Troykim you make a good point about how much work that really takes. I know a mom who does something similar and she spends hours every weekend cooking dried beans from scratch and making her own bread to keep costs that low. The key is she buys in bulk at places like restaurant supply stores and plans every single meal around what's on sale, not what sounds good. Anybody who pulls off $60 a week is basically running a tiny meal prep operation out of their own kitchen, not just throwing things in a cart.

Saw a documentary once that said trades actually give better retirement outcomes in the long run.

Happened to an old coworker of mine actually. She started a blog about finding cheap vintage furniture at thrift stores and forgot about it for like two years. Then out of nowhere she checked it and had this post about cleaning old brass doorknobs that was getting 500 visits a month. She slapped some Amazon affiliate links to a specific polish and some gloves and it makes her around $60 a month now. She said she wrote it in like 20 minutes on a lunch break too.

Use the white stuff, not the gel toothpaste or it'll shrink when it dries. I've got a toothpaste patch in my bathroom that's held up five years now.

In my experience, that dried coffee effect depends a lot on the concrete texture and how the spill spreads. I've noticed if it's a fresh clean floor like yours probably was, the liquid can create those sharp edges as it evaporates. But if the concrete is already stained or rough, it just makes a blob instead of a mountain range. Your mileage may vary on that though.