You’re an animal. 

We have a rimmed wooden serving platter.  Much more elegant solution

I’m sorry but I disagree. I appreciate the idea that the rim helps keep things from rolling, but it’s a terrible idea to use knives on most cookie sheets, while also being nails-on-a-chalkboard bad for the teeth.

Can attest that this is a great approach. A few years ago I was laying down countless Amazon boxes while my next door neighbor was laying down landscaping cloth. Fast-forward 12 months -- he was doing boxes.

It’s ridiculous they have to do this stuff. Imagine if after an extremely important day at the office that did NOT go well you had to sit down and answer questions for all the world to see. I would be pegging people with water bottles and setting tables on fire. Maybe even starting a mosh pit, who knows.

He didn’t say the pill for all. Condoms are birth control as well.

Wow. You’re totally right. Changing now. Thanks!

Sixth grade is too late, and not just because kids will encountering this subject earlier than that. Making it an age-restricted subject only contributes to harmful taboos. Sexual competence should be taught in a natural way starting from toddlerhood; indeed, the broader principles aren't particularly sexual.

Ah, yes... “no big deal” when you make nearly the US median household income on one salary and can have a full-time, stay-at-home parent. This may be shocking, but everyone’s situation is not like your own, and going from one child to two is a really big deal for a lot of people.

having a second child is not twice as hard, it’s much, much harder.

When we were deciding whether to have a second child, my wife said, “How difficult could it be? You make breakfast for one, you just make more for two!” Well, she didn’t take into account that #2 liked completely different food and had to problem throwing it all over the place (our first, was so easy, it blindsided…

I had some book as a little kid “How to Clean Your Room” or something like it. This was the method in the book and remains my preferred method nearly four decades later.

When my sister and I were kids my mom once hid a dollar in my sister’s room and told her if she cleaned her room she would find it. My sister just piled all of her stuff into one big mountain the middle of the room until she found the dollar. I don’t think this is the same mountain method.

Never mind the kids...this is a great idea for ME! I find cleaning areas like counters so overwhelming but this might help me out!

In my experience, it’s been fine when I sometimes forget to tidy up. I see it as partly about practicality, and partly about respect. A few magazines and Amazon boxes scattered around aren’t really a problem. If you get time to throw them all in one pile, great; if not, it’s fine, you’ll do better next time.

My ears are very sensitive and a lot of things sound much louder to me than to anyone else. Screechy and shrill noises are especially painful. I will never set foot in a sports bar again, that’s for sure.

This warmed my cold, dead heart.

Counterpoint: My parents never asked me about my day. I promise you, that is far far worse.

I found this out long after I’d worked for years in a series of hourly wage jobs that all had language written in their employee handbooks that said revealing your pay rate was cause for immediate dismissal. Some as recently as the mid-00’s. This is one of many reasons we need a retail worker’s union, most employees…

I went from working at a public university where everyone’s salaries are published to a private institution where everything is hush hush and no one talks about their salaries. My department is getting ready to hire a new person at the same level as me and you bet your ass I am going to tell them how much I make. I…