Myrna Minkoff’s post about her personal issues strikes at the heart of what I have long suspected is the real secret to productivity/prioritizing: to have enough things that MUST be done so that you don’t have time to worry about the things you think should be done.

Still too much. Most of my regular shopping is just food and household supplies, and in the midwest Amazon fresh is not available, and Amazon Pantry (or whatever it’s called) cannot compete with my local Sam’s club or Costco (or the local grocers like Meijers or Kroger, for that matter).

Still too much. Most of my regular shopping is just food and household supplies, and in the midwest Amazon fresh is…

Not entirely correct. No matter how little electricity I use, including none when on vacation (I turned everything off including the fridge), they still have a number of charges, including a “carrier surcharge”, among other nonsense.

For the very reasons mentioned in the article, I am actually tempted not to brush sometimes, after flossing. Water flossing to be exact.

Like this:

Pliers sounds good if I was trying to close the zipper, but I am trying to open it. How it broke? As I said, the middle bar (the part you leverage to pull at the zipper) is broken, that is, missing.

But what do you do when the middle bar in the picture is what breaks? I have one sweater in that condition, plus the zipper was hard to pull long before it broke, so sliding with my bare fingers doesn’t work, and its hard to see where anything could be looped to make it work.

While like others I am less than excited with his advice, it is not because I find it useless, but because it sounds a lot like me. He sounds like a nerd, his answers seem rather nerdy, including the boat thing, and specially the never apologize or explain part (I tend to do far too much of that). He is not some David…

Yes, “which is known to contain cholesterol”. That last sentence makes no sense to me.

I can see how straining the eggs can improve the texture of the omelet, but the lady says is to remove cholesterol, which is silly if you don’t remove the egg yolk.

You are spending your valuable time reading lifehacker articles, in order to pick up some tips on how improve yourself. How narcissistic of you . . . . :-P

I would have to wonder who is behind the funding of that study. It kinda reminds me of pork, the other white meat . . . .

I have difficulty with the idea that a disobedient child is ever a good thing, under any circumstances. I think the real issue is that there are lousy parents and poor teachers, people who abuse their authority and people who just don’t have a clue or were themselves not raised right.

Google Desktop. Because I have not found a better replacement (not even Windows search will do), in spite of its limitations and the fact that it is no longer supported or updated, and because not even an expensive paid program like DevonThink is yet available for Windows.

I was engrossed in a book about swimming instead of paying attention in fifth grade. Was sent to the school counselor for some counseling.

But Walmart will take things back, no questions asked, that’s the difference, besides the issue of warranty upon purchase, which manufactures usually recognize only from normal retail channel purchases.

I want to try getting a flute or guitar, but never found pawn shop prices or quality reasonable, though I heard so many stories of people finding real treasures for dirt cheap, so I gave up going to pawn shops.

Dentists performing unneeded procedures on me and my family, some of which actually created problems which didn’t exist, have greatly shaken my confidence in dentists. That and my work as a medical interpreter and listening to a dentist insisting on what I thought was bad advice on a young woman concerning crowns (I…

I think I did something like that to my 1 year old daughter. She is 24 now, but I still feel guilty thinking about my insisting she eats her gerber baby cereal (she only recently articulated that oatmeal makes her sick, before she just said she didn’t like it).

To this day, I cannot eat cow liver or raw ocra, the first tastes awful, the second feels and looks disgusting (unless fried and heavily seasoned, then it is great). Unreasonable food aversions, I can relate. :-P