Minor victory thread

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I just moved into an apartment in Houston. Seems like all the apartments have valet trash, even if you don't want it. I can walk my trash to the dumpster, thanks. I don't need to pay a forced $25/month. The place I signed didn't have lockers, but it had a package concierge service, that receives your package and redelivers it to you. I guess that's nice if you want to avoid porch pirates and don't WFH. If you do, though, it just adds hours to your delivery time. And I have to pay for it even if I don't want it. Another $10/month. A lot of the residents still just get packages delivered to their door, because the concierge is a pain.
 
As my dear husband mentioned in the other thread, I had a fight with our cell people yesterday. I say fight lightly because I never raised my voice or said anything unkind beyond letting them know I had a quote from a competitor.

So last October I called and asked how we could lower our bill. My phone was close to being paid off and I knew from past negotiations that they often will waive the last month or two if asked nicely. I also wanted a new unlimited plan as it was less expensive than the weird intérim plans they had and there was talk I might be made essential to travel and I wanted more data. That part didn’t happen thankfully.

The kids have text and talk with data blocks and always have. I hot spot them when needed.

I asked for @HCGLNS and I to have unlimited and for my watch and tablet to share with mine. Buddy on the phone said sure and he was talking super fast.

The bill was way less so I thanked him.

Yesterday we’re in the car and I get a text that I am at 90% of my data. How can that happen on an unlimited plan?

The place we were at had a random shop for our phone carrier and they kindly looked into it and told me the truth. Buddy on the phone put the unlimited plan on my kid’s line that had the data block for years and gave me some tiny plan. Wtf?

I called and requested a refund of the extra on her line for the whole time and a heavily discounted plan for us going forward. I had a quote from a discount carrier.

She tried to make excuses that they can only refund 30 days and why didn’t I notice? Not an unreasonable question, but the online bill is a mess and the new bill was way cheaper and I trusted them not to be unethical and put an expensive unlimited data plan on a kid’s line with a data block the pre -dated the change. She called back ten minutes later and said she could in fact give the entire refund and offered a heavily discounted plan going forward.

Pardon the length of this, I guess I had to get this out. I was super cranky when I found out it had happened.
 
And despite the dipshit who changed the plan the wrong way round, it seems like the second rep, at least, did things as they should and resolved things to your satisfaction?
 

Dave

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Just got contacted about a job. Don't have it yet and may not but considering how down I was the last time I had to job search this makes me feel good. Probably the absolute best time to look for work.

Also, Zach has an interview today. He knows that his portion of the bills are going up as much as my pay is going down. We may come out of this alright.
 
I got a PedEgg today.
These things are pure magic is what they are.
Had no idea what this was. Googled without thinking on work computer. Thank goodness it was a pedicure thing, because as the tab was opening all I could think was "There's a lot of 'egg' products I'd like to not pop up in my browser right now."
 
Had no idea what this was. Googled without thinking on work computer. Thank goodness it was a pedicure thing, because as the tab was opening all I could think was "There's a lot of 'egg' products I'd like to not pop up in my browser right now."
Yeah, the PedoEgg is something entirely different.

No, I didn't google that, no idea if it exists, nor, if it does, what it is. Just making a bad joke.
 
The Dyson Animal v8 :)
We still have the first "Animal" DC07 model.
Bought it reconditioned, have had to have it serviced once, but I suppose that's pretty good for ~20yrs.

EDIT: Actually found the receipt! Purchase date was March 21, 2004. So only 17.5yrs. Close enough.

--Patrick
 
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Feels weird posting in here, but...

I'm officially 5 pounds lighter. Down from 250 to 245. I'm a LONG way away from where I was 3 years ago. At my lowest, I was at 190. And that was while on the keto diet. Depression and life in general added the pounds back on. But it's nice to see the number lower.
 
Feels weird posting in here, but...

I'm officially 5 pounds lighter. Down from 250 to 245. I'm a LONG way away from where I was 3 years ago. At my lowest, I was at 190. And that was while on the keto diet. Depression and life in general added the pounds back on. But it's nice to see the number lower.
Anytime my scale tells me I'm lower, even if it's only a pound, it makes my day. Yay five pounds!
 
Feels weird posting in here, but...

I'm officially 5 pounds lighter. Down from 250 to 245. I'm a LONG way away from where I was 3 years ago. At my lowest, I was at 190. And that was while on the keto diet. Depression and life in general added the pounds back on. But it's nice to see the number lower.
I just tipped the scales at 250 which was a massive bummer. I'm nearly halfway to my heaviest when I was just out of high school. Depression.....

Off this topic, you know how when you have something absolutely shitty weighing over your head and it causes stress and anxiety to a level where you feel nauseous for days and it suddenly comes back in your favour when you 110% didn't expect it to and now you feel like a new person? That's me, right now. I still have a blood pressure headache from earlier, but I feel 122% better.
 
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