That "$3.17 for four bowls" is goals, honestly. My go to when I want cheap but still real food is lentil curry with whatever frozen veg is on sale, comes out around $3 for a big pot and it actually sticks with you. Dried beans and lentils are where it's at, rice doesn't even need to show up.

That quarter panel rot on a 2012 Civic is a death sentence, not a fixer upper. By the time rust eats up past the trim line, its already into the wheel arch and the rocker, and grinding that out means cutting and welding real metal, not slapping bondo over it. Add 190k on the clock and a cheap rebuild and you are looking at $1500 in body work alone to save a car worth maybe $2500 running. You end up with a car nobody wants to buy because the rust comes back in two winters anyway, plus you burned every weekend. Sometimes trash is just trash, and a cheap Civic with hidden rot stays a cheap Civic with hidden rot.