You don’t need to do practically anything companies selling you stuff tell you to.

Especially since, y’know, not all of America lives in NYC or rides the subway. Contrary to what Gawker and so many other media employees may sometimes think.

BTW, I do not understand people in grocery aisles with carts. I manage to park mine on the side when I’m grabbing something so others can get by. And if it was in the middle of the aisle, I’d keep an eye on it and move it if it was blocking someone. But 99% of the twats in my grocery store seem absolutely oblivious to…

Automated job application and pre-hire interviews require this data in an unavoidable fashion before you even get in front of the hiring manager. These are great ideas but I have never seen salary brought up only first in front of the hiring manager. If you are not some top flight candidate with rare skills, salary…

Do people really taste that much of a difference?

When I first started reading and hearing about personal brands a couple of years ago, it didn’t really sit right with me, but I couldn’t explain why. I was just grateful that I wasn’t one of the people who had to maintain a “personal brand” where I work, that I could stay anonymous and unseen, invisible to the…

Great. All of this is just great.

Forget what?

Wood-paneled walls are all the rage these days.

The article already has a safety message warning users not to open just any old battery they have lying around without researching first. But some things are actually safe to open! Warning people against doing safe things is a quick way to discourage them from learning.

Not only should you preheat, but consider overshooting. Your oven thermometer measures air temp. If you open up the oven right when the preheat alarm goes off, you’re letting a lot of that hot air out. For somethings that’s ok, but most of the time (especially when baking) it doesn’t give the best results

I always thought the term ‘think outside the box’ was entirely meaning to think creatively to find non-obvious solutions within the current constraints - i.e. don’t dogmatically accept existing practices and solutions. I don’t think I’ve heard it describe ignoring the natural limitations of the problem space (just the…

This is gonna sound insensitive but I honestly have NO desire or wish for all these reboots. Gilmore Girls, Full House, X files...the talk of Friends. There is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much good TV out there to waste time on what Emma is doing in college. Who the fuck cares?

Truth

I’m willing to bet most of the places listed exclusively serve ramen/noodles. If you have never had real ramen you should give it a go.

I can always tell which people are not hardcore readers by how artful their bookcases are. A hardcore reader has too many books, double or tripled shelved, unopened boxes of books, and books on the kitchen counter. Somebody who is a casual reader takes an idea from Pinterest on how to make their bookcases beautiful.…

I think of my house as a house.

Ok, you can get down off of the cross now. Besides, we need the wood.

How much more evidence is needed before robust financial education becomes part of the curriculum in every school in the nation? People need to understand money, or the whole country is fucked. It’s absolutely enraging that personal finance has never been an educational priority.

It is amazing how much less you buy when you never look at a sales flyer, cancel all the tech-toys magazines, only get car magazines that everything is out of your price range, and stop going to malls. We also only go to above-diner-level restaurants when traveling, so many local bargain places for that once-a-week…