And good luck at trying to get a spouse to go along with your purge.

My wife’s typical remark, “Why is it that you only want to throw away MY stuff.”

Maybe because you’re the one who keeps hoarding things!

I’m a recruiter. I’m only going to mention the financial side of things.

If you go down this road keep some things in mind.

Health insurance. It isn’t unusual for corporations to pay $500.00/month for health insurance per individual. Make sure you check what that’s going to cost you.

Social Security, Medicare, etc.…

Great book!

One of the early lines, which is also one of the best. “There’s always pizza.” i.e. don’t be afraid to screw up.

USAF ‘67 to ‘71 in case anyone starts.

The DOD spends MORE US taxpayer money than any other program. Even all of its budget isn’t shown, since all of our nukes go into the Department of Energy Budget.

We’ve been spending more on defense (almost) than the rest of the world COMBINED. This has been going on for decades.…

Keep in mind that Michelle Bachmann bought the Iowa straw poll. One of the reasons that Iowa dropped it.

There’s nothing preventing any candidate from buying a caucus.

Don’t know how common this is.

Jewel Foods, whose owners also own other grocery stores, can not control the temperature in the stores.

That is totally controlled out of Denver.

Actually don’t have a land line.

So WHEN is the “Do Not Call List” going to be enforced? Even the local businesses in this area ignore it. Yesterday it was a call from a roofing company in the area.

Sorry, but no one should be able to call someone with “No Caller ID”.

Let it go to voicemail.

Simply put, you have to agree to confidentiality BEFORE you trade emails. Someone can’t send you and email and tell you that it’s confidential.

I was working on a breed specific amendment that one jerk councilman for the city of Elgin, IL was trying to push through.

I had sent him a couple of emails questioning some of…

I love the program. I’ve got three of their books.

I’ve also never seen anything with such a focus on money.

During the program, they talk about the recipes they are doing being available on their website for free. Sure they are. Try getting a recipe from six months ago without paying.

With the three books that I have,…

So it’s time to eliminate coverage of politicians?
When was the last time you heard a politician focus on saying something positive they were going to do rather than rant about how bad things are?

I’m anal about my knives. THE problem that I’ve seen with doing this is that the angle is pretty important. Even in the video he changes the angle. The “right” angle? Really how does he know?

I use a Lansky system which keeps the knife at a specific angle.

Recently either Lifehacker or Gizmodo ran a piece about…

Thanks for demonstrating your ability to discuss issues as an adult.

What part of returning because of the imminent death of a relative don’t you understand?

See, here’s the reverse. If you buy a non-refundable ticket, most times, it’s just that. Non-refundable. If the above had happened with a non-refundable ticket,…

MILES had ZERO to do with it.

Someone was dying.

It’s sort of why people going to funerals and getting to hospitals for the dying DO get priorities.

If you knew how to READ, you’d realize that the mileage comment was made about people not knowing the airline rules.

Um. Let’s see. Someone was DYING. It has NOTHING to do with the number of miles I flew.

If you check the airline rules, in situations such as this, those people are supposed to get priority.

There’s a reason for that.

If YOU were trying to get home before someone passed away you wouldn’t want the airlines to give you…

I used to fly 100,000+ every year for maybe 5 years.

There are LOTS of rules that the airlines have, and some that are legal requirements for the airlines, that they don’t inform their passengers of.

This isn’t a requirement, but one that truly ticked me off given the “level” I was at.

I was in KC. I got informed that…

In various cookbooks.

Grate the cheese on to a pan and bake until crisp. No reason to use a second pan. Primarily done with Parm in most restaurants.

Cap on Social Security taxes. As the article says, once you reach $118,500.00, you no longer pay into Social Security.

That cap makes the Social Security tax THE most regressive tax in the entire US system. i.e. Another gift to the wealthy.

Someone might come up with something, but I know of no tax where you reach a…

So let’s see. The guy had at least 3, perhaps 4 cups of coffee that morning. @160+ mg of caffeine per cup that’s maybe as much as 480 - 540 mg of caffeine by itself. i.e. already over the 400 mg. safe limit.

During the day, he had taken at least 6 Excedrin, maybe 8. At 6 that was another 390 mg of caffeine.

3 cokes?…

I’d be careful about this.

Quite a while ago. Guy I worked with had maybe 3-4 cups of coffee in the morning. During the morning he got a headache and started taking Excedrin.

Afternoon came and he switched over to Coke. Don’t know how many he had. Took a few more Excedrin.

Around 4:00 PM, he thought that he was having…