Mine is a liv something. A girly imprint of giant, I think.
My trailer could fit a 4yo but I wouldn’t buy it for a 4yo.
I would do a rear seat.
When mine are 2 and 4 I want this configuration (plz wait for pics)
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That e bike looks amazing and I want it for you.
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What movie should I watch for date night in the middle of a vicious heat wave? Netflix, Amazon prime, HBO are all options. New or old is fine.
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I really liked the new Father of the Bride on HBO Max!
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You should look for a fitness or hybrid bike. Something that can take larger tires (more comfortable and better on rail trails) and does NOT have a front suspension fork (heavy, unnecessary.) It is nice to have eyelets on the bike frame for a rack in case you want to carry a lot of stuff with you or install a basket. Disc breaks are a little more expensive, but have much better and smoother stopping power.
It can be difficult to find a bike to properly fit a shorter person since most stores don’t stock a lot of small frames. Test ride ALL the bikes you can find in your city. Don’t buy the first one you test ride. There are still supply chain issues in the cycling world, but I don’t think it’s as bad as it was last year.
Can’t help with the 4 year old thing, but can definitely answer any more bike questions. 
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HELP, how much are you supposed to tip a hairstylist?
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I always tip $10 to my guy that charges $70 on a haircut 
I think tip more if you’re getting color etc that takes longer. That being said, he profit shares on the salon. When I went to students I tipped WAY more because I knew they were getting Jack shit. If someone was renting a chair at a chain salon I’d also tip more, knowing they were keeping less.
This says 20%- How Much to Tip Your Hairdresser for a Cut, Trim or Color in 2022
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20%.
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I’ve had multiple times now that my explanation of benefits said I owed way waaaaay more than the practitioner actually charged me. Most of them were for acupuncture so I assumed the loosey-goosey vibe was due to the “alternative medicine” practice but now an actual hospital has charged me ~$25 for an X-ray my EOB says should cost me ~$150.
- I should believe the hospital billing people right?
- WTF?
- is the fact my OOP max is based on the EOB numbers and not the amount of dollars I have actually paid to health care companies a problem? Should I be worried that I actually owe someone money for this gap? If I hit my OOP max without actually paying that many dollars will they do forensic accounting to determine if I’ve actually met it?
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That has happened to me but for my meds where the manufacturer has a “coupon” which isn’t really visible to me unless they give me the breakdown. But basically I end up paying very little but my insurance records it as me paying much more, and it all goes toward my deductible/OOP max so I’m not complaining.
For the acupuncture I’d assume that they try to bill high and don’t know how much is actually going to be paid out by insurance (can be a huge difference depending on the insurance company for the same services!), but ultimately they don’t want to stick you for the official “full amount” because then you might decide that it’s too expensive and not continue.
No idea about the hospital but since the discrepancy is $125 and not thousands I’d just not worry about it!
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This happens to me sometimes, and usually it’s that I get the EOB before insurance has actually negotiated with my dr/hospital for a lower price for service. So the EOB will say the higher number, but when I actually get the bill it’s lower and shows the line item of what insurance paid which usually is lower than what the EOB said the provider billed for. I always trust the bill from the provider with my final amount owed. EOB says “this is not a bill” so I don’t go by what it says.
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Mysteriously, my Medicare EOB (which is called something else) says I have filled my deductible for the year, when to the best of my knowledge - which ought to be pretty solid, no? - I have spent $0, have not been to a doctor or filled a prescription.
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Me and my old-lady hips really like my Electra Townie. I have a seven speed and it meets all my needs. It is not fast, I do not have a need for speed. I have done occasional bike commuting, mostly leisure rides, and one 200km cycle tour on it.
I do not know where the four year old goes on it though.
My children had a trailer for a long time, I found I used very different leg muscles with the trailer than without. My youngest had terrible balance and a tag a long never felt safe with him. We ended up buying a Tandem bike and dropping the rear seat as low as it could go for our cycle tour. We bought the tandem used when he was 7 for $600, and sold it three years later when he was 10 for $600.
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I just got a Medicare EOB that says I have fulfilled my deductible, not gotten a bill from a doctor this year, and checked dates and the actual service is from October of Last Year. I’m concerned because I have gotten NO bills from my Mom’s last days in the hospital. They have a year to bill, and she died last February. So, maybe cross check when the actual service was rendered.
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So I was fartin’ around the interwebz last night, as one does, and somehow ended up in a deep dive on the Lead Safe Mama website. How seriously should I take that?
Like, it seems like she’s at least somewhat science-based, but I don’t have the background really to evaluate it. And like what’s the scale of seriousness here - is it a “eh, do what you can, but the world is a dangerous place, so pick your battles” or more serious?
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Yeah, I’ve found her site in the past, too. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in, but I do know that lead is bad and should be avoided as much as possible, and lead is in almost all old stuff because they didn’t know/care back then.
I stumbled upon her site because I inherited some vintage pyrex bowls and I decided after reading her stuff not to use them. I don’t know if she’s overreacting, but it didn’t seem worth it just to use an old bowl. And now I don’t eat off any old dishes and especially don’t let my kids eat off them. I think lead levels matter more for kids than adults.
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My general heuristic for this kind of thing - which doesn’t have to be anyone else’s! - is that if someone is trying to tell me that everything around me is poisoning me, I check to see if they’re trying to sell me something expensive to replace it. She does have a whole shop tab.
I looked into lead levels a few years ago when I lived in a city with only old housing stock, and my memory is that for adults who aren’t trying to have kids, it takes a lot of lead to do harm (someone correct me if I’m misremembering!). I might look more deeply into it if I was into thrifting for vintage dishes and used them for at-home meals, but that’s not my journey.
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I don’t want to jump to conclusions and assume you are all terrible people. So, why hasn’t anyone mentioned the new season of Bollywood Wives? Hahaha, it’s so good guys!!!
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So I don’t know about lead specifically (and I assume that yes it is bad at some level of use) I used to follow a lot of accounts on instagram/social media that were talking about how basically everything is toxic, and how everything should be replaced with all of these safe alternatives. I really thought that these people had scientific evidence for these things, and they would always cite the EWG as the source. But then I learned that the EWG isn’t necessarily legitimate.
I found a few really good sources on instagram, Foodsciencebabe and Unbiasedscipod (which has a podcast) are two of them which do a really good job of debunking a lottttt of the theories about things people are touting as “toxic”. There are still things I choose to avoid using, based on personal experiences, or just because it makes me feel better. But I feel like I understand a lot more now about how people make these claims, and why there is confusion about what things are labeled “toxic” or “safe”. A lot of the information floating around out there literally has no evidence behind it, and the people who are warning about it have zero qualifications, and are just using their page to drive business for “safe” products. It’s honestly all very fascinating to observe, haha.
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