So you’re saying that the vintage calendar market is speculative? 

The seller writes a P&S and hands it to you. There may or may not be language or contingencies that protect buyer & seller. including but not limited to:

We bought at what turned out to be the most advantageous time. December 2012, the bottom of the real estate crash AND the bottom of the interest rate market.

Don’t weigh yourself every day (unless you have a specific need to). I do it once a week. At a consistent time, on a consistent day. Typically Saturday morning. I get up, use the bathroom, and then weigh myself.

Colonoscopy = Not Uncomfortable... (They use propofol)

Where possible, I will buy used equipment. This was particularly useful for golf, as, for the most part, people move on from golf equipment long before it’s “worn out”.

It’s not quite as bad as those sorry souls who hold up the “going out of business” signs 

Jesus... It never fails to amaze me how many pickup trucks Ford sells....

The only tax related organization that I hold in lower regard than TurboTax is “Liberty Tax Services”, who have people stand out on the sidewalk dressed as the statue of liberty, and wave to people.

This sounds eerily similar to Lumosity. If this does actually work, I hope they stay on the straight and narrow with it, rather than do a media blitz and try to convince people that it will stave off the effects of dementia... 

DIWhy? 

Can confirm. I do this. I spend the first hour of my day just casually catching up on things without needing to worry about web browsing. I am almost always the first person in the office, so when people show up, I’m “hard at work” at my desk.

I thought it was for an hour after eating? 

Scotch, in the drawer, with a couple of glasses.  It will brighten up the dreariest day. 

Both of the little Hams have the “OK to Wake” clocks. Their desire to not be the only person awake, is much stronger.

Yeah, that was the advice I got as well.   The idea being, if you claim “0" there’s very little chance that you’ll have to pay.  This works with the most simple of taxes (all income, little interest, no capital gains, or other earnings that don’t have taxes automagically taken out)

sweet jesus, this... I dont understand the need for all the algorithmic shenanigans, to come up with a “number of exemptions” that seems pretty freaking arbitrary.  “I claim 3!” What does that even mean? 

I need the opposite. I have the 3.75 y/o who is up, dressed, wearing backpack at 4:30am. We have gated his door because he will go into my daughters room and wake her up.

• Clean all the door knobs. I’ve actually replaced all of mine. They are easily one of the dirtiest places in a house, and very often overlooked.