Not true. If you have a cooler, all you need is to grab some of that snow from outside your door to keep them cold.

As someone who just crashed and burned in an almost identical situation I would have to agree.

I agree with you completely. Travelling is a priority to me. When people are like “wow, how are you going to Europe for a month?” I respond “y’know that 65" tv you got? That’s nearly the cost of my whole trip”.

This is my rule: Before you take the next major step in life, save as if you were already there.

For the naysayers, it’s not just about being good with money.

Another tip: don’t post more than one picture of you holding a drink, unless you genuinely party that much.

I skip short profiles. If there is pretty much nothing there, I move on.

The outer leaves getting all burnt and crispy is one of the best parts of roast Brussels sprouts! This is crazy talk!

I’m going to write a profile similar to those of women in my dating range (late 30’s to late 40’s). Since you all have this Santa Claus long checklist where every box needs to get ticked, let me treat you in a similar fashion. I can’t speak for all men, but many, more than you know, agree with me. Don’t worry, plenty…

People act like California is some leech when we are providing the rest of the country with federal tax dollars and using that water for food. Excuse me if I take offense to dismissing California as some deadbeat state that just bums water off other states. We do a lot for the country. We pull our weight.

Tough shit. I’m tired of being Captain Save-a-Ho to the rest of the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing country. It’s not MY job to drag you kicking and screaming into the 20th century.

Did you know that Claire now writes at http://skillet.lifehacker.com/? It’s pretty great! Also that particular article was a goddamn disaster. There’s a very special hell for someone who would pick a nom de plume that is a real person’s name to vomit up that kind of garbage.

This. So much this. It’s taken me two years of therapy to realise this is what I did and how it was very rarely reciprocated, while simultaneously burning myself out.

I’m completely with you to the point that I won’t buy anything with a manufacturer’s logo that’s visible while the item is in use. In particular logo clothing is an egregious offense to me. I feel like they should pay me to advertise their brand.

You aren’t mandated to use their factory-provided seasoning. Sand it off and re-season if you want. The quality isn’t in the seasoning; it’s in the cast iron. But also, you’re unfairly comparing new Lodge cast iron to “old Wagner or Griswold.”

I can’t think of a good example of a “buy for quality” purchase I regretted... but I definitely have one that I DID NOT regret: Lodge cast iron cookware. It’s one of the very few things in life where amazing quality meets absurdly low pricing. Got $20? Here’s a skillet that’s just as good as any $300 cast iron skillet…

I guess it makes a bit of sense for parents trying to not touch issues they sort of feel they’re at fault of. My father has a hard time talking us about chronnic stuff going down the family line (diabetes or chronnic depression). The height thing I chalk it up to him going blunt on a topic he didn’t know how else to…

You’re never going to find advice that doesn’t boil down to make some changes to yourself and your behavior, since it’s impossible for you to control how other people behave or react. If you don’t want to change, then nothing in your life is going to change.