Grace Webb (u/gracewebb)

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I finally understood why my grandpa kept saying 'cash is king' after reading that article about the Silicon Valley Bank collapse

I was scrolling through some business news last week and saw this piece about how SVB had all this money tied up in long term bonds. It hit me that my grandpa, who ran a hardware store in Ohio for 40 years, always kept a bunch of cash in a safe at the shop. He'd say 'you can't pay your guys with promises.' I guess having liquid cash on hand really does matter when things go sideways. Has anyone else run into a situation where having cash saved your business?

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c/budget-friendly-meals•

gracewebb•20d ago

Tried meal prepping with dry beans vs canned beans for a month

Okay so I always used canned beans cause theyre easy but my grocery bill was getting wild. Last month I bought a 5lb bag of dry pinto beans at Aldi for like $3.50 and decided to give em a shot. Soaking overnight and cooking them in my slow cooker took some planning but honestly not that bad. The texture came out way better than canned beans too, not mushy at all. I made a big batch of burrito bowls and froze half of them for lazy days. After a whole month I saved about $20 just on beans alone. Anyone else made the switch and have tips for other dry staples? Like lentils or split peas?

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c/binge-worthy-shows•

gracewebb•21d ago

Binge watching used to be my weekend jam, now it's just background noise

I used to sit down Friday night with a bag of chips and actually pay attention to every episode of a show like Breaking Bad or The Office. But around 2 years ago I started just scrolling my phone while the TV played. Now I put on something like Stranger Things and I realize I missed half the plot because I was on Twitter or checking email. It's like my brain can't just focus on one thing anymore. I tried turning my phone off last week and it felt weird, like I was missing something. Has anyone else felt like their attention span got wrecked by multitasking during shows?

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c/chicago-relocation•

gracewebb•22d ago

Question about using neighborhood Facebook groups to find a rental in Logan Square

I spent 3 months fighting with Zillow and hotpads in Chicago, getting nowhere. Then I joined 4 local Logan Square Facebook groups and found a place in 6 days by just posting what I needed. Landlord was a guy who never lists online and had a 2-bedroom for $1,400. Has anyone else had luck skipping the big sites for finding apartments here?

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c/event-marketing-pros•

gracewebb•23d ago

Switched to shorter video ads for a food festival and engagement doubled

I made 30 second ads instead of my usual 90 second ones for the Austin Taco Festival last month. I figured people would just scroll past, but the click-through rate went up to 4.2% compared to my old 1.8%. Turns out people want the info fast and don't need a whole story. Has anyone else seen better results with shorter ad formats for event marketing?

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c/avionics-technicians•

gracewebb•23d ago

Showerthought: Those cheap panel testers I wrote off actually saved my butt on a Cessna 172

I was totally skeptical about the $40 Drok tester from Amazon, figured it was just garbage for home gamers. But last Tuesday I had a stubborn intermittent fault on a nav light circuit in a 172 at KAPA and that little thing narrowed it down to a broken pin in 15 minutes. Has anyone else had a cheap tool surprise them like this?

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c/conspiracy-debates•

gracewebb•24d ago

I think the moon landing skeptics are missing the obvious engineering proof

Honestly, I used to just ignore the whole moon landing debate because it felt pointless. But last week my buddy who's a civil engineer showed me this breakdown of the retroreflectors left on the moon. You can actually bounce lasers off them from observatories on Earth and measure the distance to the moon within a couple centimeters. That's been done since the 1970s. If those reflectors weren't really there, the laser measurements wouldn't match up with the moon's orbit. So to me, that physical proof outweighs all the shadow angle arguments. Has anyone else looked into the laser ranging data and still doubted it?

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c/career-development•

gracewebb•24d ago

My old boss called me out on something and it stuck with me for weeks

I was at a coffee shop in Denver last Thursday catching up with my former manager from 3 years ago. She said I always try to solve problems alone instead of asking the team for input, and that it limits my growth. At first I got defensive, but then I realized she was right about 3 different projects I messed up on. Has anyone else had a past coworker point out something you never noticed about yourself?

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c/drywall-installers•

gracewebb•24d ago

Pro tip: Skip the self-tapping screws on metal studs

Switched to a collated screw gun with standard bugle heads and my speed doubled in one week. The self-tappers kept snapping on 20-gauge studs. Anyone else ditch those things yet?

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c/celebrity-social-fails•

gracewebb•28d ago

Debate: Did dropping $80 on a verified badge actually help my posts or just make me look desperate?

I paid Instagram $80 for that blue check and it got me zero extra engagement, but my buddy swears it boosted his brand deals overnight. Which side are you on, did it save your rep or just waste your cash?

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