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.

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.

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.

No, this is not that... This is an area of sensitivity for me because there are people close to me who have had actual diagnoses of compulsive hoarding.

oof yes I feel this

These are all good questions... I think the people (myself included) who fall into the trap of accumulating too much shit are all 12th degree black belts at something i like to call “lying to themselves”... I think that’s why M.K.’s use of asking a question that is abstract and purposefully emotional is supposed to…

Obits are expensive, as I found out when my husband died.

I stop eating at 8PM and don’t have anything except coffee until lunch. I am 99% sure that I’m not losing weight because I’m “kickstarting my metabolism”. I’m just eating less. No lunch or snacking in the morning before I have lunch.

My counterpoint is to celebrate without the expectation of “stuff” or “things” being a part of the celebrtion (God, I’m such a millenial experiences-over-things aren’t I?)

That is a fantastic point. I was very dedicated to playing music in school and still sometimes play as an adult. I played trumpet in band throughout school and into college and also picked up the guitar as a hobby in my teenage years. I loved doing both because playing music with other people is almost a magical…

Maybe talk to them about it... “Why do you want to quit?”

This is a big problem. Increasingly, Doctors are less and less apt to question each others decisions and the patients end up paying the price.

I used to get little surprise bags at the corner store for 25 cents.  They had some really cheap candy, a little joke on a piece of cardboard, and a small toy.  I loved them.  I was shocked when I saw them at 50 cents, and eventually up to a dollar a few years later.  Can’t even really get what we called “penny candy”…

Did someone just successfully repackage the “blind bag” craze that hit my household via our 5 year old watching Youtube videos?

This is simple. We are in a time where the polarization of “us” vs. “them” is at an all time high. Our political system is a duopoly (dems and reps) and right around the time of Newt Gingrich, they created an environment where it’s basically the sharks and the jets. Any cooperation with the “other side” is seen as the…

I find all this back and forth to be fucking hilarious...

My in-laws and I have battles over gift cards, and I sadly will never win.

I agree with you on many levels, we’ve basically raised a generation of kids who are under the impression that it’s totally fine to attend a college that costs $60k/year and focus their studies in something that pays 30-40k/year or less. We’ve created an expectation that unless you go to college, you’re not going to…

Actually, it is a very unique design of lighter which is patented. Sure there are other lighters but this one works in varying conditions.