DH uses an ipod. He’s fanatical about having his music on multiple platforms. He used to use the ipod much more in the car, but that’s still where he keeps it. Now he alternates between Sirius and the ipod in the car.
When I was going to the gym, I used my IPOD.
I feel very old admitting I’ve never streamed music over my phone.
I keep meaning to look up how it works and if it uses data. Maybe I’ll do that now…
@1214mom: When you figure it out, please post it here. 
@VeryHappy (I hope this isn’t against TOS)
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-much-data-does-streaming-media-use
I am assuming if you can sign on to WIFI that it’s nothing extra.
I might not have been clear, my son uses the old iPhone as an iPod. He still listens to his downloaded music from 10-15 years ago as well as streams from Spotify, Pandora, or Amazon if wifi is available.
As the old iPhone does not have a sim card, there is no data usage. I know when my nieces first had phones without data, they could still text and use the internet; just no phone calls.
I use music on my phone, but not streaming. I handed it to my lads along with a list of songs I want and they “fixed” it for me for a birthday or Mother’s Day present one year. Since then when I’ve heard or thought of others I want, I keep them in an email draft and they magically appear on my phone periodically. 
(The kids and H all have access to my email - nothing private there IMO.)
I love using my phone for music both at home and on the road. I use it daily and it’s all songs I enjoy.
Asking this question for my curiosity, not for legal advice.
My bff has a painting studio business that she opened in 2018. She has been losing money since day 1, around $3000/month for rent b/c she didn’t have enough customers. On a good month she makes enough to pay for the artists and utility and supplies, but out of pocket for the rent. On a bad month she has to pay out of pocket for rent + all of the above.
She has a 7 year lease. She has no choice but to close the business down, but she would have to pay all 5 years left of rent according to the contract. She has a lawyer trying to fight this.
My question is - for this type of cases, what is the chance of her winning in court? She already spent 10K on the lawyer but it’s not going anywhere. I loaned her the 10K, she is going to need another 10K for the lawyer. I don’t mind her borrowing, but I wonder what the chances of her winning… The landlord would not agree to a settlement, my friend hopes to pay, say 1-2 more years of rent instead of total 5 years left. 1 year of rent is 36K, I can’t imagine that the court would make her pay all 5 years of rent which is 180K. ugh!
She can’t declare bankruptcy either, they will go after everything she has with her husband, because the business isn’t a separate entity from her personal stuff (that’s how it was explained to me).
I don’t have any advice, @Nhatrang. Just want to say ugh, what an ugly situation. Good luck to your friend and to you.
Late to the iPod discussion, but I love my iPod shuffle for running/gym. So tiny and light and it clips to my waistband. I hate they don’t make them anymore. I sweat so much that they die after 3-5 years. My H was able to find a refurbished one on eBay Christmas before last. I don’t know what I’ll do when it dies.
H still has his iPod. He has a super old one - the classic? Nano? I don’t even remember, but it uses the old style charger. He also has a slightly newer one. The newer one goes to the gym. The old one is for yard work.
In the house we have 2 Alexa’s and use Spotify. The car we use the old fashioned radio.
@Nhatrang - can she sublease it to someone else?
No way no one wants that space right now. Her business was bad before covid, now it’s worse.
not sublease the business- just the space. You never know who might want it
If she has to pay for 5 years, she is going to try her hardest to recover some $$ somehow and sublease will be on the table for sure. But right now since the business is under litigation, everything is shut down and the lawyer is putting everything in the store for sale. We will see. I just wonder if she has a chance of coming out with less than 5 years of rent…
She didn’t form an LLC or INC for the business?
Not sure how she will come out with 5 years or less of rent. She signed a contract, very hard to break especially since she has the ability to pay. 7 years is way too long for a startup business, since many fail in the first 3 years.
What is her lawyer doing to 10 or 20K? That sure seems steep for my location. Does the lawyer specialize in lease contracts/negotiations?
Best idea would be as @jym626 suggests: find someone who needs a space to sub-lease, just be sure the lease doesn’t prohibit that. Even someone to lease for less $$ or part of the space is better than having to pay $3K a month. You would be surprised what people/small businesses might need short term space for: interim usage between moves, short term after a fire, overflow storage, startup business.
It’s in a strip mall with many vacancies, that’s why it was hard to find someone to sublease, apparently she has been looking, she just told me.
Yeah looking back it was a horrible idea to sign 7 year lease. I think the rent was cheaper the longer the lease, but yeah, it was such a bad investment.
Idk why the lawyer fee was high, she has engaged him since December of last year. Yes he is the lease/contract negotiations. Covid makes the landlord tougher, because a lot of people aren’t paying I suppose.
I don’t really know, I know she paid around 175k total for franchise fee and everything else to set up the business, all from her savings with no business loan.
D’s condo has a carpeted living room with a sliding door to the patio. From the patio you can get out to the parking lot and her car. If she enters the house from the patio end (with groceries and such), the living room effectively becomes the entryway. Any suggestions on how to protect the carpet here? She’s thinking of getting a shoe bench/coat rack combo to leave near the sliding door, since I think she’d use that door more often than the front door.
No shoes policy. That’s what we’ve always done in our homes.
Trying to get in our front door is very difficult. You have pull the door toward you hard as you turn the key. Sometimes it doesn’t ever unlock and I have to go through the back door, where the key easily opens the door. We may have real estate showings soon and this situation doesn’t work for that. Should I call a locksmith or a door repair handyman type? I’ve let this problem go for a while because I usually just come through the garage, using my remote. But now I have to take care of it for real.