I feel like you should add “anything you wouldn’t be able to replace” to this list. I’ve run a small storage facility in Arizona for about 3 years. Nothing is more heartbreaking than getting a call weeks and months after an abandoned unit is auctioned off from the delinquent/AWOL renter. When we open those units up,…

Making better choices requires proactively creating better options to choose. This morning I was craving an egg McMuffin on the way into work. Then I realized I already had some yogurt packs in my office mini-fridge. Today’s morning snack was healthier for both my wallet and me.

I see one of my sons turning his nose up at completing assignments for the same reasons I did as a child. The assignments are pointless because the teachers are teaching to the lowest performing student who needs excessive repetition to grasp a basic concept. There is no opportunity for a child who has mastered a…

We live in the desert southwest. Today’s high is expected to be in the 90's. Carved pumpkins last at most a few days here before becoming a mold infested squishy mess.

The dog. My wife did not handle the upending of our lives well. My youngest son still claims he doesn’t know how to do things because he didn’t finish kindergarten. When she said she wanted a dog, I argued against it. Now we have a husky/lab mix that sheds so much fur that I don’t even spend time downstairs or in the…

My aunt and uncle owned a vacation condo with carpet in the bathroom for as long as I could remember. They were very well off, so I could never figure out how they managed to never replace the area around the toilet and shower with some kind of hard surface.

You’ll save more time parking near a cart return than lapping the lot looking for a spot close to the store’s front door.

I live in a hot, dry, desert climate. We can plant as early as the end of February. I’ve had great success raising lettuce and carrots in raised garden boxes I built out of some spare wood. Tomatoes always seem to get attacked by green horn worms.

My third son became an advanced early reader because he wanted to play Warcraft with his older brothers, but we wouldn’t help him read any of the quests. That was all the motivation he needed to learn to read quickly.

I upgrade roughly every 2.5 to 3 years just because I can still usually sell my old iPhone for a reasonable amount to offset the cost of a new device in that timeframe. Go beyond that, and the market prices for used phones drops through the floor.

Told my kids that if they didn’t be lay down and go to bed I was going to put them on time out. Worked for about 6 months before one of them smartened up.

The Wii U was very easy to hack to allow HDD loading of games. We had hundreds of games in the library (maybe not all legally obtained).

Interesting fact I learned this week: if you have a water softener, It is very likely that the cold water in your kitchen sink does not run through the softener.

Make a meatloaf in the shape of a body part or small human. Serve with a butcher knife sticking out if it.

There were way more onions in the room than I expected watching that.

I manage a handful of rental units. Sometimes prospective renters think our rates are high until I explain the price includes sewer, water, and trash. Rates for some of those services are high in the area, so that represents at least $200/month if paid separately.

Don’t. Get the shot. Save lives. Save the economy. And find something else to wage a political war over.

My wife occasionally sleeps naked. Doesn’t do a thing for our intimacy because that’s a sign her anxiety is acting up so much that she can’t even stand clothes touching her.

I recently took my first real vacation since taking over management of a small utility company. My OOO message offered my personal cell number for emergencies only with the specific instruction that messages on the office line would be handled when I returned. I let a handful of calls to my cell go to voice mail then…

Or a settee?