__________ is/are overrated.

[jakeroot]

I'm definitely on board with being cremated.  There's just so much cool stuff they can do with the remains these days, like getting a tattoo with the remains in the ink.

That sounds like an awful idea. I would never want that. 

Do you have any tattoos?

[kkt]

Home ownership is overrated. The expenses of repairs, maintenance, insurance, taxes, etc., can be burdensome. If the water heater goes out, you don't have to replace it. Your landlord does.

But you don't gain wealth if rent. The amount of equity I've earned on my house over the last five years could buy me a whole shit ton of water heaters.

You also don't have to beg your landlord to replace the water heater, and you don't have to worry about your rent going up as a result of replacing the water heater.  Oh, and the new water heater will make your house worth slightly more.

My house has gone up by 50% in the six years since I bought it.  Can't get that from renting.

[Max Rockatansky]

Home ownership is overrated. The expenses of repairs, maintenance, insurance, taxes, etc., can be burdensome. If the water heater goes out, you don't have to replace it. Your landlord does.

But you don't gain wealth if rent. The amount of equity I've earned on my house over the last five years could buy me a whole shit ton of water heaters.

You also don't have to beg your landlord to replace the water heater, and you don't have to worry about your rent going up as a result of replacing the water heater.  Oh, and the new water heater will make your house worth slightly more.

My house has gone up by 50% in the six years since I bought it.  Can't get that from renting.

The best thing that could have happened to us was a new school going in across the street.  Few things tend to racket up property value like access to a new school. 

[kkt]

We don't have a new school, but we've got a high school with a pretty good reputation 10 minutes walk away.

And a new light rail station.

[Takumi]

I'm definitely on board with being cremated.  There's just so much cool stuff they can do with the remains these days, like getting a tattoo with the remains in the ink.

That sounds like an awful idea. I would never want that. 

OK, but what about the other 39 ideas on this list?

https://www.joincake.com/blog/what-to-do-with-cremation-ashes/

For my dog I went with #7. He's on the mantle in my living room now.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I already know what I want done when I'm gone, which cremation is part of that plan (my concern is more who will still be there to carry it out when I'm gone given my extremely small family, and my brother and I have no plans to have kids)

[SSOWorld]

Easily bypassed in my circumstances by going into the restaurant.  Especially effective at getting your food faster at In-n-Out Burger.

Nowadays - Culvers too.

[mgk920]

We live in rented house, not an apartment.  Our landlords are fantastic, and we never have to worry that they won't have something fixed appropriately.  They've refused to raise our rent the whole 12 years we've lived in the house.  Several years ago, they began to get out of the rental house business and moved to Utah, but they refuse to sell their last two houses (ours included) as long as the current tenants (us) are still living there.  They've specifically told us that our rent check pays the mortgage on their house in Utah, so they have no real financial motivation to sell our from under us anyway.

Same here, renting for 23 years. Our landlord changed twice in 2018. Went up from $425 to $800! Now its up to $900!
The last landlord we were renting under was from South Dakota! 

I've rented for 15 years now, too.  Reasonable rent rate and a very nice location.

Best of all - - The CITY mows the lawn in the park that is a very short walk behind the back door!   (I have no use nor patience for mowing big lawns every week or two!)

Mike

[kphoger]

Here are some food-related items that are just fine, but stilloverrated:

— Takis
— flat-leaf parsley
— ribs
— non-iodized salt

[roadman65]

The different types of M & M candies. Bring back the Peanut and Plain line exclusively.

[abefroman329]

The different types of M & M candies. Bring back the Peanut and Plain line exclusively.

You should try combining the dark chocolate M&Ms and the peanut butter M&Ms before you make statements like that one.

[Max Rockatansky]

The mint M&Ms are fantastic, I pick up a pack whenever I see them.

[zachary_amaryllis]

Here are some food-related items that are just fine, but stilloverrated:

— Takis
— flat-leaf parsley
— ribs
— non-iodized salt

I like takis... but they don't like me. after i consume them, the inside of my mouth is torn to hamburger..

and there's another issue that develops several hours later.

[J N Winkler]

To my mind, non-iodized salt is not for eating--it is for mixing with clean water to make a salt solution for irrigating sinuses.

[hbelkins]

My mother did not want a funeral. She made that known long before she got sick with the illness that eventually killed her. She didn't want an open casket but was silent on the matter of visitation.

Her mother insisted on seeing her (my mom was an only child), so we compromised. We allowed Grandmother to have time privately before the casket was closed. We had a visitation for the family and friends and a small graveside service.

My dad's mother died six years later. All her children had moved down near Louisville, and of course with her being elderly, they looked at things in a more traditional fashion. We had a six-hour visitation at the funeral home because of the number of out-of-town people who would have to drive three hours here, and then three hours back home. It was agonizing. Then there was the traditional funeral service.

I want to specify what happens to my remains, but the details of the service are best left to others, because those are more for the survivors than the deceased, anyway.

[Scott5114]

The different types of M & M candies. Bring back the Peanut and Plain line exclusively.

The Crispy ones are good, if you can find them.

To my mind, non-iodized salt is not for eating--it is for mixing with clean water to make a salt solution for irrigating sinuses.

Non-iodized salt is for cooking. It can add a chemical taste when combined with other flavors that non-iodized salt doesn't. The iodine isn't stable at higher temperatures anyway, and can degrade, so it doesn't actually have any health benefits in that context anyway. And the typical American diet usually contains enough iodine without iodized salt anyway, so it's kind of questionable what benefit even having it is.

[kphoger]

I never said iodized salt isn't overrated–just that non-iodized is.   

[english si]

Aside from that, I recall using a public restroom in Stockholm that was somewhat similar (at least conceptually, anyway) to what jakeroot and kphoger describe. The toilets were in enclosed spaces with exceptionally tall walls and doors that went all the way down to the floor (unlike American ones that typically allow you to observe that there are feet there) and that had a red or green light on the door to denote occupancy.

That's a bit of an extreme example (though you certainly want lockable, fully-enclosed, stalls in a unisex loo to stop anyone peeking in), but a common complaint of Europeans visiting America is that there isn't enough enclosure in the stall - compared to traditional European stalls in single-gender bathrooms, the gap at the bottom is too big, the doors often have gaps at the sides, and both doors and wall are often too short.

In fact, you basically have your own room to make as much noise as you want.

I wouldn't go that far - it's typically the same thin plywood used. You don't get seen, but you will be heard if you are noisy.

[kphoger]

(though you certainly want lockable, fully-enclosed, stalls in a unisex loo to stop anyone peeking in)

I used to think that but, honestly, I'm over it now.  Two reasons:

1.  Peeking in is just as embarrassing for the peeker who has been discovered as it is for the peekee.  Rule #1 in the men's room is to never look at a single human being until you're back out the door again, after all.

2.  Peeking would lose its thrill after, what? two times.

[kkt]

2.  Peeking would lose its thrill after, what? two times.

Yeah, but I don't really want to be some middleschooler's 1st or 2nd time peeking.

[JoePCool14]

I'm definitely on board with being cremated.  There's just so much cool stuff they can do with the remains these days, like getting a tattoo with the remains in the ink.

That sounds like an awful idea. I would never want that. 

Do you have any tattoos?

No, and I never will.

Come to think of it, tattoos in general are overrated.

[thspfc]

I'm definitely on board with being cremated.  There's just so much cool stuff they can do with the remains these days, like getting a tattoo with the remains in the ink.

That sounds like an awful idea. I would never want that. 

Do you have any tattoos?

No, and I never will.

Come to think of it, tattoos in general are overrated.

And usually unattractive.

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm definitely on board with being cremated.  There's just so much cool stuff they can do with the remains these days, like getting a tattoo with the remains in the ink.

That sounds like an awful idea. I would never want that. 

Do you have any tattoos?

No, and I never will.

Come to think of it, tattoos in general are overrated.

And usually unattractive.

Too many tats when I was dating usually was a good indicator that the opposite party had some screws loose.   

[kphoger]

Tasteful and well-drawn tattoos are good.

Then there was the time my mother-in-law's friend agreed to do a tattoo on my wife, freehand.  She showed him a sketch of the basic idea she wanted.  Big mistake.

[abefroman329]

When I was getting my tattoo (my son's name on my left forearm), I searched high and wide before finding an artist I was comfortable with.  In particular, I didn't want to go to one of those shops with books of samples you could choose from.  Didn't like the idea of telling the artist that I wanted a #37 on my left buttock or whatever.  Anyway, I did find an artist I like, and, while I haven't decided on another tattoo just yet, so I can't go back just yet, I've recommended her to everyone who asks for a recommendation.

Maybe I'm more comfortable with the idea of getting a tattoo with someone's remains in the ink because I have one.  Maybe it was because of the time my primary physician looked at my tattoo and said "That's great!  You take him with you wherever you go!"  Who knows.