My neighborhood has been dealing with an ongoing street racing problem for a while now. Unfortunately, the county sheriff has made it very public that he will not allow his deputies to chase and they will not deploy stop sticks or other similar measures to help arrest people who participate in street racing. The road…

How the bridge was engineered and how it was installed are two different things. Not saying this was an engineering issue, but it could have easily been an install issue with the engineering side of it not having any problems.

Does this also vary depending on the merchant? While not exactly the same, Publix requires a signature for purchases over $50 when using a chip credit card (not sure if they accept contactless payment). Walmart and Sam’s Club also have set limits where they require a signature as well, which I believe differ from…

How realistic is it that a budget even close to this becomes fact? It has to make it through both houses of Congress before it is adopted. Granted, the shitshow that we have had lately in Congress does not give me much hope, but hopefully they have a little more sanity than Trump.

Yeah, it is definitely expensive, but we try to make the most of our annual passes so the per visit cost isn’t too bad. I’d estimate that we visited at least 20-30 times in 2017. With annual passes at $600 per person, that works out to around $20-30 per visit per person (luckily my daughter is still free because of…

While we didn’t go exclusively for a haircut, we did take my daughter there for her first hair cut. Granted, I live close enough that I can be on property in less than 20 minutes and have annual passes, so going to Disney is a pretty common occurrence for my family.

I will agree that if using only clippers (even better if only using a single guide for the clippers so all the hair is the same length), then having someone cut your hair at home starts to make a lot more sense. However, as this article advocated against using clippers and for using sharp shears instead which takes a…

Given the prices for a child haircut at a salon/barbershop, my time is much better spent driving to a place where I can have a professional do the work for $10-15 rather than spending the money purchasing all the necessary equipment (mostly proper scissors or clippers) and the time spent trying to give a haircut…

I can make the argument that they can be cheaper than traditional liquid detergent. I recently made the switch to using pods because with liquid detergent, my wife was constantly using too much detergent whenever she was doing the laundry. She refused to use the cap measuring cup and would just pour the detergent to…

Not sure as I have not tried something like this, but you may be able to set something up to play music at a specific time through IFTTT or Stringify. While not exactly the same, I have a routine set up through Stingify that turns my TV on in the morning and a couple minutes later, turns on one of the smartbulbs in my…

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I am going through this right now. One of our cats (coming up on 11 years old) has been losing weight and vomiting every couple of days for so time now. A year and a half ago, we took her to the vet to see what was wrong. They did a bunch of testing and hospitalized her for a couple days. In the end, the only thing…

Please, for the love of God, do not stop saving for your own retirement to pay off your mortgage and save for your kids’ college expenses. Yes retirement is likely a ways off in the future, but time is exactly what any good 401(k) or other retirement investment account needs. You can finance college expenses if needed…

While I can’t remember if it was actually diagnosed as this, but my wife had an obstetric hemorrhage (or at least something very close to what was described) right after my daughter was born. Everything was fine immediately after the birth and we were in the labor and delivery room for a couple hours. But as soon as…

First off, is this post sponsored by Flic or something? Obviously there are many options out there at this point to automate the same functionality, but seeing as every scenario here included a Flic button, I am assuming that this is some sort of sponsored post and should be labeled as such. Secondly, I would argue…

That is always the risk you take when you are investing. However, when you compare the benefits of interest from investing to the interest you will get from a standard savings account, you can see why investing is so attractive. For instance, one of the best interest rates you can get on a savings account right now is…

There’s a Honda dealer here in Florida that has had commercials recently offering a free tattoo with any purchase. Seems like one of the weirder “free” offerings and the commercials are horrible. But I guess it got me talking about them, so in a way, their commercial worked.

Good thing my car has a push button start so I can leave it running without leaving the keys in the car. I believe you can still shift into drive from park if the car remains on while the keys are out of range (at least in some cars, as this happened to my Aunt and Uncle one time)

I keep a very minimal amount in my two checking accounts (one at a local credit union and one with Ally - neither charge fees or required a minimum balance). The local credit union one is used for direct deposit for paychecks and to pay most bills, but the Ally one is used occasionally for bills as well if I am…

Ally is up to 1.25% on their savings accounts, which is much better than you’ll find at some other banks.