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

pgprescott

RyanStl said:

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 

I'm past all this, but you obviously have not lived it.

Let's say there's a weekend tournament. Oh wait, let's say it's almost every weekend. you are often traveling hours away to a tournament with a variable schedule. You have usually multiple kids, luggage, a very large cooler, pop up tent, a travel grill, chairs. Am I forgetting anything? Possibly. This goes for soccer, baseball, softball, horseback riding, etc etc 

It's a lot. 

fishlessman

i remember playing baseball, i had my glove, and my bicycle

Ozzie_Isaac

All these "soccer moms" needs to haul lots of stuff.  You should get your kids into rodeo and horses.

CPFC1905

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Ford Focus for 2 adults and 2 kids?  Surely, you are jesting.  Some dark British humour I presume.

Parents, 3 kids, dog, caravan - Austin Maxi 1750 HL (In sand glow beige). 

Now I am not saying it was comfortable, safe, reliable or economical but it was the way we holidayed in the early 80's.    

alaskanassasin

My parents never went to my games…

Ozzie_Isaac

alaskanassasin said:

My parents never went to my games…

We need a sad face button.

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fishlessman

alaskanassasin said:

My parents never went to my games…

i think it was better then,  couldnt imagine my mother driving me to a game.

alaskanassasin

 I never wanted my friends to meet my parents. I thought that was universal.  One time I traveled to Anchorage and stayed with my parents friends for a ski race. I told them I planned on winning it and they laughed at me.

 good times, and I won.

SonVolt

We're in baseball, flag football, wrestling, gymnastics, dance and soon to be starting softball. Baseball is by far the worst offender. 

Ozzie_Isaac

alaskanassasin said:

 I never wanted my friends to meet my parents. I thought that was universal.  One time I traveled to Anchorage and stayed with my parents friends for a ski race. I told them I planned on winning it and they laughed at me.

 good times, and I won.

None of my friends ever met my parent.  Friends didn't hang out at my house, and my parents didn't interact with my friends parents.  I also only ever met two sets of parents after our group could drive.

pgprescott

you guys are weirdos! 

alaskanassasin

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

 I never wanted my friends to meet my parents. I thought that was universal.  One time I traveled to Anchorage and stayed with my parents friends for a ski race. I told them I planned on winning it and they laughed at me.

 good times, and I won.

None of my friends ever met my parent.  Friends didn't hang out at my house, and my parents didn't interact with my friends parents.  I also only ever met two sets of parents after our group could drive.

same. if someone did meet my dad they were terrified of him. love the 80s

Eoin

Ozzie_Isaac said:

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.

I have a stainless steel plate and screws stashed somewhere that was in my leg in the 70s.

fishlessman

SonVolt said:

We're in baseball, flag football, wrestling, gymnastics, dance and soon to be starting softball. Baseball is by far the worst offender. 

i never played a baseball game more than 20 miles from the house and 20 miles on a bike for a ten year old was fine.  nowadays a ten year old is stuck in the yard under moms eye and the games are across the state and in other states. i dont really see how thats better for the kid or for the mom

SonVolt

fishlessman said:

SonVolt said:

We're in baseball, flag football, wrestling, gymnastics, dance and soon to be starting softball. Baseball is by far the worst offender. 

i never played a baseball game more than 20 miles from the house and 20 miles on a bike for a ten year old was fine.  nowadays a ten year old is stuck in the yard under moms eye and the games are across the state and in other states. i dont really see how thats better for the kid or for the mom

I'm a little less cynical since I'm currently knee deep it it, but I get your point. Sure you can join a travel team but there's also city and county recreational leagues that are local and less competitive, at least in our area. Not every kid is good enough to join a traveling team (or the parents don't have the time), so it's not like that's the only option. We haven't hit that age yet in baseball, but wrestling is all travel so we're getting a taste of it. 

As for playing in the yard under the watch of helicopter parents, I dunno... our kids are playing whiffle ball in the cow pastures and sliding home underneath an electric fence. Extra points awarded for accidental electrocutions or face planting in cow ****. 

fishlessman

SonVolt said:

fishlessman said:

SonVolt said:

We're in baseball, flag football, wrestling, gymnastics, dance and soon to be starting softball. Baseball is by far the worst offender. 

i never played a baseball game more than 20 miles from the house and 20 miles on a bike for a ten year old was fine.  nowadays a ten year old is stuck in the yard under moms eye and the games are across the state and in other states. i dont really see how thats better for the kid or for the mom

I'm a little less cynical since I'm currently knee deep it it, but I get your point. Sure you can join a travel team but there's also city and county recreational leagues that are local and less competitive, at least in our area. Not every kid is good enough to join a traveling team (or the parents don't have the time), so it's not like that's the only option. We haven't hit that age yet in baseball, but wrestling is all travel so we're getting a taste of it. 

its strange, the towns around me split off into several traveling teams, everything was mainly local towns playing each other before.  a kid not good in a sport or not really interested in it should not have to travel a hundred or so miles to play a game.  where i grew up, they did away with most of the ball fields, theres not even a place to play a mud football pickup game anymore,. those were better with zero adults involved. pond hockey is pretty much gone, you need adults now and a rink

SonVolt

Anyone cooked on one of those Weber Kamados yet?

Canugghead

Bought a front wheel drive Odyssey when eldest started university in 2000, zero car payments. All three attended universities out of town, I guess you can call it college dad hauler. Two of them are parents now and the Odyssey is still chugging in spite of zero maintenance (except oil changes) last 5+ years. Just minor rust around rear wheel wells, not bad considering our heavy winter road salting, I had it sprayed annually for rust prevention in the first decade though. Ability to haul 4x8 plywood flat inside is just gravy on top.

Most memorable trips were taking eldest to and from Notre Dame University for a semester… parents, three grown kids, mattress, desk, chairs, cooking utensils, winter gears, kitchen supplies, small appliances, linens, etc; no pets and kitchen sink though 😂. On our drive home on Christmas Eve it was snowing steadily but not heavy, we gave up counting the number of vehicles that ended up on the shoulder or in the ditch on the interstates, most of them 4-wheel drive invincible SUVs of course.

nolaegghead

GlennM said:

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 .

@GlennM Absolutely it would work.  It's huge and there's a bottom tray that is hard to see in the pics but it comes out for extra room.  I think that was $385.  My VacMaster VP215 retails for closer to 1k and it's about the same size.

That's pompano and Spanish mackerel.  They were off-shore.  They caught some red snapper but had to throw back, season ended Jan 1.   They've been catching lots of pompano lately, sometimes 50-60 per trip.  Also cobia, barracuda, sharks, etc. 

TEXASBGE2018

SonVolt said:

Anyone cooked on one of those Weber Kamados yet?

Do you mean the summit kamado? If so yes I have. They are awesome. My buddy has one, I've been tempered to switch over but I like the lifetime warranty of the egg.

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

GlennM said:

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 .

@GlennM Absolutely it would work.  It's huge and there's a bottom tray that is hard to see in the pics but it comes out for extra room.  I think that was $385.  My VacMaster VP215 retails for closer to 1k and it's about the same size.

That's pompano and Spanish mackerel.  They were off-shore.  They caught some red snapper but had to throw back, season ended Jan 1.   They've been catching lots of pompano lately, sometimes 50-60 per trip.  Also cobia, barracuda, sharks, etc. 

big pass on eating barracuda, its like a year straight of food poisoning if you get sick from it. ill take my chances with raw bear meat first

SonVolt

TEXASBGE2018 said:

SonVolt said:

Anyone cooked on one of those Weber Kamados yet?

Do you mean the summit kamado? If so yes I have. They are awesome. My buddy has one, I've been tempered to switch over but I like the lifetime warranty of the egg.

Interesting. I've been curious about them. Now that I've got an offset and a pizza oven I'm not using the BGE for smoking or roasting, it's strictly a grill now.  I kinda like the idea of a hybrid Kamado/Kettle.... 

nolaegghead

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

GlennM said:

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 .

@GlennM Absolutely it would work.  It's huge and there's a bottom tray that is hard to see in the pics but it comes out for extra room.  I think that was $385.  My VacMaster VP215 retails for closer to 1k and it's about the same size.

That's pompano and Spanish mackerel.  They were off-shore.  They caught some red snapper but had to throw back, season ended Jan 1.   They've been catching lots of pompano lately, sometimes 50-60 per trip.  Also cobia, barracuda, sharks, etc. 

big pass on eating barracuda, its like a year straight of food poisoning if you get sick from it. ill take my chances with raw bear meat first

We're not keeping any barracuda or sharks. 

You have to reel snapper up fast.  Sometimes the sharks get most of them on that journey up or even when you're pulling them out of the water.   Not uncommon to pull out just the head.

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

GlennM said:

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 .

@GlennM Absolutely it would work.  It's huge and there's a bottom tray that is hard to see in the pics but it comes out for extra room.  I think that was $385.  My VacMaster VP215 retails for closer to 1k and it's about the same size.

That's pompano and Spanish mackerel.  They were off-shore.  They caught some red snapper but had to throw back, season ended Jan 1.   They've been catching lots of pompano lately, sometimes 50-60 per trip.  Also cobia, barracuda, sharks, etc. 

big pass on eating barracuda, its like a year straight of food poisoning if you get sick from it. ill take my chances with raw bear meat first

We're not keeping any barracuda or sharks. 

You have to reel snapper up fast.  Sometimes the sharks get most of them on that journey up or even when you're pulling them out of the water.   Not uncommon to pull out just the head.

been waste deep in a mud flat in a foot of water holding half a bone fish with bull sharks swarming me, guide yells over.....dont feed the sharks mon. a guide in abaco i used to hire ate some bad cuda, could barely walk a year later last time i saw him. down there, one family swears by eating only cuda off the flats, the next swears by only eating deep water cuda

JohnInCarolina

SonVolt

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make the tough decision to either accept, or accept, his wife's request for a boob job. 

nolaegghead

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

GlennM said:

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 .

@GlennM Absolutely it would work.  It's huge and there's a bottom tray that is hard to see in the pics but it comes out for extra room.  I think that was $385.  My VacMaster VP215 retails for closer to 1k and it's about the same size.

That's pompano and Spanish mackerel.  They were off-shore.  They caught some red snapper but had to throw back, season ended Jan 1.   They've been catching lots of pompano lately, sometimes 50-60 per trip.  Also cobia, barracuda, sharks, etc. 

big pass on eating barracuda, its like a year straight of food poisoning if you get sick from it. ill take my chances with raw bear meat first

We're not keeping any barracuda or sharks. 

You have to reel snapper up fast.  Sometimes the sharks get most of them on that journey up or even when you're pulling them out of the water.   Not uncommon to pull out just the head.

been waste deep in a mud flat in a foot of water holding half a bone fish with bull sharks swarming me, guide yells over.....dont feed the sharks mon. a guide in abaco i used to hire ate some bad cuda, could barely walk a year later last time i saw him. down there, one family swears by eating only cuda off the flats, the next swears by only eating deep water cuda

That's probably from ciguatera which is from eating fish that eat this dinoflaggelate (sp?) or the coral they live on.  You can get that from other fish too. 

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

GlennM said:

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 .

@GlennM Absolutely it would work.  It's huge and there's a bottom tray that is hard to see in the pics but it comes out for extra room.  I think that was $385.  My VacMaster VP215 retails for closer to 1k and it's about the same size.

That's pompano and Spanish mackerel.  They were off-shore.  They caught some red snapper but had to throw back, season ended Jan 1.   They've been catching lots of pompano lately, sometimes 50-60 per trip.  Also cobia, barracuda, sharks, etc. 

big pass on eating barracuda, its like a year straight of food poisoning if you get sick from it. ill take my chances with raw bear meat first

We're not keeping any barracuda or sharks. 

You have to reel snapper up fast.  Sometimes the sharks get most of them on that journey up or even when you're pulling them out of the water.   Not uncommon to pull out just the head.

been waste deep in a mud flat in a foot of water holding half a bone fish with bull sharks swarming me, guide yells over.....dont feed the sharks mon. a guide in abaco i used to hire ate some bad cuda, could barely walk a year later last time i saw him. down there, one family swears by eating only cuda off the flats, the next swears by only eating deep water cuda

That's probably from ciguatera which is from eating fish that eat this dinoflaggelate (sp?) or the coral they live on.  You can get that from other fish too. 

Umm.  I am swearing off fish after reading this.

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

GlennM said:

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 .

@GlennM Absolutely it would work.  It's huge and there's a bottom tray that is hard to see in the pics but it comes out for extra room.  I think that was $385.  My VacMaster VP215 retails for closer to 1k and it's about the same size.

That's pompano and Spanish mackerel.  They were off-shore.  They caught some red snapper but had to throw back, season ended Jan 1.   They've been catching lots of pompano lately, sometimes 50-60 per trip.  Also cobia, barracuda, sharks, etc. 

big pass on eating barracuda, its like a year straight of food poisoning if you get sick from it. ill take my chances with raw bear meat first

We're not keeping any barracuda or sharks. 

You have to reel snapper up fast.  Sometimes the sharks get most of them on that journey up or even when you're pulling them out of the water.   Not uncommon to pull out just the head.

been waste deep in a mud flat in a foot of water holding half a bone fish with bull sharks swarming me, guide yells over.....dont feed the sharks mon. a guide in abaco i used to hire ate some bad cuda, could barely walk a year later last time i saw him. down there, one family swears by eating only cuda off the flats, the next swears by only eating deep water cuda

That's probably from ciguatera which is from eating fish that eat this dinoflaggelate (sp?) or the coral they live on.  You can get that from other fish too. 

thats it, and its not good

Ozzie_Isaac

Any reef fish can cause ciguatera poisoning, but species such as barracuda, grouper, red snapper, moray eel, amberjack, parrotfish, hogfish, sturgeonfish, kingfish, coral trout, and sea bass are the most commonly affected.  - from google