You’re right, in my assumption our friends were paying in cash for a 300k vacation house.

Yup! Plus you now feel the obligation to HAVE to vacation there, instead of having the freedom to get a hotel/airbnb wherever and whenever you feel like.

For the type of person you’re describing, a vacation home while continuing to rent a primary residence isn’t tenable either, and again, if their long-term goal IS a forever home in their actual desired location, then I still think it’s a worse idea than just parking your cash in an index fund.

I will say, if you really can’t afford the downpayment/mortgage on your forever home, but desperately want to dip your feet in the market for fear of losing out, I would probably buy a total fixer upper and just have it slowly renovated while you continue living in your current place. Move in once it’s in a livable…

I have two different couple friends that did this during the pandemic and I just couldn’t understand the value proposition, especially since I don’t think either of the couples are planning on renting it out.

How did you get the ingredients for your from-scratch roast chicken? Did your maid shop for them for you? Cause if so you can probably just ask them to roast your chicken too, then you can drink even more.

Because I wanted to see if it could give me enough tips to make it worth it for me to do it myself. And after I read the article I’m still 99% sure I couldn’t do as good of a job as a Costco chicken and it would probably cost me double in price and double in time.

Just buy a roasted chicken for 5 bucks at costco.

First appointment of the day is generally a good idea except when your doctor routinely comes in late. Bring a book or have your phone handy to answer emails, but don’t assume that just because you get there right when they open, that they’ll be able to see you immediately.

Someone on here years ago taught me to use dish soap on our tub, and it totally melted the soap scum and mildew that I had been trying to tackle with a power drill brush attachment (still unsuccessfully!) or hard scrubbing with a magic eraser. Dawn on a wet soft sponge worked much better.

As a broke youngun I was all about craigslist, both selling things AND buying things and taking free things.

While it can certainly be an act, media personalities (especially older ones) LOVE not being up on technology, especially if they didn’t need to learn it as part of their ascent. The type of personality that can survive becoming an on-screen celebrity (narcisstic, delusional, and oblivious) are the same type that very…

I mean of COURSE I’ll get it, but I played through the first Tomb Raider game and found the tone to be such a downer that I just couldn’t have fun with it (and certainly makes the tomb raiding part of it seem incongruous). Are the latter games more lighthearted?

This is a cliche question, but we’re moving into a new neighborhood with mostly older (white and Christian) people who are a bit more conservative than us, but are also very friendly and outgoing. We’d like to consider a small holiday gift to start things off on the right foot (but also doesn’t go so far to make it an…

I liked clone wars and was glad to watch most of it while it was being released, but I missed Rebels’ original run and tried to binge it just to give me more context for the new shows and movies, and I just couldn’t do it. Both it and Clone Wars have so many episodes, and no matter how heavy some of the plot is,…

Were you filled with mellon collie and infinite sadness?

Grand Theft Autogyro

I have similar conflicting feelings. Far Cry 3 was a culmination of what I’d wanted from so many AAA games but didn’t get in one whole package (CoD didn’t do it, GTA was too open and vehicle based, Half Life was stuck in limbo) that I felt so satisfied playing it. It was like finally finding that Vegas buffet that had…

It looks like there’s a postprocessing effect that adds an oil-painting style that gives a brushstroke texture and blurs the edges of objects (you can see it in the planks on the bottom right, the new version clearly shows polygon edges for the individual planks, but in the old version you might’ve thought it was just…

Because that’s the whole gimmick of GOG... It’s the good old games you love, but no DRM: the idea being that old games don’t need to be so concerned about piracy since the game’s been out so long and they’ve already made most of their revenue, plus being DRM free assures gamers that their old ass game doesn’t require…