I would recommend seeing if someone you know has a woodshop. For me, it’s my dad. He’s built up quite a collection of tools over the years.

Woodworking with hand tool is one of the areas of life where sweat equity pays off rather well. Finding and restoring old hand tools has become a hobby of mine as of late and every time I’m amazed at how you can turn a rusted out Stanley hand plane into a well working tool that’ll last. Lumber Jocks has a good rundown…

If you have any old man relatives, ask them. My favorite hand tools came from raiding my Grandpa’s basement. Other than that, garage sales.

Get them used. Garage sales, Kijiji and the like are very helpful. Power tools are easier to get that way but you can find hand tools as well and the price is often very good because they just want rid of them. It’s not like electronics where things go obsolete. The hand tools you need have existed for well over a…

Antique stores. They will often have chisels, planes, and saws. Sometimes for ridiculously high prices, sometimes not.

Scour yard sales, Craigslist, eBay. If you are going on a tight budget, be flexible with what you want and patient with how soon you get it. Over time you’ll put together a nice group of tools and will have saved a lot of cash as opposed to buying new all at once. Plus, there is something nice about used hand planes…

I hate this so, so much. I’m not an engineer, but do technical type work (metrology). Around here, all of the technical type jobs are advertised through head hunters/staffing agencies. 1) I don’t want to work for a staffing agency, I want to work for the company I’m doing the work for. There is no way to tell which is…

Anytime I watch The Woodwrights Shop on PBS I feel the overwhelming urge to throw out all my electronics, cut myself off from the power company, and do traditional woodworking by candle-light for the rest of my life.

Adler’s recommendation is a little different. First you expand the target to look for companies that have multiple job listings that you could apply to and find the people who might be related to them—not necessarily HR, but project managers in some cases. Instead of referencing one specific job, talk about your…

THANK YOU for this! Really, I love hearing other parents' insights. I agree, I have some time to think about it, but I like to OVER think things, so, yeah :) Really appreciate this nice reply.

Oooh, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I always said I wanted three, but after two (23 months apart, and the youngest is 11 months old currently), I feel maxed out energy-wise. My husband stays home with them during the week while I work 9-5, and then he works on weekend mornings. We are SO TIRED. I wonder if we just…

Gawd, I knew I would find this in the comments. The fact that it's feminists who are criticizing him the most proves that, once again, feminists are feminism's worst enemies. We say we want allies but I guess by "allies", we mean "silent masochistic punching bags". It's kinda sad when you're just as disgusted by the…

Weed and the elliptical.

I wish wish wish I could do this. The sweating it out thing is totally accurate for hangovers, though, that's for sure.

It is one of my favorite things to do when my energy is high. Sometimes after a couple of drinks I have to go for a run, it's fun. I can run for-fucking-ever after a couple of beers.

You're not kidding. Buzzed running/jogging/hiking is so fucking fun. I hiked a couple hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail last year and my flask was one of my best friends.

I wished this worked for me because sometimes I really wanna have a beer after work THEN run. Sadly, every run I've done this way has been shitty.

When you're still a little buzzed the morning after a night of drinking, now that's a great time for a run. I get my runner's high pretty quickly, and every so often there's a bit of euphoria. Maybe it's just because my blood has thinned so much and i'm completely dehydrated :) But I enjoy it nonetheless.

People are shocked my prep for a half marathon is a bottle of wine. I've never run faster.

Dude, for some reason any amount of alcohol completely takes away my breathing stamina. Like, one beer and I'm huffing and puffing after climbing a flight of stairs (whereas normally I can climb several flights without becoming winded). After drinking I run 3 steps and I'm like Homer Simpson, leaning against a fire…