How much can Amazon/Doordash/Instacart drivers make a day in the Seattle area?
I was thinking of working a few days a week.
Is it worth it?

My son is getting married in 1.5 years and I'd like to save some $ money for the rehearsal dinner. 💒

Based on a few negative comments I thought I would update info:

I probably should have just left it at how much $ you can make vs telling everyone why I wanted to $$.

My son hasn’t asked for a thing toward the wedding, and I don’t expect he will. He’s never been one to ask us for anything.

My husband and I are both retired. We could pull money from savings or investments to help, but honestly, I’d rather not dip into what we’ve set aside for retirement.

Thanks in advance!!!

Edit: added last 2 paragraphs

Was just in SF for a week and it was so much cleaner and safer than Seattle outside Tenderloin. Even SOMA cleaned up. Didn’t see any tents or addicts for miles and miles of walking downtown SF. The city was vibrant too and retail seemed thriving. I have never felt so carefree as I was in SF last week, meanwhile I’m now constantly on guard walking around downtown Seattle and Belltown. Even in the daytime. It used to be the reverse between SF and Seattle.

Since when did progressivism in Seattle meant being so averse to pragmatic results and maintaining nice public spaces? Shootings daily now, even in Kerry Park this past weekend. Tents now about as bad as peak Covid after years of improving under Harrell. Do progressives not understand their policies are hurting the lower and lower middle class the most? Rich people have the means to leave and live in isolated enclaves like Madison Park and Olympic Manor. The poor have to deal with meth crazed addicts on the bus, in our parks and streets. Mom and pop businesses with razor thin margins have to deal with another broken window and rising insurance premiums. Somehow none of these people count in the progressive worldview. It’s actually cruel at this point.

The Seattle city council and our mayor need to go take a field trip to SF and learn from them. Put the ideology aside and actually deliver for the public.

Went to SeaTac to drop off someone. The lines for security check at all checkpoints were insane. Has it been like this for sometime? Or is it just today?

My 2003 soft top convertible mustang was stolen by the mechanic who was supposed to be fixing it but he was actually creating more problems with it in order for me to think it was a lost cause and that I would just let him have it or something like that. It may work on most women but my father is a heavy duty mechanic & I'm quite mechanically savvy myself & caught on pretty quickly. I told him to gtfo from under my car & he insisted on towing it from the place well'd been working on it at. He parked in front of a fire extinguisher but I called Lincoln towing & they haven't towed it since 2024 & said nobody else would tow for a FE violation. I did call other yards and confirmed the absence of it anywhere. My suspicions were confirmed this evening when a friend said that he did take it & has been bragging about it as well. He lives in Capitol Hill so that's where I'm guessing the car may be. Thank you.

What are some recommendations for good bands I can listen to or go see live around Seattle? Preferably rock / shoe-gaze adjacent. Thanks!

I found this bike ran into the ground near my apartment. It was in rough shape and was left to rot. Im in the process of cleaning it up. As you can see I have a way to go, but it is at least functional now. There is a u-lock locked to the back which makes me wonder if this was stolen. If you have the key to the u-lock it is obviously your bike. Message me! :)

https://www.terraplanted.com/products/plant-bingo-ticket

Edit: I would like to extend a warm welcome to today's visitors from r/Seattle! Your thoughtful comments always add so much value to the conversation and are sure to win many hearts and minds.

The exodus of Columbia Bank executives began with CEO Clint Stein, who sold his Auburn home (for $2.45 million in September) to relocate to Arizona permanently. According to The Puget Sound Business Journal, the company said new Washington taxes are costing it approximately $8 million a year, prompting the decision to move most executive roles to Arizona.

More than 2 million invasive green crabs were captured in Washington state from July 2025 to June 2026, smashing previous records. More European green crabs were trapped in those 12 months than in all previous years combined since the pinchy invaders were first documented in Washington state in 1998.

State and federal agencies spent at least $8 million fighting the European green crab in Washington in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Between professionals and volunteers, some 500 people in Washington set and check traps targeting the green crabs.

~ A record catch sounds like progress until you notice it doubled. 500 trappers, $8 million, and the warm El Niño winter is still ahead of us.

Federal immigration agents arrested a man Tuesday morning at a parking lot across the street from an elementary school near Woodland Park where parents were dropping off their children. 

Lisa Norris, head of school at KapKa Cooperative Elementary School, said staff members and families were shocked and “horrified” by the arrest — apparently by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — which occurred in a quiet residential area.

“We all have a lot of awareness that this is happening all over the country, but being faced with it in person, and seeing something so inhumane and the injustice unfolding before our eyes, we felt very helpless,” Norris said. 

At around 8:25 a.m. Tuesday, just as school drop-off began, a car pursued by three vehicles pulled into the parking lot at Phinney Avenue North and North 49th Street, just south of Woodland Park. Two of the three cars were unmarked with no license plates, Norris said.

Four agents, all masked but with at least one wearing a vest reading “POLICE ICE,” emerged from the cars, Norris said. They began pounding on the windows of the man’s car, shouting in English and Spanish for the man to show a visa and identification. 

Agents eventually smashed the driver-side window, unlocked the door and forcefully removed the man from his car, Norris said. They handcuffed the man against his car and then drove him away in an unmarked vehicle.