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ct_nittany t1_jdhigkx wrote

Reply to comment by cylonlover in LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

This is one step closer to an Agile methodology. I actually tried using the mobile Jira app (which is what I use at work) for my at home projects and tasks for a month using 1 week sprints. My wife (who is not in tech) did not understand the benefit of that structure and the app was too complicated to use so I couldn’t get her on board. Ultimately it became too much work for me to maintain so I stopped.
I think the concept of creating a bunch of epics for all your house projects and then breaking them down into stories with weights and due dates and then pulling them into a sprint is a good idea though. I may just need to simplify it more.

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ct_nittany t1_j70g3po wrote

Reply to comment by Pdmnt in Housing Crisis II: South County Boogaloo by Reward_Antique

This actually reminds me of a place I looked at a while ago near URI. They had replaced the double garage doors with walls but never finished the garage and the realtor claimed that it allowed the next owners to do what they wanted with it… Wow so they could finish it or they could even make it a garage!

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ct_nittany t1_j5389xg wrote

Reply to comment by Historical-Classic43 in Rhode Island Wedding Costs by [deleted]

I’ve done it before for non-wedding things. I knew I wanted a different credit card once I learned about reward points and I was ready to buy a fence (and installation) which was $11k. Had the money saved already, found a card that would earn me the most rewards plus bonus cash back for spending a certain amount within the first 3 months, as well as have 0% interest for the first 18 months. Paid for the fence with the CC and saved the money in a high yield savings account. Wish I invested it instead for that 18 months but with the interest, CC rewards and bonus it came out to around several hundred dollars of savings. If I had invested it would have been closer to fifteen hundred (edited bc I definitely think the market did very well in that time) dollars a the time. It’s a fairly common approach if you’re comfortable holding debt.

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ct_nittany t1_j536u86 wrote

Reply to comment by Historical-Classic43 in Rhode Island Wedding Costs by [deleted]

Parents definitely help with some weddings, and even pay for them entirely.
Also you get some of that money back in gifts. So if you can get a credit card with 0% interest for a while that could cover some of it and then you pay it back with the money you got in gifts. But it’s risky

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