Not stupid. Making your environment comfortable and pleasant seems worthwhile to me. If it turns out to be more of an expense than an investment, that is okay.
This! We have been in this house (rental) for 11 years and invested a fair amount of our own money into it. So worth it for it to be a space you feel happy in. We are now at the point of potentially investing in a new water heater. The old one still works, but it's never held enough water to fill the bath tub, which is a major thing for my back and anxiety. Our landlord (who is a friend) doesn't have the money since she had to put $28K on a credit card last year to rebuild the bathroom (remember our black mold fiasco?), and we can't move (too many pets for anyone to rent to us) or buy (too expensive in LA)...so new water heater. Might be a thing.
You do not have a fiduciary responsibility to turn a profit on your life.
I LOVE this.
Trump and Kim - what happens when two narcissistic madmen with nukes start posturing and grunting at each other like gorillas and neither can back down? We'll soon find out, on the next episode of "America: Meltdown"! I'm alternating between being annoyed with both of them and being terrified.
I think our best bet would be to convince all the cable companies to give them each their own cable channel on the condition that they step down from office and agree to remain private citizens for the rest of their lives.
You do not have a fiduciary responsibility to turn a profit on your life.
Very wise.
Is that like the absolute stupidest thing in the world to do, since we don't own the place?
Nope! But get the landlord's agreement in writing for everything you're attaching to the property, otherwise you will probably not have the right to take it with you when you go. Also, save the things you replace, because you will have to put them back on when you move out (and bear that cost, too).
I spent over two hours yesterday doing remedial telephone set up with the office on campus handling this. They simply do not believe me when I say, "there is no room 319 in this building." It keeps re-appearing on the spreadsheet, although I take it off and put notes in.
omg 7am meeting will never end.
I would like a pat on the back for owning up to something I screwed up.
Good job, Jesse. That probably sucked, but you did it.
Thank you!
On the upside, I successfully exchanged my headphones that crapped out after like two weeks. I know that's what I get for buying $10 CVS headphones, but I was impressed they even let me exchange them, without any receipt, packaging, or anything.
I'm still bitter about the lack of Radio Shack.
Good job, Jesse! That's hard to do and important. And congrats on the headphone exchange.
So no one has shown Sparky the hidden room? I mean, it shouldn't have a telephone, but...
There probably was a 319 at one time, but they used to just switch room numbers all the time here -- as in, X is moving to a different office, just swap the signs to save money. Trying to get it straightened out was fun! (again, no, it wasn't)
I stopped trying to tell them 319 didn't exist and am just going with the second half of what I've been telling them, "we do not need a phone there." It will appear on spreadsheets long after I am dead and gone.
