As a former smoker vaping really helped me wind down off the real deal. I quit the real thing in a week and was totally off vaping within 6 months. I think patches, gum, and meds go so far. It doesn’t deal with the hand to mouth fixation smokers have.

I’ll miss you too! You’ve been a mainstay around here and your comments always make me smile or teach me something about the article we just published. Take care, and keep on keeping on!

Honestly, I wonder how my friends afford some things like the cars they drive. I usually feel inferior and I’m like, they’re in the same tax bracket as me.

Plus they’re easier to scrape out with a spatula so you can have more cheese in your mouth less of that hard work wasted!

“when it isn’t cheese season” Ha, like that’s a thing that happens.

Multiple cheese sauces? Good god woman, where do you think this is? Wisconsin?

Person B here. After living the broke life of a grad student for several years and then getting my first real job, I continued the spending philosophy of the broke grad student life. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed my new income, I got a new car that I really love (modest car, Scion xB) and can camp in, built a new…

I am hungover as fuck and just had orange soda and a spoon of peanut butter for breakfast. that particular potato chip looks like it could fix all of my life’s problems right now.

i’m sure - for ease of transfer (in case you need to do this multiple times) and to eliminate waste plastic - the same result could be…

NOOOOOOOO! Stay away!! It’s terrible here! No one wants to live in Seattle! Simply terrible! Horrid!

I bought a set of Lucentee one piece spatulas from Amazon and they’re wonderful! Or they were...daughters were enamored of them and I kept hearing, “can’t I just take this home? You can get more...” so the set got divvied up and now the set I bought isn’t available anymore :(

Also, make sure it is flexible enough for impromptu kitchen S&M sessions... 

...or divide by 4 or 5 for me :( Those are so small.

So, basically, take the amount of something I would normally eat, then divide that by three to determine the ‘serving size’. :-)

I have a friend who would say yes to something in person, like going to a future event/party/gig etc, to his acquaintances and sometimes closer friends and have absolutely no intention of going. Then the time comes to discuss further and arrange and he’s nowhere to be seen. Its because he didn’t want to deal with…

THIS! Of all the pet peeves I have THIS! Why, WHY would anyone let their house get more and more dirty all week and then clean spend half a day cleaning it, usually on the weekend.

And the travesty is the lost bacon! Who cares about the foil or grill?

I think it’s a message, though a cruel one: stay away from white chocolate.

I had A LOT of soup (the wife made wonton soup last night) and drank 6 cups of water and a soda. I woke 2 or 3 times, as I lost count, just going pee. Stupid bladder!

There’s also passive bossiness. I have a co-worker who will point out that something needs to be done and then say “Oh if only someone would do something about that.” It got to the point that each time they point something out they clearly want me to do but won’t do themselves, I either just ignore it or point out…