I’m getting the same thing done to the fishing line tooth.
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I got uppercut when I was young and busted the heck out of one of mine. Crown still holding.
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how?
nadda clue…
Mrs. ricepad and I just had a discussion this morning, deciding we could cancel our life insurance policies. No mortgage anymore, no other debts except for monthly credit cards, and a stable (and modestly rising) retirement income mean our money issues are mostly worry-free. Mostly.
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I’m semi-retired, and I still have years to go on my mortgage, but the payments are low enough that they’re not a big concern.
I broke off half of one of my front teeth in college when I fell off my bicycle. The bonding job has held up for 33 years and counting. (I chose not to fix a smaller chip because it’s not as noticeable.)
This may just be the most impressive example of thread drift in recent memory.
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We were taught ‘to live within our means’. So we scrimped and saved and we’re comfortable with our lifestyle.
I hate it when the supermarket sells me something that when I prepare it. It chips my tooth …
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Sure, blame the supermarket! 
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I have a grocery list that’s titled Things to Blame. It gets a great deal of use. 
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‘within our means’ -
amen.
whether one’s means are great or small . . . being inside them does allow one to do all the plan&save stuff so resoundingly rejected but returns as "dang, you shoulda’’
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I hate it when someone I know but have not seen for a while collars me in an aisle to catch up while my cold groceries get warm. Usually they talk about their health, their job, or their kids, none of which I know diddly about. See, it wasn’t really thread drift!
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Sounds like me. Had to learn the hard way about eating bones. Boneless ribs are a pet peeve for me.
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Digital only coupons are a PITA.
Deals start on Sunday but super deals start Wed-two trip shopping-ugh
Checkout clerks who don’t take the time to learn produce types
Dirty floors
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Cilantro versus flat leaf parsley - I just declare it off the bat.
Anchovy and sardine tins. About 50% of the time the pull ring completely fails, snapping off with none of the lid opened at all. I have better luck with the pull rings on circular cans, but for some reason the elliptical ones fail over and over.
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Checkout clerks who try to rip you off by thinking you don’t know the produce types.
I was shopping in a relatively large Hispanic market, and I noticed that the green onions were priced higher than the ‘cebollitas Mexicanas’, even though the little wire tie binding each of them bore the exact same coding. At checkout, the clerk rang up ‘green onions’, and I pointed out to her, “Esas no son ‘green onions’. Esas son cebollitas Mexicanas.” From the look on her face, it was clear she didn’t think I (a) noticed the difference and (b) spoke Spanish. The satisfaction was worth more than the 25 cents I saved.
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That’s where the screwdriver comes in handy - if there’s just a wee gap near the pull tab, then the top can be pried/lifted. Of course, some (expensive) anchovies come in jars …
I have a horrendous time with larger circular cans - like coffee.
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Have you talked to your agent(s) yet? It’ll be interesting to see how much they do or do not try to change your mind.
I had one of those variable policies that gains value as you go (like whole life, but more slowly) but also has a full death benefit, like a regular term policy. It was costing us about $300 a month.
So we scheduled a meeting with the agent (also because my wife inherited a bunch of other policies from her mom that we needed to sort through) and explained my rationale for cashing it out, which was much like yours.
I expected pushback but he just said, “Sounds right for your circumstances. I’ll check with corporate for you and let you know how much of the value counts as taxable gains, then you can decide when you want to cancel it.”
Luckily this was a phone meeting as my wife had to gently lift my jaw up from the floor.
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