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I actually read the policy on the free one I was using, which took about forty minutes and a coffee. It permitted sharing de-identified transaction data with unspecified partners for analytics, and there was no way to opt out and keep using the app.

I cancelled, moved to something I pay for, and revoked the connection at the aggregator. I don't think I was in danger. I just decided that if my grocery patterns are a product, I'd rather be the customer than the inventory.

Seconding the flip-the-reeds note. Half the complaints I ever got about diffusers were from people who never flipped them and assumed the thing had died after three weeks.

Showering with it on was absolutely the culprit. Soap under a tight silicone band all day, every day.

Fair, and headspace is the common factor in every bad jar I have seen too. Decant into smaller jars as you eat down, or use a weight, and the problem mostly disappears.

I have had one for six years on a south facing wall and the truthful summary is that it is a lovely thing to own and a mediocre place to grow herbs. It swings from too hot to too cold faster than any other spot in the house, so in July the basil cooks against the glass by mid afternoon and in January the shelf nearest the pane runs close to outdoor temperature. What genuinely thrives there is seed starting in March and April, and cuttings. If growing herbs is the actual goal, the money buys you a lot of shelf and light instead.

I bought a three year plan from the top recommendation on a site that turned out to be entirely affiliate driven. The provider was fine for about eight months and then got quietly acquired, and the ownership change never showed up on the site that recommended it because nothing there was ever revisited. That is the real cost of a stale list: not that it was wrong on the day, but that nobody updates it when the facts move.

Numbers from my own change, because the distribution surprised me. Before: 61 customers, flat fee, top three by usage consumed about a third of my support hours and paid the same as everyone else. After moving to a usage-linked metric with three bands: revenue up roughly 40 percent with two customers lost, both of them from the smallest band who moved to a free alternative. My support hours per pound improved dramatically because the heavy users were finally paying for the weight.

Good point, and worth asking the repair person directly. They know which brands from that era are still supported and they will usually tell you honestly, because they do not want to come back to a machine they cannot source parts for.

One diagnostic so you can rule out the scary version: push a finger two inches into the soil the day before you would normally water. If it is still wet down there, look at the roots rather than the light. Tip it out and check for firm tan roots versus soft dark ones that slide off like a wet sock.

Edge yellowing then dropping from the bottom up, starting right after a known move, with damp soil, is far more often light plus too much water than disease.

Do the three year sum before you buy, because the subscription changes the ranking entirely. A ring with a monthly fee over three years costs the hardware price plus roughly thirty six months of the fee, which for most of them roughly doubles or more than doubles the sticker price. A mid-range watch with no subscription costs the sticker price and nothing else.

That is not an argument against rings, it is an argument for deciding whether you will still care in year two. I subscribed for eleven months, stopped looking at the app, and kept paying for four more months out of pure inattention.

I can see that, and honestly the contribution question is the one that actually causes friction for us. Might be worth proposing a shared summary, totals visible, line items not.

Linking only the joint account and leaving the personal ones out is so much simpler than what I've been attempting, which is finding an app with per-category permissions that apparently doesn't exist.

Attach rates in that range are common for a module that is genuinely optional. The ones that get high attach are the ones people needed to do the core job, and those should not have been add-ons in the first place.

Ours in 2023, rural Vermont, itemised because nobody ever gives you the itemised version:

Well: 285 ft drilled at a per-foot rate, plus 60 ft of steel casing, plus the submersible pump, pressure tank, wire and the trench from wellhead to house. That whole package landed just under 14k. The per-foot number is the only part of a well quote that is real, everything after it depends on how deep the water is, and nobody knows that until they are drilling.

Septic: soils and design by an engineer, then a 1250 gallon tank and a conventional gravity field. About 16k with the design and permit.

Things I did not budget for: 400 ft of driveway trench for the water line at frost depth, a well cap and sanitary seal upgrade the county wanted, and 900 for the electrician to run a dedicated circuit and pressure switch. Add ten percent for the stuff nobody mentions.

Three tiers, one axis. If you cannot name the axis in a sentence, you do not have three tiers, you have one product and a menu.

Streaks reward not breaking. Practices reward returning. Decide now what the smallest version looks like on your worst day and the day-31 problem mostly disappears.

For the flavour side specifically, a spoon of something concentrated at the end does a lot. Tomato paste cooked off in a pan, a splash of soy or fish sauce, or a stock cube crumbled into the reduced sauce. Long slow cooking flattens flavours, so a little sharpness at the end restores them.

Terracotta genuinely changes the timeline. I moved two snake plants out of plastic and the same room with the same habits stopped being a problem, because the pot is now doing part of the drying for me.

One practical thing before you decide: check whether the insert is dishwasher safe and how heavy it is when full. An eight quart stoneware insert full of stew is genuinely heavy and awkward to lift out of a deep cupboard, and that is the thing that decides whether the machine gets used weekly or lives at the back forever.

Middle option nobody has mentioned: leave it in the pot and water more often instead. A rootbound pothos in a dim window is not in danger, it is just thirsty. If your life is busy, waiting until March costs you almost nothing except a couple of extra trips to the tap each week.