I haven't done Gelli printing in a bit but want to get back to it.

I never had great success for pulling prints. I have a laser printer.
What is a tried and true method?

I live in the country, 2 lane roads etc. It is bad enough when it is just dark, but this morning I had the fortune to drive in a dark morning, while in a massive rainstorm, 2 lane country road .. so major bright lights PLUS heavy downpour PLUS glaring wet roads. SO MUCH FUN!.

I hope that this situation will change in the US SOON.
I am in OHIO

Long story short.
I am 58, I lost my job of 23 years years only to get a new job but am on the bottom of the totem pole again yet manage to make like 2 more an hour. I have a masters degree and things should be far better for me honestly.
I worked in non profit so I made THAT mistake.
I have ADHD and depression/anxiety issues...

I THOUGHT things were getting back on track this year but the last few months with gas prices going up I am back into crunch time and no amount of figuring out better budgets etc. I can't keep up. I know I have an elephant in the room (I am holding two properties but trying to sell one) and that is taking a lot more time and energy.

Just falling behind again, late fee's, stress, gas prices, food prices... can't buy ANYTHING other than bills and gas. That is it!! I am so fed up!!

I feel like a loser Mental health issues SUCK!!!

I want to get a new key/fob for my Acura. I am wanting to do this budget friendly and am horrified at the costs on some of these keys.

I have a 2009. What is the most reliable cost friendly way to do this? I guess i Need to get the KEY CUT then programmed? I never had this issue that I noticed before on my Hyunda 2017. Just confused.

I also need to get a new power outlet and that is a pain too.. (one in the middle console)

Thanks

I have now 2 things that need immediate attention

Hit a mailbox that was hiding in a large tuft of ornamental grass on a 2 lane narrow country lane and broke my passenger mirror ...... and now I need to aslo replace my 120? volt lighter outlet.. Sigh..

I have the mirror, i Have the door panel removal kit now I need a new lighter socket.. and a fuse.. It just goes on and on..

I have a 2009 ACURA MDX

I give up!.
I have pushed myself SO HARD. I have ADHD and stuff but I have worked hard to overcome those limitations.

I Lost my job of 23 years last year, but got a new one.

I have been working my ass off on the bottom of the totem pole again.
My body is failing me and things around me are just NOT coming together. Not for me, Not for my partner of 15 years.

I thought we would be off grid but things didn't work out.

I normally like to learn how to do things, be resileint, repair things.. but lately I have had soooooo much stuff on my plate that any tiny bump and I fall apart.

The lastest assery is that I am driving to work, at 630 am in my 2009 Acura MDX and car coming towards me on a tiny narrow 2 lane country road detour and BAMN I hit SOMETHING, break my passenger mirror have NO CLUE. ALl week long don't see anything I hit!. I manage to order my new passenger mirror, a door panel kit etc.. and watch videos on how to replace it. I even order a dash cam... YAY. Later in the week though, I notice something in a bunc of ornamental grass.. hidden... it is a frelling MAILBOX. .and is probably the damn thing I HIT!.. They HID THEIR MAILBOX in ORNAMENTAL GRASS????

Howeve,r NOW my damn cigarette lighter outlet doesn't work. POSSIBLY the fuse but I am goign to replace the socket cause it looks old and bad BUT I have to turn off my car battery and remove the fuse. its gonna too be a huge production.. I feel defeated as usually. One issue, OK., get back up, fix it and move on YAY pat on the back for fixing the thing.

But it always is yet ANOTHER thing that breaks, or happens.. not in a few months but like every day or every OTHER day.. it has burned me out and defeated me. I want to be resilient and competant but gods... I have no more energy or brain power to do any of this.

I got invited to a party at my cousins on Sat. YAY DOWN time.. but now I feel like I can't go to that.

It is I am adulting but I am drowning and I don't see what adulting is getting me. It is just things breaking, and fallling apart.. and the world around me falling apart.. This is NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR

If I hear even one more BOOMER (I am gen x) brag about how they are RETIRED NOW and going on trips and all that i am going to SCREAM!. I feel like such a loser. I am also supposed to go to my 40th HS reuinion. I have a Masters degree but i am a lowly schedular now..

This is the reality of being an ADULT for me.

I took my passenger side mirror off this morning. The part attached to the door is in tact and the mirror housing is still there but the mirror is gone. It needs to be replaced and I gues I have to take the entire door panel OFF to properly replace it.

I am thinking of asking my partner if he is up for the challenge (He has done auto stuff) it is just a matter of how involved and detailed it will be (we have a full plate) I would prefer NOT having to pay over 200 dollars in labor to someone. I figure paying 100 + for the part. I will look at junk yards (but those are becoming rarer). I saw a 69 dollar one on EBAY but even THAT one was broken.. like why would I pay 70 bucks for a BROKEN mirror ??? dumb.

Anyway.. thanks. Is it something I could do? I am sure it will be an ALL DAY JOB FOR ME. I have to get the clips. I have some other panels that honestly have to be repaired on that side (after a Deer hit me)

Thanks

I literally paid off this debt... but apparently .87 Cents materialized on it and now this NEW debt collector is coming after me threatening me that it will "accrue interest" if I do not pay.

I think this probaly demonstrates that much of this debt collection bullshit (and yes, there are folks who accrued debt that are legitimate) but this is a game and this has to be automated or some other jackassry. I wouldn't be suprised if they tried to come after me if there was even just 1 CENT owed.. I mean, this postage to put on the lettter to collect 87 cents is .82 cents alone!. WTF? ? Is anyone paying any attention to these letters that are getting mailed out? Or is it just automated systems and AI computers that are generating this? This i just absurd!. The following is the letter I am sending them:

Re: Alleged Balance of $0.87 – LVNV Funding LLC

 

To Resurgent Capital Services:

 

I recently received your letter informing me that you are attempting to collect an alleged remaining balance of $0.87 associated with an LVNV Funding debt that I have already paid.

Yes, eighty-seven cents.

 

I find it remarkable that Resurgent Capital Services has determined that pursuing a consumer for less than one dollar is an appropriate use of its time, resources, postage, paper, and administrative costs. Presumably, the cost of generating and mailing your collection letter already substantially exceeded the amount you are attempting to collect.

 

More importantly, I paid the amount I was instructed to pay to satisfy this debt. I subsequently received written notice that the request for garnishment had been withdrawn. I therefore have no idea how an additional $0.87 suddenly materialized or why it was not included in the payoff amount I was provided.

If this $0.87 represents some legitimate balance that existed when I paid the debt, I would appreciate an explanation of why it was not included in the amount required to satisfy the account at that time.

Nevertheless, because I have absolutely no desire to continue wasting my time over eighty-seven cents, I am enclosing payment of $0.87, assuming you will accept it as full and final satisfaction of any remaining balance associated with this account.

 

Please update your records accordingly and provide written confirmation that the account now has a $0.00 balance and is considered paid/satisfied in full, with no remaining amount due.

 

I would also strongly suggest that Resurgent Capital Services reconsider the wisdom of sending collection demands over amounts that are literally smaller than the cost of the postage used to demand them. There is something profoundly absurd about an industry capable of pursuing a person through the debt collection process and then following up after payment to demand eighty-seven additional cents.

 

I have paid this debt. I am paying your alleged additional $0.87 simply to put an end to this matter. I expect Resurgent Capital Services and LVNV Funding to do the same.

 

I am in turmoil. I have a longish backstory but need support.

I live in southwest Ohio, in Brown County, but also in Hamilton County, as we currently have two residences. We have been caring for a rural cat colony since around 2019, all through the pandemic. At one time during the pandemic, we had upwards of 30 cats. We worked hard to get them all TNR'd. We lost several to coyotes. We took six in after an incident, and they have been living in enclosures. Our outside population gradually reduced to eight stable cats. They are all fixed, and we had a covered back porch with winter huts where we fed them and cared for them.

However, our situation changed. I lost my job in 2025 and got a new job that takes me away from the house for longer hours. My partner is down at our other residence fixing it up so we can sell the rural property and move closer in.

However, in the last month, we have suddenly lost three of the eight cats we were caring for. They just disappeared. We had kept them stable for several years, so I don't know what happened. Either they wandered off because of raccoons or an interloper cat, or the coyotes got them despite us having coyote lights. I am extremely frustrated. My partner and I are devastated.

We are moving up our timeline to build some kind of catio at our new place for the remaining outdoor cats, at least. However, some of them are much more skittish, and I don't know what we are going to do about them. Ironically, the ones who went missing were actually friendlier.

I am just panicking at this point. I have very little time or money to coordinate this. All of my efforts to work with shelters have failed miserably. I don't have time to network anymore or to fundraise.

I just spent over $250 on one of them because she was our friendliest cat and was seriously losing weight. I took her to the vet. She tested negative for FIV, and she has been inside in our laundry room for about a month, but we have to figure out something better for her too.

I feel utterly unsupported. People don't understand. They think you can just take these cats to a shelter and be done with it. We have cared for these cats since 2019, and some of them even before that. We have truly tried to do right by them, but honestly, I have no support.

I gave up trying to network. I have a GoFundMe and a Ko-fi page, but I receive maybe $50 a month in private donations. We do all of this out of our own pocket. Honestly, the last few times I asked for help, I was met with judgment, and it has been incredibly demoralizing.

Any support or ideas are welcome. I just feel like I am at the end of my rope.

I just wish I had someone to talk this problem through that understands to help brainstorm. It seems folks I try and talk to about it just hate cats or are very dismissive...

I was in 5 Below yesterday, and I know they have tons of art supplies and school supplies. Has anyone bought art supplies from 5 Below recently? Thoughts?

They have colored pencils, paper, watercolors, acrylics, and even alcohol markers (which I almost bought). I know some of the reviews I saw a few years ago were mixed, but I didn't know if anyone had more recent experience or if there are any go-to products, you would recommend?

We have taken care of a semi-feral cat colony in a rural area since 2019 and before. We have had a stabilized population for a couple of years now. Suddenly, in the span of a few months, we have lost two. They have simply disappeared.

We think it might have been raccoons. I have fed them twice a day: once before I go to work in the morning while it is still dark, and then again when I get home.

My partner is down working at our other house, so no one is watching out for them during the day.

I am utterly burned out when I get home, and my schedule at a new job has been brutal. My partner is very judgmental and has told me I am not doing enough or doing things correctly, and that is why they are suddenly missing.

We lost our first one a month or so ago, and today I just realized his sister, who was always in the back in a side area, is gone too. I have one camera, and the last time I saw her was on July 16 at around 6:00 a.m.

These were our family. We have had these cats for years, and now they are just disappearing. We have coyote lights, but the yard is overgrown, and I don't have time to tackle that in my spare time.

I just feel ill. I always wanted to find forever homes for them because, honestly, they were too much for me to properly care for.

I don't know what to do at this point. I am just overwhelmed and tired of having this huge responsibility. We still have 7 and now 8 inside which is another story... but there was 8 and now there are 6.... I feel like the 10 little indians. This sucks.