This was my first thought as well, although I was thinking for home security. As soon as I read your comment it confirmed what I was thinking. I second Alan's comment - be safe out there and thank you!

I just pictured you as an angry toddler "NO MOM I DON'T WANNA GO TO WORK TODAY!" *STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP*

Yeah, we try to keep the bedroom computer-free so that we occasionally look at each other and talk.

Wet wipes are fine in our system because we're on a septic tank with city water coming in, and our drain pipe's pretty big, but we don't use more than one or two at a time and there's plenty of water going down behind them. If you've ever had a poop that left you feeling like you'd want a shower afterward, then you…

I (usually) get out of bed and take the long 20-step walk into the living room where I usually like to log on with the work laptop. I'm a work-at-home project manager for one of the big insurance companies.

Not dissing your suggestion by any means, just replying because it's relevant to what you posted - I use mvelopes.com (not a referral link) on the suggestion of my friend, and it's pretty much exactly this style of budgeting, works pretty well for me. If you don't trust letting mvelopes have your bank account info…

I'm fairly certain my iPhone 4 could wipe the phone after 10 failed attempts before iOS 7. We actually had devices set to do this at my old job a few years back, and iPhones were set to the same without any additional software. Is there something different about it this time around in iOS 7?

You might want to look deeper, hibernation is not a full shut down, and hibernation is in fact, what Windows 8 does. Your Ubuntu partition works because the file system cleanly unmounts. It is not some new Microsoft wizardry that makes it boot up fast. As someone who tried forever to get his Toshiba to do a legitimate…

Windows 8 doesn't actually fully shut down, that's why it boots up so much faster. If you want to shut down your computer fully, there's some ridiculous wizardry (not really, but Google it) involved in doing so. Otherwise you're just using a fancy version of hibernate. (At least it's not horribly broken and buggy like…

I don't want to hand out some advice like I know better, and your experience directly contradict it - it sounds like they're trying everything to get them all.

We've had a hard time with fleas as well since one of our two cats and our dog are indoor / outdoor, and ultimately all 3 (plus our legs! eep!) get fleas. And…

Haha, that's another one I definitely should have put on the list, even if no one mentioned it before now. Also slut shaming. Any body policing really.

I don't think you know what privileged means. Let's go down the list of the big ones. Privileged means you have an advantage, even if your only advantage is that you are not disadvantaged. You have no control over it, it happens to you and then you're blind to it until you figure it out and become educated on it.…

No I totally agree, it's the same reasons we're not looking at churches for ours. But it may work for some people *shrugs*.

If by "It's all about the market you're in," you mean how much money you make / are willing to go into debt over. That is not *average* for any "market." That's privileged folks. And what you consider "nothing overly fancy" is probably fancier than what most people would get to do, but maybe not fancier than your…

My fiancé and I were hoping for a personal ceremony, and it occurred to us that one of our closest and wittiest friends is an ordained minister who had already officiated a few weddings. He agreed to marry us at no charge. We are giving him a gift worth $250, but we likely saved $250, since officiants charge around…

Negotiating was scary because I didn’t want to annoy the vendor and make her not want to work with me. But it was worth it, since I saved a total of $5,800. Bottom line: Never accept a vendor’s first price without trying to negotiate. More often than not, there is wiggle room.

Wedding vendors juggle as many as four brides per weekend—especially between April and October—and errors aren’t all that uncommon. So if your vendor makes a mistake, remember that you have leverage. There’s no need to throw a tantrum, but don’t be a pushover either. Hesitate before moving forward with the vendor, and…

I also kind of call bunk on this, though to be fair I only spent 10 minutes on DuckDuckGo searching on this topic. It looks like some plastics are porous, but cling-wrap in it's various incarnations doesn't work on porous surfaces so well, but there's nothing saying anything about plastic wrap / Reynolds Wrap / glad…

If some of the advice given is based on plastic wrap being porous, couldn't you just use the lid for the tupper you're saving it in? Maybe in addition to the water layer? What about a home food vacuum sealer?

I don't really know where else to comment or provide feedback, but somebody seriously screwed the pooch on this new layout. I mean I get what you were doing before, universalizing the experience across devices. This new whatever it is, I thought maybe I'd had a problem with the CSS file or something else failed to…