Two of my adult children follow my example of almost never having an outside voice, even if people have to ask me to repeat myself. If there are 5 people talking at the same time, I’d rather not say anything than having to shout.

Well, I have lived in 4 states, that is my experience only with Dove. In southern Michigan, where water can run literally red in some counties (heavy iron content), never noticed the residue with regular soap.

I tend to clean using a top down approach, meaning that I always assume any dirt wiped or stirred will fall down to the next available surface. Naturally mopping or vacuuming are the last things I usually do.

Thanks for the replies. Cetaphil is the expensive soap I use that sometimes comes close to $5 a bar. Dove is the greasy residue soap I am trying to avoid, never liked that it felt like I never finished rinsing it off. Will check out the others mentioned.

As one not likely to listen to the advice of this article, yet suffering the effects of over showering, could someone recommend very mild soap for sensitive skin that doesn’t cost $5 a bar, doesn’t leave greasy residue, and doesn’t instantly dissolve as soon as it touches water?!?!?

Yes, I have tried that a few times by dual booting Windows Linux through a few versions of Windows. In the future I want to try triple book, Mac, Windows and Linux, though I have no compelling reason, except the horrible Microsoft Office license!

I must be doing something right, never had my card compromised. But I do use a few simple rules:

Speaking as a musician, if you are willing to spend 100x more on any musical instrument than the average person, believe me when I tell you even a tone deaf person can hear the difference, at that price range at least.

I grew up at a time when cheap just meant “lower quality”, rather than “complete garbage”. As a result, I always had the notion that being frugal meant buying as cheap as possible (if it works, it doesn’t matter that there are better ones, if you cannot afford it). It took me a long time to wake up to the idea of…

Pushing off your own thoughts and opinions for the thoughts and opinions of others would be an example of what I would call self hating.

“Focus on yourself” is indeed the worst advice ever, it just creates more self serving jerks. This is because the real problem is equal opportunity hating, hating on others, and hating on themselves. A change of focus will only change the direction of this hatred. What is needed is a change of values, a change of…

I don’t find equating envy with admiration to be at all helpful. I have had people wishing to be as good as me at something (positive), and people wishing to hinder me from being better than them (negative). Huge difference. Unless the author is addressing feelings of guilt from admiration, a concept I find quite odd,…

Neat! I am not a programmer, how do I simplify the busy interface? It is far too busy for my taste.

Flashnote does the same thing and supports multiple nested notes, import and export, color selection, searches and more. Learned about it on Lifehackers a few years ago. :-)

The bottom line is, all job interviews have trick, deceptive questions that sometimes apparently have nothing to do with anything.

Seconded.

“If you’re a well-respected businessPERSON, these are generous, noble gestures. If you’re *anyone* struggling to get any respect at all, this comes off like “make yourself even more of a doormat.”.”

In my case, I wasted time believing people who offered help, when they were only expressing polite nothings. It is usually much less stressful to assume people don’t want to be bothered, so then I can be pleasantly surprised when they do, which very rarely happens.

Goodness, never have I seen so many replies that mirror my situation so very closely and for the same reasons (commitment to an unreasonable woman), particularly from men! In my case, we were together for 20 years, we separated for circumstantial reasons (a trip back home to visit family). When I returned, she didn’t…

Yes, getting some outside help is one of the things that occurred to me in the discussion of overwhelmed and overworked people who take care of others, though being able to afford it is really an idealized scenario in many cases, reality often dictates learning to manage on your own, however frustrating that can be.