Perhaps you two could trade:
Oh yes! It’s amazing how often folks react to impending or actual crisis by not eating, not sleeping, or both. Taking hard knocks are so much easier on a full tummy if possible.
What’s in STL for you if I may ask? My 20 years there were roughly the prime of my life and a great time overall.
Yaay!! It always amazes me how many “managers” do their damnednest to drive away the good workers and keep the useless schlubs. Looks like you’ve found one of the rare gems. And closer to home! Fingers crossed!!
I too donate my cast-offs, nearly all of them.
But as has been addressed in many, many threads on de-cluttering, when one is way behind and is facing dumpster-scale piles of aging stuff, agonizing over which can be donated to who/what, which recycled, which repurposed and how, and which must be oh-so-reluctantly trashed can be a total motivation-sapper and therefore show-stopper.
Dear @Beesnest said they were facing a vast and long-neglected pile. Which is often evidence of a psychological Gordian Knot that is best untied with a single swing of a mighty sword, not 10,000 painstaking tugs at peripheral threads.
Perhaps I misread them. Perhaps not. We shall see.
It probably will be, especially if your transferring stocks or mutual funds, not raw cash.
Moving assets meant for one person into a joint account amounts to splitting the ownership of those assets to both. While you’re free to do that on your own later, the brokerages aren’t willing to do that in the course of a simple transfer. I’ve even had problems transferring assets between accounts registered as “LSL Guy” and “LSL MiddleName Guy”. If they’re not certain the person/people at both ends are exactly identical, it ain’t gonna happen. Probably.
Just as you saw with the SS check.
Good luck and I hope it works the first time, but color me less than optimistic for you.
Yaay for alive!! I thought perhaps you’d run off with a circus or something. I can’t imagine the flail getting those two challenging cases ready for another school year. Must’ve been epic.
I recall a number of family visits years ago where an entourage of 4 showed up at my place. Each drank only one kind of soda, all different. Compromise was not possible. My late first wife and I drank no soda. Off to the store feeling weird buying four different 24-packs of soda and trying to stuff an appropriate number of each flavor into a fridge already loaded with groceries for the impending Feastes.
As to me:
Had a long and good night’s sleep by starting early and resisting the temptation for an additional glass of wine once home from dinner. Awoke a bit too late & lazy to bother beaching. So instead the morning is spent w y’all and the rest of my email & Dopers.
I’m on-call now and will be through Fri. I went to bed with a long list of people ahead of me on the priority list. Most of whom have been used. So I’m not next-to-go, but it’s close. Almost certainly starting irking tomorrow unless instead I’m starting irking today.
Already been chased inside from balconating by the lack of breeze and humidity and traffic noise. Not so much the heat, but we’ll have bunches of that later too: presently 85/29 on the way to 95/36.
Cheers & Happy Healthy Tuesday to all!!
