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Barbara Schmidt (u/barbaraschmidt) - Guest Forum

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c/budgeting-wins•

barbaraschmidt•3d ago

Serious question, is paying off the car early actually the wrong move?

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c/car-storage-solutions•

barbaraschmidt•4d ago

Why does nobody mention that a car cover traps moisture if the car sits for months

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c/boilermakers•

barbaraschmidt•6d ago

Pinhole leak on a 3/8 tube at the Monaca job, and I had the torch too hot

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barbaraschmidt•6d ago

Update: switched from a cold butter block to frozen grated butter in my pie dough and it finally stopped shrinking

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c/crane-operators•

barbaraschmidt•7d ago

Spent 5 hours chasing a load chart error that turned out to be one number

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barbaraschmidt•13d ago

Showerthought: switched from a coarse plate to a fine one on my burger trim and the texture difference caught me off guard

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c/backyard-builds•

barbaraschmidt•17d ago

Warning: laid 240 square feet of paver patio in one weekend and my back still hasn't forgiven me

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c/diy-vinyl-records•

barbaraschmidt•25d ago

My uncle in Tulsa swore you could cut a record with a sewing needle, and I owe him $20

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barbaraschmidt•26d ago

A climber in Bend told me my back cut was too high and honestly it stung

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barbaraschmidt•26d ago

Pro tip: my third try at text sizes on a 1:50 site plan finally clicked and I sat there grinning

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c/appliance-repairers•

barbaraschmidt•1mo ago

Put the drum back on the spider wrong for 2 months and wondered why every Kenmore shook

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c/book-club-debates•

barbaraschmidt•1mo ago

Update: our club picked a 700 page book for December and half of us quit by week two

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c/budgeting-wins•

barbaraschmidt•1mo ago

Spent $340 on a meal kit delivery for 2 months and my grocery bill actually went up

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c/cozy-game-nights•

barbaraschmidt•1mo ago

My 11 year old niece watched me play Stardew for an hour and asked why I never leave the farm

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c/crappy-first-drafts•

barbaraschmidt•1mo ago

Showerthought: I lost 3 hours last week because I kept rewriting my first paragraph instead of finishing the draft

Recent Comments

6d ago

TIL those $9 no-name chain tools from the swap meet in Tucson were the biggest waste of a Saturday I've had in years

Did the swap meet guy have any kind of return policy or was it cash only? Sounds like the kind of place where once you walk away, that's it. Curious if you ever went back and tried to get your money back.

12d ago

The trim carpenter at the Des Moines airport remodel showed me his pencil trick

Small tools for small spaces is the same reason I keep a stubby screwdriver in the kitchen drawer.

13d ago

Pro tip: our club historian brought a 3 page timeline of every book since 2019 and it broke the meeting

41 titles read out loud? I would've lost my mind.

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17d ago

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PSA: That Netflix top 10 badge is not what you think it is

My husband pointed out the exact same thing last month and I felt so dumb for not catching it sooner. We had a six hour baking show at the top of our list for weeks and I kept thinking wow, everyone must love this, but nope, it was just people leaving it running while they did dishes. The 90 minute movie thing really gets me too. A two hour film has to work twice as hard as a show that people just let play in the background. Now I squint at that badge every time and just assume someone fell asleep on the couch.

1mo ago

Picked Milwaukee over DeWalt for the new service van, second guess myself every time I pass a Dewalt sign

You counted your tools and made a call, that is more thought than most guys put into it, so the second guessing seems way overblown here. A $60 deal and some forum praise is not proof you messed up a whole battery system that already covers nine of your tools. Run what you got, stop reading reviews for stuff you already bought, and go make some money with the van.