It’s taken me about 6 years of living alone to figure this out, but I think I finally have. No, there is absolutely no way I’ll use an entire bunch of celery before it goes bad. Yes, I will pay more for a small container of pre-chopped celery, because I know it won’t sit in my fridge for weeks turning into a soggy,…

Keep apples in a plastic bag in the bottom drawer, they’ll stay crisp for weeks.

Messenging stickers are the PowerPoint clip art of this generation.

The headline is Google’s bread and butter. Make it useful enough people are willing to give up their privacy. Giving up privacy for security is a terrible terrible thing, but giving up privacy for useful apps, now that’s American.

Did you know that Angel Soft (and Quilted Northern) are owned by subsidiaries of the Koch Brothers? Just wanted you to know so you can make an informed decision. And even though its produced by P&G, Charmin or GTFO.

Did you know that Angel Soft (and Quilted Northern) are owned by subsidiaries of the Koch Brothers? Just wanted you…

Not exactly, an average of $15,000 just means that the total American debt is $4,800,000,000,000 (= $15,000 x 320 million Americans). In practice however, some people will have >$1 million in debt, while numerous others will have no debt. You can (sort-of) imagine ‘your’ $15,000 being spread out across the population,…

Someone is carrying your $15k and their own $15k, so $30k. Or a number of people are carrying $20k and in combination have your $15k. It’s a very simple way of looking at it, but yes.

When I got divorced, my ex canceled most of the credit cards that I was on, so the average length of time of my credit fell by a lot as I had to get new ones. So even if one is happily married for now, keep some credit cards in your own name and not jointly or only in your spouse’s name.

It’s probably easiest/cleanest to not incorporate it into your net worth, but instead incorporate it into your goals.

If your pension is a fixed benefit type, you might just multiply the yearly benefit by 25 (implying the standard 4% draw-down rule of thumb). If it’s a benefit that includes inflation increases, then you might multiply it by 40 or 50. These are rough guesses, but they’ll get you in the ballpark.

How to budget money, So many 20 somethings I meet have zero clue how to budget and handle money well.

Learn how to turn off the water going to your sink or toilet in case there is a leak. That way it doesn’t run for two hours while you wait for maintenance to show up, flooding your downstairs neighbor’s apartment.

Quite honestly I wish a few more people here would wear headphones - it might increase productivity while cutting down on them sharing shit music/podcasts!

It doesn’t account for non-SS retirement income, though; as a civil servant under CSRS, if I stay until I max out my retirement, I’ll be getting 80% of the average of my 3 highest-earning years. Makes for a much smaller window that I need to make up from savings.

I find that the easiest way is to run iTunes and keep the old app files (restore them when they’re pushed to the recycle bin instead of emptying the recycle bin). It takes a lot of time deleting the older versions of the app (i.e. previous to the one that’s restored), if your apps are those that are updated…

I highly recommend America’s Test Kitchen’s The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook, especially if you find lots of leftovers unappealing or have limited freezer space for bulk cooking. It offers a large variety of recipes that are just the right size for 2 servings. The best part is that they didn’t just scale down…

Tampopo makes you want ramen!

Presuming this steerage ticket aboard a steamship from Gothenburg, Sweden to Boston, Massachusetts as an average we should be able to come up with something. The ticket specifies the amount of 178.50 Kronor and, in 1914, it took 16.624 Kronor to equal 1 U.S. Dollar, making the cost of the ticket $10.74 in 1914…

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