What's bugging you? (2020)

[nodakfan17]

My personal finances are in decent shape. I spend less than I make. I own a nice, but unassuming home. I drive a used Camry. Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman probably wouldn’t roast me. However, the one material thing I lust for is my own cabin on the water in Northern Wisconsin. My son is 4 and entering the prime age for that sort of activity, but spending $200K (plus upkeep) would take me to the very edge of my comfort zone.

[homer]

My personal finances are in decent shape. I spend less than I make. I own a nice, but unassuming home. I drive a used Camry. Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman probably wouldn’t roast me. However, the one material thing I lust for is my own cabin on the water in Northern Wisconsin. My son is 4 and entering the prime age for that sort of activity, but spending $200K (plus upkeep) would take me to the very edge of my comfort zone.

 

Would you be willing to rent it out when you weren't there?

[nodakfan17]

My personal finances are in decent shape. I spend less than I make. I own a nice, but unassuming home. I drive a used Camry. Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman probably wouldn’t roast me. However, the one material thing I lust for is my own cabin on the water in Northern Wisconsin. My son is 4 and entering the prime age for that sort of activity, but spending $200K (plus upkeep) would take me to the very edge of my comfort zone.

 

Would you be willing to rent it out when you weren't there?

Possibly, but I’m not sure any place I could initially afford would garner much interest from vacationers. I have a more remote area in mind. I’m hopeful I’ll have a little more room in my budget a few years from now (current day care bill is $1000 per month). I just need to be patient.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

My personal finances are in decent shape. I spend less than I make. I own a nice, but unassuming home. I drive a used Camry. Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman probably wouldn’t roast me. However, the one material thing I lust for is my own cabin on the water in Northern Wisconsin. My son is 4 and entering the prime age for that sort of activity, but spending $200K (plus upkeep) would take me to the very edge of my comfort zone.

 

I live up nort (Three Lakes/Eagle River area) and it would probably be pretty tough to find anything decent on the water for $200,000. Even vacant waterfront parcels are expensive. I can attest to the beauty of this area, though. If you can find something, you won't regret it.

[nodakfan17]

I’m guessing waterfront property on the Eagle River chain of lakes starts at $200,000 - just for the lot. Same for the Minocqua Area. Land off the major chains might be a bit more reasonable. For example, waterfront lots in nearby Forest County start around $75,000. Another factor working against buyers these days is the cost of new construction, which has increased from ~$125 per sq ft to ~$175 per sq ft in the last 5 years. A modest 800 sq ft cabin used to cost ~$100,000 to build, but would now be ~$140,000. I wouldn’t object to buying an existing cabin, but I doubt most reasonably priced properties would meet my wife’s standards. She watches too much HGTV.

 

I’ve been able to resist conspicuous consumption pretty well, but it bugs me that I can’t seem to shake this idea. At least it’s keeping me motivated to work and save. Plus playing on Zillow has become a cheap hobby.

[nodakfan17]

I’m guessing waterfront property on the Eagle River chain of lakes starts at $200,000 - just for the lot. Same for the Minocqua Area. Land off the major chains might be a bit more reasonable. For example, waterfront lots in nearby Forest County start around $75,000. Another factor working against buyers these days is the cost of new construction, which has increased from ~$125 per sq ft to ~$175 per sq ft in the last 5 years. A modest 800 sq ft cabin used to cost ~$100,000 to build, but would now be ~$140,000. I wouldn’t object to buying an existing cabin, but I doubt most reasonably priced properties would meet my wife’s standards. She watches too much HGTV.

 

I’ve been able to resist conspicuous consumption pretty well, but it bugs me that I can’t seem to shake this idea. At least it’s keeping me motivated to work and save. Plus playing on Zillow has become a cheap hobby.

[nate82]

I’m guessing waterfront property on the Eagle River chain of lakes starts at $200,000 - just for the lot. Same for the Minocqua Area. Land off the major chains might be a bit more reasonable. For example, waterfront lots in nearby Forest County start around $75,000. Another factor working against buyers these days is the cost of new construction, which has increased from ~$125 per sq ft to ~$175 per sq ft in the last 5 years. A modest 800 sq ft cabin used to cost ~$100,000 to build, but would now be ~$140,000. I wouldn’t object to buying an existing cabin, but I doubt most reasonably priced properties would meet my wife’s standards. She watches too much HGTV.

 

I’ve been able to resist conspicuous consumption pretty well, but it bugs me that I can’t seem to shake this idea. At least it’s keeping me motivated to work and save. Plus playing on Zillow has become a cheap hobby.

 

Could always pick up a side gig that you only need to do a few hours a week and just save that money for a year or two.

[nate82]

I’m guessing waterfront property on the Eagle River chain of lakes starts at $200,000 - just for the lot. Same for the Minocqua Area. Land off the major chains might be a bit more reasonable. For example, waterfront lots in nearby Forest County start around $75,000. Another factor working against buyers these days is the cost of new construction, which has increased from ~$125 per sq ft to ~$175 per sq ft in the last 5 years. A modest 800 sq ft cabin used to cost ~$100,000 to build, but would now be ~$140,000. I wouldn’t object to buying an existing cabin, but I doubt most reasonably priced properties would meet my wife’s standards. She watches too much HGTV.

 

I’ve been able to resist conspicuous consumption pretty well, but it bugs me that I can’t seem to shake this idea. At least it’s keeping me motivated to work and save. Plus playing on Zillow has become a cheap hobby.

 

Could always pick up a side gig that you only need to do a few hours a week and just save that money for a year or two.

[nodakfan17]

^^^

Thanks, I’ve considered that route. Unfortunately, my time is pretty limited due to my job and the aforementioned 4-year-old. I log-in pretty early every morning to either work on current projects or study for professional exams. I’m hoping the investment in myself eventually pays off.

[nodakfan17]

^^^

Thanks, I’ve considered that route. Unfortunately, my time is pretty limited due to my job and the aforementioned 4-year-old. I log-in pretty early every morning to either work on current projects or study for professional exams. I’m hoping the investment in myself eventually pays off.

[nodakfan17]

I used Door Dash for the first time ... what a nightmare.

 

I called the restaurant, they said I needed to talk to Door Dash. I called Door Dash, they said I need to talk to the restaurant.

[wallus]

My job right now works with a lot of families with small kids. I kicked out a family (very rarely happens with thousands of families that visit each year) because their 4 boys (10 year olds) were blatantly and intentionally destroying our property.

 

Talked to dad and mom and neither even hinted or had any remorse. Had I gotten any of that, they could have stayed. Instead, they were kicked out. I would have been extremely embarrassed and apologized to no end had the situation been flipped.

 

The mom tried to go all Karen on me as well. I probably am not long for working with the public anymore.

[nodakfan17]

My job right now works with a lot of families with small kids. I kicked out a family (very rarely happens with thousands of families that visit each year) because their 4 boys (10 year olds) were blatantly and intentionally destroying our property.

 

Talked to dad and mom and neither even hinted or had any remorse. Had I gotten any of that, they could have stayed. Instead, they were kicked out. I would have been extremely embarrassed and apologized to no end had the situation been flipped.

 

The mom tried to go all Karen on me as well. I probably am not long for working with the public anymore.

One of my first jobs was working at a call center for a large bank. I talked to about 50 people per day. 40 calls were usually pleasant. Of the remaining 10 calls, 9 were probably just good people having a bad day. However, 1 of the 50 callers was just a ‘jerk’ (substitute your favorite choice word here). This job helped shaped my worldview. Don’t worry about the 1 jerk and focus on helping the 9 ‘good people having a bad day.’

[Thurston Fluff]

My job right now works with a lot of families with small kids. I kicked out a family (very rarely happens with thousands of families that visit each year) because their 4 boys (10 year olds) were blatantly and intentionally destroying our property.

 

Talked to dad and mom and neither even hinted or had any remorse. Had I gotten any of that, they could have stayed. Instead, they were kicked out. I would have been extremely embarrassed and apologized to no end had the situation been flipped.

 

The mom tried to go all Karen on me as well. I probably am not long for working with the public anymore.

 

So know what you mean. We're a balloon store so kids are going to be a little over excited and most parents really do try. Most seem embarrassed so I try t put them at ease. We have a turtle they can look at that usually helps which also helps. If the parents try I'm totally cool with it. It's that one or two that just don't seem to care or feel entitled because they're customers that really gets annoying. Fortunately nodakfan17 has it right. They are few and far between. Also I keep in mind I go home to my nice, brat free house and they're stuck at home with the rodents.

[logan82]

My job right now works with a lot of families with small kids. I kicked out a family (very rarely happens with thousands of families that visit each year) because their 4 boys (10 year olds) were blatantly and intentionally destroying our property.

 

Talked to dad and mom and neither even hinted or had any remorse. Had I gotten any of that, they could have stayed. Instead, they were kicked out. I would have been extremely embarrassed and apologized to no end had the situation been flipped.

 

The mom tried to go all Karen on me as well. I probably am not long for working with the public anymore.

One of my first jobs was working at a call center for a large bank. I talked to about 50 people per day. 40 calls were usually pleasant. Of the remaining 10 calls, 9 were probably just good people having a bad day. However, 1 of the 50 callers was just a ‘jerk’ (substitute your favorite choice word here). This job helped shaped my worldview. Don’t worry about the 1 jerk and focus on helping the 9 ‘good people having a bad day.’

General nature of customer service and any phone based job. They are calling because they have an issue. You are put in a position to deal with angry people that are just calling because they are mad. Phone jobs suck. I know, I work in IT and used to work for a Managed Service Provider who also provided internet service in Madison. Company was great to work for but being on the Service Desk sucked giant donkey balls.

[JimH5]

Baseball playoffs continue tomorrow, and as of right now, 9 of the 12 starting pitcher slots in the Monday and Tuesday schedule are listed as TBA.

[pitchleague]

I live in a sub-division here in our sleepy Arizona town of 25,000+

 

Last night, I went to bed around 10 pm. From my bedroom, I could plainly hear music and people talking and laughing. I hadn't heard them all evening as I was in a different room in the house, with ambient noise (television, etc.) going on. But now, when I wish to go to sleep, I hear this noise.

 

So, I go outside and see, in the backyard kitty-corner to our house, a party of about 10-12 adults. They're talking, laughing, singing, drinking, etc. Now, I love parties the same as many people do, but in a residential area after 10 pm, I found it kind of rude to be continuing to be loud. So, I approached their yard (we're divided by 7-foot tall cinder block walls in our neighborhood) and politely got their attention and asked if they could bring down the volume since it's after 10 pm and I could plainly hear them from my bedroom.

 

Now, I asked them politely. They responded with anger and more rudeness, stating their rights to settle down and have some fun in their yard with friends. I didn't object to that. In fact, I told them that I'm all for that, with the exception of the common courtesy of bringing down the volume after normal bedtime hours. They continued to respond with rudeness, but they did turn the music down and agreed to move things inside.

 

As I walked backed to the house, I plainly could hear several them say some NSFW word about me. But, whatever, they were quieter. I went back inside, crawled into bed and went to sleep.

 

About 12:30 am, the music woke me up. And they were singing. Loudly (and quite off-key, LOL). Needless to say, I went back outside and chided them again. At first they thought I was going to come over and sing with them, but then they realized that I was not happy. Again, I never got angry but I did try to reason with them that this was unacceptable for 12:30 am OUTDOORS in a residential neighborhood. They did NOT like that (of course, someone decided to call me "Karen"--which I found funny since he appeared older than me.) They are, in their words, "dispatcher and paramedics that just want to wind down after a long week." I responded that that is completely fine, but not so loudly at 12:30 in the morning when you're outdoors in a residential area! And, again, more rudeness and name-calling.

 

Thankfully, there was one nice girl that did try to listen to me and come to a compromise. It wasn't the homeowner, which I found extremely curious. She did get them to quiet down (after we shared a toast of some crap sparkling water alcohol canned-beverage--I took two sips to try to get some reasoning done.)

 

Sometime in the next half hour, they shut down because someone else called the sheriff's office, it appears.

 

I feel bad--and maybe a bit embarrassed--for acting the way that I did, even though I never really got mad. Mostly, I was just frustrated that they seemed to refuse to think they were doing anything wrong. I'm kind of thinking of going over later this afternoon and apologizing, maybe bringing a bottle of whiskey with me and seeing if they would like to bury the hatchet with a drink and see if we can come to a compromise for the future. Maybe I'm just dreaming that they'll be accepting of that.

 

Rant over.

[GAME05]

Why would you go over and apologize for that? You didn't do anything wrong. Plus they're already convinced you're the one who called the cops on them, so it's unlikely they'll be particularly friendly if you paid another visit. Apologizing to them also says that next time they make noise you won't do anything, which only encourages it.

[TURBO]

Why would you go over and apologize for that? You didn't do anything wrong. Plus they're already convinced you're the one who called the cops on them, so it's unlikely they'll be particularly friendly if you paid another visit. Apologizing to them also says that next time they make noise you won't do anything, which only encourages it.

 

yup, agreed.

[AKCheesehead]

Agreed although for the sake of neighborly relations it would be good to convey that you were not the cop caller.

[nodakfan17]

I’ve been posting here a lot lately, which is probably a sign that Nodakfan needs to relax more:

 

1) You can buy alcohol in my Wisconsin town at 6:00 am, but for some reason, Pick n Save won’t sell alcohol until 8:00 am. Do they hate money?

 

2) A campaigner knocked on my door without a mask. One of my neighbors has MS and another neighbor has diabetes and a pacemaker. I worry about them answering their doors for unnecessary things.

[nate82]

Agreed although for the sake of neighborly relations it would be good to convey that you were not the cop caller.

 

I wouldn't go over there and say you didn't call the cops. The optics of it is going to make it seem like you actually did call the cops. I would just bring up the cops thing casually and then ask them to try and keep the noise down in the future possibly setting up some guidelines that would be agreeable by both parties.

[LouisEly]

I live in a sub-division here in our sleepy Arizona town of 25,000+

 

Last night, I went to bed around 10 pm. From my bedroom, I could plainly hear music and people talking and laughing.

Last summer that was pretty much every weekend night in my not-so-sleepy town of 3,000,000. Between the young millennials singing and playing music on their back balcony in the alley (sometimes until 5am) and the others in the community setting of fireworks/M-80's all night long, I had to invest in silicone earplugs.

 

Well worth the $6 investment to have around just in case.

[Thurston Fluff]

I live in a sub-division here in our sleepy Arizona town of 25,000+

 

Last night, I went to bed around 10 pm. From my bedroom, I could plainly hear music and people talking and laughing.

Last summer that was pretty much every weekend night in my not-so-sleepy town of 3,000,000. Between the young millennials singing and playing music on their back balcony in the alley (sometimes until 5am) and the others in the community setting of fireworks/M-80's all night long, I had to invest in silicone earplugs.

 

Well worth the $6 investment to have around just in case.

 

Might need to invest in some. I work late a lot of Saturdays and Sunday morning at 8am there's often polka music playing in the basement of the church next door. It's hard to complain about too. What am I supposed to do? Yell "Turn that accordion down you bunch of geriatric hooligans or I'll call the medi-van to take you home before the pudding is served!!!"

[young guns]

Someone I know on Facebook, posted a non obvious satirical political article with no comment. When I went to read it, not knowing it was satire, at the end it spilled the beans that it was satire and not true. I copied that part and put it in a comment so others might not get fooled by just reading the headline and so the poster might find out its satire, I was pretty sure he did not know that. His reply was, how else could you explain it! As if my not being able to supply the actual facts makes the not true satire actual fact. I am left dumbfounded(though I probably shouldn't be).