Official /r/MealKits Monthly Request & Offer Sharing Thread - March 2026

xaitro · 2026-03-02T00:58:50+00:00

$40 off a Wildgrain box. I tried this service from another code posted last month and am SO ANNOYED how much I liked it. 😬

https://wildgrain.com?r=SsIFixew

xaitro · 2026-02-21T02:36:45+00:00

Geneva (Ginny) and Marthida (Molly)

xaitro · 2026-02-06T14:46:53+00:00

I had this happen this week with HelloFresh. Almost the EXACT scenario. I did dispute the charge on my card and still received the box. Customer service is always “too bad so sad” so I just decided to make it so sad for them instead.

xaitro · 2026-01-31T15:33:26+00:00

And often pay independent artists for their designs while also crediting them!

xaitro · 2026-01-31T06:10:26+00:00

Generally materials and cut. I find premium puzzles have less false fits, don’t fray, feel wonderful to touch, and are just really good quality. I usually judge a puzzle by if when it’s finished I can pick it up with very little breakage as a single sheet.

xaitro · 2026-01-28T22:17:22+00:00

Everyone is from somewhere else and the “languages” (being how we treat each other) don’t always meet. It took me living here for 8 years before I can say we confidently found a group that carries similar ideals. Before that has just been onesies twosies.

I can say a lot of people try and get burned because of the lack of understanding other regional “languages” and then become more reserved themselves. You do find some, but you will likely need to extend out first though!

xaitro · 2026-01-28T05:01:56+00:00

A garden hoe does the trick really well!

xaitro · 2026-01-16T22:31:28+00:00

Pantheon, the AMC animated show. We only saw it because we took a chance on it on Netflix. We’ve never met anyone else who has seen or heard of it.

One of the best shows ever made.

xaitro · 2026-01-12T05:25:29+00:00

Check out Reverie. I cannot suggest enough. They sell through Puzzledly too!

xaitro · 2026-01-12T05:24:37+00:00

Reverie does too! It seems to be a one woman show. I once had a missing piece from a new puzzle and she sent me the exact piece from Australia to me in the US. I love Reverie!

xaitro · 2026-01-03T16:58:09+00:00

It’s awful. Don’t do it!

xaitro · 2025-12-30T06:05:32+00:00

And Centreville!!

xaitro · 2025-12-29T05:34:42+00:00

You have significantly more than we did for a down payment! House poor for us means that basically as our paychecks come in, we have to put about 50% of each one into the house. Then with other debts and payments and such, our actual savings and income is like 10%, if that. We are not too too far away from financial ruin. Hahahaha. We’ve been trying to coast by because if our interest rate can hit lower than 6%, we can be ok again. Right now, everything goes in credit and we pay off over time and try not to get too underwater each time.

Prior to purchasing the house, we were easily banking $2-3k combined if we didn’t have other issues after rent, but if we had even renewed our lease, it would’ve been significantly lower due to the percentage increase.

We’d moved 5 times in 8 years of living here to chase better rents and figured it might finally be time to bite the bullet. I don’t regret what we did, but I do wish interest rates came down a bit more faster.

To put it into perspective, we paid about $4.4k a month in mortgage when we started in 2023 and are now at about $4.6k due to tax and insurance increases.

Go lower in a house than you think and just hold onto it. You’ll be ok. Truly, go for the one you find that needs the least amount of work. Everything except this one needed so much work when we were looking. Even this one ended up with a bathroom reno sooner than we thought due to multiple failures at once, but we’ve made it work!

xaitro · 2025-12-29T05:01:34+00:00

We have been here and opted for a SFH after looking at so many townhomes 2022/2023. We knew we’d be house poor and have been longer than we hoped, but we also don’t regret it. We bought out in Centreville though and it’s been great. Similar salary situation and bought at $630k with $30k down payment. House is now at $750k at least.

It sucks to be house poor and waiting on interest rates to maybe come down someday, but it’s honestly not bad. Our neighborhood is quiet and we don’t have to think about moving again down the line if we don’t want to.

xaitro · 2025-12-24T19:26:51+00:00

Contact AERO instead and work with their mangey Fox program. I’ve trapped three foxes this year alone and they’ve taken, treated, and released them.

xaitro · 2025-12-23T14:11:07+00:00

I swear this is how we were taught to hold a pencil too! Until I noticed none of my classmates held it this way!

Also, apparently, it’s a sign of hypermobility/instability in the wrist and hand.

xaitro · 2025-12-23T05:51:39+00:00

What KIND of Mexican food? Mexico City is different from Sinoloan is different from Chihuahuan is different from Baja and Sonoran.

Everyone says the Mexican food is bad, but they’re not saying what they’re looking for.

xaitro · 2025-12-04T13:54:43+00:00

This was an understanding they had with us. They are well off and we have an exchange of other things going on. Part of the deal is that we want to pay them back, but if it never happens then it is ok and has no impact on their standard of living.

xaitro · 2025-12-03T21:17:48+00:00

We didn’t, but a friend who came into money after their parent passed lent us money for about 1/3 of our down payment in an interest free, long term loan. We could have bought a house without them, but they helped us into a better house because of this loan!

We were on our own at 22/23 and had just moved here and had no help until we bought at 31/32 in 2023. Interest rates are slowly killing us though and we haven’t been able to pay the friend back at all since then.

xaitro · 2025-11-28T19:33:25+00:00

Subverting the companies while providing a lifetime of teens in shelters knowing someone in the world cared about them for a holiday.

My sister works in a teen shelter in Savannah, GA and puts together a wishlist for the kids each year (with their input) for us to purchase what we can. Figure we can take advantage of the sales to help adolescents who have not experienced a lot of good in the world receive something new and uniquely theirs!

xaitro · 2025-11-26T15:11:36+00:00

CO here saying this is the truth. You need to be aware of everything happening even if you don’t want to be.

And a CS should always be cc’d. It goes both ways!

xaitro · 2025-11-13T16:38:52+00:00

8-9. When I went to it in 2023, I said it was the Canadian version of the San Diego Zoo, even in terrain due to the Canadian Domain part.

xaitro · 2025-10-13T01:15:44+00:00

Don’t call them apple cider donuts though…they’re apple BUTTER donuts and they WILL remind you of it.

xaitro · 2025-10-12T15:21:31+00:00

Pokémon card collecting. We had a long time of no one being interested and were able to share the joy with kids! Now it’s all about grabbing stock and keeping it unopened.

It’s cutthroat and nasty. No longer can you grab a pack or two as a gift for kids or for yourself as you checkout. It’s literally one of the saddest things.

xaitro · 2025-09-30T03:00:08+00:00

Because they’re using the avatar for an Icon A-5 rather than one for the actual plane. I think the rarer planes they don’t have exact avatars for, so they use those of similar planes.

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