I’m pretty new to this. I was considering replacing it with something else because it leaks slightly from the valve if it gets moved around at all, but I don’t know what this connection is to start with. It goes to a dishwasher.
Sorry, could you provide a little more information? You say it leaks from the “valve”, but there are 3 different places it could be leaking from, and all are part of the valve – the valve being the whole device from pipe to pipe.
If you’re thinking of replacing the whole thing, I’d focus more on the type of pipe, which looks like Pex coming from the house, and probably some sort of standard dishwasher feed line on the other side.
Ideally you could buy a replacement valve before starting the project, but you might have to remove this valve and take it to the hardware store to make sure you get the correct thing.
I’ve never worked with Pex, but I believe you can either crimp it with a special tool or use the sharkbite system.
I agree it’s an odd looking crimp, maybe just an older style of what we have today. I’d guess that’s the least likely thing to leak.
Best case scenario the dishwasher line just needs to be tightened. Worst case you can replace the whole thing with a sharkbite type valve, but you’ll probably need to cut back the previously crimped section of PEX (note: I really have no clue about that).
I worked with a fellow once who said something to this effect right after the market went down during the pandemic. He said something like “I lost $50k yesterday”, and I asked him “oh really? Did you sell a bunch of stuff? If you still have it it’ll go back up eventually”.
He said “No I didn’t sell anything, but in 5 years everything is going to be lower than if the market hadn’t gone down”.
That take is also wrong. As you can see in this graph, things bounced back, and in general continued on the same trajectory.
Just like there was a sharp decline, there was also a sharp increase. Without the decrease, the increase wouldn’t have happened, so the fellow I was working with was wrong, because his take would have meant the sharp increase would have happened even without the sharp decrease.
Prices of things are becoming absolutely insane. $800+ rent, $30,000 cars, $10 sub sandwiches, etc. It would be nice to do a 3/1 split and cut everything by 2/3. Then we would have $266 rent, $10,000 cars, and $3.33 sub sandwiches. Wages, debts, everything would drop to 1/3 what they are now. It would also make coins useful...
I went “awww” until I read wikipedia about them and saw that they’re invasive. They’re native to South America, and have been introduced to other places around the world by fur traders.
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If there’s an option for the company contributions to be Roth I’d make sure to do that. Roth is a “suffer now, collect later” type of thing. You pay taxes now, and NOT during retirement (good because you’re young, likely in a lower tax bracket than you’ll be in during retirement, etc.). Even the earnings are tax free in retirement.
Anything extra you put in should also be Roth. There are IRS maximums for personal contributions, and a higher maximum for combined personal/company contributions. At your salary you likely will not encounter these maximums unless you are saving $1,875/month (which would make you hit the maximum in December) in addition to company contributions.
To 401k or not to 401k – I say 401k. With Roth you pay now, not later. With traditional you don’t pay now, but pay later. Outside of 401k you pay taxes now AND later (on the earnings).
I just skimmed, but noticed one small discrepancy in one of the pictures. It shows an inverter connected to the “load” terminals on the solar charge controller. This is not the way to do it, because the inverter draws way too much power.
The inverter should be connected directly to the battery with low gauge wire.
For four decades, patient savers able to grit their teeth through bubbles, crashes and geopolitical upheaval won the money game. But the formula of building a nest egg by rebalancing a standard mix of stocks and bonds isn’t going to work nearly as well as it has.
Things are down right now, so of course your balance will reflect that. If you keep investing on a regular basis, the dollar-cost averaging will come into affect over time.
I didn’t read the article, but it seems like they are saying that the way money works is changing. Money, stocks, mutual funds… it’s all the same as it has always been. The risk/reward can change, but there’s no way to predict that.
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Is it easy to use and import transactions from credit cards?
I wouldn’t say it’s easy to get set up. If you don’t mind exporting transactions from your bank, and importing into Gnucash, that part isn’t too difficult. I like Gnucash a lot, although I’ve fallen behind with keeping up with it in recent years. I was never able to figure out the online banking side of things, but that’s ok. I also never used it for budgeting.
I’ve been using You Need a Budget for family budgeting and I like it but it is expensive. I’ve played with Buckets a little bit and looks like a contender. Anyone move from YNAB to Buckets?
I switched. I like buckets a lot but it isn’t nearly as refined as YNAB. Still, it meets my needs. I use beta-bridge.simplefin.org for bank sync and I find it to be less buggy than YNAB used to be.
Pros: inexpensive/free, good bank sync (for me) Cons: not browser based, finding out average spending for categories isn’t as intuitive, reports not as nice, etc.
This is an odd one. The only whole house shut off is on the city side of my meter and the person from public works I talked to said only the city could operate it and if it were to break while I operated it I could be held financially liable....
A debit card is not recommended for day to day. If it gets picked up by a skimmer or otherwise used in a fraudulent manner, your bank account gets debited until the investigation is done.
This can take months and can involve large sums of money.
With a credit card, no money leaves your bank account during the investigation.
I’m glad that your one single experience trumps the experience of hundreds of thousands of other people who’ve gotten in a jam with a debit card. Good for you.
I didn’t miss that part. I was responding to your main point about “propaganda from the credit card companies”. If it’s not propaganda and you got your money back almost instantly… then why are you still jumping through hoops to protect your money? 🤔
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I apparently don't have a whole house water shut off I can use.
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