A couple of coats of mink oil will keep boots water resistant. Thermal socks keep feet warm.

I looked at the site, and it's well done for what it is. Here are some things that "pro level" software does that yours could have, and some bugs that I ran into.

Really? Another one of these "For $35 (+ several hundred dollars in stuff I happened to have lying around) I can DIY an otherwise really expensive thing."

Tighten up, Sally.

•Yes, I was wrong. You can get an iPhone for $55/month. It will be almost useless, have very few minutes and very little data, and no texting plan, but it's possible.

I am mad at the government for taking the money I'm obligated to pay and spending it wastefully. I'm mad locally for the DOT who got a lowball bid on the asphalt to do a huge repaving job and now all the roads are worse then when they started. I'm mad nationally at the politicians who've made a career out of…

I was using examples from the article. The people using iphones, buying lobster... those were lifted right from the original source. I could cite other examples from my own experience, but most importantly, None of them have anything to do with race. If there's any racial stereotyping here, you're the one doing it.…

When, in the history of this thread, or of any of my comments heretofore, have I brought up race at all, much less tried to use it to imply superiority of anyone over anyone else?

I'm certainly aware of how much or how little the government spends on welfare in relation to everything else, and how that relates to the money I pay in taxes.

That's exactly how it's working. That's why there needs to be reform.

Let's see: I pay about 22% of my monthly income in taxes. even maximizing what I can deduct, taking grey-area shortcuts and exploiting every loophole that me, my accountant and Turbotax can think of, I only ever get about $1,000 back at the end of the year. That's less than 1/3 of what I paid in. So no, I most…

Ok, so I'll just come over and take an extra dollar out of your pocketbook so that I can eat now because I spent my money already. Does that sound fair? Your taxes pay for Welfare programs, so that's exactly what I'm doing. I've spent all my money, so now I'm coming after your pocketbook.

1.) The absolute bare minimum iPhone plan, with 450 minutes, 200mb data and no texting costs $55/month on AT&T. A middle of the road plan costs right at $100/month, with mediocre data, minutes, but adding texting.

So what do we do then? Keep allowing people who make bad financial decisions to suck on the government's teat at all of our expense? Why not allow everyone to just spend all their money on whatever they feel like and then run to the state because they can't afford dinner?

So I'll just go ahead and spend up my paycheck on whatever shiny thing catches my eye this week and then run to the government when I can't afford dinner?

When you work for your money, and earn it in trade for labor, be it physical or technical or professional, you get to decide what to do with it. You traded your work for it, it's yours.

Except that Rousselle earned her paycheck by working for it. Welfare, food stamps, WIC, etc are handouts from the government, funded by our taxes.

To be fair: There are other, cheaper phones that don't cost $100+/month. Lots of people make financially responsible decisions and keep older phones longer or get cheaper phones when renewal time comes. iPhones are status symbols. They're not "for rich people only" but they are a luxury. Some people don't like it…

If an overloaded outlet causes a fire in your house, I don't think you have to worry about moving out anymore.

Yay for skill but