100% agree on your statements. While the items listed in this article are becoming more capable of being a standalone smart home platform, there are more, and in my opinion better, options out there such as Smartthings and Wink.

Not directly related to the article, but another benefit of booking directly with the hotel rather than through a 3rd party company is that they are much more likely to be able to work with you should your plans change.

I agree that factors such as debt-free education and no children definitely help. I was just pointing out that the additional time in comparison to other members of her generation also help skew the results in her favor.

Agreed. That’s why I said up to 15 years. Just pointing out that they are at the earliest part of the generation and the time span is 15 years. So people born in 1996 would also be included in this group, so she would have 15 additional years worth of saving time.

When looking at it from the amount of time left, you are correct. However, as written in the article, it is talking about comparing balances between people in the same generation, in which someone born in 1981 has an advantage as they have been saving longer.

For what it’s worth, another big advantage you have over other millennials is time. As mentioned in your article, you are an “old millennial” and were born at the very beginning of the generation. Seeing as the millennial generation ranges from 1981 to 1996, you have up to 15 years worth of additional earning and…

Hmm, I wonder if something like this is what is causing problems with my stereo in my 2014 Mazda 6. My problem is that the bluetooth connectivity function just stops working. I have done some digging in forums and found that a hard reset (disconnect the battery, wait a minute, reconnect the battery) gets the bluetooth…

I have a spreadsheet that I started back at the beginning of 2013 and have kept up to date which tracks all money in and out. While it is not necessarily a budget, it does allow a very clear picture of what money I have where, what money is coming in, what is going out, etc. It is typically edited several times per…

I was on Accutane when I was 17 and while it did work well to get rid of acne, it did leave lasting side effects (albeit minor ones). To this day (13 years later), I still have to carry Chapstick with me everyday due to dry/cracked lips (part of me wonders if this is also a side effect of using Chapstick). Also,…

My parents have at least 2 dogs buried in their backyard. One from when I was a kid and one more recently. The recent one passed away in the middle of the night. When my parents found the dog dead at the bottom of the stairs at 4 in the morning, they went outside and buried her. It was only later on that they realized…

Reviews on Amazon talk about the system running out of water, so it would appear that it uses evaporative cooling as the system loses water over time. Given this, I would think that the temperature ranges that the system can achieve will be somewhat based on the ambient temperature of the space it is in. I guess you…

Reviews on Amazon talk about the system running out of water, so it would appear that it uses evaporative cooling as…

I think this also points to the fact that most Lyft drivers are also Uber drivers, which may drive down the wait times between rides. Every Uber I have ever been in has also had the Lyft logo on their windshield. They just happened to be working as an Uber driver when I was in the car because that is the app that I…

While I think this is a novel idea when it comes to figuring out a number for an emergency fund and more money is definitely not a bad thing, I would argue that if push comes to shove, $20,000 is a lot to be spending on a car when there are tons of cars out there for significantly less.

People turning from lanes which are not turn lanes. This happens to me at several specific locations along my daily route. First, when leaving my neighborhood, there are two lanes, one for turning each direction. The left lane will typically back up during morning rush hour and there will inevitably be someone who…

My wife is a teacher and was able to take advantage of the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program. While most teachers will not qualify for the $17,500 amount (the full amount is reserved for special ed. teachers or high school teachers teaching STEM classes), my wife was able to get $5,000 of her loans forgiven. We had…

This 100%.

Every time I see something like this, it reminds me just how easy it is for a very small group of people to cause chaos on the road. A functioning road system relies of everyone playing along, but that balance can very easily be offset by just a couple cars coordinating to drive right next to each other at a slower…

This is why after I made the last payment on my wife’s student loans, I checked back with the loan servicer the following couple of months to make sure that the balance still said $0. The last thing I wanted to have happen was some random interest not get paid off completely and then snowball into a large balance like…

I’m 29 and I bought my house back in October 2013. My wife and I had been talking about buying a house for a while and decided to look at new construction. We found a location and floor plan we liked and decided to move forward with the process of building our house. New construction appealed to us as we would end up…

Having worked for two pizza places (both national chains), your statement about the person making the food not being the same as the person delivering the food is incorrect. In fact, at both places I worked, there were times when I was the only person involved in the process of taking the order, making the pizza,…