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My son keeps the second row seat back and he can’t reach the cup holder near the center console (plus the cooler/vac makes those holders even further away) anyone have any good cup holders that attach to the chairs or similar that can work for him? I hate to ask “how can I add more cup holders”, but I wish there was some attached to the seat.

I have a Ionic 5 so i've been around and thru the whole iccu issue and whatnot. Wife was looking at a I9 and I found 2 that were buybacks that matched our colors and trims and the price was appealing for it. I called the dealer and looked at the carfaxes and there isn't anything really shown for the buyback. One shows that it had the tires replaced (has around 10k miles) but nothing otherwise. The other has 2k miles and has nothing noted for the buy back either.

I know there was a lot of buybacks due to part shortages and such, but are there other things to consider? The biggest issue is that the cars are a day away driving, so what I can get info wise is limited to online and dealers. But before I would plan a trip like that, What were some of the common buyback reasons and would they not show up on a carfax if they were?

Was worried about getting 22s since I’ve never had big tires before. Are there tires like the cross climate where you get a good all season with snow rating on them? Where I live it would be useful and I don’t want to do tire swapping if I can avoid it.

Test drive this weekend but dumbly forgot to bring luggage to test fit. Being 2.5 hours away I was hoping someone could help. Today when we travel we use a Kia carnival. We have 4 adults one kid who like the 3rd row (8) and a 2 year old in a car seat. We have 3-4 large suitcases, 3-4 carry ons and 3-4 backpacks. In the carnival we use the back storage for the seats and have one of the 3rd row down and we can store all the luggage for a drive. If we orient the seats the same way 2/3/1 can we carry the same luggage in R1s?

When Rollouts first launched I was able to see "A vs B" metrics for a rollout, which was very handy as our company hasn't committed to buying an AB tool yet. When I have a rollout running now at 50% traffic, I don't see anything that indicates a comparison between the 2 "versions" anymore and was wondering if there was a way to get the comparison between the two now?

42m income 205k married and wife works part time bringing roughly 45-50k a year - we mostly try to live off my income but heres how things break down

Take home
roughly 11k per month with 10% going into 401k (Match I forget the % but I get roughly 12k match for 6k invested)

Severance I get 9k per month until October

Retirement

401k - 475k roughly 50% of this is Roth 401k (everything in growth type funds)
ROTH IRA - 163k
Investment account - 175k

Saving - 32k
Checking - 6k

No CC debt, no car debt

Mortgage ~175k @ 4.5% about 26 years left

Now i do have a whole life policy (yes I know, but i'm ok with this at this point) that I've had for like 16-17 years at this point. I do have a loan on it for my car, about 35k @ 5.5%. which is my only debt

Have 529s for my sons

8 yr - $28k
1 year - 3.5k

Around 1m in life insurance, 750k term 350k WL (stay focused everyone)

Budget I keep lighter on paper but roughly

Mortgage - 1700
Utilities - 1000
Food - 1000
And I set aside roughly 3k a month for everything else (it gets put on a CC and paid off)

Some months I go over, and some not, but rest I funnel into my savings (aiming to keep roughly 30k in that as the emergency fund) Then as I get over that 30k I will put left over either in my investment fund or my 529's

Goal wise, I wanted to get the investment account to 200k so we could pay the house if needed, or better to just let it grow some to fund vacations and such.

My financial guy has projected me to be over 2m by retirement,. but I was looking to consider light retirement 55 and full at 60ish.

When i lost my last role I was maxing my 401k yearly, but had started to wonder if I should just "coast" at the 10% or so and do other things. It feels like I have enough to let compounding work, but I feel like I'm on the "edge" where putting more cash in still has use.

I sorta feel like my left over money doens't have a good job to do, making me wonder about things. I know i'm not poor or without things, but I feel like taking the gas off of saving isn't a great goal.

I wanted to make the investment fund "fund" vacations, but there doesn't seem to be a good means to leverage that money short of selling it (my financial advisor mentions to try to fund with cash vs selling especially if I can fund. a trip in a few months), so Ii've been considering using my whole life policy cash value for that. At this point theres about 50k in cash value of which I have 35k tapped for a car, but the rate right now is good compared to the market (5.5%). I know Reddit hates on WL but I'm well past the point of benefiting from the investment side of it so I'm not going to surrender it, but just leverage it.

I'm sorta just looking for a perspective, Do i just set cash aside monthly then do a trip? Do I pay my loan off and just use that as short term leverage? I don't think paying th house off is the play, but I'm not against it..

Last week a day before she left for her cruise (without me….) we got a Disney inspire card, so we just had the digital Apple Pay card, no number. Everywhere I looked it said that she would have only been able to use it in the stores and that a physical card was needed to add it to the folio. However she was able to use Apple Pay to put the card on the folio (not sure where she did but I would imagine check in)

So not sure if it’s because the Wish is a newer ship but just passing along if it’s useful to anyone

So we just got a new chase disney card, but I don’t have the physical card yet, only the Apple Pay. I know it can be used in the store, but from what I read, you can’t do any room charges with it? Wanted to confirm if that is still the case (or if there’s any tricks to getting around it)

Set my S4 to continuously record (hard drive installed in homebase3) but when I view the camera I just see the events. Is there somewhere I can view the full continuous recordings if needed?

I have a camera on the corner of the front of my house to keep an eye on things, it rotates between 2 spots and follows motion (C31). Directly across the street (a divided street) is a house which had the cops there twice in a few months (I think drugs, but general "sketchy" behavior). I bought my first camera to keep tabs on things after the first call, but yesterday the Police came over to ask about my camera and if it saw anything to help on their last call. It didn't see what they had asked about, but I did notice that because of how it moves and tracks, it could be looking the wrong way at the wrong time.

My "delima" is if i should purchase a better camera which would always point in that general direction, since the C31 1. can detect motion over there but it's not super clear and 2. because it patrols (every 10 seconds) it can miss things, especially if it picks up other motion to follow. This camera would be looking at my main driveway (so theres a reason for it to point in the direction not just "being nosey").

I think the general concern I would have is, is there a risk in me watching that house for if/when the cops have to come again and do I get targeted by them if I see something that the cops take action on. It seems to be a lot of more random cars (nice cars that you kinda feel like are out of place). But I would imagine now that the Police know I have a camera, that I could imagine they would come over again if they get called out, since I would have a really good view of their front yard.

Basically I would only be getting a second camera to "spy", since my main camera more or less protects my front yard. But at the same time, I would want to know if something went on over there that would risk my family in some way.

Thoughts on the matter?

Bought S340s with the intent to put on the corner of my house and wire to AC so it could keep an eye on things and come to find that even though you can set pan spots, it will only sit in one spot unless I manually control it? Seems like a miss for a 360 camera... are there any models similar to the S340 that can "go on patrol"? I don't really want a flood light, just cameras

Looking at my kitchen it’s about 5 - 6 feet to the sidewall. There’s a drop down header so I can’t tell if there’s anything in the space, but I’d imagine it’s open aside from framing. There’s attic to roof is shorter distance wise and probably easier to do as I’ve cut a vent in the past for my bath room. The side wall looks to end reallly close to the soffit (which do not have vent holes), and I’m worried if I try to cut this hole that it will not totally be on the wall and partly where the soffit metal is.

Should I still try to go out the side wall? Is it a big issue to go thru the roof? It’s near to other vent pipes so it would be in a space where there isn’t much to do (if adding solar or whatever later). If I go thru the roof, is there anything to watch for? (It would come out about 5 feet from the edge)