I always wonder what the break-even point is for kicking back your thermostat when you are not around or sleeping. For example, if my heat has to run for 15 minutes an hour to maintain a constant temp of 68, but it runs for 3 hours straight while trying to go from 60 to 68 for the few hours before I go to work, is it…

My mom frequently just looses WiFi in her home, and has to cycle the power on her router to get it back up and running. We've tried putting her on a different channel, but in her rural community, there isn't much neighborly interference. Any ideas?

My husband and I are having this conversation now. My thought is, if it's my emergency fund, and I invest it all in the stock market, and the markets tank and one of us gets laid off, where does that leave our emergency fund? If you're going to invest it, at least put it somewhere stable. Don't put your emergency…

Just think - once you've finished replacing all of your appliances, your emergency fund will start to pile up! Seriously, though, it's tough luck, but imagine if you would have had to put all of those expenses on a credit card because you didn't have the money around.

The humidifier has greatly helped me this winter. I'm starting to worry that I'm depending on the sound it makes, which may not be a problem for everyone, but I travel a lot, and have gotten used to hearing whatever noises there are to hear when I sleep. Sleeping through sirens is a great thing, and I'm afraid I'm…

I never figured out why switching ends helps, but I have done this a number of times. I didn't do it for years after I got married, but I've had a few desperate nights, where my husband woke up with my feet by his face. Whatever it is, it seems to work.

I identify with the sleep paralysis. In the last year or so, I've started trying to talk (usually yelling a warning or calling for help), and occasionally, I've felt "stuck" in my dreams, and unable to move. Slowly, I realize that I'm dreaming, and I'm actually stuck in this paralysis state for about a minute,…

Maybe you've been personifying all of these named storms we've been having.

I am female, and my recurring nightmares apparently have "male" themes. I've had tornado dreams since I was a child, and they seem to come up when I am very stressed about something. I'm not sure what's behind my insect dreams, but when they happen, I often lay awake with my eyes open afterwards, because the images…

Perhaps my parents were protecting me... we just called it a "Sink Bath".

I've done no-poo for about 6 months now. Just because you are not shampooing, though, doesn't mean that you're not tending to and cleaning your hair. I use a conditioner to massage my scalp (then rinse), and then use more conditioner to address the rest of my hair.

Our family is terrible at planning for the holidays, so last year, my husband and I put together an invitation/advertisement for our holiday Bed and Breakfast that we called, "The Laze and Graze". We treated our home like a hotel, described each room, asked for the family to make reservations for specific rooms, and…