What Are You Buying Right Now? (non-OT version)

Ozzie_Isaac

ColbyLang said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

ColbyLang said:

Hook_emHornsfan_74 said:

Trying to decide if I need a bottle of 12 year Van Winkle for the $200 they are asking for it.  

Pappy or Old Rip? 

Must be Old Rip.  Pappy is easily 5x that.

You say that, my little bro bought a Pappy 23 at Costco for $300 last year when they got their allocations. Sold it for 4 grand two weeks ago

What the!!  Seriously?  I check their Bourbon counter regularly, but never seen anything that close.  How did he find it there?

lousubcap

Ozzie_Isaac said:

ColbyLang said:

Hook_emHornsfan_74 said:

Trying to decide if I need a bottle of 12 year Van Winkle for the $200 they are asking for it.  

Pappy or Old Rip? 

Must be Old Rip.  Pappy is easily 5x that.

The 12 yr Van Winkle is "Van Winkle Special Reserve, Lot "B" most likely.  Bottled by the OldVanWinkle Corp.  
Around 10 years or so ago you could find that on the shelf around 8-9 months of the year.  Now the secondary market wants $4-500 for that.  FWIW-

SonVolt

I should add she has a lot of junk related to her job she has to haul around too, so a 3rd row seat w/cargo space is a must.

I like the look of the new Tahoe but I get a lot of "I'll never buy another GMC again" from people when I bring it up, but I'm usually skeptical of vehicle horror stories.  I've been a longtime happy F150 owner so I was leaning towards the Expedition. 

I really don't feel comfortable buying anything during this weird electric vehicle transition period, but we can't wait too much longer and I'd like to take advantage of the obnoxiously high trade-in prices on used vehicles. 

ColbyLang

Ozzie_Isaac said:

ColbyLang said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

ColbyLang said:

Hook_emHornsfan_74 said:

Trying to decide if I need a bottle of 12 year Van Winkle for the $200 they are asking for it.  

Pappy or Old Rip? 

Must be Old Rip.  Pappy is easily 5x that.

You say that, my little bro bought a Pappy 23 at Costco for $300 last year when they got their allocations. Sold it for 4 grand two weeks ago

What the!!  Seriously?  I check their Bourbon counter regularly, but never seen anything that close.  How did he find it there?

That was after he bought a 10yr and 12yr from our local grocery store. Goes to Costco on the way home for a few things. Goes thru the liquor department and there it was in the case. A unicorn in the wild

SonVolt

TEXASBGE2018 said:

SonVolt said:

Someone talk me out of buying my wife a large SUV (Expedition, Tahoe etc). She claims she needs the room w/2 kids, little league sports equipment and all her sales job detritus. I suggested a minivan and she gave me the stink eye. 

We have a Gx460 and can easily accommodate 2 kids plus gear. You don't need a Tahoe or expedition if you have 2 kids. I'd look at the new grand Cherokee or a certified pre owned Gx460 or Infiniti QX if I were you. All of the large SUVs are severely overpriced for what you get with the exception being the Denali level trimmed Yukon. That is a very well equipped SUv for the money.

The Gx460 looks super nice. Does it feel narrow though? She drove a 4Runner for years and loved it but it was too narrow and cramped. 

nolaegghead

WeberWho

BMW just revealed a color changing car. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bmw-just-unveiled-first-color-174200853.html

They had something similar posted a few years back but it was fake. I can't make any promises on this but interesting nonetheless. 

lousubcap

ColbyLang said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

ColbyLang said:

Hook_emHornsfan_74 said:

Trying to decide if I need a bottle of 12 year Van Winkle for the $200 they are asking for it.  

Pappy or Old Rip? 

Must be Old Rip.  Pappy is easily 5x that.

You say that, my little bro bought a Pappy 23 at Costco for $300 last year when they got their allocations. Sold it for 4 grand two weeks ago

Talk about "better to be lucky than good".  Live and in colour right there.  
I need to put SWMBO on the trail as she is the weekly Costco shopper but I doubt that will ever surface around here.
BTW- granted I have never had the PVW 23 yo (closest was owning a bottle of 20 yo purchased at regular retail around 10 years ago) but I don't know of anything in a bottle worth 4 large.  Just an opinion.  

TEXASBGE2018

SonVolt said:

TEXASBGE2018 said:

SonVolt said:

Someone talk me out of buying my wife a large SUV (Expedition, Tahoe etc). She claims she needs the room w/2 kids, little league sports equipment and all her sales job detritus. I suggested a minivan and she gave me the stink eye. 

We have a Gx460 and can easily accommodate 2 kids plus gear. You don't need a Tahoe or expedition if you have 2 kids. I'd look at the new grand Cherokee or a certified pre owned Gx460 or Infiniti QX if I were you. All of the large SUVs are severely overpriced for what you get with the exception being the Denali level trimmed Yukon. That is a very well equipped SUv for the money.

The Gx460 looks super nice. Does it feel narrow though? She drove a 4Runner for years and loved it but it was too narrow and cramped. 

I have both a 4runner and the GX. The GX is bigger inside. I will say though that the GX with the 3rd row seats up has virtually no cargo space. If they are down it's about equal in cargo room as my 4runner. If you need 3 full rows with ample cargo space I don't know of any SUV that provides that even a Suburban has very little cargo space with the 3rd row seats up.

alaskanassasin

For multiple reasons @ColbyLang I think you need to move. The country will welcome you, 2-3 acre lot, neighbors you never meet and a garage with proper height.

saluki2007

Gulfcoastguy said:

Yeah it gets real emotional when the bills don't get paid.

If your car note for a big SUV is preventing you from paying your bills then you are doing life wrong. 

JohnInCarolina

SonVolt said:

Someone talk me out of buying my wife a large SUV (Expedition, Tahoe etc). She claims she needs the room w/2 kids, little league sports equipment and all her sales job detritus. I suggested a minivan and she gave me the stink eye. 

Years ago when we were in your shoes (2 young kids, gymnastics), we looked at minivans.  Even came close to buying an Odyssey.   In the end my wife just couldn't bring herself to get a minivan (it was set to be mostly her car).  

Instead we got a Toyota Highlander.  I don't think it is as big as the Expedition or Tahoe.  It's worked plenty well for hauling both kids and gear around.  We've had it for about 10 years now, and it has well over 130k miles on it.  No problems with it outside of routine maintenance.  

Just thought I'd throw that out there.  It's another option.  

Legume

We’ve had both minivan and expedition when the kids were in the house and were happy with both for different reasons.  Minivan was far better for car seats.

Kids are long gone, but wife wanted three rows for family visiting.  We got her a Honda Pilot a few years ago.   Very comfortable, AWD,  captains chairs second row and plenty of storage with third row down, plenty roomy for adults in third row when up.  They call it an SUV, but it’s not the stout American truck based SUV.  It’s also not a minivan, better clearance, handling, etc. than a minivan.

nolaegghead

Pretty nice .  Nozzle check is good.  360 page count good for 15000

nolaegghead

My buddy bought this chamber sealer from Walmart on my recommendation.  Works great so far.  He’s been using mine up until now.  He’s my friend that takes my boat out once or twice a week.  I have unlimited fish from the relationship.

Ozzie_Isaac

lousubcap

@Ozzie_Isaac The market is that someone will sell anything for any amount and to be a market, someone will buy.  I have been down that replacement road twice, I have the records of what I now own (don't care to look it up) and the surgeries resulted in noticeable range of motion improvements.
I did ask the surgeons ( 18 months apart) if I could retain a piece of the femur.  Both cited legalese as to "no chance." 
At least when I come out of the oven on the other end the metal pieces will be available for sale by my kids.  So that's a bonus.   

Gulfcoastguy

lousubcap said:

@Ozzie_Isaac The market is that someone will sell anything for any amount and to be a market, someone will buy.  I have been down that replacement road twice, I have the records of what I now own (don't care to look it up) and the surgeries resulted in noticeable range of motion improvements.
I did ask the surgeons ( 18 months apart) if I could retain a piece of the femur.  Both cited legalese as to "no chance." 
At least when I come out of the oven on the other end the metal pieces will be available for sale by my kids.  So that's a bonus.   

Nah, all of that salt water will have rusted them out.

Ozzie_Isaac

lousubcap said:

@Ozzie_Isaac The market is that someone will sell anything for any amount and to be a market, someone will buy.  I have been down that replacement road twice, I have the records of what I now own (don't care to look it up) and the surgeries resulted in noticeable range of motion improvements.
I did ask the surgeons ( 18 months apart) if I could retain a piece of the femur.  Both cited legalese as to "no chance." 
At least when I come out of the oven on the other end the metal pieces will be available for sale by my kids.  So that's a bonus.   

A very good friend of mine almost died in a motorcycle accident on Father's Day.  His leg has $60k worth of rods and pins and stuff in it.  It isn't healing right, so they may have to yank it all out, break out the hacksaw and get to work rejiggering his leg.  I told him he should use the parts to make a suicide shift for his new bike.  That got me to wondering what the parts go for on the secondary market.  Pretty awful depreciation if you ask me, or he got screwed on his purchase.

Botch

Ozzie_Isaac said:
...they may have to yank it all out, break out the hacksaw and get to work rejiggering his leg.  I told him he should use the parts to make a suicide shift for his new bike.  That got me to wondering what the parts go for on the secondary market.  Pretty awful depreciation if you ask me, or he got screwed on his purchase.

First, I'm sure he got screwed on the installation/purchase.
Second, I'm also sure they can't reuse the hardware for the original purpose, which drops it from "medical hardware" to "souvenir", hence the depreciation.  
I had a humerus pun to go with this, but it's escaping me now...

Kayak

I don't imagine the titanium part is the expensive part. My wifes was put in in a specialty hospital on the upper east side of Manhattan by an extremely skilled surgeon. As they say in the trades, "materials are the cheap part".

Ozzie_Isaac

Botch said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:
...they may have to yank it all out, break out the hacksaw and get to work rejiggering his leg.  I told him he should use the parts to make a suicide shift for his new bike.  That got me to wondering what the parts go for on the secondary market.  Pretty awful depreciation if you ask me, or he got screwed on his purchase.

First, I'm sure he got screwed on the installation/purchase.
Second, I'm also sure they can't reuse the hardware for the original purpose, which drops it from "medical hardware" to "souvenir", hence the depreciation.  
I had a humerus pun to go with this, but it's escaping me now...

It didn't go unnoticed, I'm hip to your humour.

ColbyLang

alaskanassasin said:

For multiple reasons @ColbyLang I think you need to move. The country will welcome you, 2-3 acre lot, neighbors you never meet and a garage with proper height.

After tonight’s meeting, we ain’t far from moving….and I’m probably getting sued again. Whatever, just hope a decision is made before I renovate my master bath 

Battleborn

ColbyLang said:

alaskanassasin said:

For multiple reasons @ColbyLang I think you need to move. The country will welcome you, 2-3 acre lot, neighbors you never meet and a garage with proper height.

After tonight’s meeting, we ain’t far from moving….and I’m probably getting sued again. Whatever, just hope a decision is made before I renovate my master bath 

Go big and put a bass boat in your yard to go along with a ‘88 Bronco on jacks. 

Ozzie_Isaac

ColbyLang said:

alaskanassasin said:

For multiple reasons @ColbyLang I think you need to move. The country will welcome you, 2-3 acre lot, neighbors you never meet and a garage with proper height.

After tonight’s meeting, we ain’t far from moving….and I’m probably getting sued again. Whatever, just hope a decision is made before I renovate my master bath 

Any chance you can share some details?  Are they fighting you, or are you fighting them?

ColbyLang

Ozzie_Isaac said:

ColbyLang said:

alaskanassasin said:

For multiple reasons @ColbyLang I think you need to move. The country will welcome you, 2-3 acre lot, neighbors you never meet and a garage with proper height.

After tonight’s meeting, we ain’t far from moving….and I’m probably getting sued again. Whatever, just hope a decision is made before I renovate my master bath 

Any chance you can share some details?  Are they fighting you, or are you fighting them?

I picked the fight nearly 2 years ago. The then administrator of planning and zoning agreed with us. Cease and desist on the property in question. They file an appeal. Incoming new mayor relieves p&z director of her job, appoints a new one that is tied directly to the local real estate market. All of a sudden, there’s an amendment to the development code allowing STRs. 

Fast forward 2 years of my life, 3 lawsuits, 9 different meetings in city hall and pending litigation against the city….the amendment is back on the table, vague as all get out. Tonight’s meeting was town hall style, us versus them. How dare I have an expected level of property rights on the most expensive asset I own? I sat back and listened to STR owners say how great it was for tourism yadda yadda yadda….I then pointed out as a business owner (which they all are) how many aspects of what they were doing is illegal. Had data backing up what other cities in Louisiana are doing to combat/regulate STRs. Basically echoing what we’ve been arguing for the last 2 years. 

ColbyLang

Battleborn said:

ColbyLang said:

alaskanassasin said:

For multiple reasons @ColbyLang I think you need to move. The country will welcome you, 2-3 acre lot, neighbors you never meet and a garage with proper height.

After tonight’s meeting, we ain’t far from moving….and I’m probably getting sued again. Whatever, just hope a decision is made before I renovate my master bath 

Go big and put a bass boat in your yard to go along with a ‘88 Bronco on jacks. 

No HOA in my hood. Platted in the late 1920’s. Plus zoning laws supersede any HOA

RyanStl

WeberWho said:

SonVolt said:

Someone talk me out of buying my wife a large SUV (Expedition, Tahoe etc). She claims she needs the room w/2 kids, little league sports equipment and all her sales job detritus. I suggested a minivan and she gave me the stink eye. 

I know Ford had some major issues with their 5.3 that was in their Expedition/F-150. Hopefully they have turned things around. 

https://youtu.be/xcN_WcGr4BU

I've been subscribed to the Car Wizard for years. He does several videos on what vehicles to avoid due to the costly repairs he sees.  Most are GM and Chrysler products. His recommendation is always buck up for a used Toyota.

GlennM

nolaegghead said:

My buddy bought this chamber sealer from Walmart on my recommendation.  Works great so far.  He’s been using mine up until now.  He’s my friend that takes my boat out once or twice a week.  I have unlimited fish from the relationship.

Would this have room for a 4-5 lb chicken?  I raise my own birds and would love one if it would work.  

Pompano and sea trout?  I’m in SW Florida right now and waiting for the pompano to show up .

RyanStl

lousubcap said:

SonVolt said:

Someone talk me out of buying my wife a large SUV (Expedition, Tahoe etc). She claims she needs the room w/2 kids, little league sports equipment and all her sales job detritus. I suggested a minivan and she gave me the stink eye. 

Been down that road and landed with an Expedition.  Great soccer hauler, especially if they end up with the traveling team deal.  She wanted the SUV and a minivan was never on the radar.  Early on only around 5-7K miles/year, then 12-15K/yr for about a 4 year run.  Around 80% of that mileage was kid sport related.  FWIW-

I never understood soccer mom equating to need for large SUV and you mention soccer hauler. Seems like except basketball, soccer requires about the least amount of gear