u/ThePuppyIsWinning

Samsung is dropping their Message app and endorsing Google's. (Hate it, lol) The recommendation was to use SMS Backup & Restore. So I added it and OMG so.many.permissions, some that I didn't feel comfortable giving. Couldn't tell which were required for me to just...back up the messages and move them to Google. I drew the line at something about making and answering calls. I tried stopping the set up so I could start over and see the minimum perms required to do what I need to do, but it just jumps back to phone answering and making calls permissions. I removed it.

Something simple that I could just backup to a readable file/usable file would be fine. I'm not a big messaging person, especially since I retired, but there's a small amount of information I actually need to keep. Thanks!

ETA: Followup: I'd given up, but hate Google messages so tried Textra. I opened it, made it the default and it automatically (and pretty much instantly) grabbed all of my messages from Samsung!

I drink coffee in the mornings, used to be 6:1 ratio of decaf to caffeinated, decent coffee. We switched to Folgers for pricing when coffee prices started rising, then they kept going up, so I switched to half decaf (decaf costs 50% more than the regular) and half regular. The last time my husband bought coffee, one can of decaf and one of regular, it was $37. That's $444/year!

I decided to try to switch to tea - box of 100 Lipton tea bags was less than 5 bucks - and the first morning it was OK if a bit weak, though I got a little nauseated. Chalked that up to not having eaten yet, and tea not killing my appetite the way coffee does. The next morning, I doubled up on the tea bags, and omg, for 15 minutes I was SURE I was going to throw up.

I did some research and apparently some people react that way to tea on an empty stomach, which makes it a no-go for mornings for me.

What's left? I remember that my older sister went through a period of time where she just had hot water, though don't remember why. I thought about herbal teas, though the only kinds I'm familiar with are Chamomile and Sleepy Time, not really appropriate for mornings. lol. Plus...there's no caffeine.

My husband is good with whatever I choose. :)

Side note: I don't use milk/cream and don't add sugar. Really not much of a sugar person. Probably been 10 years since I had a soda, though I do have lemonade or bottled ice tea once or twice a year, lol.