Ammonia is nasty stuff though, I'd rather have grease in my oven.

@babaki:

I use both. There was a previous LH article which linked to some planning on [bankrate.com] (I think that was the site) where they had all kinds of planners like a spending plan, bugeting, self worth, etc.

@aidan_cage:

Yea the charity/non profit loophole is now a big hole. It seems that now all these no name mortgage companies are getting set up as a non profit so they can call you and help reduce your debit by selling you a mortgage/home equity loan.

The preapproved credit offers has made a big difference for me. I found out about it on my credit report earlier this year and opted out. The amount of garbage in my mail box has dropped off a lot, now the only stuff I get is adressed to my inlaws because my MIL put our names in yahoo's address book and it mixed her…

There are suprisingly a lot of people who get standby and hibernate confused. Then they call you witha problem with one or the other and you have to figure our which one they really mean

@Millionaire Mommy Next Door:

@Gina Trapani, Lifehacker Editor:

Reading her story gives the whole picture, they had several acres and paid a house keeper, etc. if they had downsized to a simple home they would still have seen the same cost savings. Her cost savings came from downsizing not from going from owning to renting. She's coming up with the wrong conclusion.

@thisluckyguy:

Don't even do that much work with leaves. Use a mulching mower. If you follow the manual of the mulching mower you should buy a new blade at the beginning of each year anyway so at the end of the year just mow over all the leaves and sticks. I've been doing this years and all the neighbors want to know what I put on…

(*gulp*) handguns? Just because someone carries a tool doesn't make them someon to be feared.

The problem I see with all these type of expense tracking services is they still require you to manually enter the data. That takes a bit of work. its much less work to simply log in to your bank's web site and download the information.

@burnblue:

You can build them from new parts if you want. www.digikey.com and www.mouser.com search for CCFL. The tubes are $10-15 and you can buy the inverters too. I've replaced the tube in a couple laptops before.

@mario:

@FLConsumer:

I had bad luck with re-chargeables too and had sworn them off for years but there low self discharge actually work they way they should have when they were first introduced. I just bought three more packs of eneloop making my total about 60.

@Jeffos: