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Understanding the Variables

The cost of a kitchen remodel isn't a one-size-fits-all figure. Several factors can impact the final price tag, making it essential to tailor your project to your specific needs and budget. Here are some key variables to consider:

Scope of the Remodel: Are you looking for a minor facelift, such as updating countertops and cabinets, or a complete overhaul, including structural changes and new appliances?

Materials Used: Your choice of materials plays a significant role. For instance, granite countertops tend to be more expensive than laminate surfaces, while butcher block countertops offer a middle-ground option.

Kitchen Size: The size of your kitchen will naturally affect the overall cost. Larger kitchens require more materials and labor.

Cabinetry: Kitchen cabinets can account for a substantial portion of the budget. Custom cabinets are pricier than stock options but offer greater design flexibility.

Appliances: High-end appliances can significantly impact your budget. If you're keeping existing appliances, this might reduce costs.

Labor and Installation: Labor costs for skilled tradespeople, such as plumbers, electricians, and contractors, can vary by location and complexity of the project.

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Types of Kitchen Remodels and Their Costs

Let's break down the cost ranges for different types of kitchens remodeling projects, keeping in mind the keywords such as "kitchen with cabinets," "butcher block countertops," and "granite countertops":

Minor Kitchen Remodel: A minor remodel might involve cosmetic changes like repainting, updating hardware, and installing new countertops. Costs can range from $10,000 to $20,000, with options like butcher block countertops offering a budget-friendly alternative.

Mid-Range Kitchen Remodel: In this category, you can expect to replace appliances, cabinets, countertops, and possibly flooring. Costs typically range from $20,000 to $50,000, with granite countertops providing a luxurious touch.

Major Kitchen Remodel: If you're envisioning a complete transformation with structural changes, top-of-the-line appliances, and custom cabinets, be prepared to budget upwards of $50,000. However, this investment can significantly increase your home's value and functionality.

Budgeting Tips

Now that you have a rough idea of the cost range for various kitchen remodeling projects, here are some budgeting tips to help you manage your expenses:

Set a Realistic Budget: Determine how much you're willing to invest in your kitchen remodel and stick to it. It's easy to get carried away with upgrades, so having a budget will help you prioritize.

Obtain Multiple Quotes: For a more accurate estimate, consult with multiple contractors or professionals experienced in kitchen remodeling. A free estimate can help you compare costs and choose the best option for your budget.

Prioritize Needs Over Wants: Identify your must-haves and nice-to-haves. Focus on essential improvements that enhance functionality and aesthetics before considering additional features.

Consider Financing Options: Explore financing options like home equity loans or lines of credit if your budget falls short of your ideal remodel.

Plan for Contingencies: It's wise to set aside a contingency fund of 10-20% of your total budget to account for unexpected expenses or changes in plans.

Getting a Free Estimate

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In conclusion, the cost of a kitchen remodel varies depending on several factors, including the scope of the project, materials used, and kitchen size. Whether you're opting for budget-friendly options like butcher block countertops or luxurious choices like granite countertops, careful planning and obtaining a free estimate are essential to ensure your kitchen remodel stays within your budget. Remember that a well-executed kitchen remodel can not only enhance your living space but also add significant value to your home.

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110 doctors and other medical staff killed since Oct. 7: Gaza ministry

Oct 28th, 15:18 GMT

At least 110 medical staff in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israeli shelling and air strikes since Oct. 7, the healthy ministry has said.

The ministry also said:

More than 100 medical staff have been injured

50 ambulances have been attacked, half of them no longer functioning

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24 hospitals (with a bed occupancy of 2000) have been told to evacuate in northern Gaza

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I've mentioned this already but I recently got an infected tooth I need to go to a specialist about it! I have some money saved up but it will cost about an estimated $1k-$3K (since I don't have insurance OTL) and since I have school coming up, I can't really work during that time...

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And please only help if you can spare it; I wouldn't want to financially burden anyone with this! Also, anyone donating 4 or more kofis get a little thank you doodle request; just leave the prompt in a comment!

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Terms and legal bullshit:

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In regards to BG3's install time estimate literally being 1+ year, that's something I learned recently about how Steam patches games

Basically, in order to update a game, you can do one of two things:

1) Download all the new files and just throw them where they're supposed to be, badda bing badda boom. Super fast, super simple. The problem with this is that, if any of the downloaded files are corrupted for whatever reason or your existing files conflict or don't get overwritten properly, you can end up with a corrupt install and your game just won't work or you'll suddenly start getting a bunch of crashes or whatever

2) Make a temporary copy of the existing game install (literally the whole folder), download the new files to that temporary folder so that they don't accidentally corrupt the stable install, make sure everything looks good once the update is downloaded and applied, and then overwrite the stable install with the validated, updated game install and you're good to go. The problem with this is that, while the download size for a patch may be like 9GB (which goes by super quick if you've got fast internet), Steam will show that the "installing" process (as shown in your screenshot) is creating something insane like 26-130GB worth of "new" data that will take "1+ year" to finish, which is extremely misleading. The underlying (and much bigger) problem with this is that you obviously need drive space to store all of that temporary data. If you have an ssd with a bunch of free space, this is basically a non-issue. However, if you have multiple drives and the only one with enough free space to store that much data is a hard drive, then Steam will dump all the temporary files onto that slower drive which makes the entire file packing and copying process much, much slower. The overall benefit is that it's an automated file integrity check to help make sure your games don't break during updates, the downside is that it's not as graceful as it could be purely because everyone's PC is different

I've run into this issue numerous times with my own games updating and even sent Steam a support ticket like last year or something. I don't know exactly what it was doing at that time, but I think it was doing something goofy like always defaulting to the drive with the most free space, regardless of if the ssd that a game is installed on already has enough room to do the copy/validate process. It was always defaulting to my hard drive and every single game took, like, an hour to install. They seem to have fixed that behavior since I brought it up, but it's still the fallback when you don't have enough free space on the current drive. I'm honestly gonna upgrade to all ssds as soon as I can to rid myself of this particular hassle and a few other issues pertaining to hard drive sluggishness

Not that any of this will help your BG3 install go any faster, but I hope that you (and anyone else reading this) will now be enlightened and know where to direct your frustrations when game installs are slow, lol. I saw some of the replies on your post were being very critical of devs and, while we absolutely shouldn't put up with devs who keep releasing unfinished/unoptimized games (even Larian isn't perfect), it's not always maliciousness or incompetence

oh! this makes a lot of sense and I had no idea thank you for informing me!

bg3 is many things but I think the 130gb filesize is very well deserved haha

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it’s literally friday guys.

[edeluarts]

A little analysis of this part in the Odyssey:

Reading time: ~10 minutes

Book 23, The Great Rooted Bed, Fagles' tr-n There he sat, leaning against the great central column, eyes fixed on the ground, waiting, poised for whatever words his hardy wife might say when she caught sight of him. A long while she sat in silence … numbing wonder filled her heart as her eyes explored his face. One moment he seemed … Odysseus, to the life— the next, no, he was not the man she knew, a huddled mass of rags was all she saw.

“Oh mother,” Telemachus reproached her, “cruel mother, you with your hard heart! Why do you spurn my father so—why don’t you sit beside him, engage him, ask him questions? What other wife could have a spirit so unbending? Holding back from her husband, home at last for her after bearing twenty years of brutal struggle— your heart was always harder than a rock!” “My child,” Penelope, well-aware, explained, “I’m stunned with wonder, powerless. Cannot speak to him, ask him questions, look him in the eyes … But if he is truly Odysseus, home at last, make no mistake: we two will know each other, even better— we two have secret signs, known to us both but hidden from the world.”

Odysseus, long-enduring, broke into a smile and turned to his son with pointed, winging words: “Leave your mother here in the hall to test me as she will. She soon will know me better. Now because I am filthy, wear such grimy rags, she spurns me—your mother still can’t bring herself to believe I am her husband.<...>

Telemachus is a precious baby, we've established that.

But he does act a bit like a brat with Penelope a couple times. Of course I don't think that any of that is malicious or that he doesn't love her, but he's still being a bit of a brat.

They both suffered, their pain was similar, but also very different, their experiences and the way they processed it were different as well.

Moreover, at this moment Telemachus has already spent some time with Odysseus. They already had their meeting/reunion and they already cried it out (to an extent. I'm sure there's more crying they'll do afterwards). They even had a father-son bonding activity (a.k.a. the slaughter of the suitors). Telemachus got to know his father at least a little bit over the past couple of days and at this point he processed and accepted the idea of Odysseus being back.

Penelope, on the other hand, was told about it just a moment ago. She can't immediately go "oh, you're saying Odysseus is back? Wonderful, let me greet him", no. Odysseus wasn't away on a short hunting trip or something, he was away for two whole decades, half of that time he was pretty much thought to be dead by most people (the first half wasn't that much better, as he could've still died any time during the war, but at least he wasn't lost, Penelope knew where he was).

Now she needs time to wrap her head around what is happening. We even see her thoughts as she goes to meet Odysseus:

Penelope started down from her lofty room, her heart in turmoil, torn … should she keep her distance, probe her husband? Or rush up to the man at once and kiss his head and cling to both his hands?

She wants to reunite with him, she wants this to be true, but she can't be sure of anything now. They have been apar for longer than they knew each other. Does he still love her like he used to? Is he the man she loved? Is it even the real Odysseus in the first place? She needs to process everything, as well as confirm all the information herself, and Telemachus, at least at this moment, doesn't comprehend that. He's acting quite immature, scolding his mother for not immediately believing and accepting that Odysseus is back.

This is a very interesting detail. First it once again shows us that Telemachus still lacks a lot of maturity, despite having been on his coming of age trip. He's still very young.

Yes, he definitely grew a lot in that short time, but it would've been impossible for him to learn everything at once, he still has a lot of that immaturity left in him, there's still a lot of room to grow and that's completely understandable. We, as people, grow for our whole lives and Tele is doing remarkably well, especially considering his circumstances.

Another interesting thing about this part is that it shows Telemachus', perhaps a bit childish, impatience. He is a kid, who finally met his dad (and his biggest hero), he knows that his mother was suffering and grieving for pretty much his whole life (with things getting a lot worse over the past decade). From Telemachus' perspective Odysseus' return is supposed to solve all their problems, especially since their biggest problem, a.k.a. the suitors, was just taken care of and it wouldn't have happened without Odysseus.

Telemachus just wants a happy family. His dad is back and seems to love him, the suitors are gone, now his parents should reunite, his mother will stop grieving and everything will be perfect. This is something he dreamt of his whole life and it's finally so close, but his mother doesn't immediately believe him. She doesn't immediately accept Odysseus and Telemachus doesn't understand why. He is too preoccupied with wanting things finally to be okay, that he doesn't take time to think about what Penelope must be feeling. It doesn't even occur to him. Perhaps it's also partially the need to be believed and listened to, which is also something he lacked growing up around suitors and being treated as a child, but I'm not diving into that right now.

Odysseus, on the other hand, understands what's going on. He assures his son, that everything will be okay. He pretty much does a more adult version of "mom and dad will take care of this, you go play for a bit". Odysseus understands Penelope's reaction and goes from there. Of course he wants to be in her embrace as soon as possible, but considering everything she has been through, he definitely can't just suddenly grab her and do what he wants. This is his dearly beloved wife and he wants her to take on that role voluntarily, like she did before, he wants her to accept him as her dear husband, like she did before, and for that he has to let her do it at her own pace. He tries to meet her where she's at, to do this reunion on her terms, to assure her, that he is, who he says he is and who others tell her he is.

This is just so amazing and I love their relationship so much (T▿T)♡

I also love Penelope's reaction to Telemachus' words. She doesn't react negatively, she is remarkably calm and part of it is probably the shock from what's happening, but still, she is "well-aware". I think that she knows Telemachus really well, because even though he has surprised her with how much he matured, he's still the same boy, he's still her kid. She most likely understands where Telemachus' outburst is coming from and doesn't get angry, doesn't scold him for his impatience, she reassures him. She lets him know, that he doesn't need to be scared of things falling apart and that she isn't looking to reject Odysseus. She's looking for Odysseus and she hopes she can find him in that familiar and strange man before her. She just needs time, but she will be taking the effort to search for what she's looking for, now that she has a way (she wouldn't have been able to go searching for Odysseus at sea, but now he's, supposedly, right here and she will handle it like the queen that she is).