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drk posted:I live in a pretty expensive area and there is a storage place a few blocks away. I feel the former is more so they can advertise "Rates as low as $30!" and not because many people want to rent 9 square feet.
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A friend of mine works at one of these storage places (a large chain) and one of their strategies is to advertise 99/mo* with the caveat that they can raise the rates at any time without notice, and then once you're on autopay they jack you up $10-15 every couple months until you notice and call to complain. Complainers are entitled to one (1) rollback and if they call again they're advised to move their stuff to a different unit and start over. This is a real company policy.
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May 11, 2023 22:11
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The other major differentiator is climate controlled or not. If you just need a tin shed with a door and don’t care about humidity etc you can get by pretty cheap.
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HCFJ posted:A friend of mine works at one of these storage places (a large chain) and one of their strategies is to advertise 99/mo* with the caveat that they can raise the rates at any time without notice, and then once you're on autopay they jack you up $10-15 every couple months until you notice and call to complain. Complainers are entitled to one (1) rollback and if they call again they're advised to move their stuff to a different unit and start over. This is a real company policy. Lol gently caress everyone involved in this
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May 11, 2023 23:15
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The US truly is a theocracy and its god is Mammon
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May 12, 2023 01:50
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My brother used to do a lot of work cleaning out water damaged storage units He was always very, very busy. Lots of false alarms/accidental sprinkler releases resulting in total or near total loss. And that waiver you signed means your SOL.
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drk posted:I live in a pretty expensive area and there is a storage place a few blocks away. Desperate people who've lost their homes.
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May 12, 2023 09:13
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This was pretty hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8fDxtfw9RI
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drk posted:(who tf is renting 9 square feet) Presumably a robot and his human roommate
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The Leck posted:Presumably a robot and his human roommate Surprisingly good closet space though
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I don’t think I could get by with 9 square feet. I’m gonna at least need a few cubic feet.
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May 12, 2023 17:05
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Can you secretly live inside the storage unit and thereby not pay rent for a normal place?
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May 12, 2023 17:35
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Fourier Series posted:Can you secretly live inside the storage unit and thereby not pay rent for a normal place? You can until a manager finds you and kicks you and all of your poo poo out.
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May 12, 2023 17:49
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You have to wait until the full cyberpunk dystopia before you can do so sustainably.
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My boss (who also spends close to $10k per year on membership to a tumbling gym and a competitive touring tumbling team for her 7 or 8-year old daughter) just announced that she is sending her to Florida for two weeks to enroll in a special "sailing school" for kids age 6 to 9. No clue how much this costs, but I am sure two weeks at sailing school in Florida is pricey. It is also blowing my mind that you can send your 6-year old kid away to a camp to learn how to sail. She is also sending her to a summer school for child actors after she gets back. She is doing all of this because of some dispute she had with her kid's daycare that she pulled her out over. And, apparently, it is impossible to find a full-time daycare over the summer with only two months notice.
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Congrats to your boss on being rich I guess. Unless she isn't then congrats on the future bankruptcy.
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Millennials: I'm an anxious burnout now because I was a gifted kid in school and I just couldn't live up to the pressure. Also Millennials: I will gladly spend five figures putting my kid into a competitive touring team instead of letting them play little league.
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LanceHunter posted:Millennials: I'm an anxious burnout now because I was a gifted kid in school and I just couldn't live up to the pressure.
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mrmcd posted:Congrats to your boss on being rich I guess. She makes pretty good money, but she is constantly broke and talking about juggling credit cards and loans to pay for her tumbling coach and vacations. She also lets her daughter Doordash McDonald's pancakes for breakfast every day during the school year because she had to leave for work about an hour before her bus came. She is a pretty weird lady in general, but I think she just has an extreme combination of lifestyle creep + "I have to have a tumbling coach for my 4-year old who will coach her for the next 5 years, fly her around the country to competitions, and send her to acting school or else she will never stand out on a college application and end up dead in a ditch at 19." She just has the rare combination of "esoteric sport" + "crazed drive" + "enough income to technically pull it off" to make it happen. I know a lot of people who would probably do the same things she does if they had the money. LanceHunter posted:Millennials: I'm an anxious burnout now because I was a gifted kid in school and I just couldn't live up to the pressure. She's a Gen-Xer. She just had her kid around 40. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 19:44 on May 12, 2023 |
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I wish I had enoguh money to do dumb poo poo like this (I proably do but I do weird things like add stuff to savings accounts instead
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:She's a Gen-Xer. She just had her kid around 40. Interesting. Though those types of leagues have only really been able to take off because millennials have been putting their kids into them. I would have figured that after the Nassar conviction and all the exposés about how generally abusive things can get in these Olympic-funnel programs, there would have been some decline. But apparently they are as popular as ever.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It is also blowing my mind that you can send your 6-year old kid away to a camp to learn how to sail. That's pretty much the career path that was followed during the age of sail. Kind of jealous actually, if I were rich that's how I'd raise my kids. Bilingual chinese/english tutor from birth, violin tutor, classics tutor. But I'm not rich so hello Mr. Ipad. Raskolnikov2089 fucked around with this message at 20:07 on May 12, 2023 |
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:That's pretty much the career path that was followed during the age of sail. I’d probably start with summers in Rangoon…luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. If they’re insolent, I would place them in a burlap bag and beat them with reeds- pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve they’d receive their first scribe.
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"does your uncle have a horse farm too?" - a sentence i heard with my own fuckin ears
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I want to take two weeks off for sailing school, tho probably not in Florida.
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Recreational boating sounds hella fun if I didn't know how BWM boats are.
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LanceHunter posted:Millennials: I'm an anxious burnout now because I was a gifted kid in school and I just couldn't live up to the pressure. My children will either be all stars or burnouts: I will accept nothing less.
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burnouts it is, then
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My boss (who also spends close to $10k per year on membership to a tumbling gym and a competitive touring tumbling team for her 7 or 8-year old daughter) just announced that she is sending her to Florida for two weeks to enroll in a special "sailing school" for kids age 6 to 9. Tumbling, sailing, and acting. Sounds like a very specific path for a career as the star who does her own stunts in the future Pirates of the Caribbean 8: The Curse of Eisner's Gold
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My boss (who also spends close to $10k per year on membership to a tumbling gym and a competitive touring tumbling team for her 7 or 8-year old daughter) just announced that she is sending her to Florida for two weeks to enroll in a special "sailing school" for kids age 6 to 9. If you go to sailing school in Connecticut instead, they'll pay you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_(WIX-327)
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canyoneer posted:Tumbling, sailing, and acting. Sounds like a very specific path for a career as the star who does her own stunts in the future Pirates of the Caribbean 8: The Curse of Eisner's Gold Friend's little sister pivoted from an economics degree into an acting career after she got bit by the bug with the theater kids in college. Then she started getting involved in stunts, swordplay, pyrotechnics, and more mundane technical work. Now she's forklift certified which is at least a marketable skill.
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Residency Evil posted:My children will either be all stars or burnouts: I will accept nothing less. Give any star enough time and you get a burnout. Citation: Every therapist office in America.  quote:Friend's little sister pivoted from an economics degree into an acting career after she got bit by the theater kids in college. I modified this quote to how I initially read it, and not gonna lie, my day became substantially less magical once I re-read it and got the correct interpretation.
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I don't understand why anyone would want to go to Florida in the summer, that's literally the opposite of what you should do. If you want to sail in the summer you should go to Maine or Nova Scotia or something.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My boss (who also spends close to $10k per year on membership to a tumbling gym and a competitive touring tumbling team for her 7 or 8-year old daughter) just announced that she is sending her to Florida for two weeks to enroll in a special "sailing school" for kids age 6 to 9. I feel like the cost to insure a sailboat that takes inexperienced six-year-olds out on the water most be prohibitive. I wonder if they just put them on a boat in a parking lot or some sort of simulator or something?
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Ham Equity posted:I feel like the cost to insure a sailboat that takes inexperienced six-year-olds out on the water most be prohibitive. I wonder if they just put them on a boat in a parking lot or some sort of simulator or something? It's that one Community episode!
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It’s Florida, there’s probably no requirement to have insurance for that kind of thing. They’ll just declare bankruptcy after they kill some kids and start a new company.
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doesnt florida have 80% of the insurance fraud lawsuits of the entire nation or is that exclusively home insurance fraud
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bob dobbs is dead posted:doesnt florida have 80% of the insurance fraud lawsuits of the entire nation or is that exclusively home insurance fraud Seems like it. Whenever patients ask me about getting treatment in Florida I generally tell them don't.
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Fourier Series posted:Can you secretly live inside the storage unit and thereby not pay rent for a normal place? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPVCTLPNUzo
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My boss (who also spends close to $10k per year on membership to a tumbling gym and a competitive touring tumbling team for her 7 or 8-year old daughter) just announced that she is sending her to Florida for two weeks to enroll in a special "sailing school" for kids age 6 to 9. A full-time camp? Oh yeah, that's gonna get expensive. I'm pretty sure the day camp my parents sent me to as a kid, to learn how to sail, was pricy and I'm also pretty sure my grandparents were paying most of it. It's not horse camp expensive, but it's not cheap either. Ham Equity posted:I feel like the cost to insure a sailboat that takes inexperienced six-year-olds out on the water most be prohibitive. I wonder if they just put them on a boat in a parking lot or some sort of simulator or something? "Stick lifejackets on all of them and make sure none of them go out in anything bigger than a Nutshell, it'll be fine!"
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