As far as we’ve been able to tell, if you rent a DVC accommodation you miss out on deals Disney may be running on dining. The worst part of planning a Disney vacation is figuring out what is the best use of your money. We can plan through Disney and use gift cards and get X deal or we can rent a DVC and miss out on X…

Don’t be afraid you left it in such a terrible state that you shouldn’t check on it. I was roommate with a couple of guys in college. One had cats and he never cleaned the litterbox. After what those cats did to that apartment, we thought for sure that we wouldn’t get the deposit back and never checked on it. A couple…

I’m using Smart Groups and I’m a programmer by trade. It is very limited and doesn’t seem like it would be tricky to make the feature much more user friendly.

I’ve had two Fitbits fail on me. They’ve offered me a discount even though they were out of warranty, but I didn’t replace my second failure.  Not sure I want to take another chance.

Also, these things aren’t foolproof and there may be a point where your child should spend some time with a professional if they have anger issues with no clear cause. The worst bully in my eldest son’s life was someone who has as far as anyone can tell a normal family life with model siblings.

My parents, rather than have a discussion they are uncomfortable with, have written things down and given me the location.
 I’m having a harder time with my own. My wife doesn’t want to think about it. My siblings are the reason that I’m the only person my parents even told a location. My kids are not old enough.  I…

We are going to redshirt our daughter who was born late August and a month premature. The only problem with that is that she can’t redshirt the school’s free pre-k because of age restrictions.

My vehicle insurance is pretty much the most expensive insurance quote I’ve seen. The problem I have is that when we’ve had a claim they have been stellar; to the point that I think their customer service may have avoided me some legal trouble. I don’t want to cut a couple hundred dollars in costs every 6 months to…

Anyone know how the refurb ones compare to the new ones?  Is Philips doing a decent job?

Anyone know how the refurb ones compare to the new ones?  Is Philips doing a decent job?

Thanks.  I guess that makes sense.

I’ve got a tangential question: what happens underneath if the target fund offerings change? Is it like I’m selling stock X and buying stock Y or is it more complicated? I ask because my fund options suddenly changed at the bottom of the recession and I would like to know if they realized my losses by changing funds…

There are plenty of options for successful lives either with or without college. I have a master’s degree in a technical field, a good job, and live in a low cost of living area and I’m not sure I can do what my uneducated grandfather did as an electrical technician to better the next generation. It isn’t that I can’t…

My wife and I were talking about our children’s 529s over the weekend. Since healthcare changed we haven’t been able to afford to fund our childrens’ 529s because of our premium increases. We have maybe a semester saved for our two oldest. Both of our parents were able to send all their kids to college with worse jobs…

I had a roommate with cats in college who wouldn’t regularly clean the litter box. I will attest a cat sans litterbox will use this, and that is why I started closing my door when I left the apartment.

I haven’t bumped in to a single provider that has multiple appointments a day open.  I just scheduled a physical and had to take it a different day because it overlapped with my dentist appointment.  Specialists are worse.  You can’t make your appointment, we have an opening 3 or 4 weeks later.

Purchased. Now I’m wondering why do my movie purchases get shared across several competing services through moviesanywhere, but my TV episode purchases don’t.  Seems a strange distinction.

Purchased. Now I’m wondering why do my movie purchases get shared across several competing services through…

We don’t spend a whole lot of time on politics with our kids. Might ramp it up a bit closer to when they are voters, but the big deal while they are young is talking about values. If they have good values, then they will be good citizens and good voters. No need to get them worried (even inadvertently) about things…

I’m curious since I didn’t personally authorize the purchases and they are tied to a credit card and not a debit card, what happens if I dispute the charges? Where does the process go from there? Is my card company on the hook for that or do they try to seek compensation from the vendor? Is there some point where my…

I wonder what effect it has on getting them to follow an escape plan. We had a false alarm last fall and even after they’ve had instruction at school and home; we ended up with 3 scared kids rushing to our room because they were woken up by a terrible noise at an obscene hour. BTW, especially if you are a parent, when…

If I were in the habit of requesting tables, I would expect that to result in a reduced chances of me sitting at an undesirable table over a large enough sample size.