Lawrence Baker

Along with the jar pad and lid insert check the drive coupling where the motor meets the jar - if the rubber teeth are chewed up or the coupling wobbles and it’ll rattle and shake, and that part is usually a cheap, easy swap. If your jar has a removable blade assembly, make sure the gasket isn’t nicked and the retaining ring is snug (many are reverse-thread), since a tiny bit of looseness makes a lot of noise. Also flip the base over and snug any loose screws and make sure the rubber feet are all present and soft; missing or hardened feet make blenders “walk” and amplify vibration.

The 3–4 month rule is solid but whitening or charcoal toothpastes are abrasive and can make bristles splay sooner - switching to a gentler paste can stretch the life of the head. Use a lower power/sensitive mode and heed the pressure sensor; bristles flaring in under a month almost always means too much force. For care, let the head air‑dry upright (not capped or in the shower) and do a longer 10–15 minute vinegar soak once a month to dissolve hard‑water scale.

One more thought - Solid plan. One add: with Amazon Photos unlimited is for photos on Prime; videos count against storage, so park longer clips on the home drive. During the staging pass, run a dedupe tool (dupeGuru on Windows/Mac or PhotoSweeper on Mac) and use Apple Photos’ Duplicates album to merge HEIC/JPEG pairs which, yeah... for the offline copy, keep two external drives with a simple Year/Month folder layout and use a basic sync like FreeFileSync or rsync to mirror and rotate one offsite.

Co-signing this and to keep it fair with uneven paychecks & transfer a fixed percentage of each paycheck to the joint account rather than a flat dollar amount. Build a small buffer in that account (eventually a month of bills) and add one shared “sinking fund” line for irregulars like car stuff, annual renewals, and gifts. Biggest pitfall I hit was mixing shared and personal on different cards - using one shared card for groceries/utilities killed the constant reimbursements.

Solid start. Keep the jogs truly easy using the talk test or even nasal breathing; if stairs already floor you do brisk walking only for week 1–2, then nudge to 1:2 run-walk. Progress by adding 2–3 minutes total or moving to 90s jog/90s walk each week, and keep one day as a brisk walk; for the bodyweight day, try 2 sets of 6–10 reps of squats, countertop push-ups, glute bridges or hip hinges, and a 20–30 second plank. On desk days, sprinkle in 2-minute movement snacks every couple hours to loosen hips and calves so the runs feel better.

Flat feet on hard pavement overload the arch and so choose a flexible shoe, shorten your stride so you land under your body, quicken your steps, and use run walk intervals with rest days to ease impact while you adapt. After each run do gentle calf raises, engage the arch and practice single leg balance, massage the arch, and see a clinician if sharp morning pain or lingering pain shows up.