Don’t use washable fabrics like dish towels if you have a septic system. Grease and oil is not altered by detergents and water — it is merely suspended as tiny droplets and washed down the drain, where it will solidify. It can coat your pipes, reducing flow rates and causing clogs. It can also accumulate in a thick…

The laws about having sex in public obviously don’t apply to RVs with shades drawn. Just don’t come a-knockin when this rig is a-rockin! And I note that those of us with clitorises, not penises, can masturbate easily without taking anything out of our clothes. At what point is it not OK to touch oneself in the crotch?…

You got the wrong protocol! The queen died at Balmoral, in Scotland, so Operation Unicorn is underway.

I’ve been getting flu shots in early autumn for decades. I’ve had the flu just once since I started getting immunized, in late January 2019. Had to go to the ER because my fever of 104 F would not go down (got better with IV hydration). They typed my flu and unfortunately it was different from that year’s shot. I…

Whatever you do, don’t do what my natural gas supplier does. They use a bar chart in an attempt to illustrate gas consumption by *billing period,* in theory so that customers can compare a given month’s consumption in one year with the same month in the previous year, etc. The problem is that the number of days in…

I used to live in Boston and suffered from ragweed allergies every late August-early September. In urban areas it grows on waste land along roads, railroad tracks, by bus stops, etc., so for a public transit commuter like me, it was awful.

Do it! I’ll never forget the satisfaction I felt as I accompanied a sherriff to my former landlady’s bank, to get the legally mandated payout I was owed from her checking account. It wiped her account out, so I also felt schadenfreude when I realized that she probably bounced some checks for the next week or so. I was…

Obviously, the longevity of frozen food depends on two things: the temperature it’s stored at, and how it’s packaged. Vacuum sealed food in thickish plastic in a 0 degree F deep freeze is going to keep its taste and texture, and resist freezer burning, a lot longer that stuff in an opened thin plastic bag in your…

Glad you eventually gave Chris Elliott credit for this, six paragraphs in.

You can get the $6000 back (statutory limit) if you file your complaint properly and can support the claim. It doesn’t matter if they actually owe you more. Unfortunately, the only kind of relief you can get in Small Claims (everywhere I know, that is), is monetary. I.e. you can’t get the landlord to stop claiming…

Represent yourself in Small Claims Court.  It’s not that hard and such courts are supportive of those acting “pro se.”  Sue for all you can prove, up to the statutory limit in your jurisdiction.  With any luck, your landlord won’t show (because they may not want to hire an attorney and/or take time off their job) and…

Not all states west of the central USA are in drought. My state is farther west (also farther north and east) of any other US state. It has been raining almost non-stop in much of the state since mid-July, with record breaking low maximum temperatures.

Nope. The CDC website is useless. It told me the ONLY pharmacy in my area (which happens to be my state’s biggest city) that had the masks was a CVS inside a Target store. I called the CVS to make sure they had them, and got a recorded message telling me they did. But when I got there last Thursday, the pharmacist…

My spouse snores.  Loudly.  I’ve tried foamies, silcone earplugs, and shooting range earplugs.  Also white noise.  He still wakes me up.

We are able to time shift (also skip ads) content from several channels worth of HD OTA broadcasts by using a Tivo Edge DVR. To be really useful you need to pay for the program guide, but if you have limited funds, you can always set manual timers based on your own research — there are any number of websites that will…

Most commercially available dried fruit has been treated with sulfur dioxide. It’s what keeps dried peaches yellow, and dried applues white. It can also affect the airways of those sensitive to it. If you’ve even felt wheezy after opening a bag of dried fruit, thit is why (and it’s used in sulfured molasses and most…

Another attempt by the detergent manufacturers to sell more product. Is every single load of wash you do huge? If so, pods might be OK. But if not, you are wasting money. Pods cost more per use than a similar amount of liquid detergent, and powder is cheaper still. And both (obviously) can be metered out based on how…

It likely goes without saying that for government employees with defined benefit pensions, the longer you stay, the bigger your pension will be. That doesn't mean you have to stay in the same position, or even at the same agency, but it's foolish to leave altogether once you've put in eight or ten years. 

Please educate yourself about correct Latin terms for female human anatomy. You can’t see a woman’s vagina without a speculum. The word you should have used is VULVA.

Must retape every 2-3 hours if you are staying properly hydrated.  With some shrieks from the bathroom stall.