Random Unthreadworthy Questions

[gaijin]

Different strokes for different folks. But the only thing I regret about having kids is not having them sooner.

And no, kids aren’t expensive. Teenagers are though. But if you’re lucky enough to get a dumb one, maybe you won’t have to pay for college.


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[old goat]

I think he means goats.

[406]

Daycare for a 3 yo old was $400 per week, easily $100 more per week for younger ages.

[gaijin]

Forgot about that. I paid 5k per kid per year for preschool. Three years each. 45k in preschool expenses. Worth it, though.

I guess my point is money shouldn’t be the reason someone decides to procreate or not.

[old goat]

Forgot about that. I paid 5k per kid per year for preschool. Three years each. 45k in preschool expenses. Worth it, though.

I guess my point is money shouldn’t be the reason someone decides to procreate or not.

That's true--assuming you have enough of it. OTOH plenty of people struggling to keep a roof over their heads have kids so . . .

[::: :::]

Forgot about that. I paid 5k per kid per year for preschool

it was double that here 15yrs ago
made catholic school feel like a relief when preschool was over

[MultiVerse]

According to The Economist this is completely uncharted territory, anybody know anything about this sort of thing happening in Germany?:

[old goat]

I've read that the German police and military are heavily infiltrated with far right types.

[mcski]

it was double that here 15yrs ago
made catholic school feel like a relief when preschool was over

Yep, we have parents paying 1k per month for little more than half days of preschool. Parochials are 24ish and the monied class privates are 50kish per year. Insanely annoying prices for education

[jm2e]

for safety a sauna doesn't have a lock on it
but, if you live in a suburban zone & want a detached sauna, how do you keep it secure in the hours you aren't using it?

To your first point: are you saying there is no lock on purpose, because of fear that someone may lock you inside?
If that’s the case, the car solution definitely seems ideal. That way you can completely block it when not in use. And when in use, you can leave just enough space to shimmy in, but you car will also block someone else from trapping you inside.
BUT, based on this idea, you need to make sure your “blocker” car is so big someone else can’t move it with their own car. So an assessment of neighborhood vehicle preferences is in order to determine how big a junker you’ll need to acquire.



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[Core Shot]

What about an exterior handle lock? Just like your front door. They always open from the inside. Key on the outside. Even better a digital lock so you don’t need a key.

Your question is useless without pics
Even if the sauna door is too thin for a regular lock you could build up the inside with a nice cedar block.

[goldenboy]

WWMD?

My uncle got a Nazi dagger when he was stationed in Europe, I honestly don't know the details. He passed away many years ago and it went to my dad, who passed away in 2010. My mom is moving to a retirement home so we'll have an estate sale for anything that no one wants. I don't think anyone in my family wants the Nazi dagger. My fear is that some neo Nazi will buy the dagger if we put it in the estate sale and get a hard-on looking at it. So if we try to avoid that fate, dump it in the trash? Maybe a museum would take it?

[Buster Highmen]

WWMD?

My uncle got a Nazi dagger when he was stationed in Europe, I honestly don't know the details. He passed away many years ago and it went to my dad, who passed away in 2010. My mom is moving to a retirement home so we'll have an estate sale for anything that no one wants. I don't think anyone in my family wants the Nazi dagger. My fear is that some neo Nazi will buy the dagger if we put it in the estate sale and get a hard-on looking at it. So if we try to avoid that fate, dump it in the trash? Maybe a museum would take it?

Give it to a holocaust museum.

[skaredshtles]

Give it to a holocaust museum.

This. Museum is a great place for memorabilia like this to end up...

[riser4]

Don't let some neo Nazi get it. Museum or meltdown/destroy.

[mcski]

WWMD?

My uncle got a Nazi dagger when he was stationed in Europe, I honestly don't know the details. He passed away many years ago and it went to my dad, who passed away in 2010. My mom is moving to a retirement home so we'll have an estate sale for anything that no one wants. I don't think anyone in my family wants the Nazi dagger. My fear is that some neo Nazi will buy the dagger if we put it in the estate sale and get a hard-on looking at it. So if we try to avoid that fate, dump it in the trash? Maybe a museum would take it?

There were so many war souvenirs like that brought back from ww2. Does make me wonder where that stuff is ending up now that the guys that took it home as trophies are pretty much all dead now.

I have a katana and a couple battle flags that my dad brought home. I like the historical paraphernalia but don’t know what I’d do with it if I needed to get rid of it

Holocaust Museum seems like a good place to start w a dagger. Or some veterans organization might have some ideas

[Cisco Kid]

Dad brought back a few Nazi things from the war. There are legit history buffs/reenactors that would buy that. Museum is good too. I'm not letting of this cool beer stein. Yet.

[The AD]

Holy shit, we really go have some old fuckers here if you have dads who fought in WWII!

[old goat]

My dad brought home a katana, which I have. I don't think he got it on the battlefield. The closest he got to combat was as a lab tech on New Guinea. I'm pretty sure he got it in Japan after the war--he was stationed there for a year after VJ Day. The Japanese had to disarm, which included swords, even swords that were valuable family heirlooms. My dad's seems to be a mass produced officer's sword, which GI's brought home in the hundreds of thousands. It's still in great conditon, not a spot of rust or corrosion after decades behind a refrigerator in my mom's unheated Michigan garage, and prior to that in a basement.

My dad was supposed to go ashore in the first invasion wave on the Japanese mainland to test the water for poison. He was happy not to have to go.

[mcski]

Holy shit, we really go have some old fuckers here if you have dads who fought in WWII!

Im genX , but my parents had me late. Miracle/whoopsie baby. My grandfather was born in 1878 and my daughter was born when I was 40 so I guess it runs in the fam

My cousins used to chop watermelons w the katana before I reclaimed my birthright. There can be only one!

[BCMtnHound]

Dad was born in ‘41 near Düsseldorf. Has a burn across his chest when a nearby bombshell knocked a pot of boiling water off the stove onto him. Most of what he carried over from the war I will try not to pass onto my daughter. Some things are better left in the past.

[goldenboy]

Im genX , but my parents had me late. Miracle/whoopsie baby. My grandfather was born in 1878 and my daughter was born when I was 40 so I guess it runs in the fam
!

Ha, yep. I was also an whoopsie baby, all my siblings are 10+ years older than me and my parents were around 40 when I was born.

My dad was like 10 when WW2 ended, and I think my uncle got the dagger after the war.

[jm2e]

I feel like something brought home by a US soldier has less Nazi connotation and more historical context. Would not have been brought back to celebrate Nazis. It’s just old German shit now.


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[Djongo Unchained]

My cousins used to chop watermelons w the katana before I reclaimed my birthright.
There can be only one!

[riser4]

I feel like something brought home by a US soldier has less Nazi connotation and more historical context. Would not have been brought back to celebrate Nazis. It’s just old German shit now.


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Correct. Until some neo-nazi gets his hands on it, then it changes.