I always reup the advice I got from our bug guy when we had an ant problem in our kitchen. They're often after water. Once we started making sure everything near the windows in our kitchen (which includes our sink) was entirely dry every night our ant problem stopped within a couple of days and we haven't had a…

This is a great calculator. For us we had the game changer of being able to remodel the basement of the house we purchased and rent it as a full, one bedroom apartment for about 65% of our mortgage payment for the first 6 years we've lived here. We've just now stopped renting it out all of the time (we're going to do…

This is a very specific sort of thing and surely won't apply to most but: buy two vehicles. My wife and I ended up getting a really good deal on a used car for me and a new car for her because we bought both at the same time. We hadn't gone in initially planning to get the used car at that point (it was something we…

Had a job in college on the other side of town. Two friends were happy to let me borrow their cars: an '84 or so hatchback Honda Civic and an '88 or so hatchback Honda Accord. Both stick. I drove each of them once or twice a week for about 9 months and after that I was pretty much good. Learned each on my own.…

Naked Mole Rats. I learned that from Kim Possible...well, Ron Stoppable, really.

Nope. Nope nope nope. ACCURACY is just bullshit. Be interesting, show something creative that honors the best of the ideas and builds on it. If you're just going to throw a comic we've all read on screen, screw it.

This is the dumbest fucking reason anyone ever gives for this shit.

The 365 branded stuff is often really good quality for prices similar to other grocery store prices. Sometimes that's other grocery store brand name prices and sometimes it's other grocery store store brand. But there are about 8 or 10 things from 365 (canned tomatoes, boxed chicken stock for when we run out of…

This buttermilk powder is perfect for pancakes. Substitutes for buttermilk with an equal volume of water plus however much powder it says on the package. And it keeps in the fridge for I think a year or so.

It's a real estate thing. A new building is being built where they're located and they realized they couldn't keep doing what they'd been doing during construction.

Chipotle's chips are better but that queso looms large again at Qdoba because the queso is amazing to dip chips in.

Hahahahahahahaha. *deep breath* hahahahahahaha.

I completely agree with you. I've thrown hundreds of dollars away on Kickstarters that haven't actually become reality and helped no one but whoever was on the receiving end of my money for nothing. This was money very well spent in my book and I'd love to see more efforts like this.

What about people who are unable to have Children? (Why are we capitalizing that, btw?) I know you're trolling, but I'm curious whether you have an answer that doesn't dehumanize those folks.

I don't understand pushback from bar employees if a customer asks them to take something like that down. Are there going to be people who get all pissed off because they wipe off the chalk board and the dumb ass joke is gone? It's a stupid attempt at a joke, why would you want it to stay up if even one person is…

My first wedding (i was 22...way too young to know) we did a dessert only reception with only one kind of wine and one beer and a coffee station. Got a friend to call in a favor for an awesome venue at our local university and did the whole thing for about $2500. My second wedding (14th anniversary in a couple of…

You're presuming everyone is eating animals from factory farms. I eat animals from farms I can (and have) visit some of them operated by friends of mine. Those animals appear to have very nice lives on pastures. They are killed quickly when they are killed and virtually every part of the animal is used. I don' t…

You could grab some frozen broccoli to stash in your freezer and some pasta to keep in the pantry (penne or something along those lines). Broccoli freezes particularly well and is wonderful roasted, then toss it with the pasta and whatever nuts you kept around to offer as a snack plus some cheese (and/or olive oil)…

The fucked up sequence that their logic must follow to get there is mind breaking.

Yeah, even here in small town VA there are a few vendors who will run out early. The guy with the best mushrooms, for instance, will be out within an hour of opening. A couple of egg vendors and one particular corn vendor will also run out fast.