“The money is overrated”

Money doesn't matter

- People who have tons of money
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I've had every moment of my life controlled by laying carpet and there is no money in it
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Fortunately for me this generation likes vinyl more than @YellowSnow so only need to kick a few bedrooms a year
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The only thing shittier than vinyl flooring is @PurpleBaze HVAC vent placement .
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Deep pull.
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That fucking vent is going to haunt me for the rest of my HCH life.

Maybe it's tim for me to pull a "later guysm".
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I'm very careful about cropping my photos because of this. Already had to change out a blind set for something more tasteful because of it.

Plus you never know if @NSA_Dawg gonna dox you.
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I've been basically rebuilding my 100 year old house one wall at a time. As in bracing the roof, tearing the entire wall out, sometimes doing foundation repairs, and then rebuilding with new windows and doors and whatnot. Starting with the shop build, it's year five or so of being in a constant state of construction. When your bedroom has no floor or ceiling or walls for three months and you're sleeping in your daughter's room, it's hard to care about things like heater registers.

So no WAY would I be posting pictures of my place for you judgemental pricks!
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I grew up in a 1923 house

New build
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The main part of my house is 1925 Craftsman. So right out of the Sears catalog (that's where that comes from). Most of my bedroom is in an addition that was built (by fucking retards) in, as it turns out, May of 1946. At least that's the date on the newspapers that were used as draft stop between the two layers of sub-floor. I took pictures of some of the more interesting scraps I was able to recover.

Edit: Also, I have that exact same heater register cover that @PurpleBaze has, only in brass instead of nickel. It's also in the floor right in front of a door. It's also bent and smashed because why wouldn't it be. Unlike Baze's, mine isn't even hooked up to anything and just leaks cold air from the crawlspace into the house. It's on the list to fix...
 
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Our? House is a 1942 build, @1to392831weretaken with a register in the bathroom not hooked up to anything either. I tossed an area rug over it and called it good. The wife wonders why spiders keep showing up.... I have become addicted to getting the place right because it's got original hardwood floors and tons of character. Ours doesn't have the floor register in the middle of an entrance, I'd call that a human foot cheese grater...
 
Welcome to HCH, where a thread about Petersen's puffy little ginage turns into a discussion about floor heat registers and remodeling of early 20th century houses.
 
Welcome to HCH, where a thread about Petersen's puffy little ginage turns into a discussion about floor heat registers and remodeling of early 20th century houses.
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Money doesn't matter

- People who have tons of money
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I've had every moment of my life controlled by laying carpet and there is no money in it
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Fortunately for me this generation likes vinyl more than @YellowSnow so only need to kick a few bedrooms a year
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The only thing shittier than vinyl flooring is @PurpleBaze HVAC vent placement .
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Deep pull.
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That fucking vent is going to haunt me for the rest of my HCH life.

Maybe it's tim for me to pull a "later guysm".
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I'm very careful about cropping my photos because of this. Already had to change out a blind set for something more tasteful because of it.

Plus you never know if @NSA_Dawg gonna dox you.
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I've been basically rebuilding my 100 year old house one wall at a time. As in bracing the roof, tearing the entire wall out, sometimes doing foundation repairs, and then rebuilding with new windows and doors and whatnot. Starting with the shop build, it's year five or so of being in a constant state of construction. When your bedroom has no floor or ceiling or walls for three months and you're sleeping in your daughter's room, it's hard to care about things like heater registers.

So no WAY would I be posting pictures of my place for you judgemental pricks!
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I grew up in a 1923[/b] house

New build
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B.C.?

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Christ you fucking guys. @PurpleBaze is rich AF in real and gets Yuge oil money checks every month.

Don’t just a man by dirty tile grout.
 
I actually do not have any patience for this action ~ long ago he should have just graciously stepped aside and said that he was done ~ what a glorious opportunity [because it was], how gratifying etc.. and then just sailed off. Instead what he has done is gone on a mission which essentially degrades the profession and undermines the beauty of the scenario for those that continue the dream. And ok, maybe he needed to do that for a brief period, but WTF, he is still singing that song? That lack of graciousness and more significantly the lack of consciousness is a real turn off. I know I'm speaking the obvious ~ forgive me for that, the point is so why is that not obvious to him? WTF, dude shut up already ~ your truth is real, it is your deep and meaningful understanding, but keep it to yourself, the coaches that followed you and some of the kids you recruited are living out the dream dude so do not spoil it for them.

My irish grandmother had a good saying for these occasions when she saw idiocy in action ~ she would lean into the listener and sweetly say "lean close dear so that I can slap You."
 
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As a Husky football fan, I was very disappointed in how Petersen turned out...I went through it when I left baseball (Disclaimer: I was NOT making $4MM per)...

From 23 to about 60, baseball ruled my life, completely, totally, full stop. Through relationships, break-ups, a lost marriage, missing weddings, funerals, births, sick parents, I was driven by it, by the competition, until it consumed me. I didn't play golf (and IFL golf) but a handful of times from 23 to about 40, because I would hit a couple of bad shots, and my mind would go to "Fuck, I could be getting a lot of shit done...I'm wasting time out here".

I never took a "true" vacation until I was 41, and on that first vacation with my soon-to-be-final wife, I took a phone call from a colleague while in Mazatlan. When I told him where I was, he FedEx'ed me a radar gun, and "we" spent 3 nights watching the Mexican Winter League. It gets in the blood, and when it gets in the blood, it's hard (Hardy-Har-Har) to walk away. I didn't walk away from money, I walked away from the kids I recruited and coached, and while I still feel pangs of regret, it was the right decision. I was burned out, chasing the high of competition.

It had been coming for a couple of years, the lack of focus during games and practice, letting shit go that I would have previously been all over, the details were sliding...

I agree that it is rich that someone with generational wealth says "Money is overrated", but I am glad he pulled the trigger when he did. It had probably been eating at him for several years, and it came to a head. I didn't like how it went down, but I understand it. I had a HOF coach tell me once, "When you get to the point that the thrill of winning is less than the disappointment of losing, it's time to go"...

CSB/TLDR
 
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