x2. I'm a fan of oatmeal with salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, and a couple of fried eggs on top. It's quick and easy so it makes for a good snack.

I love this advice. I feel like a lot of people just forget that they are making a choice when they spend $100 a month on a phone contract, or $150 a month on cable (I don't know what cable costs these days. Do they even call it cable anymore?), or $50 going out to eat 3 times a week. They take those expenses as a…

I don't think it's quite that black and white. I have some good friends at work, but if they are going to sit around talking about how bad management is, how terrible our customers are, etc... then I don't really want management thinking that I share those views. That doesn't mean I'm going to 'snub' them every time…

These external battery backs are fairly small at 2600mAh, but that's enough to at least give your phone a few extra hours of juice, and it can attack directly to your keychain. [Samsung Powered 2600 mAh Keychain Powercharger, $9]

The bottom line: create your goals around your own situation and your own numbers. A little comparison can be helpful sometimes, but take it too far, and you might lose track of what works for you. For more detail, check out the full story.

Let me recap:

I'm right there with you. I'm about the same height, and my body seems content with 145-150 lbs. I did however manage to get to 175, but that required 4-5 days a week at the gym and serious calorie overload. But regardless, it can be done :)

You say that like it's a bad thing :) (I know, to each their own)

Fair enough, though if we can ignore fringe cases such as northern Canada and Siberia, I would say my argument holds. The point I was trying to make is that "too cold" is far colder than most people think it is. I have no problem walking 15 minutes to work in -25 wind chill (with a scarf, hat, gloves and winter coat),…

I think the point is that if you can save 100% of your income, then you can live off of zero percent of it, and therefore, live off of that savings indefinitely while keeping your quality of life ($0/yr) the same. Obviously this isn't possible, but if you take a slightly more realistic percentage, like 20%, and assume…

It's never too cold; it's all about the clothes you wear. I live in upstate NY, and walk 15 mins to and from work every day. This morning was a brisk -4deg F (not including windchill). Granted, you don't get much vitamin D wrapped in a heavy coat and scarf, but just getting to SEE the sunlight (on the rare sunny day)…

White rice and fried eggs - I ate this a few times a week living with a family in Peru, and something about it (maybe the fact that it's fried and topped with salt?) just makes my mouth water. But you can't really beat the simplicity and price for a filling meal.

I was exactly the same. I could get by with a B average just by showing up. I didn't study, I didn't do extracurriculars. I was going to graduate with very little effort. It wasn't until after I graduated that I realized what an opportunity I wasted by coasting. And I still feel like I'm paying for it, by not having…

I check my email on my phone all of the time. Most of it is throwaway stuff, so I don't need to be bothered as soon as I receive it, but I can at least check my email and clean out my inbox when I have a few minutes free.

I've successfully transferred my number onto Ting and H2O wireless (MVNO on ATT's network) with no issues.

x2. I was on Ting for a good 6 months, and was always impressed with their responsiveness to my support requests. I would have stayed with them but getting a CDMA phone (instead of GSM) wasn't appealing. I also spent a bit more monthly because my wife and I talk on the phone a lot, and I wasn't aware of the…

This is one of the key points, I would say. I pay $30/mo for unlimited talk/text, and 500mb data, and spent a solid $130 on my phone (Moto E, great budget phone). That comes out to about $35/mo over 2 years. Obviously that's a huge discount from the $60-70 you would pay on a contract (maybe more? I'm not sure). But if…

Hmmm, not entirely true. My friend is a nurse, and when I asked him how many actual hours of work he did a week, it was somewhere in the ballpark of 5. I imagine it depends on the hospital, and what part of it you work in.

Edit: I'll submit that he may have exaggerated his downtime, but the way he talks about it, I…

I'm glad I'm not the only one that found that antiperspirant actually made me sweat more... I switched to straight deodorant, which worked for a while, though now my stinkiness seems to have gotten worse. I actually keep a travel deodorant in my bag for bad days.

I hadn't really thought of that comparison. I have a coworker that has a tendency to blow up without thinking about it, and I always criticize her in my mind for her lack of impulse control, but then everytime I get a bit frustrated or bored at work, it isn't even 10 seconds before I'm browsing LH or Reddit…