I was exaggerating. Though it is frustrating for sure. I changed my password and I hope that solves it.

And with that, it’s official: nothing is safe.

Not a nanny. A daycare provider who watches a few kids (including her own) out of her home. Rather than sending our kids to a far more expensive daycare center.

I'm in the Des Moines, Iowa area. Do some research and I think you'd find it fits the criteria you're looking for quite nicely. Cost of living is great, quality of life (health care, schools, etc.) is great, plenty to do for families. Unemployment is very low, housing is reasonable. Des Moines and its suburbs are…

I'm not saying this to condescend, but I would really love to look into a situation like yours to see if I could offer any help. Over time I've learned a lot and gotten good at managing my situation but I've never tried to apply that to someone else's situation.

Consider the Midwest. There are lots of great, up-and-coming smaller cities with plenty to go, great places for families, good schools, and cost of living that is far lower than the coasts.

For what it's worth, I'm planning as if it won't be there. But I absolutely believe it will be, even if it's reduced from what recipients get today.

It's hard for me to say much without knowing your circumstances. But I would also offer this: we've been fortunate in many ways - for example, growing up in stable families, living in an inexpensive part of the country, and both my wife and I being savers rather than spenders.

I don't worry too much about Social Security. They'll make adjustments, maybe scale back some benefits, but it will still be there. You can't have generations of people giving up 6.2% of their salaries for others their entire careers and then pull the plug on the program. There would be anarchy, and rightfully so.

I see reports like this and I worry for the future of our country. I realize that sounds so cliched but it's true. I was raised in a solidly middle class family whose standard of living gradually increased as I grew older. Now as an adult, I've still considered myself and my family middle class - maybe upper middle,…

1:15 by itself isn't bad, but throw in extra jobs like I mentioned in my original post and it's almost always a 2+ hour job. Especially considering I have to shower after. And no, my mower isn't self-propelled although my yard is gently sloped so it's not a huge issue.

Timely post as I am struggling with this issue right now. Our lot is just under 0.4 acres (16,500 sqft) including the footprint of the house/driveway and takes about 1:15 for me to mow with a push mower. If I have to trim, which I usually do every other mow, add 30 minutes. If the grass is especially tall and I have…

No. It has nearly 35,000 students total - grad, undergrad, and vet med.

I have but one quibble. Iowa State isn't a "small school." It's got nearly 35,000 students and is the largest university in the state of Iowa.

I played for a small high school in the Midwest in the mid-90s. I'm 6'3" so I played the post. During the regular season we always played schools in our own class, but in the spring and summer we routinely played schools 4-5x or more our size in AAU ball. We held our own, beating most of them.

But how do you actually sync Google contacts? On my calendar I have created and shared a family calendar with my wife. But not contacts.

My kingdom for the ability to share contacts between people. I'd like to make my contact list purely digital but I need to share a good chunk of those names with my wife so we don't ever have to duplicate. But we can't do that so much of our information languishes in a spreadsheet.

Should be interesting to watch this play out over the next few months. I'm very curious to hear what Citi offers. But you know American Express will be making an attractive play to retain those customers. And since Costco will be accepting all forms of Visa now, I also wonder if other Visa card companies (looking at…

I have known this to be true for a few years now and it's a great convenience. It's nice to be able to keep books beyond their lending period because it's rare I can finish an audiobook of any length (10+ hours) in 14 days.

Dear God no. Of course, we have kids now so we never go anywhere anyway. But even back in our first years of dating, we decided Valentine's Day is a sham. In fact, most years we order cheap pizza as an anti-Valentine's Day gesture.