Problem for me isn't figuring out my safe withdrawal rate, it is figuring out how to realistically budget what I actually want to be able to spend in retirement...

Funny. I've always thought that the egotism of believing you have all the right answers is symbolic of juvenile thinking. Just to put a point on the map... Take the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—I'm gonna go ahead and guess that they spent more than $10K on their wedding, but I'm also going go ahead and guess…

Having looked around a little bit, TJs apparently does get good marks for EVOO—their Spanish EVOO (which wasn't, oddly enough, tested in the linked article) won Bon Appetit's taste test for olive oils under $12/l (http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/i…). So, maybe not all that far off...

That won the Bon Appetit EVOO taste test for bottles under $12.

Unless I'm misreading the article, the title seems somewhat misleading—the intent of the linked article is to evaluate which is best of the six olive oils sold by TJs. That doesn't mean the one they picked is "The Best Olive Oil for Your Money," but rather "The best olive oil for your money at TJs." Actually,…

So sad. Beets are incredible—sweet, earthy. Couple of my favs: http://food52.com/recipes/3302-f… and http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-… .

OK, I'll ramp it up a notch too. I think people who feel entitled to make sanctimonious judgments about how other people should or shouldn't spend the money they earned are assholes.

Fork trick was interesting, but I'll stick with folding my crepes instead. Even easier.

Doesn't matter how often it happens—every damn time I indulge in a pile of beets I get a minor coronary the next morning thinking I have internal bleeding.

Look at at city/county Adult Education classes in your area as well. My county sponsors a bunch of framing/plumbing/home electrical classes.

Ratios seem off to me—I use 1 lb of coffee for 8C water. Frankly, a toddy cold brewer is pretty cheap to make the process no fuss; I think they are only $20 or so. But if I wasn't going to use the toddy, I'd just dump it in a jar, then strain it a couple times and then filter it a couple times. But, given how much…

I hate mine—the builder put them in both corners, but the corner door is too narrow to put anything really big in there. I ended up using them for pantry items—my 8 qt containers of flour, sugar, rice and smaller (but still hefty) containers for other staples. They are heavy enough that they don't seem to spin off.

Ah, so this is the world where medium = small, large = medium and extra-large = large? Movie soda description size inflation?

Doesn't sound like a dust collection system is going to work for you... They typically get used when you are using large fixed tools you can run piping too—like a cabinet saw, jointers, planers, drum sanders. The other option, like I noted, is getting hand power tools like the Festools where dust collection is a…

Color me confused. Biggest pizza gets fewer toppings so "best to go with large"? But large has fewer toppings?

As long as the density distribution of the "stuff" is consistent, then it will be a function of area and obey the same rule. While I haven't done a pepperoni/sq in survey of pizzas, I'm guessing most places will keep the density of toppings consistent across sizes.

If you have that much sawdust floating around, maybe you ought to think about a dust collector... What kind of work are you doing? I run a large cyclone in my basement shop with 6" ducting to all my stationary machines. For smaller/non-stationary power tools, I swear by Festool, which has the best dust collection…

Pegboard doesn't have a lot of structural integrity. If I were to do this, I might be inclined to frame them with something more solid. Tools can get heavy quick; this seems like it might start to lean/bend/flex.

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All these "rules" just seem silly to me. The appropriate percentage for someone making $25K a year with virtually no disposable income is irrelevant to someone making $500K a year with a greater disposable income. The percentage for a single person isn't going to work for a family of seven. No matter how much you…