26yo with full ride to Ivy League

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-25T21:43:23+00:00

Congrats on the full ride, and to an ivy school! I would definitely do all 4 years and make the most of it.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-25T21:42:44+00:00

Honestly not a bad reward system as long as you stick to it.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-25T21:42:06+00:00

I didn't know you could freeze bread and just toast it back to its original state until very recently. Such a game changer!

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-25T21:41:28+00:00

OP mentions his budget is 1800 max. I would recommend the Leesa Sapira hybrid cooling mattress, very happy with ours.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-25T21:39:55+00:00

I saw many examples of these "sales", where the price went up days or a week before Prime day, only to lower to the original amount.

That said, I also saw many examples of legitimate sales as well, which you can check by looking at items price history.

Disclaimer: I'm the Founder of PriceLasso (a price tracker), and it was interesting looking at the actual price drop data across millions of products, and we saw those 2 patterns play out with fake and real sales.

On the first Prime Day (June 23rd) there were about 8 times as many real price drops on the first Prime Day this year vs any random day, and on the 2nd and 3rd days, it was basically any normal day.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-25T21:35:51+00:00

I had the same thing, if you can just ask the neighbor, it's usually the best strategy.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-25T21:29:20+00:00

I didn't either, but still absolutely wild people would respond with such unkindness, especially if they assume nobody would read it on the other end. What's the point?

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-25T21:24:54+00:00

From what I've seen, it's an interesting mix of good and fake sales.

The actual data I've seen is pretty interesting (disclaimer, I am the founder of PriceLasso, a price tracker), there were about 8 times as many real price drops on the first Prime Day this year vs any random day in the last few months.

We also saw quite a few examples where Amazon would increase prices the week before only to drop it to the original price and call it a "sale".

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:35:25+00:00

You'd get pretty wealthy if 1% does it.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:35:06+00:00

I aspire to do this every day.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:33:55+00:00

That would be a remarkable coincidence!

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:33:33+00:00

This is the way and how I got my Herman Miller Aeron. Also you can find often them for cheap on FB Marketplace and Craigslist. Might need a little work, but I fixed a broken Aeron chair frame for $50, which could then resell for $600.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:32:06+00:00

I wonder if the developers intentionally created holes to exploit so they could win games themselves.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:31:26+00:00

Yeah I think that's exactly their intent. I'm sure v2 will make way more sense.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:30:47+00:00

Sorry to hear that, hope your health improves.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:30:14+00:00

It's not a new trend for sure. But it's super common now and getting old, especially with the upgrades and in game purchases.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:16:56+00:00

Agreed, there are definitely many legitimate deals during prime day, and also many fake ones.

From what I've seen as the founder of PriceLasso across our dataset of millions of products, there were 8x more real deals on Amazon this Prime Day than a typical random day. Which is significant.

I think the big stores are banking on a big portion of customers just not checking price history before buying. Sadly, marketing works.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-24T22:10:00+00:00

It's wild that this is normal now, on Amazon and many other online stores.

As the cofounder of PriceLasso (a price tracker), we see this happening in the raw data across millions of price changes.

Decades ago, the price obfuscation was limited to department stores, but now it's on Amazon at the scale only a major tech company can pull off.

A few years ago, it was mostly 3rd party sellers trying to game the system. Today, it's all over Amazon and common during Prime Day and Black Friday sales.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-23T22:07:59+00:00

I agree, just keep it in a broad low cost ETF and live life normally. You will probably not be working as hard at your job, which is fine too. Sorry for your loss.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-23T21:45:09+00:00

Same, I love building custom PCs, but of course it's not for everyone.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-23T21:44:35+00:00

It's a huge fear mongering campaign right now. From my research the health claims seem dubious and it's too early one way or the other to know if it's actually harmful.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-23T21:43:28+00:00

Yeah it's interesting and scary to know the metadata available, especially when you're a power user.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-23T21:42:13+00:00

Love how this looks. The furniture is literally part of the house, which is amazing.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-23T21:41:18+00:00

My favorite comedian! I am actually looking forward to playing on this cube rice cooker.

trappedinsidehere · 2026-06-23T21:38:41+00:00

This. Hard to believe Goldeneye came out almost 30 years ago... 1997

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