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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • You see she lost $33 and wasted 3 hours of time. What did she see?

    She may very well think she spent $35 to get 3 hours to chat with people about crafts.

    If she doesn’t need to sell crafts to survive, she might just be treating everything she’s doing as a social hobby.

    If she’s actually looking to improve her income, it would probably be better to dig into it with her. What exactly is she making and what is she charging for it? Are some crafts of no interest to customers and should be dropped? Is there another craft that sells well and could do with a few other colour/size/whatever options?

    There’s always room to tweak the table, but she’s probably the only person who could really point at what things are ideal for her to focus on. And if that’s not why she’s doing all this in the first place, you might not get anywhere with your intentions.

    Case in point: there’s an old lady in my area that goes out at 5am most mornings and collects refundable cans from people’s recycling bins. She eventually takes them to the return depot to cash in. She’s not hurting for money. She donates all the money to animal shelters to help with surgeries or purchasing supplies.

    You’d think a 92 year old woman digging through trash would be a sad state of affairs, but if her case you’d be dead wrong about her intentions. Your mom could be on a similar vibe.





  • Either they bypassed the alarm (there’s various hacks for various vehicles, but usually this is rare for petty thieves), or your alarm didn’t go off properly.

    Either way, it doesn’t matter. Thieves are in and out in seconds and nobody except the owner gives a shit about a car alarm going off. You’re better off treating it like your car doesn’t even have an alarm.

    The best way to avoid your car getting broken into is to make it less attractive than the cars around it. That’s not always easy, though, so it’s kind of useless advice.

    I knew people once who always left their car empty. Privacy screen over the trunk/hatch was always open. Glove box was wide open. Ashtray and any places you could store spare change - wide open and obviously empty. They even left the fucking doors unlocked.

    They never got broken into, but it must have been a pain to live like that.