Probably not enough to cover the cost of one drop of ketchup in McDonald’s.

You reminds me of how people often corrects me when I say “drink congee” instead of “eat congee” in Cantonese. It’s not that I don’t use “eat”, but I usually use the verb “eat” when the congee is thick. When the congee is watery, I sometimes would use “drink”. I thought that I have a good reason for doing that, but…

I won’t totally disagree with you, but when I learned that my former boss was doing that, it’s at the time when shipping packages domestically were A LOT cheaper because carriers didn’t use dimensional weight for every packages. Also, he shipped using Ground. Even now, I think that it is possible to save money from…

If you travel domestically, learn from my former boss -- he simply mailed the stuffs he needed to the hotel where he stayed. He did that even before the airlines begin raising bag fees and removing free checked bags.

I’ve argued with my wife numerous time, and every time, she told me that she’s not washing the germs, but any chemicals or preservatives off. And, I have no way to counter her because I have no idea if there’s any.

If half of pay check goes to the government, they’d better do an AMAZING JOB using my money and I’d expect a huge portion of that money would end up making me happy. 

>> it’s that “time is money,” and that my time is best spent making money for other people

It’s not just that — the thing is, we have different talents and interests, and in the ideal world, we should all be doing things that we like the most and excel at. Don’t we always feel sorry for those people who love art, but…

I am actively investing in both the stock market and rental properties and my feeling is that if you are not a very good handy man, rental property investment isn’t a particular good choice for retirement. My tenants pay on time, so I don’t have problem collecting rents. But the longer you hold on to your properties,…

>> There are plenty of reasons why plane tickets cost so much these days.

Quite the contrary, the reason why airlines are trying to squeeze more people into their planes is because the plane tickets are getting cheaper and cheaper. Yes, there are a lot of fees if you want more than the seats, but if you just want to…

>> throwing it in the trash is often the next and only solution.

Even if you break the set down, if you really haven’t been exercising for years, as long as you don’t get enough rest, at some points, you will feel the pain. I once tried breaking 100 pushups into 5 sets a day (about 2 hours apart), by the time I was doing the last set, I still struggled due to the muscular pain. 

Frankly, Ichiran is a pretty awful place to try ramen when you are in Japan. There are hundreds, if not thousands of smaller but better ramen restaurants. It’s something akin to trying hamburger in McDonald’s in the US.

I usually just grab a piece of letter size paper and use it to measure. A flyer would do, too, if I couldn’t find any letter size paper.

Frankly, if one’s goal is to invest for the long term, there’s no better time than to invest during a bear market. Just buy a board index fund and don’t look at it for at least 10 years. If someone bought SPY after the market crash in 2008, he would at least make a 100% profit by now.

A typical American household spends about $7000 annually on food. Assuming one only eats at home, and rarely dine out, $6000 (the max Amex would pay out at 6%) with 6% cash back will give back $360. In additional, the average annual gasoline spending of an American household is about $3000, which means the Blue Cash…

Actually, people should be thankful that the reward is cash based, not some “Apple points” that can only be used to purchase Apple products. If they did that, given how small the reward ratio is for “all other purchases”, most people would have a hard time using the reward to buy even an Apple brand cable ... ok, I…

>> Since President’s Day is a federal holiday, the U.S. Postal Service won’t be delivering mail on Monday.

Why does USPS website say that the President’s Day is “(observed)“? If it’s just a regular federal holiday, why putting the word “observed” next to it? 

Look, it’s a badly written article. For one, you did not explain your point clear enough. As you put it yourself, “continuing your side hustle past the point of financial necessity can quickly become something closer to ‘psychological trap’ than ‘savvy financial hack that’ll edge you towards early retirement.’” You wer…

Is it common? I have a handful of credit cards but I've never been asked. Is it credit score related? 

I would let them build the wall with that tiny 14 million. In fact, I would suggest to print a thankyou note on the part of the border wall their 14 millions was used to build -- even the most conservative estimate states that the wall will cost 8 billions to build, with the higher estimate screaming at 70 billion.…