Good movies for vday? Either actually good romcom style or so bad it’s good romance.
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Too late, but Princess Bride?
How to lose a guy in 10 days is classic romcom.
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OK, trust me on this one if you haven’t seen it, but: The Handmaiden (not Handmaid’s Tale). Rom com meets heist and everyone is hot. I’m about due for my annual rewatch. Watch alone or with your partner and no one else.
Although, adding a CW for lots of stuff, so if a person isn’t in the right mood for that, I take back my recommendation.
My parents are doing a lot of work on their house this summer (new roof, redone solar panels, heat pump and ac) and are wondering if there’s any credit cards that will give them more than 1% cash back on this stuff. They aren’t super interested in dealing with travel points, but if it’s a much better reward they might be able to be convinced. Anyone know good credit cards?
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I think the Discover IT card gives you double cash back in the first 12 months (as in, they match it at the end of the 12 months), which would be 2% on most things. (Discover does do 5% cash back on various things periodically, but I wouldn’t count on it?) I believe you must be a new cardmember, which sucks for me because I have had a Discover card since 1998. 
ETA: I mean, Discover Card gives 1% cash back on everything (unless it’s a special promotion of 5%), so doubled, that would be the equivalent of 2%, just to be clear.
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Citi Double Cash is a standard 2% cash back card (1% when you spend, 1% when you pay), and Fidelity also has a straight no-fee 2% cash back rewards card but I believe it has to go to a Fidelity investment account so maybe not useful for them. Not sure if either of them have any sign up bonuses right now since I’ve had them for a while, and that’s probably worth checking since rewards bonuses tend to be the most interesting if you’re looking at a few short months with a lot of spending.
Travel cards, at least for me, depend on what I have planned so I can’t say much there…I think the big one that’s been mentioned lately is Capital One’s Venture X, but I don’t have anything planned so I haven’t looked at any details. There’s Amex Platinum that has a big signup bonus now too, but that one I do have for targeted purposes and while it has value for me it’s more annoying to use those benefits–someone on the other forum called it a fiddly coupon book which is the most accurate description I’ve seen so I’m not sure how much I’d recommend it)
There are some good summary websites if you’re considering new cards and want to compare–the one I like is
but I’m sure there are other options.
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A lot of stores at home just like…. Don’t take discover. But the construction stuff is big enough that they might. I will look it up and pass it on!
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That’s true, I didn’t think about that. I think it might be better than it used to? IDK though. These days I don’t use Discover that much and mostly have it set up to pay recurring expenses. I mostly keep it because my history is sooooo long (because I think I get the same cash back from my REI card, which is a Mastercard, other than the special 5% bonus deals).
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I have a Citi Double Cash card and it has a lower credit limit ($3200) than most cards give me. I haven’t tried asking for more because it meets my needs. But $3K doesn’t go very far on the projects you mentioned but maybe they could get a higher limit.
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I’ve used Nerd Wallet’s tool in the past to find a good rewards credit card.
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You can have two Discover cards at a time! You can get a new one as long as your most recent one has been open for a full year. I just rotate it yearly and get my sister to give me a referral, so we both get an extra $50.
I have the Citi double cash and my limit is $25k they are definitely willing to go higher on the limits.
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This is weird, but does anyone else experience sympathetic pain? Marmalade cut his hand and while I was helping him put antibiotics on it, the back of my thighs started to ache. This has happened all my life. If I see something that looks painful (in front of me, not on TV or something like that) the back of my legs ache. Wondering if that happens to anyone else here!
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Yes! I have it but in the base of my spine. Doesn’t matter what I see happen, that’s where I feel it. Oh but I do get it from watching things on tv or sometimes reading a description.
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I don’t have it but this podcast talks about something similar
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Haha glad I’m not the only one! I think maybe I do get it in other cases (it used to be worse when I was younger), but it’s been so long since it happened and then today they were aching so bad! And Marmalade said his hand was ok, too.
@darlingpants I’ll check it out!
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Anyone here have first-hand experience with teak patio furniture in a harsh northern environment? We need to buy an outdoor dining set and I’m considering teak. The internet tells me it can be left out year round, but I’m not sure I believe it. At our house it would have snow on it for at least 3 months and many freeze-thaw cycles. I haven’t got time to baby my outdoor furniture…
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I don’t but a bunch of my neighbors had wood outdoor furniture at my old townhouse. They all had covers that they put on their furniture before it snowed.
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Our is not teak because apparently that’s not sustainable, but it is something similar like acacia maybe? Anyway, we also cover ours for the winter. Evidently you can oil it sometimes if you want it to keep a nice brown color, and if you do not do those 2 things, then it turns gray like a park bench, which of course is also legit. We’ve only had ours a couple of years, though, so I don’t know how long it will stay this nice brown (we have not oiled it yet).
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