Absolutely. When I got out of college, I started writing. Each line of a notebook page was one month. I always wrote down something that was noteworthy like a milestone or important purchase that happened that month. Anything I wanted to remember. 30 years later and I am still doing it. Things that happened that long…

Every year my doctor would say “Don’t forget your flu shot.” My standard response was “Yeah, what ever.” I usually didn’t get one, never had the flu in my life.

It’s like when you see signs for new neighborhoods “In the $400s.”  Which usually means $490,000.

I broke my hyoid bone a few years ago when I got hit in the throat by a hockey puck. First one the doctor had ever seen.

Interesting idea, but the texture wouldn’t be right. Not enough crunch, IMO.  

I used to think the drive-thru at the dry cleaners was a bit silly...... until I became a parent with an infant in the car and needed to stop and pick up my shirts at the cleaners. That was very helpful. 

To letter writer No.1 - Depression really sucks and it can be almost impossible to get up off the couch and go for that walk, but don’t stop asking.

This is such a brilliant concept. Simple, but so true. IMO, it should be discussed early on in any romantic relationship. I think it’s a good way to also start a conversation about communication styles.  I learned about this at 46 and it was eye-opening and explained a lot.

I read that is for security reasons. UPS drivers come and go from buildings with great ease. They don’t want some nut job dressed as a UPS driver shooting up a business. Same with the brown trucks that can park just about anywhere without suspicion. I read when they are retired, they are destroyed — crushed, I…

“The idea that we will never stop violence is, unfortunately, true.....but we can make it an awful goddamn lot harder.”

Well researched article. I don’t live there anymore, but grew up in that area and spent plenty of time up and down 81. When I first started seeing articles on what to do with that aging section of 81, I thought this is going to rage on for a while. 81 carries a ton of traffic

I save my coins and once a year roll them myself. The office supply stores sell the rolls that are pre-formed at one end. Makes it very easy to drop the coins in I usually end up with $100-200.

When shopping for a used Cayman 981 three years ago, I intended to get a manual. Then I tried to drive it. There was no way around my leg/knee hitting the bottom of the steering wheel when trying to depress the clutch. So it was PDK for me.

I think having it come off the principle is the way to go, since the “reward” is money off the principle and you then aren’t paying any interest on that “reward” money.  26 payment plan is very aggressive. I can usually only manage two extra payments a year. 

In dividing the assets, I was owed a chunk of her 401K. (She made a lot more than me.) I wanted to keep the house, so I needed to buy out her half. I didn’t have the cash to give her, so it was subtracted from what she owed me from the 401K.

Haha, I wish! Mortgage gets drawn from the checking account. But you can bet every purchase, no matter how it’s ultimately paid for, flows through that credit card.

Yes. Every month I get an email saying how much cash-back is coming off my mortgage. I log onto my banking site and can look on the mortgage tab and see the principle payments. So far this year, I’ve had $350 in cash-back rewards come off my mortgage.

My credit card is with the bank that holds my mortgage. My “cash back” rewards are applied to the principle of my mortgage. Less money I have to pay back and less interest paid. Seemed like a no-brainer to me.

My car has a touchscreen, but thankfully, the temp and fan controls are rocker switches, the volume is a dial and there are buttons for back and forward for the music. Audio source button scrolls through the options. The other stuff is a pages of menus. 

Ah men to buttons and switches!