Personally I’d rather let them have a little extra and not have to worry about paying more. My returns are around 300, as close to 0 as I want to be.

Use a luggage tag- put your important information on the card, slide it in upside down (so it can’t just be read by anyone) and write “EMERGENCY INFO” on the now-facing-out side. Then, if something does happen, the tag is easy to see and whomever has it can easily get the information by taking card out of the tag.

At least half of my Lifehacker comments are just me being comically insane, albeit typically in response to the demanding style of the article titles.

Alternately, tattoo your emergency contact number on his left forearm. I’m sure that’ll raise no eyebrows.

Feed them a snack before 3 so they aren’t hungry when 3 rolls around. Then, have dinner together at a decent time, which is more ideal.

I think it tends to exacerbate differing shopping approaches. I wander like it’s home interior Disneyland and have to touch everything (although I don’t impulse buy like I do with grocery stores), which would drive more purposeful shoppers into a blind rage.

The sweet sauce thing is pretty common outside of the Philly through NYC area. A lot of the southern US, even the east coast has a sweeter sauce. One way to cut the acid a bit without adding sugar is to add a bell pepper cut in half and add a whole onion as the sauce cooks. Once they become soft it cuts the acid, adds…

You should add cheese. Everything is better with cheese.

They actually have some furniture that is made of real wood. I got a really nice bookshelf from IKEA that’s solid wood and I get compliments on it all the time. But yeah, their particle board products are crap. My husband and I got our first bed from IKEA when we were newly married and broke and three years later it…

this is actually a thing? If I mention to my GF that I want to go to Ikea or vice-versa, we’re both like..OK. We pick up a few things or dont and GTFO. Its not a big deal.

I don’t personally know of any brand-developed recipes used in my own family, but my wife’s family loves them and refers to them by name (i.e. “Which do you want me to bring for Christmas, Kellogg’s Chocolate Scotcheroos, or Chex Mix Muddy Buddies?”). They have a particularly insidious lasagna made with Hamburger…

My grandmother was famous for her au gratin potato recipe. Her friends would constantly beg her for the recipe and since they couldn’t get that she “had” to bring them to every potluck. Her “recipe” was straight from the box with nothing extra added. How no one figured it out is beyond me because those things are so…

Breakfast (bacon, eggs, potatoes, coffee) is $2-3 (sometimes cheaper with the free IKEA Family membership), which means you can take the savings from what you’d normally pay for breakfast and get something fun! (Plus - if it’s close enough, you can always just go to eat)

How? It takes 15 minutes to even get out of the store from most sections.

bad time management. Start the thing that takes the longest (brown rice, lentils, etc), then finish cleaning.

If I’m cooking something that requires mixing bowls, or a lot of other dishes/pots/pans the first thing I do is make sure my drying rack is empty. That way doing dishes while cooking or right after eating doesn’t seem like such a large task. Also this allows me to wash cutting boards as I use them and dry them quickly.

I make sure to never start cooking if there are any dirty dishes out. Clean them first, then start. Tabula rasa.

Do they have date when it will come out? Because I am about to replace my computer with a MacBook air in less then a week. Mine has been with me for almost 9 years and needs a replacement. But right now I study online and my computer has seen better days. I’m sacred that it will stop working before I have the chance…

I believe it was the great 21st century philosopher Kanye who said “if you ain’t no punk, holler we want prenup”.

Apple is actually the precedent for this: in the 1980s and 90s many classrooms were loaded with Apple IIs and such for exactly the reasons you lay out: building a future customer base.