lukas099

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by lukas099 3y ago
Pickup truck rentals at Lowes start at $20. I've had family over and ended up turning rooms into temporary bedrooms. Basically, these things happen rarely enough that it is not such a crisis to put a little effort and adapt to them. Wh
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by lukas099 3y ago
The 'annoying' part of my comment was not well thought out on my part, and I would take it back if I could. I guess that what is annoying is being in the situation of having opinions like that which are unconventional.
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by lukas099 3y ago
If one is using the spare rooms for other functionality, and actually using them consistently, that's not really what I was talking about. > I agree people should consider how much of an edge case it is though, and make a good decis
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by lukas099 3y ago
If you've actually multiplied the likelihood by the costs & benefits of the different options and come to that conclusion that's fine. There are an infinite number of edge cases that can lead to total failure, so it is not rat
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by lukas099 3y ago
It sounds like you have actually considered the options, weighed them against your own tastes and preferences, multiplied by the number of times you expect to host, etc., and come to that conclusion. So you are not who I was talking about.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Is it really so bad to say that a lot of people should do certain things differently than they do? Like, if I said more Americans should get more exercise and eat less junk food, would that be a horrible thing for me to say?
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by lukas099 3y ago
> I could see being annoyed that they're _marketed_ into over sized solutions that aren't actually correct for their use case Yeah, it's really not the thing itself that's annoying. It's just knowing that it&#x27
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by lukas099 3y ago
The point probably doesn't land as well on this particular website where incomes skew high, BUT... a LOT of people do not have the rosiest finances. Maybe it is student loans or credit card debt or whatever. But sure, maybe it makes se
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by lukas099 3y ago
A lot of people are misunderstanding my point. It's not that intangibles don't matter or that people shouldn't spend money on their preferences. Trust me; I spent $2,000 on a bicycle recently. Not a sports bike or mountain bi
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by lukas099 3y ago
Well first of all, it's not "I wish I had less space" but rather "I wish I had the goods and experiences I had to forego in order to obtain and hold onto this extra space". But anyways you're missing the point.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Cars are daily-use items for most people, so not in the frame of discussion. Unless you only drive your car like once a year or something, in which case yeah you might be better off renting.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Yeah, even the 'party people' I know only had 3-4 a year. And just having one or two people didn't entail 'bringing out the fine china' and using the dining room.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I just looked up how much it would be to rent at the closest park to my house (and yes alcohol is allowed). It starts at $25/hour and goes up to $50/hour for a grand ballroom holding 120 people.
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by lukas099 3y ago
You're forgetting opportunity cost. The $10k is not stuffed in your mattress, you can do stuff with it. You can buy CDs that return over 5% APY right now (giving you a $500/year budget without even touching your principal). Let al
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by lukas099 3y ago
> Can't you use the same bathrooms in ICE vehicles? Are they EV only? Does your EV include a half-bath? No idea if it's right, but I think they are saying that places with EV chargers tend to be nicer than gas stations. And may
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by lukas099 3y ago
Put another way, it will be harder for people in suburbs to reap the benefits of density while being subsidized by it. And the 'spend' from people driving in from the suburbs to go shopping will easily be overshadowed by greater e
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by lukas099 3y ago
Some of these are family, friends I know very well, and even myself in the past. So I have some reliable information.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Even if you buy a house with an entertaining space, you can use it for something that you do more often. For instance, my house had a 'dining room' but I use it as a music studio/band practice room. This way it gets used ever
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by lukas099 3y ago
You are overstating the difficulty of finding and renting a public place. It takes about 20 minutes starting with looking up 'party space' on google maps. You are also discounting the costs you have already sunk into throwing your
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by lukas099 3y ago
Totally agree that the edge cases are important. But people spend too much on owning equipment for them that would make more sense to rent. Take the dining room example. A quick search says it costs ~$20,000 to build a dining room, so let&#
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by lukas099 3y ago
> Up front planning Hosting your own party has a lot more planning. And don't discount the planning that went into obtaining your own party room in the first place. > A pub to exist nearby. While I as a presumably fellow Brit wou
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by lukas099 3y ago
> so what's your point. My point is that there is a cognitive bias towards overweighting the allocation of resources toward low-frequency events.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I remembered where I got the idea: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/why-hybrid-... > Hybrid technology has generally meant comparatively higher sticker prices, though fuel savings can defray cos
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by lukas099 3y ago
If it made sense for me. Did I say that it made sense for everybody?
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by lukas099 3y ago
You don't need to purchase, maintain, and store the equipment for those edge cases to happen. You can rent them. In fact, that makes them even more special.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Those meaningful edge cases can still happen. You don't need to own, store, and maintain the equipment for them year-round for this. In fact, I would argue that the edge cases feel even more special when you rent. For instance, my fa
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by lukas099 3y ago
Maybe more people should own (short-range EV + private plane) instead of an ICE car :)
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by lukas099 3y ago
> There are endless examples of the same sort and that pose the exact same conundrum. Yes, there are countless cases of it actually making sense to have a spare bedroom. But that's beside the point. My point was that for a lot of p
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by lukas099 3y ago
How is renting a room in a local pub inadequate? I did it for my wedding reception and it was, pardon my french, a fucking blast.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Yes, and I wasn't trying to imply that it's an edge case for most people. I do believe it's over-weighted for a lot of people though.

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