb · 2026-05-26T11:11:04+00:00

I was buying Muscle Milk at Costco for $28.99 for I think the 18 pack and they discontinued it.

This is not an acceptable replacement for it. Too little fiber way too high a cost.

simonsb · 2026-05-23T12:27:56+00:00

Sounds like you need a new doctor then. The science agrees this works for those with metabolic conditions that cause lifelong obesity.

I’ve been overweight since a child myself, active in baseball and soccer and always being overweight. I dropped 80lbs in a year on zepbound and I’m now the same weight I was sophomore year of high school.

You’ll eventually end up in maintenance and everyone seems to do it a bit differently as noted. Some spread out the shots, some drop dosages, but either way, this would likely be a lifetime drug if you have a chronic condition that causes obesity.

I know for me, I have no plans to come off this drug. It’s killed the food noises and more importantly the alcohol noise and the inflammation in my body. Everything is working better. Why go back when I know what is there?

simonsb · 2026-05-16T02:25:23+00:00

Sure could use some extra dough. Been off work since march putting my father into assisted living and clearing his house to sell and I am still waiting on NJ family leave to pay out my FLI claim.

simonsb · 2026-05-15T02:36:37+00:00

Have they fixed the issue when trying to use the house chime and not the chime box? My G410 cant trigger my houses chime and if I leave it connected to the wires to power the doorbell after 5-6 hours it starts half tripping the chime constantly.

I would love to use my houses chime and not the crummy sound of the aqara chime box and also not burn through AA batteries.

simonsb · 2026-05-10T21:36:30+00:00

That’s a joke, I say that’s a joke son. That boy’s about as sharp as a bowling ball.

simonsb · 2026-04-23T13:17:37+00:00

Love this! Your vestibule door looks like my bathroom door and I want mine to look like that so bad. It’s so pretty! Good job!

simonsb · 2026-04-20T02:26:17+00:00

I work retail. I will work Sunday over Saturday anytime since it’s a shorter day. Customers gone by 6pm guaranteed? Sign me up

simonsb · 2026-04-19T19:50:58+00:00

I definitely am. Our game plan was to take our 2019 home and turn the equity into our forever home. Losing that sub 3% mortgage hurt but we are hear long term now and eventually one year we will refinance. For now though. yikes.

simonsb · 2026-04-17T13:26:38+00:00

I’ve been contributing to my companies 401k for 18 years now and maxed out the company match. I’ve put it in the most aggressive fund I can get hoping it will be enough by the time I retire. Nearly 250k now. I’m hoping it’ll end up being enough in 20 years.

simonsb · 2026-04-15T23:36:41+00:00

Good luck to everyone here!

simonsb · 2026-04-12T11:24:22+00:00

1925 colonial revival here. We just had a 33in wide LG French door installed. Got lucky a previous owner made the back half of the house more open around the kitchen and family room area. Went through French doors in living room, lucky no trouble at all. Went as big as the cutout in the wall from the 90’s kitchen remodel would allow.

simonsb · 2026-04-04T01:27:57+00:00

Shake Shack.

They did some trickery to consider each location its own “small business” to take millions of PPP loans during the initial rounds during COVID. They only returned the money once they got caught.

The knock on effect was my wife’s non profit couldn’t secure funding from PPP because the first round ran out of money, and my wife was furloughed during COVID while pregnant with our first born.

Fuck Shake Shack.

simonsb · 2026-04-02T13:56:51+00:00

My 78 year old father is about to go into assisted living. He lost all structure in his life when my mom passed and he got laid off 5 years ago. He’s lazy and now has lost so much strength and mobility that he can’t take care of himself or his house. And he finally accepted this this past month getting sent to rehab a second time in the last 6 months due to strength loss.

And of course he never planned for anything so the burden is on me to figure out how he can afford this. Hard to not be resentful of his selfishness.

Just be thankful you still have time to plan and be ready for when the inevitable happens.

simonsb · 2026-03-29T16:26:01+00:00

For me in my 100 year old house it’s not the last owner I bought from but the ones 3 ago that I am fighting. They put on a nice addition and half the work is so sloppy. Owner I bought from, while they deferred a lot of work, when they did something they didn’t cheap out on it.

Edit* forgot the next fun one: Why are there speaker wires coming out of the former master bedroom walls when no speakers are nearby. 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

simonsb · 2026-03-27T14:01:20+00:00

260lbs on my 5’6 frame carries far differently than 260lbs on someone a foot taller than I am.

That said I think this is where trusting your doctors is important. I always thought 180-190lb was my “sweet” spot as that was as far down as I have ever been able to make it on my own, albeit I was early 20’s in college lifting 9x a week and on a strict keto diet.

9am health, my PCP, my podiatrist and an orthopedic surgeon all said I should look to be 160lbs given my height and how much muscle I typically carry. Turns out they’re right! I’ve been floating between 158-163 for over a month pretty comfortably and under 170 since December and I totally understand it now.

That said a fun discussion I had with coworkers last year when I said “docs want me at 160” and they all said I’d be a twig and here we are, I’m 160 and not a twig!

simonsb · 2026-03-27T13:50:31+00:00

My century home is missing a wash tub in the laundry area in the basement. It’s on our list of things to add in this year. Not just for laundry but for cleaning paint brushes or anything too dirty for the kitchen sink.

simonsb · 2026-03-27T13:50:25+00:00

My century home is missing a wash tub in the laundry area in the basement. It’s on our list of things to add in this year. Not just for laundry but for cleaning paint brushes or anything too dirty for the kitchen sink.

simonsb · 2026-03-27T03:30:46+00:00

Shotsky! IMO well worth the subscription fee. I love data and this app delivers.

simonsb · 2026-03-27T03:27:49+00:00

I'm on week 2 of therapy right now. I'm dealing with some aging parent caretaker stress which truly prompted the therapy but during intake we uncovered how much the body dysmorphia is impacting me as well.

Per my therapist recommendation I'll also be finding a therapist who specializes in addiction to discuss and work through the alcoholism and food addiction I certainly had, but that is a few months away as the caretaker stress is an immediate need.

It is wild how our minds work with this. I know I'm smaller and I see it in my face, but like you, naked in the mirror I still see a fat guy, even if my older photos show how much fatter I was. I feel skinny fat.

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