This is particularly good if your bank doesn't charge for it, as otherwise you're just giving the bank more money.

I'm really paranoid about my checking account balance when things get low. That said, I can keep a really accurate running balance in my head over the course of a few days if I can't check my balance.

Hah! "You'll be old and nobody will want you!"

The Middles Ages are quite a bit <—- that way on the time scale.

I have a cousin who is extremely successful. Straight out of college into a power job, accolades all around, a "somebody" in her wine-import industry! Not typically a lady dominated place. She turned 30 last year. Between the ages of 22 and 26, my family deemed her single because she is "fat" (as opposed to busy).…

Yup, turns out, outlawing abortion or making it hard to access doesn't actually lower the abortion rate overall, just the rate of safe abortions.

I don't know if this has already been answered, but I usually just wipe it down with toilet paper in a public stall, then rinse it whenever I next empty it at home.

Heavy flower here. Doubling up with tampons and pads are all that saves me from having to go buy new underwear every day of my period. I'll keep them, thank you very much.

I just looked after my 13, 10, and 6.5 (she's big on that .5) year old cousins for an evening. HOLY SHIT.

At least you know that already and it didn't take having kids to find it out. It is truly far more selfish to have kids and deprive them than not to have them at all.

You would only be terrible if you knew you didn't want kids and you had them anyway so you and your friends would have matching accessor... er babies.

Yep. We've lived in the same smallish house for nine years - purposely did not go overboard when we bought. Drive our cars into the ground. Dinner out with the kids is fast casual. Lots of free or inexpensive family outings. No flying vacations. Last year was the first time we had a family vacation in hotel -…

So said the profit Mike Judge in Idiocracy

This is a touchy subject for me because I grew up in a single-parent household by a mom who didn't receive child support until I was a pre-teen, who only had a high school education and didn't make much. We were poor: eating mac & cheese and frozen fish sticks nearly every night poor. I had no help going to college…

It really speaks to the growing class divide in this country that so many of us (me included!) can't even imagine how people can afford to have children. And I'm not talking children + expensive summer camps + 5+ bedroom mansion + designer diaper bags. I am a really minimalist, low-maintenance person. Like, I'm an old…

I used to want several kids (I'm the oldest of four myself—I liked having a big family). Now, though? Frankly it'll probably be one, maaaaaybe two. Eventually. Someday.

Well it wasn't a regular. We were hiring temp to perm at my old job. He would have come in as an entry level and if he stayed jumped to a junior level after X amount of time (or Senior after I left).

Well in talking to him we found out he would take software contracts that would last 2-3 months as a developer or as a short term thing. This is something he liked because he could go to different environments and experience it.

First, let's not allergy blame here. If some jerk kid makes fun of someone for having an allergy tattoo, that kid is a jerk. The poor allergy kid isn't a nerd!

A group of us go running at lunch when the weather is fair. Saves on gym membership fees. :-)

I'm 29, so I can look back at my 20's and reflect a bit on these tips. I would add one more myth to this list: "More experienced people can give you great career advice." In my experience, most people fall ass-backwards into their careers, and can't explain how they got where they are. A good piece of career advice is…