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  1. Ha! I used this analogy in a meeting yesterday to explain how I felt before going through the steps and establishing a conscious contact with a higher power. I can still feel like this when I'm not right sized and spiritually fit, but now I have some solutions other than the bottom of a bottle.
  2. Someone's great grandmother spent a shit-ton of time needlepointing for those chairs. That's a 50's+ target audience to sell those - not a facebook marketplace crowd.....probably a consignment store. Think you mentioned you were in 'bama? The MB crowd would buy those. Check with Stash downtown in Birmingham and see if they'll consign them for you. People spend silly money there. I've got family south of there and they love stopping in. I hear about it far too often.
  3. Yep - I have a family member who works in estate sales. They go into a house at catalog everything that the family leaves. Literally everything....and other than the obvious crap, they use Google Lens and a couple of specialized apps to find a completed selling price and then they discount from there for their sales price. Interesting work as they have to balance selling it for the right price to extract maximum value vs. getting it gone as normally the goal is to walk away with nothing but the walls left in the house so that the family can list it. Really valuable stuff they'll list on line and simultaneously take in-person bids during the sale, and the rest of it they discount and then keep discounting over days/weeks until its gone. I had no idea about how any of it worked until we had dinner one night and they explained the process. They often take weeks to prep for a sale and then sales can go on for 2-3 days or many days over a period of months depending on how much crap there is. It's certainly a different process than what I envisioned which was the typical Saturday morning garage sale. Many of their customers are doing the same thing as the OP and trying to buy for the sole sake of reselling on line or in their own market place they've developed.
  4. A lot of life is just picking your hills to die on. Depending on the personalities and stressors involved, it may be worth looking at a wash/dry/fold place that charges by the pound. Call it a cop-out and rightfully so, but sometimes surrendering a small battle to win a bigger war is the path of least resistance.
  5. Having been through it before in TX and helping a family member go through this process right now, my observation is that a living trust is only as useful as the attention paid to properly funding it (putting the assets in correctly) and that often isn't done correctly. Seems that the fear of probate is often manufactured (mostly through Holiday Inn Express seminars and because Daddy always said....) rather than being founded in the truth. Easy to say and looks great on paper, but when the newness wears off the trusts are often ignored or forgotten and never properly managed. That can leave a bigger mess or more heartburn than had the average person just left well enough alone. A living trust can be a great tool, but like any tool, it needs to be deployed properly and for the right reason. Saying "to avoid probate" begs the follow up questions of why and at what alternative cost. The answers to those questions usually determine the right direction to take.
  6. I carry a 10mm Glock with Underwood Ammo loading 140gr Lehigh Extreme Penetrator. Killed plenty of hogs and my share of deer with it. Love deer hunting with it as a placebo for bow hunting
  7. If you want the largest audience, using one of the bigger auction houses would give you national exposure. Someone like Austin Auction Gallery has in-person and online bidding running simultaneously in their auctions. You'd be shocked at what the online exposure does to valuations and selling price. There may be only a few people nationally who are into vintage ice chests, but rest assured, they're all running screens on these auction house offerings and bidding. Those folks, plus the decorators and shop curators all run up the price above what you'd get on classified or sitting in one shop on consignment. All you'd have to do is get it to the auction house or have them arrange to pick it up.....they'll handle the real shipping to the eventual buyer. Call them or someone similar and see what they think.
  8. Similar experience in Eleuthera. 'Rental company" was a just a guy and his car. Told me to ignore the warning lights on the dash.....and when I was done, throw the keys in the seat, park it at the airport, and text him that we'd boarded our flight.
  9. Yeah - There are some Model 70's in that go-round that I'm watching. There's a Super Grade carbine length in 257Bob that makes my fingers tingle. That's about as rare of a 70 as you can find. So much so it has me curious how well it is documented, as it would have to be a special order.
  10. Because of their reproductive ability, biologists indicate that it requires a 70% removal rate per year to keep a population from growing. That almost always requires consistent, ongoing trapping to make a lasting impact. Unless you have the ability to utilize air supremacy or remove all food sources (aka concrete paving) hunting/shooting just bounces them around and sends them nocturnal. We’ve been battling them for 30 years.
  11. Friends use Whoop and report the same thing about drinking, sleep, and Whoop catching it. Sounds like a good product. Wife and I use Oura. I don't drink but I can 100% see my sleep score affected and reflected in the app if I eat late. Even if I happen to sleep more hours, it's a less restful sleep and I see the difference in my heart rate, HRV, and the mix of sleep cycles....my score will reflect it. My wife can see the difference if she drinks, without fail, just like the above for me eating late. I've started double checking the accuracy each AM. I give myself 10-15 minutes to get my bearings and then decide if I feel rested or not, try to guess my score based on how I feel, and then open the app and let it calculate. It's as accurate as it can be.
  12. Consider the Cleerly test if you're concerned about coronary artery disease, especially if there is history in your family or previous lifestyle choices might put you at risk. Calcium tests can be valuable as a baseline and for monitoring changes, but if you want to be sure and to strip out the uncertainty that still lies in the CACS, then it might be worth it. CACS is a general guideline of probable risk, but not a diagnosis either way - good or bad. CACS gives valuable data, but it can't tell you if there is actually a building blockage, where, or whether the plaque is calcified or not. Cleerly can.
  13. My Oura ring provides a steady reminder of "Time to stretch your legs?" alarms /alerts after I've been sedentary at my desk for too long. As long as I take note and do something about it, there's a benefit. It is a little bothersome on long drives when I might not stop for a few hours and it wants me to. I guess I'd be heathier yet if I did pull over even if just to walk around the car, but especially at night that's a negative for me. I just want to get where I'm going.
  14. I'm no big critic either because they do a ton of good in general, but you are 100% correct and most of those medicines are designed to alleviate symptoms of the underlying issue and not to correct the issue itself. I don't begrudge them b/c we all chase the money in our professions to one degree or another, but the pharmaceutical companies can make a hellua lot more money soothing chronic symptoms (and then the symptoms those meds cause, and those meds cause....) than they can fixing the problem. Back to my earlier post about chewing......The vast majority of the drugs (both prescription and OTC) in the digestive health space for fixing heartburn, acid reflux, gut problems, etc. are just soothing symptoms that could otherwise be resolved by fixing the underlying gut health issues and resetting the digestive process to its natural state. But, they can offer symptom-fixers to a generally lazy population that doesn't want to be disciplined in how they eat....who choose to pop a pill after eating rather than modify how, what, and when they consume food. That's just one example. I don't blame them, but I have a choice as to whether I participate in that cycle of commerce and lifestyle. The docs are especially in a bad spot b/c if they told patients the truth, they'd most likely be blasted on social media and otherwise labeled as uncaring, shaming and hurtful instead of "fixing" the problem.
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