How about a shout-out for Freecycle? OK, technically it's a "give your stuff away" rather than "sell your stuff" site; but if you want to de-clutter and you have stuff that is too low in quality to put on Amazon, would cost more to ship than you'd earn on eBay, is bulky/heavy, or you just otherwise want to get used…

"These three seasons are the Skins' lost years": Recent Skins history has been almost nothing but lost years.

Yep, this is completely consistent with all the known science on the topic. We each have a finite amount of "willpower", so don't deplete it on trivia, and don't stress it when it's depleted. There's a chapter on the subject in Dan Ariely's excellent book "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty". He also points out that…

I just opened an account for my ten year old, who is already a very good saver, at Capital One. It is all-online, I transfer his allowance electronically, and he even gets a debit card for when he wants to spend. I feel like this is giving a good preparation for what "normal" banking will be like when he is older,…

What do you when you live with someone who finds joy in clutter? Somebody who is happier when the mail is opened, spread out to cover every inch of the table, and then left for days, than when the junk is immediately tossed, the bills paid, and the rest neatly stacked until you have time to deal with it? Somebody who…

He has a point if you ignore the fact that the "only 5 states" thing is completely wrong.

I use "they" and "their" as singular, gender-indefinite pronouns. I know some people don't like it on "purist" grammatical grounds, and some even think it's a modern PC affectation, but in fact examples can be found all the way back in Chaucer and Shakespeare. And it was good enough for Jane Austen, Thackeray, Shaw and…

Is there any chance that lifehacker's personal finance articles could consistently spell "principal" correctly?

In other news, don't take financial advice from people who can't spell "principal".

...except possibly watching Denard Span go through his elaborate routine before every freaking pitch.

Last year you guys ran a very good post called "13 things not to buy on Black Friday". I proposed #14: Anything you don't actually need (or want, I guess...) just because it's on sale, which is in much the same spirit as this post.

Jesus saves. Satan invests. But only Buddha delivers guaranteed returns.

I've found that the simplest and cheapest solution to clutter is to have less stuff. Sure, good storage solutions are great and all, and sometimes your bathroom is too small for your necessities; but I feel like any clutter-busting hack should start with Step Zero: Go through the stuff and throw out the things you…

Why not both? ;-)

Mandatory trivia: the Johari Window is named for the two guys who created it, Joe and Harry — specifically, psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham. They thought it might get wider adoption if they gave it an exotic name. This is really true.

My wife of 16 years is an MIT electrical engineering grad, was a high school cheerleader, and currently runs her own small business, so I'm getting a kick out of this thread. Fortunately for me, I was too stupid to know that I didn't have a chance with her.

The late Cliff Nass (Stanford) did the definitive study on 'Hamburgering' — also known as the Shit Sandwich or the Criticism Sandwich — and showed that it doesn't work. The negative just blows away the positive. I highly recommend his book "The Man Who Lied To His Laptop", if you like the idea of social science based…

Get a Costco membership even if you don't expect to shop there. Every weekend, have "brunch" at least once by grazing the free food samples. If you go just once a week, you're getting over 50 meals for about $1 each.

I was really hoping that rule one would be "make a metric fuckton of money from licensing a cartoon strip that struck gold" and that rule two would be "do and say whatever you want for the rest of your life without consequences".

14. Anything you don't actually need (or want, I guess...) just because it's on sale.