I did the same thing with Spectrum. I think the cable companies are all playing hardball now and refusing to lower anyone’s rates.

If you have access to an HSA, fund that fully before you fund a 401K that doesn’t match with employer’s money.

Do a Roth IRA first. Annual contribution limits are $5500, assuming you make less than (iirc) $120k/year if you’re single.

It depends on your tax bracket and the fees and funds available in your 401(k). Low fees and good funds, and a higher limit for contribution, can be a great combination even without a match. My company doesn’t match (for me), but it’s a large company so I am responsible for zero fees and we have great index funds with…

I am of course unofficial but it depends. If you have no match and can hack it, the best course would be a Roth first. That is post tax but the gains are not taxed. It also allows better early withdrawal options if required.

After that, the pre tax traditional is fine too. It really depends on individual situations.…

Nordstrom has a debit card option!

As a woman, this type of message would skeeve me the f- out. It comes across as way too aggressive/desperate/impersonal and frankly kind of scary. Like, I want to at least get a baseline for you and a general sense you’re not a serial killer before agreeing to meet somewhere. I have no reason to believe that your…

Same here. She asked if I wanted to opt in last week and I did. Yet she’s still annoyingly Okaying me too. I have a few Alexa’s so I thought maybe it was just the one that would do it but even that one isn’t.

i used to work in a hotel. i drink the tap water, but i do wash the glasses out before i use them. i was dismayed to learn that the housekeeping staff where i worked cleaned the drinking glasses with window cleaning spray

I worked in a hotel in my college days and saw other maids doing just that — wiping the glasses with the same cleaning rag they used on everything else. I won’t use a glass in a hotel unless it’s plastic- or paper-wrapped.

THIS IS EXACTLY why it sucks. I’ve done it a few times. People are filthy stinky animals. Every smell from sweat, to cheese, to pork, to poop was very potent in the air. and then everyone lays down and farts at the end. WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY FOR THAT.

Oh and the mucho push-up! I only want forced cleavage up to my chin on certain occassions. I wear a lot of bralettes or I go bra-lass. I don’t want padding or push-up for my day to day wear. I got tiny titties, I know it. I am ok with it. The people who design women’s bras should catch the memo.

ask out people only half your age minus 7

I imagine that’s typical for most weight loss diets.

I’m 44 as well. Always had heavy periods- if I was not on the pill I would have my period for 10 days, off for 7, and back for 10. I tried an IUD but it was dreadful and I had it removed. I have the saggy neck and hairline acne too. Fuck this shit.

The periods you get on the pill aren’t real periods. The bleeding effectively comes from the withdrawal from the chemicals your body goes through when you go on the placebos for a week, so the “period” is simulated. This is how the pill was designed to work, so it makes sense that she kept bleeding when she was on the…

Will turn 40 this year. For y’all with the pimples, also consider that your skin can’t handle the conditioner, moisturizer or body lotion that you have been using. I changed moisturizer for my face, but was in the habit of wiping the excess on my thighs when done, or putting it too far down my chest — far more pimples…

This makes sense to me, because when my mom started going through menopause fairly young her OBGYN put her on birth control pills to replace the hormones her ovaries were no longer supplying. The birth control pills had the side effect of restarting her period.

That kinda makes sense, nut begs the question why wouldn’t most women take the pill if they weren’t trying to get pregnant regardless of their age? Especially since it effectively makes your body think it’s pregnant and thus continues hormone production (I’m assuming that is the case anyway)? I’m aware many women…

If you use oral contraceptives as directed, you still have normal periods (actually, very regular ones - that may or may not be normal for you or me). If you only take the hormone-laden ones and do so every day, you won’t have periods at all.