I think she meant three-prong outlets were introduced in 1962.

Only do a final rinse on your paint brushes after cleaning them in a bucket of warm soapy water.

I have found the best way to not keep crap is to have a very small house with nowhere to keep crap. If it isn’t useful pretty frequently, it has to GO. Keeps me from buying excess crap in the first place too.

Have been trying hard to get my mother to get rid of all the stuff she has been hoarding. It is a losing battle. And when I get blunt about when she dies the mess I will have to clean up, she says ‘oh well, I’ll be dead’.... thanks mom.

I know, right? What kind of a loser am I that I don’t remember exact dates and details from roughly two decades ago? I need some of that Prevagen shit that Mayim Bialik’s hawking on TV these days, chopped up jellyfish balls or whatever it’s made of.  Apparently it’ll give me photographic memory and works 100% of the…

At this point I’m convinced that the rules are so arbitrary and near-contradictory because they don’t actually want you to recycle things. Cities want to have metrics showing they have all these great recycling programs and then blame individuals when we accidentally try to recycle the “wrong” things. Corporations…

Electrical Engineer here... GFCIs don’t trip circuit breakers (normally). A GFCI trips *BEFORE* the circuit breaker (or it’s supposed to). The GFCI will *ALWAYS* be more sensitive and faster than a normal residential circuit breaker. It’s essentially two protective devices in series... first is the GFCI, then the…

if it was me, id replace the breaker, or at least wiggle it around in the box

It’s not always a bad thing - see my endless post on the American Airlines FF status system.

if money was no object, id probably rent. unfortunately, i had to buy a place to make sure its paid off because i dont have unlimited money forever. id also be leasing my car and eating out all the time.

The point of a house is to have a place you can do whatever you want to and not share walls or a garage or have to walk up 4 flights of stairs to get home. It’s not a retirement plan, it’s not a diversified investment.

gd right. “thrilling adventure hour,” one of the greats. ridiculous that it’s not here. 

Same. Fedex randomly started to drop packages off against our alley-facing garage door, which is particularly annoying, since...by the very nature of WFH...we don’t open very frequently.

Closest I can come is the following:

The Y axis isn’t time. It’s effort. The X axis is skill or proficiency. The more effort that is required to gain a given amount of proficiency, the steeper the learning curve.

But yeah, the independent variable is normally found on the X-axis. Typically this is time, but it wouldn’t be all that strange to see something like X= range of non proficient to proficient and Y = difficulty/time investment needed.  

I dont have the stats I’d like (cuz I dont have time to look), but I’ve been told they’re actually very efficient as long as they are sized according to the room they’re cooling.

My wife works nights. a window AC is great for white noise and to keep the bedroom cooler than the rest of the house during the day so we can use the central ac much less. 

Disagree, are they as good as central HVAC no, but they are more efficient in that you can choose which rooms to cool individually instead of cooling an entire house.  The best of both worlds would be a mini split setup, but like getting central HVAC installed it is NOT cheap.

Forget all this window breaking nonsense UNTIL YOU TRY THE POWER WINDOW CONTROL SWITCH. Why?